Cost Management Contracts in the North West

Cost Management
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 130 146
Rank change year-on-year +13 +16 +33
Contract jobs citing Cost Management 8 5 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.41% 0.18% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.21% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 5
10th Percentile £367 £430 -
25th Percentile £490 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £480
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% +14.58% -23.20%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £675
90th Percentile £656 - -
England median daily rate £525 £500 £650
% change year-on-year +5.00% -23.08% +18.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,774 2,349 2,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.14% 86.30% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,146 1,497 2,042
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £662 £689 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 246 140
10th Percentile £16.02 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.72 £13.36 £21.91
Median hourly rate £32.25 £21.56 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +49.62% -39.28% +71.13%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.66 £49.43
90th Percentile £84.70 £57.50 £65.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year -19.25% -3.59% +53.69%

Cost Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Management in the North West

Cost Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Cost Management in the North West

Cost Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Management in the North West over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Management in the North West

Cost Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Cost Management in the North West

Cost Management
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 3 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
Cheshire - 5 £625 - 2
Manchester +13 2 £550 - 8
Merseyside - 1 £350 -
Cost Management
England

Cost Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (12.50%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) SuccessFactors
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) General Ledger
2 1 (12.50%) Marketing
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Architect
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Solutions Architect
1 3 (37.50%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Migration
2 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (37.50%) Configuration Management
2 3 (37.50%) Customer Requirements
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) Asset Management
4 1 (12.50%) Critical Path Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
4 1 (12.50%) Gantt Chart
4 1 (12.50%) Inventory Management
4 1 (12.50%) Invoice Processing
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Project Management
4 1 (12.50%) Service Management
4 1 (12.50%) Target Operating Model
4 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (12.50%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle