Cost Management Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Cost Management
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring Cost Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cost Management 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 0.38% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
North West median daily rate £500 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -14.89% +6.82% -2.22%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 202 158 154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 77.39% 89.77% 78.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 82 74
10th Percentile £178 £400 £313
25th Percentile £375 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £535 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.76% -0.42% +2.38%
75th Percentile £719 £600 £650
90th Percentile £900 £630 £747
North West median daily rate £463 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 19 51
10th Percentile £33.41 £14.62 -
25th Percentile £41.94 £23.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £46.13 £28.75 £19.18
Median % change year-on-year +60.45% +49.90% -54.87%
75th Percentile £71.50 £43.94 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £60.59 £48.00
North West median hourly rate £48.40 £32.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +51.25% +52.38% -40.00%

Cost Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Cost Management job vacancy trend in Lancashire

Cost Management
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

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

Cost Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Cost Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Cost Management

Cost Management
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire region over the 6 months to 26 April 2026. 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
Preston - 1 - - 1
Cost Management
North West

Cost Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft