Cost Management Contracts in the Midlands

Cost Management
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 159 201
Rank change year-on-year +28 +42 -49
Contract jobs citing Cost Management 5 5 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.18% 0.15% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.16% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 4
10th Percentile £445 - £465
25th Percentile - - £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £563
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +15.56% +9.76%
75th Percentile £625 - £638
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £500 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -1.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,271 3,038 4,439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.16% 88.37% 88.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,515 2,118 3,285
10th Percentile £250 £250 £250
25th Percentile £356 £370 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +4.21% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £567
90th Percentile £700 £677 £653
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 118 151
10th Percentile £11.06 £11.94 £10.00
25th Percentile £13.71 £15.02 £13.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £17.72 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% +1.37% +9.25%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.47 £22.05
90th Percentile £55.00 £54.13 £34.50
England median hourly rate £35.96 £37.50 £24.50
% change year-on-year -4.12% +53.06% +2.08%

Cost Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Management in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Cost Management in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Management in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Management in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Cost Management in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
West Midlands - 3 £600 - 8
East Midlands +13 1 £550 -15.38% 5
Cost Management
England

Cost Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
1 1 (20.00%) IaaS
1 1 (20.00%) PaaS
1 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (20.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Hudson
1 1 (20.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) HR Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Project Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Functional Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Head of Digital
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) PRINCE2
1 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (40.00%) Project Management
1 2 (40.00%) Target Operating Model
2 1 (20.00%) B2C
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (20.00%) Development Roadmap
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) GAP Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Inventory Management
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Service Management
2 1 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (20.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bicep
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) LogicMonitor