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

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 87 88
Rank change year-on-year +31 +1 +14
Contract jobs citing Cost Management 8 3 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.33% 0.27% 0.091%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 0.31% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £395 - -
25th Percentile £518 £474 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £674 £498 £625
Median % change year-on-year +35.43% -20.40% +34.07%
75th Percentile £775 £521 £638
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £675 £599 £625
% change year-on-year +12.73% -4.20% +34.07%

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 556 974 962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.51% 86.42% 88.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 353 522 634
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £582 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +5.86% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £715 £713
Berkshire median daily rate £501 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.00% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 33 23
10th Percentile - £14.50 £23.80
25th Percentile £14.75 £52.90 £50.95
Median hourly rate £20.75 £61.60 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.31% -6.67% +120.00%
75th Percentile £38.42 £76.99 £74.40
90th Percentile £60.50 £87.46 £76.64
Berkshire median hourly rate £37.28 £61.60 £56.89
% change year-on-year -39.48% +8.29% +118.79%

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 2 August 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:

Business Applications
1 7 (87.50%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (25.00%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) Power Platform
3 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Power BI
General
1 7 (87.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) ERP Manager
1 4 (50.00%) Programme Manager
2 3 (37.50%) Oracle Programme Manager
2 3 (37.50%) Oracle Project Manager
2 3 (37.50%) Project Manager
3 2 (25.00%) ERP Project Manager
3 2 (25.00%) IT Manager
3 2 (25.00%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Business Systems Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle Financials Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
1 7 (87.50%) ERP
1 7 (87.50%) Waterfall
2 6 (75.00%) Project Delivery
2 6 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (62.50%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (37.50%) Budgeting
4 3 (37.50%) Project Governance
4 3 (37.50%) Project Management
4 3 (37.50%) Technology Enablement
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
6 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
6 1 (12.50%) Programme Management
6 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
6 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Bicep
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (12.50%) Python
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Oracle