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 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 157 177
Rank change year-on-year -15 +20 +66
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Cost Management 16 6 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.40% 0.14% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.17% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 14
10th Percentile £294 £484 £475
25th Percentile £309 £502 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £355 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -33.95% +2.38% -19.23%
75th Percentile £397 £566 £563
90th Percentile £417 £571 £716
England median daily rate £520 £565 £725
% change year-on-year -7.96% -22.07% +31.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £20.00 -
England median hourly rate £46.30 £51.25 -
% change year-on-year -9.66% - -

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,569 3,496 4,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.14% 83.68% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,286 2,091 3,053
10th Percentile £268 £313 £285
25th Percentile £375 £406 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - -
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 235 198
10th Percentile £12.88 £11.07 £15.72
25th Percentile £17.47 £14.00 £17.75
Median hourly rate £22.63 £27.00 £27.74
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% -2.67% +44.14%
75th Percentile £43.56 £49.38 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.40 £69.90 £58.85
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £40.85
% change year-on-year -40.82% +4.05% +51.39%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Cost Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Cost Management

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 21 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Management in the North of England

Cost Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Cost Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Cost Management

Cost Management
DemandTrendContract 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 21 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Yorkshire -5 10 £349 -26.17% 7
North West -8 5 £400 -27.27% 6
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle Smart View
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (18.75%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) PowerApps
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (12.50%) SaaS
4 1 (6.25%) AWS
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) Power BI
2 3 (18.75%) Data Mining
2 3 (18.75%) Relational Database
3 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (6.25%) Big Data
3 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
3 1 (6.25%) Essbase
3 1 (6.25%) Metadata
3 1 (6.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 11 (68.75%) Finance
2 6 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Presentation Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 4 (25.00%) Banking
4 3 (18.75%) Billing
5 2 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (6.25%) General Ledger
6 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 1 (6.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (75.00%) Analyst
2 5 (31.25%) Data Analyst
3 4 (25.00%) Senior
3 4 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
4 3 (18.75%) Report Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) SOC Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Data Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Facilities Manager
6 1 (6.25%) Facilities Project Manager
6 1 (6.25%) Financial Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) IT Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Specialist
6 1 (6.25%) Security Specialist
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Financial Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Service Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) SOC Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Kafka
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (6.25%) PySpark
1 1 (6.25%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 9 (56.25%) Data Centre
2 7 (43.75%) Mainframe
3 5 (31.25%) Public Cloud
4 3 (18.75%) Cloud Native
5 2 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
6 1 (6.25%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Budgeting
2 9 (56.25%) Virtual Environments
3 8 (50.00%) ITIL
4 7 (43.75%) Analytics
4 7 (43.75%) Service Management
5 5 (31.25%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (31.25%) Cost Optimisation
5 5 (31.25%) Data Transformation
5 5 (31.25%) Data Visualisation
5 5 (31.25%) FinOps
5 5 (31.25%) Portfolio Management
5 5 (31.25%) Visualisation
6 4 (25.00%) Cost Reduction
6 4 (25.00%) Cost Transparency
6 4 (25.00%) Data Analysis
6 4 (25.00%) Data Mapping
6 4 (25.00%) Financial Modelling
7 3 (18.75%) Data Analytics
7 3 (18.75%) Data Management
7 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) SQL
2 3 (18.75%) Python
3 2 (12.50%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
1 2 (12.50%) GCIA
1 2 (12.50%) GCIH
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) Databricks
3 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow