Cost Control Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Cost Control
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Cost Control skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 85 99
Rank change year-on-year -2 +14 +38
Contract jobs citing Cost Control 2 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.18% 0.42% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.48% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £476
25th Percentile £700 - £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - £588
Median % change year-on-year - - +27.72%
75th Percentile £750 - £666
90th Percentile - - £709
North West median daily rate £725 - £536
% change year-on-year - - +16.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £31.20 -
25th Percentile £30.75 £31.88 -
Median hourly rate £31.50 £33.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £32.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £31.50 £33.00 -
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 985 1,038 1,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.46% 87.59% 88.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 648 599 1,028
10th Percentile £300 £300 £270
25th Percentile £367 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £585
90th Percentile £676 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 37 57
10th Percentile £17.02 £15.96 £15.74
25th Percentile £19.07 £28.50 £16.85
Median hourly rate £22.41 £32.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.05% +66.67% -3.13%
75th Percentile £31.40 £58.00 £46.88
90th Percentile £60.38 £66.90 £69.25
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £35.36 £35.00
% change year-on-year -16.29% +1.03% +55.56%

Cost Control
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cost Control relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Cost Control job vacancy trend in Manchester

Cost Control
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Cost Control.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Cost Control

Cost Control
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Cost Control.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Cost Control

Cost Control
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 19 November 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
Bolton -13 1 - -
Cost Control
North West

Cost Control
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
General
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) BigQuery Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (50.00%) GCP Architect
1 1 (50.00%) GCP Data Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Cloud Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Data Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) FinOps
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Matrix Organization
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft