Cost Management Contracts in London

Cost Management
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 293 375 414
Rank change year-on-year +82 +39 +107
Contract jobs citing Cost Management 60 20 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.48% 0.11% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.13% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 14 44
10th Percentile £404 £405 £510
25th Percentile £422 £525 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £711
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% -8.52% +29.18%
75th Percentile £653 £740 £743
90th Percentile £742 £765 -
England median daily rate £533 £500 £650
% change year-on-year +6.50% -23.08% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £55.25 -
England median hourly rate £46.30 £52.50 -
% change year-on-year -11.81% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,594 15,775 24,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.13% 88.57% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,860 11,304 17,662
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £438 £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 165 326 275
10th Percentile £16.10 £16.00 £18.63
25th Percentile £22.66 £20.00 £22.57
Median hourly rate £32.00 £28.50 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.28% -26.92% +8.33%
75th Percentile £50.75 £46.77 £63.22
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.88 £77.30
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

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 2 May 2025.

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
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 2 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 +21 11 £545 -24.46% 5
West London - 1 £409 - 1
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 5 (8.33%) Confluence
2 2 (3.33%) CMS
3 1 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.67%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 25 (41.67%) Azure
2 22 (36.67%) Serverless
3 20 (33.33%) AWS
4 15 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 14 (23.33%) Azure AKS
5 14 (23.33%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (18.33%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (18.33%) Azure Sentinel
6 11 (18.33%) GCP
6 11 (18.33%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
7 10 (16.67%) SaaS
8 9 (15.00%) PaaS
9 8 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (11.67%) Entra ID
10 7 (11.67%) IaaS
11 5 (8.33%) GitHub
12 4 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 12 (20.00%) Firewall
2 7 (11.67%) DNS
2 7 (11.67%) HTTP
2 7 (11.67%) Internet
2 7 (11.67%) TCP/IP
3 5 (8.33%) VPN
4 1 (1.67%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 7 (11.67%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (6.67%) Data Lake
5 3 (5.00%) Power BI
6 2 (3.33%) BigQuery
6 2 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.67%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (1.67%) Cloudera CDH
7 1 (1.67%) DocumentDB
7 1 (1.67%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.67%) Looker
7 1 (1.67%) Redis
7 1 (1.67%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (18.33%) Jenkins
2 5 (8.33%) JIRA
3 3 (5.00%) GitLab
4 1 (1.67%) Git
General
1 23 (38.33%) Finance
2 18 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 11 (18.33%) Banking
4 4 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.67%) Marketing
5 3 (5.00%) Legal
6 2 (3.33%) Front Office
6 2 (3.33%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.33%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.67%) Billing
7 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Law
7 1 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (21.67%) Architect
2 12 (20.00%) Senior
3 9 (15.00%) Project Manager
4 8 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (11.67%) Azure Architect
5 7 (11.67%) Cloud Architect
5 7 (11.67%) Lead
6 6 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
7 5 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 5 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (6.67%) Technical Manager
8 4 (6.67%) Technical Project Manager
9 3 (5.00%) AWS Architect
9 3 (5.00%) AWS DevOps
9 3 (5.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 3 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (5.00%) PMO Lead
9 3 (5.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (8.33%) ARM Templates
3 4 (6.67%) REST
4 3 (5.00%) Azure Blueprints
5 2 (3.33%) Middleware
6 1 (1.67%) Akka
6 1 (1.67%) GraphQL
6 1 (1.67%) JSON
6 1 (1.67%) Play Framework
6 1 (1.67%) Prisma
6 1 (1.67%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.67%) React
6 1 (1.67%) RESTful
6 1 (1.67%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (1.67%) SOAP
6 1 (1.67%) TensorFlow
6 1 (1.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.33%) Cloud Native
2 9 (15.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (11.67%) Management Information System
4 3 (5.00%) BYOD
4 3 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 3 (5.00%) Public Cloud
4 3 (5.00%) Reinsurance
5 2 (3.33%) CMDB
6 1 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.67%) Clustering
6 1 (1.67%) Derivative
6 1 (1.67%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.67%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.67%) Linux
2 3 (5.00%) Windows
2 3 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (48.33%) DevOps
2 27 (45.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 15 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (21.67%) Cost Optimisation
4 13 (21.67%) Migration
5 12 (20.00%) Analytics
5 12 (20.00%) Cloud Security
6 11 (18.33%) Agile
6 11 (18.33%) CI/CD
7 10 (16.67%) API Management
8 9 (15.00%) Configuration Management
8 9 (15.00%) Containerisation
8 9 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (15.00%) Deployment Automation
8 9 (15.00%) Microservices
8 9 (15.00%) Project Delivery
8 9 (15.00%) Zero Trust
9 8 (13.33%) Risk Management
10 7 (11.67%) Data Migration
10 7 (11.67%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 15 (25.00%) Bicep
2 11 (18.33%) PowerShell
3 8 (13.33%) SQL
4 6 (10.00%) Python
5 3 (5.00%) Go
5 3 (5.00%) Java
6 2 (3.33%) Scala
7 1 (1.67%) R
7 1 (1.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (21.67%) SC Cleared
1 13 (21.67%) Security Cleared
2 7 (11.67%) Azure Certification
3 4 (6.67%) AWS Certification
3 4 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.33%) Degree
4 2 (3.33%) OCP
4 2 (3.33%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.33%) GDPR
1 5 (8.33%) PMO
2 4 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (5.00%) SOC 2
4 2 (3.33%) NIST
5 1 (1.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (25.00%) Docker
2 5 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (50.00%) Terraform
2 24 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 10 (16.67%) Ansible
4 7 (11.67%) Grafana
4 7 (11.67%) Progress Chef
4 7 (11.67%) Prometheus
4 7 (11.67%) Puppet
5 4 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.67%) Apache Ranger
Vendors
1 20 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.33%) Google
3 7 (11.67%) Red Hat
4 3 (5.00%) SAP
5 1 (1.67%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.67%) Cloudera