Cost Management Contracts in the North of England

Cost Management
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 160 202
Rank change year-on-year +4 +42 +25
Contract jobs citing Cost Management 10 29 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.30% 0.61% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.71% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 23 8
10th Percentile £367 £403 £463
25th Percentile £490 £407 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £415 £525
Median % change year-on-year +41.57% -20.95% -16.00%
75th Percentile £638 £505 £572
90th Percentile £656 £570 £675
England median daily rate £533 £500 £650
% change year-on-year +6.50% -23.08% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 - -
75th Percentile £48.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £46.30 £52.50 -
% change year-on-year -11.81% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,970 4,081 5,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.97% 85.83% 90.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,907 2,497 3,663
10th Percentile £263 £300 £304
25th Percentile £380 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £684
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 357 205
10th Percentile £13.70 £11.04 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.31 £12.50 £15.75
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.72 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +62.25% -36.03% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.59 £44.74 £45.05
90th Percentile £83.41 £55.40 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

Cost Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Cost Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Cost Management in the North of England

Cost Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cost Management in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Cost Management in the North of England

Cost Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Management in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Management in the North of England

Cost Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cost Management in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Cost Management in the North of England

Cost Management
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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
North West +17 8 £588 +6.82% 15
Yorkshire -16 1 - - 3
North East - 1 - - 1
Cost Management
England

Cost Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Smart View
1 1 (10.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) SuccessFactors
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (10.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Essbase
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) General Ledger
3 1 (10.00%) Marketing
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Architect
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Architect
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
1 3 (30.00%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Construction Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Migration
2 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (30.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (30.00%) Customer Requirements
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Project Management
4 1 (10.00%) Agile
4 1 (10.00%) Asset Management
4 1 (10.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
4 1 (10.00%) Critical Path Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) Dashboard Development
4 1 (10.00%) Data Management
4 1 (10.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (10.00%) ERP
4 1 (10.00%) Gantt Chart
4 1 (10.00%) Invoice Processing
4 1 (10.00%) Performance Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Service Management
4 1 (10.00%) Target Operating Model
4 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) MRICS
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft