Cost Management Contracts in the North of England

Cost Management
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Cost Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cost Management over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 161 202 227
Rank change year-on-year +41 +25 -52
Contract jobs citing Cost Management 29 17 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.61% 0.29% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.32% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 8 3
10th Percentile £403 £463 £423
25th Percentile £407 £477 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £525 £625
Median % change year-on-year -20.95% -16.00% +51.52%
75th Percentile £505 £572 £663
90th Percentile £570 £675 £678
England median daily rate £500 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -1.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Cost Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,110 5,288 6,359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.80% 90.70% 88.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,521 3,674 4,657
10th Percentile £288 £303 £240
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 356 207 261
10th Percentile £11.04 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.48 £15.25 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.61 £27.70 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.43% +49.73% -
75th Percentile £44.24 £45.05 £32.77
90th Percentile £53.88 £65.00 £50.78
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

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 29 April 2024.

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 29 April 2024. 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
Yorkshire +37 24 £414 -21.19% 9
North West +22 5 £550 -2.22% 10
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (34.48%) GitHub
2 4 (13.79%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (10.34%) AWS
4 1 (3.45%) Azure
4 1 (3.45%) IaaS
Development Applications
1 10 (34.48%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (44.83%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.69%) Finance
3 2 (6.90%) Back Office
3 2 (6.90%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Marketing
3 2 (6.90%) Retail
4 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 18 (62.07%) Storage Manager
2 4 (13.79%) Project Manager
3 3 (10.34%) Finance Manager
3 3 (10.34%) Finance Project Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Consultant
4 2 (6.90%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 2 (6.90%) Dynamics 365 Project Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Functional Consultant
4 2 (6.90%) IT Manager
4 2 (6.90%) IT Project Manager
4 2 (6.90%) SAP Manager
4 2 (6.90%) SAP Project Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Site Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Business Analyst
5 1 (3.45%) Finance Business Analyst
5 1 (3.45%) Financial Analyst
5 1 (3.45%) IT Finance Manager
5 1 (3.45%) SAP Financial Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (34.48%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (31.03%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 14 (48.28%) zOS
2 13 (44.83%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (72.41%) Project Management
1 21 (72.41%) Stakeholder Management
2 19 (65.52%) Software Testing
2 19 (65.52%) Storage Management
3 15 (51.72%) Agile
4 13 (44.83%) Problem Management
5 2 (6.90%) Asset Management
5 2 (6.90%) Change Control
5 2 (6.90%) Data Migration
5 2 (6.90%) Logistics
5 2 (6.90%) Programme Delivery
5 2 (6.90%) Project Governance
5 2 (6.90%) Resource Management
5 2 (6.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (6.90%) Software Engineering
5 2 (6.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (6.90%) Supply Chain Management
5 2 (6.90%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (6.90%) User Stories
5 2 (6.90%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 13 (44.83%) JCL
2 10 (34.48%) Python
2 10 (34.48%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
1 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 13 (44.83%) NFS
1 13 (44.83%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (65.52%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 10 (34.48%) Ansible
Vendors
1 19 (65.52%) IBM
2 14 (48.28%) Broadcom
2 14 (48.28%) Dell
3 13 (44.83%) Brocade
3 13 (44.83%) CA
4 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
5 2 (6.90%) SAP
6 1 (3.45%) Facebook
6 1 (3.45%) Instagram
6 1 (3.45%) Splunk
6 1 (3.45%) VMware