Cost Control Contracts in England

Cost Control
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Cost Control skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cost Control over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 504 617 726
Rank change year-on-year +113 +109 -114
Contract jobs citing Cost Control 38 36 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.071% 0.080%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.079% 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 22 36
10th Percentile £316 £453 £373
25th Percentile £413 £510 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £563 £523
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +7.66% +22.94%
75th Percentile £563 £597 £556
90th Percentile £698 £708 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 2
10th Percentile - £40.38 £32.40
25th Percentile - £40.94 £38.25
Median hourly rate £13.99 £49.81 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -71.91% +0.63% -13.91%
75th Percentile £26.74 £62.05 £61.75
90th Percentile £49.70 £63.82 £68.20
UK median hourly rate £13.99 £57.13 £49.50
% change year-on-year -75.51% +15.40% -13.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Cost Control is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,193 45,529 64,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.56% 90.24% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,105 31,969 45,783
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,246 1,592 1,771
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.01 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £37.50 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +53.06% +2.08%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.42% +49.20% -

Cost Control
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Control in England

Cost Control
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Cost Control in England

Cost Control
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Control in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Control in England

Cost Control
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Cost Control in England

Cost Control
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cost Control in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cost Control in England

Cost Control
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 Control within the England region over the 6 months to 30 April 2024. 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
London +99 15 £550 -4.35% 29
North of England +41 9 £475 +18.75% 28
Midlands +36 5 £475 - 16
West Midlands +30 5 £475 - 13
South East +15 5 £318 -42.79% 23
North West - 5 £450 - 20
South West +10 4 £450 +12.50% 16
North East - 3 - - 2
Yorkshire +25 1 £500 +25.00% 6
Cost Control
UK

Cost Control
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (7.89%) Confluence
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (15.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (7.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.63%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.63%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 7 (18.42%) Power Platform
2 4 (10.53%) Azure
2 4 (10.53%) Dynamics 365
2 4 (10.53%) Entra ID
3 2 (5.26%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 2 (5.26%) Asana
3 2 (5.26%) AWS
3 2 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (5.26%) Miro
3 2 (5.26%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.26%) Firewall
2 1 (2.63%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.42%) Power BI
2 2 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.63%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (7.89%) JIRA
General
1 24 (63.16%) Finance
2 11 (28.95%) Social Skills
3 6 (15.79%) Public Sector
3 6 (15.79%) Telecoms
4 4 (10.53%) Advertising
4 4 (10.53%) Fire and Rescue
4 4 (10.53%) Local Government
5 3 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.89%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (5.26%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.63%) Electronics
7 1 (2.63%) Marketing
7 1 (2.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (44.74%) Project Manager
2 6 (15.79%) Lead
3 4 (10.53%) Senior
4 3 (7.89%) Administrator
4 3 (7.89%) Contracts Manager
5 2 (5.26%) Agile Delivery Lead
5 2 (5.26%) Analyst
5 2 (5.26%) AWS Specialist
5 2 (5.26%) Azure Specialist
5 2 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (5.26%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 2 (5.26%) PMO Analyst
5 2 (5.26%) SC Cleared Project Manager
6 1 (2.63%) Cloud Specialist
6 1 (2.63%) IT Manager
6 1 (2.63%) Project Office Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.26%) ADO
1 2 (5.26%) React
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.89%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.26%) PMI
3 1 (2.63%) CMDB
3 1 (2.63%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.63%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.26%) Android
1 2 (5.26%) Apple iOS
1 2 (5.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (42.11%) Project Management
2 12 (31.58%) Risk Management
3 11 (28.95%) Project Planning
4 8 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (21.05%) Resource Management
5 5 (13.16%) Budget Management
5 5 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (13.16%) Risk Assessment
6 4 (10.53%) Agile
6 4 (10.53%) Change Management
6 4 (10.53%) Project Delivery
6 4 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (7.89%) Change Control
7 3 (7.89%) Document Management
7 3 (7.89%) PRINCE2
7 3 (7.89%) Programme Management
7 3 (7.89%) Scrum
7 3 (7.89%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (5.26%) Budgeting
8 2 (5.26%) Objectives and Key Results
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.26%) Java
1 2 (5.26%) JavaScript
1 2 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (23.68%) PMI Certification
2 7 (18.42%) PMP
2 7 (18.42%) SC Cleared
2 7 (18.42%) Security Cleared
3 5 (13.16%) Degree
4 3 (7.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (5.26%) AWS Certification
5 2 (5.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (5.26%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.63%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) PMO
1 4 (10.53%) QA
2 2 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 1 (2.63%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 4 (10.53%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.26%) Hyper-V
2 2 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (15.79%) SAP
2 4 (10.53%) Oracle
3 3 (7.89%) IFS
4 2 (5.26%) CA
4 2 (5.26%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.26%) NEC
4 2 (5.26%) VMware
5 1 (2.63%) Computacenter
5 1 (2.63%) Progress