Cost Management Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Cost Management
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Cost Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 36 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs citing Cost Management 4 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 1.00% 1.91% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 2.07% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £494 -
Median % change year-on-year +51.90% - -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £750 £494 -
% change year-on-year +51.90% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 322 193 452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 80.30% 92.34% 87.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 144 338
10th Percentile £252 £250 £294
25th Percentile £367 £396 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £640 £650 £750
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 3 29
10th Percentile £16.24 £13.10 £15.85
25th Percentile £16.35 £14.75 £18.00
Median hourly rate £29.61 £18.70 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year +58.34% -19.45% +22.18%
75th Percentile - £19.60 £30.00
90th Percentile £36.00 £20.14 £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £22.21 £19.00 £23.22
% change year-on-year +16.88% -18.16% +36.56%

Cost Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Cost Management job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Cost Management
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

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

Cost Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Cost Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Cost Management

Cost Management
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Confluence
1 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
1 2 (50.00%) PMO Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Budgeting
1 2 (50.00%) Change Control
1 2 (50.00%) Customer-Centricity
1 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (50.00%) FinOps
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Programme Governance
1 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (50.00%) Project Management
1 2 (50.00%) Resource Management
1 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (50.00%) SABSA
1 2 (50.00%) TOGAF
1 2 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Citrix
2 2 (50.00%) VMware