Cost Control Contract Job Trends in the North East

Cost Control
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Cost Control skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cost Control 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.12% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £506 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - -
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £519 £456 £475
% change year-on-year +13.70% -3.95% -13.64%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 736 246 258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 85.68% 83.67% 91.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 150 97
10th Percentile £313 £225 £321
25th Percentile £363 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £582 £575 £594
90th Percentile £654 £643 £708
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 13 35
10th Percentile £13.13 £13.90 £13.75
25th Percentile £24.75 £17.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £19.25 £29.77
Median % change year-on-year +128.36% -35.34% +48.85%
75th Percentile £70.00 £20.63 £46.18
90th Percentile - £48.80 £70.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%

Cost Control
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Cost Control job vacancy trend in the North East

Cost Control
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Cost Control.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Cost Control

Cost Control
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cost Control within the North East region over the 6 months to 7 October 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
Durham - 1 £513 - 3
Cost Control
England

Cost Control
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus