Cost Management Contract Job Trends in Preston

Cost Management
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Preston requiring Cost Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cost Management 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Preston 1.11% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Lancashire median daily rate - - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Preston

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 Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 67 64 50
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 74.44% 92.75% 90.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 41 16
10th Percentile £368 £350 £356
25th Percentile £525 £447 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £530 £571
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% -7.25% +30.62%
75th Percentile £806 £575 £743
90th Percentile £900 £630 £981
Lancashire median daily rate £550 £535 £538
% change year-on-year +2.76% -0.42% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 11 32
10th Percentile £37.16 £24.76 £12.20
25th Percentile £39.53 £26.88 -
Median hourly rate £42.69 £28.75 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +48.47% +79.02% -62.21%
75th Percentile £68.94 £31.07 £19.05
90th Percentile £71.78 £43.39 £46.18
Lancashire median hourly rate £46.13 £28.75 £19.18
% change year-on-year +60.45% +49.90% -54.87%

Cost Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cost Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston.

Cost Management job vacancy trend in Preston

Cost Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft