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 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 371 456 524
Rank change year-on-year +85 +68 +116
Contract jobs citing Cost Management 100 84 132
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.41% 0.23% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.26% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 57 77
10th Percentile £379 £375 £57
25th Percentile £413 £407 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £650
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -23.08% +20.93%
75th Percentile £638 £594 £743
90th Percentile £681 £660 £755
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £638
% change year-on-year - -21.57% +22.26%
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 22,330 31,821 44,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.21% 86.48% 90.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,615 20,850 31,044
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
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 £763
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 939 2,250 1,565
10th Percentile £14.28 £12.92 £10.68
25th Percentile £18.44 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.04 £36.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -20.44% -2.14% +52.24%
75th Percentile £63.13 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.60 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -21.64% +1.39% +42.97%

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 10 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 10 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 +89 63 £510 -21.54% 82
South East +53 14 £475 -20.83% 33
North of England 0 11 £550 +32.53% 16
North West +18 9 £550 - 12
West Midlands +17 5 £380 -32.44% 7
Midlands +12 5 £380 -30.91% 12
East of England - 3 £550 - 2
Yorkshire -11 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 (5.00%) Confluence
2 2 (2.00%) CMS
3 1 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (8.00%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.00%) Oracle Smart View
3 1 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (3.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.00%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (1.00%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.00%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 35 (35.00%) Azure
2 30 (30.00%) AWS
3 29 (29.00%) Serverless
4 21 (21.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 20 (20.00%) Azure AKS
5 20 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (15.00%) Azure Monitor
7 14 (14.00%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (13.00%) Azure Sentinel
8 13 (13.00%) GCP
8 13 (13.00%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (13.00%) SaaS
9 12 (12.00%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (12.00%) PaaS
10 10 (10.00%) Entra ID
10 10 (10.00%) GitHub
11 9 (9.00%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (8.00%) IaaS
13 7 (7.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (7.00%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 14 (14.00%) Firewall
2 8 (8.00%) DNS
2 8 (8.00%) HTTP
2 8 (8.00%) Internet
2 8 (8.00%) TCP/IP
3 6 (6.00%) VPN
4 2 (2.00%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (1.00%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.00%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (9.00%) NoSQL
3 8 (8.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (7.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (4.00%) Data Lake
5 4 (4.00%) Power BI
6 2 (2.00%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.00%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (1.00%) Cloudera CDH
7 1 (1.00%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.00%) DocumentDB
7 1 (1.00%) Essbase
7 1 (1.00%) GIS
7 1 (1.00%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.00%) Looker
7 1 (1.00%) Redis
7 1 (1.00%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (18.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.00%) GitLab
2 5 (5.00%) JIRA
3 2 (2.00%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.00%) Git
General
1 36 (36.00%) Finance
2 33 (33.00%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.00%) Banking
4 9 (9.00%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.00%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.00%) Marketing
7 3 (3.00%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.00%) Legal
8 2 (2.00%) Billing
8 2 (2.00%) Front Office
8 2 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.00%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.00%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.00%) Law
9 1 (1.00%) Police
9 1 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (20.00%) Architect
2 18 (18.00%) Senior
3 14 (14.00%) Project Manager
4 12 (12.00%) Solutions Architect
5 11 (11.00%) Cloud Architect
5 11 (11.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (9.00%) Azure Engineer
6 9 (9.00%) Lead
7 8 (8.00%) Azure Architect
8 7 (7.00%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (6.00%) Analyst
9 6 (6.00%) Senior DevOps
9 6 (6.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 5 (5.00%) AWS Architect
10 5 (5.00%) AWS Solution Architect
11 4 (4.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
11 4 (4.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 4 (4.00%) Technical Manager
11 4 (4.00%) Technical Project Manager
12 3 (3.00%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.00%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (7.00%) REST
3 6 (6.00%) ARM Templates
4 4 (4.00%) Azure Blueprints
5 2 (2.00%) Middleware
5 2 (2.00%) React
5 2 (2.00%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (1.00%) Akka
6 1 (1.00%) GraphQL
6 1 (1.00%) JSON
6 1 (1.00%) Kafka
6 1 (1.00%) Node.js
6 1 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (1.00%) Play Framework
6 1 (1.00%) Prisma
6 1 (1.00%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.00%) RESTful
6 1 (1.00%) SOAP
6 1 (1.00%) TensorFlow
6 1 (1.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 14 (14.00%) Cloud Native
3 8 (8.00%) Management Information System
4 5 (5.00%) Public Cloud
5 4 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (4.00%) Reinsurance
6 3 (3.00%) BYOD
6 3 (3.00%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.00%) CMDB
7 2 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.00%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.00%) Clustering
8 1 (1.00%) Derivative
8 1 (1.00%) Fixed Income
8 1 (1.00%) IoT
8 1 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.00%) Life Science
8 1 (1.00%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 12 (12.00%) Linux
2 4 (4.00%) Windows
2 4 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (43.00%) DevOps
2 39 (39.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 23 (23.00%) Migration
4 22 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 18 (18.00%) Cost Optimisation
7 17 (17.00%) Agile
7 17 (17.00%) Analytics
7 17 (17.00%) Configuration Management
8 15 (15.00%) Project Management
9 14 (14.00%) Budgeting
9 14 (14.00%) Cloud Security
9 14 (14.00%) Continuous Integration
10 13 (13.00%) Stakeholder Management
11 12 (12.00%) Containerisation
11 12 (12.00%) Deployment Automation
11 12 (12.00%) Risk Management
12 11 (11.00%) API Management
12 11 (11.00%) Zero Trust
13 10 (10.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 20 (20.00%) Bicep
2 15 (15.00%) PowerShell
3 10 (10.00%) SQL
4 9 (9.00%) Python
5 3 (3.00%) Go
5 3 (3.00%) Java
6 2 (2.00%) Scala
7 1 (1.00%) Groovy
7 1 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.00%) R
7 1 (1.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (19.00%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.00%) Azure Certification
4 6 (6.00%) AWS Certification
4 6 (6.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (6.00%) Degree
5 4 (4.00%) OCP
5 4 (4.00%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (2.00%) APMP
6 2 (2.00%) ISEB
6 2 (2.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (1.00%) ACCA
7 1 (1.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (1.00%) CIMA
7 1 (1.00%) MRICS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.00%) PMO
2 6 (6.00%) GDPR
3 4 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.00%) SOC 2
4 2 (2.00%) NIST
4 2 (2.00%) QA
5 1 (1.00%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 19 (19.00%) Docker
2 8 (8.00%) Active Directory
3 6 (6.00%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 40 (40.00%) Terraform
2 31 (31.00%) Kubernetes
3 15 (15.00%) Ansible
4 8 (8.00%) Grafana
4 8 (8.00%) Progress Chef
4 8 (8.00%) Prometheus
4 8 (8.00%) Puppet
5 4 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.00%) Apache Ranger
Vendors
1 32 (32.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.00%) Google
3 8 (8.00%) Red Hat
4 5 (5.00%) SAP
5 3 (3.00%) Oracle
6 2 (2.00%) Alteryx
6 2 (2.00%) Databricks
7 1 (1.00%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.00%) Cisco
7 1 (1.00%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.00%) Informatica
7 1 (1.00%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.00%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.00%) Veeam
7 1 (1.00%) VMware