Cost Management Contracts in Reading

Cost Management
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 90 86
Rank change year-on-year +37 -4 +11
Contract jobs citing Cost Management 7 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.17% 0.084% 0.096%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 0.093% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £351 - -
25th Percentile - - £618
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 - £635
75th Percentile - - £653
90th Percentile £437 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £409 - £635

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Cost Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Cost Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Cost Management in Reading

Cost Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cost Management in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Cost Management in Reading

Cost Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Management in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Management in Reading

Cost Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
1 5 (71.43%) Azure AKS
2 4 (57.14%) Azure Functions
2 4 (57.14%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (57.14%) Redis
General
1 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Backend Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) Cost Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Product Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) GraphQL
1 4 (57.14%) Prisma
1 4 (57.14%) RESTful
2 2 (28.57%) Node.js
3 1 (14.29%) React
3 1 (14.29%) TanStack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
1 5 (71.43%) Containerisation
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) API Design
2 4 (57.14%) Code Quality
2 4 (57.14%) Cost Optimisation
2 4 (57.14%) Design Patterns
2 4 (57.14%) Event-Driven
2 4 (57.14%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 4 (57.14%) Front End Development
2 4 (57.14%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (57.14%) Microservices
2 4 (57.14%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (14.29%) Business Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
3 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) TypeScript
2 1 (14.29%) Bicep
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) ACCA
1 1 (14.29%) CIMA
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Alteryx