Cost Management Contracts in the Midlands

Cost Management
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 153 201
Rank change year-on-year +18 +48 -36
Contract jobs citing Cost Management 6 5 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.20% 0.16% 0.080%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.18% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 2
10th Percentile £444 - £511
25th Percentile £522 - £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £563
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +15.56% +9.76%
75th Percentile £606 - £603
90th Percentile £625 - £624
England median daily rate £525 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -19.23% +18.18% -4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,373 2,816 4,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 80.50% 87.48% 87.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,577 1,978 3,231
10th Percentile £234 £258 £250
25th Percentile £358 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 101 130
10th Percentile £11.11 £12.50 £10.68
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £19.00 £24.00 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +31.51% +24.91%
75th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £24.50
90th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £35.00
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 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

Cost Management
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

Cost Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Management in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Management in the Midlands

Cost Management
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

Cost Management
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 13 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
West Midlands - 4 £563 - 10
East Midlands +3 1 £550 -15.38% 2
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 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) IaaS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) PaaS
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
1 1 (16.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Hudson
1 1 (16.67%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) HR Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
1 2 (33.33%) Senior Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Senior Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Functional Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Head of Digital
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Platform Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) JSON
1 1 (16.67%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) VMS
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Agile
1 2 (33.33%) Migration
1 2 (33.33%) PRINCE2
1 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
1 2 (33.33%) Project Management
1 2 (33.33%) Target Operating Model
2 1 (16.67%) API Management
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
2 1 (16.67%) Development Roadmap
2 1 (16.67%) Digital Strategy
2 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Inventory Management
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
2 1 (16.67%) Service Management
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (16.67%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bicep
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 2 (33.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) LogicMonitor
2 1 (16.67%) Zscaler