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 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 384 414
Rank change year-on-year +89 +30 +105
Contract jobs citing Cost Management 63 21 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.50% 0.12% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.13% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 13 41
10th Percentile £400 £395 £500
25th Percentile £413 £500 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £650 £720
Median % change year-on-year -21.54% -9.72% +33.95%
75th Percentile £641 £743 £743
90th Percentile £661 £769 -
England median daily rate £525 £500 £650
% change year-on-year +5.00% -23.08% +20.93%
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 11,592 15,687 23,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.18% 88.71% 90.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,859 11,244 17,202
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £436 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £681 £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 173 315 269
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.97 £18.40
25th Percentile £22.75 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £34.00 £28.00 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -28.21% +5.41%
75th Percentile £50.75 £48.75 £64.25
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.30 £80.45
England median hourly rate £29.04 £36.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -20.44% -2.14% +52.24%

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 10 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 10 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 +16 11 £543 - 4
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 (7.94%) Confluence
2 2 (3.17%) CMS
3 1 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.59%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.59%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 26 (41.27%) Azure
2 22 (34.92%) Serverless
3 21 (33.33%) AWS
4 17 (26.98%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (25.40%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (22.22%) Azure AKS
7 13 (20.63%) Azure Monitor
8 12 (19.05%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (19.05%) Azure Sentinel
9 11 (17.46%) GCP
9 11 (17.46%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (15.87%) SaaS
11 9 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (14.29%) Entra ID
11 9 (14.29%) PaaS
12 7 (11.11%) GitHub
12 7 (11.11%) IaaS
13 4 (6.35%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (6.35%) Cloud Computing
14 3 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 13 (20.63%) Firewall
2 8 (12.70%) DNS
2 8 (12.70%) HTTP
2 8 (12.70%) Internet
2 8 (12.70%) TCP/IP
3 5 (7.94%) VPN
4 2 (3.17%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (1.59%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 8 (12.70%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (7.94%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (6.35%) Data Lake
5 3 (4.76%) Power BI
6 2 (3.17%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.59%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (1.59%) Cloudera CDH
7 1 (1.59%) DocumentDB
7 1 (1.59%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.59%) Looker
7 1 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.59%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 5 (7.94%) JIRA
3 3 (4.76%) GitLab
4 1 (1.59%) Git
General
1 26 (41.27%) Finance
2 22 (34.92%) Social Skills
3 11 (17.46%) Banking
4 6 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.35%) Marketing
6 3 (4.76%) Investment Banking
6 3 (4.76%) Legal
7 2 (3.17%) Front Office
7 2 (3.17%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.59%) Billing
8 1 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.59%) Law
8 1 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (22.22%) Senior
2 12 (19.05%) Architect
3 10 (15.87%) Project Manager
4 9 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
4 9 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (11.11%) Azure Architect
5 7 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (11.11%) Lead
6 6 (9.52%) Cloud Architect
6 6 (9.52%) Senior DevOps
6 6 (9.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 5 (7.94%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (6.35%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) Technical Manager
8 4 (6.35%) Technical Project Manager
9 3 (4.76%) AWS Architect
9 3 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (4.76%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 3 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (4.76%) PMO Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (7.94%) ARM Templates
3 4 (6.35%) REST
4 3 (4.76%) Azure Blueprints
5 2 (3.17%) Middleware
5 2 (3.17%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (1.59%) Akka
6 1 (1.59%) JSON
6 1 (1.59%) Play Framework
6 1 (1.59%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.59%) React
6 1 (1.59%) SOAP
6 1 (1.59%) TensorFlow
6 1 (1.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.05%) Cloud Native
2 11 (17.46%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (12.70%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.76%) BYOD
4 3 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.76%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.76%) Reinsurance
5 2 (3.17%) CMDB
6 1 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.59%) Clustering
6 1 (1.59%) Derivative
6 1 (1.59%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.59%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 11 (17.46%) Linux
2 3 (4.76%) Windows
2 3 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (50.79%) DevOps
2 29 (46.03%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (25.40%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (22.22%) Analytics
4 14 (22.22%) Migration
5 12 (19.05%) CI/CD
5 12 (19.05%) Cloud Security
5 12 (19.05%) Continuous Integration
5 12 (19.05%) Cost Optimisation
6 11 (17.46%) Agile
6 11 (17.46%) API Management
7 10 (15.87%) Configuration Management
7 10 (15.87%) Deployment Automation
8 9 (14.29%) Containerisation
8 9 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
8 9 (14.29%) Microservices
8 9 (14.29%) Project Delivery
8 9 (14.29%) RBAC
8 9 (14.29%) Zero Trust
9 8 (12.70%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (25.40%) Bicep
2 12 (19.05%) PowerShell
3 8 (12.70%) SQL
4 6 (9.52%) Python
5 3 (4.76%) Go
5 3 (4.76%) Java
6 2 (3.17%) Scala
7 1 (1.59%) R
Qualifications
1 14 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 14 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 9 (14.29%) Azure Certification
3 4 (6.35%) AWS Certification
3 4 (6.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.17%) Degree
4 2 (3.17%) OCP
4 2 (3.17%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.94%) GDPR
1 5 (7.94%) PMO
2 4 (6.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.76%) SOC 2
4 2 (3.17%) NIST
5 1 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (23.81%) Docker
2 7 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 5 (7.94%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (3.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 32 (50.79%) Terraform
2 25 (39.68%) Kubernetes
3 11 (17.46%) Ansible
4 8 (12.70%) Grafana
4 8 (12.70%) Progress Chef
4 8 (12.70%) Prometheus
4 8 (12.70%) Puppet
5 4 (6.35%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.59%) Apache Ranger
Vendors
1 24 (38.10%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.70%) Google
2 8 (12.70%) Red Hat
3 4 (6.35%) SAP
4 1 (1.59%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.59%) Cloudera