Cost Control Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Cost Control
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Cost Control skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cost Control 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.46% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £457 - -
25th Percentile £472 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 - -
75th Percentile £513 - -
90th Percentile £517 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £502 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

Cost Control 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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 970 389 376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 89.32% 95.34% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 650 252 204
10th Percentile £363 £292 £375
25th Percentile £425 £388 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £475 £507
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% -6.31% -15.50%
75th Percentile £571 £551 £588
90th Percentile £688 £648 £634
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 8
10th Percentile £14.02 £16.86 -
25th Percentile £14.51 £18.10 £10.90
Median hourly rate £16.67 £18.51 £16.88
Median % change year-on-year -9.94% +9.69% +7.14%
75th Percentile £18.67 £18.87 £22.00
90th Percentile £19.07 - £22.53
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £16.67 £18.51 £12.83
% change year-on-year -9.94% +44.27% +20.70%

Cost Control
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Cost Control job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Cost Control
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Cost Control.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Cost Control

Cost Control
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (80.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Asana
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Platform Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Banking Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Banking Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Credit Risk
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) AI
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (80.00%) LLM
1 4 (80.00%) Secrets Management
2 3 (60.00%) Auto-Scaling
2 3 (60.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (60.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (60.00%) Observability
2 3 (60.00%) Release Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Runbook
2 3 (60.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Generative AI
3 1 (20.00%) KYC
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (20.00%) MBA
1 1 (20.00%) PgMP
1 1 (20.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (20.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Dodd-Frank
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft