Cost Management Contracts in Scotland

Cost Management
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 107 128 161
Rank change year-on-year +21 +33 -4
Contract jobs citing Cost Management 9 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.55% 0.045% 0.070%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.051% 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 2
10th Percentile £353 - £334
25th Percentile £363 £275 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £300 £438
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -31.43% +52.17%
75th Percentile £450 £325 £516
90th Percentile £638 - £551
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £650
% change year-on-year +4.00% -23.08% +20.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Cost Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Management in Scotland

Cost Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Cost Management in Scotland

Cost Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Cost Management in Scotland

Cost Management
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 Management within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 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
Edinburgh - 4 £500 - 7
Glasgow +5 3 £375 +25.00% 2
Perthshire - 2 £375 -
Cost Management
UK

Cost Management
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (66.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (44.44%) PowerApps
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
3 2 (22.22%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (22.22%) Power Automate
3 2 (22.22%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) Power BI
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) JIRA
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Portfolio Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Financial Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) PMO Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Project Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
1 2 (22.22%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Budgeting
3 3 (33.33%) PRINCE2
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) Risk Management
4 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
4 2 (22.22%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (22.22%) Database Migration
4 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (22.22%) High Availability
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (22.22%) Migration
4 2 (22.22%) Portfolio Management
4 2 (22.22%) Resource Allocation
4 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (22.22%) Waterfall
5 1 (11.11%) Agile Project Management
5 1 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Certification
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (11.11%) PMI Certification
3 1 (11.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) P3O
1 2 (22.22%) PMO
2 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle