Cost Transparency Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Cost Transparency
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Cost Transparency skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cost Transparency 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.032% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.037% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £355 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

Cost Transparency 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 2,708 1,887 2,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 85.59% 87.12% 84.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,687 1,167 1,449
10th Percentile £236 £229 £255
25th Percentile £381 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 69 105
10th Percentile £14.39 £14.70 £14.05
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £17.07
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.59 £24.60
Median % change year-on-year -12.60% -12.24% +46.17%
75th Percentile £25.15 £31.76 £51.50
90th Percentile £30.00 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -20.00% +21.43%

Cost Transparency
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Cost Transparency job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Cost Transparency
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 Transparency within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 January 2026. 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 - 1 - - 1
Cost Transparency
England

Cost Transparency
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
1 1 (100.00%) Business Agility
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Contract Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Demand Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Register
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Scorecard
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
1 1 (100.00%) SLA