Cost Management Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Cost Management
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Cost Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 73 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs citing Cost Management 8 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.60% 0.11% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.13% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 0
10th Percentile £463 - -
25th Percentile £500 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% - -
75th Percentile £603 £488 -
90th Percentile £657 - -
South East median daily rate £600 £411 £300
% change year-on-year +46.07% +36.92% -47.83%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,104 745 1,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 82.82% 85.14% 86.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 745 521 602
10th Percentile £311 £356 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +3.77%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £511 £518
% change year-on-year -2.06% -1.45% +1.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 43 84
10th Percentile £16.17 £21.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £27.25 £27.50
Median hourly rate £20.71 £35.00 £55.70
Median % change year-on-year -40.83% -37.16% +28.05%
75th Percentile £25.15 £66.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £48.75 £75.00 £77.50
South East median hourly rate £22.50 £47.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year -52.38% -14.10% +37.50%

Cost Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cost Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Cost Management job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Cost Management
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Cost Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Cost Management

Cost Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Management in Hampshire over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Management in Hampshire

Cost Management
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Basingstoke - 3 £500 - 1
Havant - 3 £600 -
Portsmouth - 1 £575 -
Romsey - 1 £740 -
Cost Management
South East

Cost Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (12.50%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (12.50%) Dagster
1 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
1 1 (12.50%) GCP
1 1 (12.50%) GitHub
1 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) WAN
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) HTTP
2 1 (12.50%) Internet
2 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
1 1 (12.50%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) Poetry
1 1 (12.50%) Pylint
1 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Consultant
1 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared Project Manager
1 2 (25.00%) Functional Consultant
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Consultant
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Functional Consultant
1 2 (25.00%) Project Manager
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared Project Manager
1 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Project Planner
2 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Project Planner
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (12.50%) Kafka
1 1 (12.50%) PySpark
1 1 (12.50%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
1 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Order Management
1 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (37.50%) Project Management
3 2 (25.00%) Business Transformation
3 2 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Inventory Management
3 2 (25.00%) PRINCE2
3 2 (25.00%) Requirements Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (12.50%) Critical Thinking
4 1 (12.50%) Data Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (12.50%) IT Asset Management
4 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
4 1 (12.50%) Resource Allocation
4 1 (12.50%) Software Licensing
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Bicep
1 1 (12.50%) Python
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
1 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) Degree
3 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 19770
1 1 (12.50%) PMO
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Grafana
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Progress Chef
2 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
2 1 (12.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
2 1 (12.50%) SAP
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
2 1 (12.50%) Snow