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 20 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 377 404 516
Rank change year-on-year +27 +112 -79
Contract jobs citing Cost Management 23 78 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.13% 0.31% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.34% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 48 57
10th Percentile £390 £519 £358
25th Percentile £475 £600 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £743 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.52% +35.09% -6.38%
75th Percentile £675 - £675
90th Percentile £773 £775 £768
England median daily rate £525 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -19.23% +18.18% -4.35%
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 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 15,607 22,862 35,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.27% 90.90% 92.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,159 16,574 26,061
10th Percentile £340 £375 £394
25th Percentile £445 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £780
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 267 388
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £17.09
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £30.00 £39.42 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.90% +9.50% +9.59%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.83
90th Percentile £67.60 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 20 June 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 +34 1 - - 3
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 2 (8.70%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) Azure
2 4 (17.39%) AWS
2 4 (17.39%) Entra ID
2 4 (17.39%) Power Platform
3 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (13.04%) Azure Functions
3 3 (13.04%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (13.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (13.04%) Serverless
4 2 (8.70%) dbt
4 2 (8.70%) Snowflake
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (4.35%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) Firewall
1 3 (13.04%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) Power BI
2 2 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.35%) Big Data
3 1 (4.35%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.35%) MySQL
3 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) JIRA
2 1 (4.35%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 7 (30.43%) Finance
2 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Billing
4 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.35%) Banking
6 1 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Law
6 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
6 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Lead
2 5 (21.74%) Senior
3 4 (17.39%) Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Technical Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Technical Leader
5 2 (8.70%) Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Consultant
5 2 (8.70%) Data Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Oracle Consultant
5 2 (8.70%) PMO Lead
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Storage Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Architect
6 1 (4.35%) E-Commerce Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Lead Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365 Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Oracle Business Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) Node.js
1 3 (13.04%) React
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (4.35%) EDI
3 1 (4.35%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
1 2 (8.70%) zOS
2 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (26.09%) DevOps
2 5 (21.74%) Agile
2 5 (21.74%) FinOps
2 5 (21.74%) Migration
3 4 (17.39%) Data Management
4 3 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (13.04%) Capacity Management
4 3 (13.04%) CI/CD
4 3 (13.04%) Data Integration
4 3 (13.04%) Data Modelling
4 3 (13.04%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (13.04%) Microservices
4 3 (13.04%) MVC
4 3 (13.04%) Network Management
4 3 (13.04%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (13.04%) Project Management
4 3 (13.04%) RBAC
4 3 (13.04%) Security Management
4 3 (13.04%) Service Management
4 3 (13.04%) Service Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.70%) Python
1 2 (8.70%) SQL
2 1 (4.35%) Java
2 1 (4.35%) JCL
2 1 (4.35%) R
2 1 (4.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
1 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.35%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) PMO
1 3 (13.04%) QA
2 2 (8.70%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (4.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.35%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) NFS
2 1 (4.35%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.04%) Genesys
2 3 (13.04%) Oracle
3 2 (8.70%) IBM
3 2 (8.70%) SAP
4 1 (4.35%) Ariba
4 1 (4.35%) Broadcom
4 1 (4.35%) Brocade
4 1 (4.35%) CA
4 1 (4.35%) Databricks
4 1 (4.35%) Dell
4 1 (4.35%) Facebook
4 1 (4.35%) Instagram
4 1 (4.35%) Splunk
4 1 (4.35%) VMware