Cost-Benefit Analysis Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Cost-Benefit Analysis
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Cost-Benefit Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 201 162 184
Rank change year-on-year -39 +22 +50
Contract jobs citing Cost-Benefit Analysis 5 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.10% 0.11% 0.064%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.13% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £611
25th Percentile - £725 £628
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £750 £656
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% +14.33% +74.93%
75th Percentile - £775 £684
90th Percentile - - £701
England median daily rate £517 £583 £589
% change year-on-year -11.33% -1.10% +2.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £39.31 -
% change year-on-year +65.35% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Cost-Benefit Analysis 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 4,209 3,073 4,111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.20% 86.98% 88.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,789 1,752 2,721
10th Percentile £220 £263 £300
25th Percentile £363 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £670 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 147 204
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.13 £15.36
25th Percentile £19.75 £17.16 £17.72
Median hourly rate £29.60 £27.39 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.09% -8.72% +36.36%
75th Percentile £55.00 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £69.25 £67.77 £61.78
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.64%

Cost-Benefit Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cost-Benefit Analysis relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Cost-Benefit Analysis job vacancy trend in the North of England

Cost-Benefit Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Cost-Benefit Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Cost-Benefit Analysis

Cost-Benefit Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Cost-Benefit Analysis.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Cost-Benefit Analysis

Cost-Benefit Analysis
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-Benefit Analysis within the North of England region over the 6 months to 28 December 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
Yorkshire - 5 £475 - 3
Cost-Benefit Analysis
England

Cost-Benefit Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Jaeger
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 4 (80.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Kafka
1 4 (80.00%) Middleware
1 4 (80.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 4 (80.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Software Delivery
2 4 (80.00%) API Design
2 4 (80.00%) Business Development
2 4 (80.00%) Coaching
2 4 (80.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (80.00%) Data Modelling
2 4 (80.00%) Data Privacy
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Feasibility Study
2 4 (80.00%) GAP Analysis
2 4 (80.00%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (80.00%) IT Strategy
2 4 (80.00%) JVM Tuning
2 4 (80.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (80.00%) Microservices
2 4 (80.00%) Network Load Balancing
2 4 (80.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 4 (80.00%) Process Improvement
2 4 (80.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
1 4 (80.00%) Rust
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Grafana
1 4 (80.00%) Kiali
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (80.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Splunk