Cost Management Contracts in London

Cost Management
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Cost Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cost Management over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 368 420 521
Rank change year-on-year +52 +101 -98
Contract jobs citing Cost Management 20 81 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.11% 0.30% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.33% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 44 53
10th Percentile £405 £510 £363
25th Percentile £525 £600 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £711 £538
Median % change year-on-year -8.52% +32.19% -8.51%
75th Percentile £740 £743 £625
90th Percentile £765 - £698
England median daily rate £500 £650 £538
% change year-on-year -23.08% +20.93% -4.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £47.58 - -
25th Percentile £49.56 - -
Median hourly rate £55.25 - -
75th Percentile £62.06 - -
90th Percentile £64.73 - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Cost Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,690 24,329 35,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.66% 90.98% 92.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,247 17,488 26,241
10th Percentile £338 £375 £389
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 276 422
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.50 £17.28
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.48 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +6.12% +12.47%
75th Percentile £47.34 £63.81 £50.94
90th Percentile £65.68 £80.00 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
% change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%

Cost Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Management in London

Cost Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Cost Management in London

Cost Management
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Management in London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Management in London

Cost Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Cost Management in London

Cost Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cost Management in London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cost Management in London

Cost Management
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 Management within the London region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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 +35 1 £722 +80.38% 8
Cost Management
England

Cost Management
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (15.00%) Azure Functions
2 3 (15.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (15.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 3 (15.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (15.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (15.00%) Serverless
3 1 (5.00%) dbt
3 1 (5.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) IP Telephony
2 3 (15.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Power BI
2 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 7 (35.00%) Billing
2 5 (25.00%) Finance
3 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Architect
1 6 (30.00%) Technical Architect
2 5 (25.00%) Lead
3 3 (15.00%) Senior
3 3 (15.00%) Technical Leader
4 2 (10.00%) Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) PMO Lead
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle Business Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Oracle Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Storage Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) Node.js
1 3 (15.00%) React
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (5.00%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.00%) CMDB
2 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Unix
1 1 (5.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Migration
2 6 (30.00%) Capacity Management
2 6 (30.00%) Security Management
2 6 (30.00%) Service Migration
3 5 (25.00%) FinOps
4 4 (20.00%) Data Management
4 4 (20.00%) DevOps
4 4 (20.00%) Network Management
4 4 (20.00%) Observability
5 3 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (15.00%) Decision-Making
5 3 (15.00%) Microservices
5 3 (15.00%) MVC
5 3 (15.00%) RBAC
5 3 (15.00%) Service Management
6 2 (10.00%) Cost Optimisation
6 2 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (10.00%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) Java
1 1 (5.00%) Python
1 1 (5.00%) R
1 1 (5.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) Degree
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) PMO
1 3 (15.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.00%) Terraform
1 1 (5.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (30.00%) Genesys
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle
3 2 (10.00%) SAP
4 1 (5.00%) Ariba
4 1 (5.00%) Databricks
4 1 (5.00%) Facebook
4 1 (5.00%) IBM
4 1 (5.00%) Instagram
4 1 (5.00%) VMware