Cost Accounting Contracts in England

Cost Accounting
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Cost Accounting skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cost Accounting over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 483 530 653
Rank change year-on-year +47 +123 +115
Contract jobs citing Cost Accounting 3 11 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.012% 0.030% 0.040%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.013% 0.034% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 19
10th Percentile £490 £420 £450
25th Percentile £521 £469 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.74% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £618 £625 £665
90th Percentile £630 £666 £689
UK median daily rate £585 £538 £563
% change year-on-year +8.84% -4.44% +2.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Cost Accounting falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,247 32,161 45,385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.13% 86.56% 90.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,550 21,078 31,861
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £768
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 916 2,252 1,585
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.93 £10.91
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Cost Accounting
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Cost Accounting as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cost Accounting in England

Cost Accounting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cost Accounting in England.

Daily rate trend for Cost Accounting in England

Cost Accounting
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Accounting in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Accounting in England

Cost Accounting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cost Accounting in England.

Hourly rate trend for Cost Accounting in England

Cost Accounting
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cost Accounting within the England region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +41 1 £585 +1.74% 1
London +41 1 £488 -27.24% 2
Midlands - 1 £625 -
West Midlands - 1 £625 -
Cost Accounting
UK

Cost Accounting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (33.33%) SAP CO
2 1 (33.33%) SAP FI
2 1 (33.33%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
1 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) Tableau
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (33.33%) General Ledger
3 1 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) SAP CO Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) SAP FI Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) SAP Financial Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Budget Management
1 1 (33.33%) Budgeting
1 1 (33.33%) Budgeting and Forecasting
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Financial Modelling
1 1 (33.33%) Fintech
1 1 (33.33%) Investment Management
1 1 (33.33%) Logistics
1 1 (33.33%) Profit Centre Accounting
1 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
1 1 (33.33%) Project Management
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Implementation
1 1 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Certification
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) SAP