Cost Accounting Contracts in the South East

Cost Accounting
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Cost Accounting skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cost Accounting over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 195 207 251
Rank change year-on-year +12 +44 -
Contract jobs citing Cost Accounting 6 14 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.11% 0.24% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.27% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 7
10th Percentile £484 £399 £260
25th Percentile £534 £526 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £585 £350
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% +67.14% -
75th Percentile £606 £677 £550
90th Percentile £640 £689 £650
England median daily rate £575 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Cost Accounting 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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,683 5,187 6,936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.85% 89.29% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,728 3,599 4,696
10th Percentile £243 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £404 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.89% +1.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 219 286
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.25 £12.23
25th Percentile £18.20 £23.83 £15.72
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -15.89%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £48.71
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.83 £62.70
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Cost Accounting
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Cost Accounting as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Cost Accounting in the South East

Cost Accounting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cost Accounting in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Cost Accounting in the South East

Cost Accounting
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Accounting in the South East over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Accounting in the South East

Cost Accounting
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cost Accounting within the South East region over the 6 months to 28 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
Thames Valley +2 6 £575 +0.88%
Berkshire -6 6 £575 +0.88%
Hampshire +1 1 £450 -25.00%
Cost Accounting
England

Cost Accounting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Billing
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) PMO Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 3 (50.00%) Senior
1 3 (50.00%) Senior Manager
1 3 (50.00%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 6 (100.00%) Project Management
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Project Governance
3 3 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 3 (50.00%) Business Case
3 3 (50.00%) Business Strategy
3 3 (50.00%) Change Control
3 3 (50.00%) Conflict Resolution
3 3 (50.00%) Contingency Planning
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) Kanban
3 3 (50.00%) Lean Software Development
3 3 (50.00%) Matrix Organization
3 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (50.00%) Scrum
3 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Identification
4 2 (33.33%) PRINCE2
4 2 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
4 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft