Cost Control Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Cost Control
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Cost Control skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cost Control 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 0.27% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £437 - -
25th Percentile £460 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 - -
75th Percentile £585 - -
90th Percentile £609 - -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £521 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 592 197 299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 79.04% 93.81% 84.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 134 215
10th Percentile £353 £213 £250
25th Percentile £456 £343 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £474
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -10.29% -2.82%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £560
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £450 £464
% change year-on-year +16.67% -2.96% -7.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 10 16
10th Percentile £15.05 £14.39 £15.85
25th Percentile £16.03 £15.12 £17.19
Median hourly rate £16.35 £16.69 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% -17.60% +51.46%
75th Percentile £17.71 £18.00 £39.75
90th Percentile £23.16 £23.83 £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £16.35 £15.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year +7.21% -39.00% +52.44%

Cost Control
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Cost Control job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Cost Control
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Cost Control

Cost Control
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Control in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 10 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Control in Milton Keynes

Cost Control
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 Office
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Scientist
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) vLLM
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Change Control
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Logistics
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (50.00%) Rapid Prototyping
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) APMP
2 1 (50.00%) ISEB
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft