Cost Management Contracts in England

Cost Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Cost Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cost Management 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 392 461 530
Rank change year-on-year +69 +69 +108
Contract jobs citing Cost Management 94 80 143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.39% 0.22% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.25% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 57 79
10th Percentile £387 £375 £311
25th Percentile £428 £407 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £500 £650
Median % change year-on-year +6.50% -23.08% +18.18%
75th Percentile £638 £594 £743
90th Percentile £700 £698 £755
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £650
% change year-on-year +5.00% -23.08% +20.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 0
10th Percentile £46.27 £46.00 -
25th Percentile £46.29 £50.00 -
Median hourly rate £46.30 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.81% - -
75th Percentile £46.91 £61.25 -
90th Percentile £48.02 £65.15 -
UK median hourly rate £46.30 £52.50 -
% change year-on-year -11.81% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Cost Management 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 Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Management in England

Cost Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Cost Management in England

Cost Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Cost Management in England

Cost Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Cost Management in England

Cost Management
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 Management 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
London +82 60 £525 -19.23% 64
South East +58 15 £465 -22.50% 27
North of England +4 10 £588 +41.57% 19
North West +17 8 £588 +6.82% 15
Midlands +17 3 £380 -30.91% 15
West Midlands +15 3 £380 -36.67% 9
East of England - 3 £550 - 7
Yorkshire -16 1 - - 3
North East - 1 - - 1
Cost Management
UK

Cost Management
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 5 (5.32%) Confluence
2 2 (2.13%) CMS
3 1 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.06%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (8.51%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.06%) Oracle Smart View
2 1 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.06%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (1.06%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 32 (34.04%) Azure
2 29 (30.85%) Serverless
3 28 (29.79%) AWS
4 20 (21.28%) AWS CloudFormation
4 20 (21.28%) Azure AKS
5 16 (17.02%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (13.83%) Amazon EKS
6 13 (13.83%) SaaS
7 12 (12.77%) Azure Monitor
7 12 (12.77%) Azure Sentinel
7 12 (12.77%) GCP
7 12 (12.77%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (12.77%) PaaS
8 11 (11.70%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (9.57%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (8.51%) Entra ID
10 8 (8.51%) IaaS
11 7 (7.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (7.45%) AWS CodePipeline
11 7 (7.45%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.77%) Firewall
2 7 (7.45%) DNS
2 7 (7.45%) HTTP
2 7 (7.45%) Internet
2 7 (7.45%) TCP/IP
3 5 (5.32%) VPN
4 1 (1.06%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.70%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (8.51%) NoSQL
3 7 (7.45%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (6.38%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (4.26%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.19%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (3.19%) Power BI
7 2 (2.13%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.13%) Redis
8 1 (1.06%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (1.06%) Cloudera CDH
8 1 (1.06%) DocumentDB
8 1 (1.06%) Essbase
8 1 (1.06%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.06%) Looker
8 1 (1.06%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (1.06%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (15.96%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.32%) GitLab
2 5 (5.32%) JIRA
3 2 (2.13%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.06%) Git
General
1 32 (34.04%) Finance
2 29 (30.85%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.70%) Banking
4 7 (7.45%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.32%) Marketing
5 5 (5.32%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.19%) Legal
7 2 (2.13%) Billing
7 2 (2.13%) Front Office
7 2 (2.13%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.06%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.06%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.06%) Law
8 1 (1.06%) Police
8 1 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.06%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (21.28%) Architect
2 16 (17.02%) Senior
3 13 (13.83%) Project Manager
4 12 (12.77%) Cloud Architect
5 11 (11.70%) Solutions Architect
6 10 (10.64%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (8.51%) Azure Architect
7 8 (8.51%) Lead
8 6 (6.38%) Analyst
8 6 (6.38%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) AWS Architect
9 5 (5.32%) AWS Solution Architect
9 5 (5.32%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) Senior DevOps
9 5 (5.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) Cloud Solutions Architect
10 4 (4.26%) Developer
10 4 (4.26%) Technical Manager
10 4 (4.26%) Technical Project Manager
11 3 (3.19%) Project Planner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.51%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (7.45%) REST
3 6 (6.38%) ARM Templates
4 4 (4.26%) Azure Blueprints
5 2 (2.13%) GraphQL
5 2 (2.13%) Middleware
5 2 (2.13%) Prisma
5 2 (2.13%) React
5 2 (2.13%) RESTful
6 1 (1.06%) Akka
6 1 (1.06%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.06%) JSON
6 1 (1.06%) Node.js
6 1 (1.06%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (1.06%) Play Framework
6 1 (1.06%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.06%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (1.06%) SOAP
6 1 (1.06%) TensorFlow
6 1 (1.06%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.83%) Cloud Native
2 12 (12.77%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (7.45%) Management Information System
4 5 (5.32%) Public Cloud
5 4 (4.26%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (4.26%) Reinsurance
6 3 (3.19%) BYOD
6 3 (3.19%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.13%) CMDB
7 2 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.13%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.06%) Clustering
8 1 (1.06%) Derivative
8 1 (1.06%) Fixed Income
8 1 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.06%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 11 (11.70%) Linux
2 4 (4.26%) Windows
2 4 (4.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (40.43%) DevOps
2 35 (37.23%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (22.34%) Migration
3 21 (22.34%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (19.15%) CI/CD
4 18 (19.15%) Cost Optimisation
5 16 (17.02%) Agile
5 16 (17.02%) Configuration Management
6 14 (14.89%) Analytics
6 14 (14.89%) Budgeting
6 14 (14.89%) Project Management
7 13 (13.83%) Cloud Security
7 13 (13.83%) Risk Management
8 12 (12.77%) Containerisation
9 11 (11.70%) Continuous Integration
9 11 (11.70%) Deployment Automation
9 11 (11.70%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (10.64%) Microservices
10 10 (10.64%) Project Delivery
10 10 (10.64%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 18 (19.15%) Bicep
2 14 (14.89%) PowerShell
3 9 (9.57%) SQL
4 8 (8.51%) Python
5 3 (3.19%) Go
5 3 (3.19%) Java
6 2 (2.13%) Scala
6 2 (2.13%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.06%) Groovy
7 1 (1.06%) R
Qualifications
1 19 (20.21%) Security Cleared
2 18 (19.15%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.51%) Azure Certification
4 6 (6.38%) AWS Certification
4 6 (6.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (6.38%) Degree
5 4 (4.26%) OCP
5 4 (4.26%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (2.13%) APMP
6 2 (2.13%) ISEB
6 2 (2.13%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (1.06%) ACCA
7 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (1.06%) CIMA
7 1 (1.06%) MRICS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.51%) PMO
2 6 (6.38%) GDPR
3 4 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.26%) SOC 2
4 2 (2.13%) NIST
4 2 (2.13%) QA
5 1 (1.06%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 18 (19.15%) Docker
2 6 (6.38%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.38%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 37 (39.36%) Terraform
2 29 (30.85%) Kubernetes
3 14 (14.89%) Ansible
4 7 (7.45%) Grafana
4 7 (7.45%) Progress Chef
4 7 (7.45%) Prometheus
4 7 (7.45%) Puppet
5 4 (4.26%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.06%) Apache Ranger
Vendors
1 26 (27.66%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.70%) Google
3 7 (7.45%) Red Hat
4 3 (3.19%) Oracle
4 3 (3.19%) SAP
5 2 (2.13%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.06%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.06%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.06%) Databricks
6 1 (1.06%) Veeam
6 1 (1.06%) VMware