Cost Control Contracts in Scotland

Cost Control
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Cost Control skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cost Control over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 158 167
Rank change year-on-year +36 +9 -12
Contract jobs citing Cost Control 7 5 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.32% 0.17% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.19% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £350 £331 £320
25th Percentile £463 £359 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £413 £350
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +17.86% -20.45%
75th Percentile £581 £459 £400
90th Percentile £593 £484 £430
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
UK median hourly rate £13.99 £57.13 £49.50
% change year-on-year -75.51% +15.40% -13.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Cost Control is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,963 2,651 3,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.54% 92.63% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,196 1,908 2,313
10th Percentile £229 £263 £241
25th Percentile £400 £408 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £624
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 54 46
10th Percentile £12.36 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.51 £18.35
Median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -55.69% -0.01%
75th Percentile £40.94 £53.75 £49.34
90th Percentile £60.75 £66.09 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.42% +49.20% -

Cost Control
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Cost Control as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Cost Control in Scotland

Cost Control
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cost Control in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Cost Control in Scotland

Cost Control
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Control in Scotland over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Control in Scotland

Cost Control
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cost Control in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Cost Control in Scotland

Cost Control
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cost Control within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 30 April 2024. 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
Glasgow - 6 £550 - 1
Aberdeenshire - 1 - - 1
Cost Control
UK

Cost Control
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (85.71%) AWS
3 5 (71.43%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 5 (71.43%) Azure Sentinel
3 5 (71.43%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (71.43%) Entra ID
3 5 (71.43%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (42.86%) AWS Direct Connect
4 3 (42.86%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
6 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (28.57%) Power BI
General
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Specialist
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) IT Project Leader
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Project Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Project Leader
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Capacity Planning
1 5 (71.43%) Cloud Operations
2 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (42.86%) Planning and Forecasting
2 3 (42.86%) Supplier Management
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Project Management
3 2 (28.57%) Project Planning
3 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Cost Management
4 1 (14.29%) Critical Thinking
4 1 (14.29%) Data Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
4 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 1 (14.29%) Kanban
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Management
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Project Governance
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) AWS Certification
1 5 (71.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Certification
3 1 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
2 5 (71.43%) Oracle