Cost Control Contracts in London

Cost Control
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Cost Control skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cost Control over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 343 376 474
Rank change year-on-year +33 +98 +94
Contract jobs citing Cost Control 10 15 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.080% 0.084% 0.070%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.086% 0.095% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 14
10th Percentile £389 - £487
25th Percentile - £413 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +5.50%
75th Percentile £530 £594 £625
90th Percentile £857 £788 £700
England median daily rate £523 £475 £563
% change year-on-year +10.00% -15.56% +7.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £31.50 £13.99 £49.81
% change year-on-year +125.16% -71.91% +0.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Cost Control 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Cost Control
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Control in London

Cost Control
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Cost Control in London

Cost Control
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Control in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Control in London

Cost Control
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Cost Control in London

Cost Control
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London +1 1 £330 -22.35% 5
Cost Control
England

Cost Control
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) SAP CO
1 1 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Big Data
1 3 (30.00%) Power BI
2 1 (10.00%) MS Access
General
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Legal
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Lead
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Senior
1 3 (30.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) BYOD
1 3 (30.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (30.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (40.00%) Budgeting
2 4 (40.00%) Cost Management
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) Programme Management
3 3 (30.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 3 (30.00%) Cloud Security
3 3 (30.00%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (30.00%) Commercialisation
3 3 (30.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (30.00%) DevSecOps
3 3 (30.00%) Financial Modelling
3 3 (30.00%) Impact Assessments
3 3 (30.00%) Machine Learning
3 3 (30.00%) Principle of Least Privilege
3 3 (30.00%) RBAC
3 3 (30.00%) Resource Allocation
3 3 (30.00%) Resource Management
3 3 (30.00%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (10.00%) CFA
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (10.00%) PMP
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (10.00%) eFront
3 1 (10.00%) HP
3 1 (10.00%) SAP