Cost Management Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Cost Management
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Cost Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cost Management 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 1.06% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
South West median daily rate £575 - £500

All Process & Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 197 104 156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 69.61% 90.43% 78.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 71 95
10th Percentile £263 £250 £184
25th Percentile £350 £376 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £594
90th Percentile £630 £725 £625
South West median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 6 31
10th Percentile £40.37 £12.48 £12.50
25th Percentile £51.25 £14.00 £25.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £18.51 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +210.64% -53.73% -
75th Percentile £58.75 - £42.50
90th Percentile - £19.76 £55.46
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year -11.54% +33.42% -20.78%

Cost Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Cost Management job vacancy trend in Somerset

Cost Management
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Cost Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Cost Management

Cost Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 3 (100.00%) IaaS
1 3 (100.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DHCP
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 3 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (100.00%) Change Management
1 3 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) Operational Stability
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Runbook
1 3 (100.00%) SIEM
1 3 (100.00%) SOAR
1 3 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bicep
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) VMware