Cost Management Contracts in the South East

Cost Management
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 188 193
Rank change year-on-year +54 +5 +47
Contract jobs citing Cost Management 14 3 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.47% 0.054% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.064% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 21
10th Percentile £309 £480 -
25th Percentile £420 £525 £57
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £510
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +17.65% +2.00%
75th Percentile £544 £675 £650
90th Percentile £636 £720 £790
England median daily rate £525 £500 £650
% change year-on-year +5.00% -23.08% +20.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £46.30 - -
England median hourly rate £46.30 £52.50 -
% change year-on-year -11.81% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,725 4,675 5,161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.54% 84.68% 89.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,739 2,738 3,584
10th Percentile £256 £250 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -1.91% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 434 223
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £17.10
25th Percentile £15.25 £18.20 £22.16
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -3.06% +123.23%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.50 £64.56
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.96
England median hourly rate £29.15 £36.33 £36.40
% change year-on-year -19.76% -0.18% +49.47%

Cost Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Management in the South East

Cost Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Cost Management in the South East

Cost Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Management in the South East over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Management in the South East

Cost Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cost Management in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Cost Management in the South East

Cost Management
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 Management within the South East region over the 6 months to 5 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
Thames Valley +43 12 £455 - 10
Berkshire +34 7 £440 - 5
Oxfordshire - 3 - - 4
Hampshire +29 2 £528 +17.22% 3
Buckinghamshire - 2 £528 - 3
Cost Management
England

Cost Management
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 5 (35.71%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) Azure AKS
2 3 (21.43%) Google Workspace
3 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (14.29%) Serverless
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
4 1 (7.14%) AWS
4 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Functions
4 1 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.14%) Redis
General
1 5 (35.71%) Finance
2 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Aerospace
4 1 (7.14%) Billing
4 1 (7.14%) Police
4 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Project Manager
1 3 (21.43%) Project Planner
2 2 (14.29%) Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Senior
2 2 (14.29%) Senior Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Budget Controller
3 1 (7.14%) Cost Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Development Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Financial Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Lead
3 1 (7.14%) Product Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Report Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Software Development Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Software Development Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Software Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Software Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) GraphQL
1 1 (7.14%) Node.js
1 1 (7.14%) Prisma
1 1 (7.14%) React
1 1 (7.14%) RESTful
1 1 (7.14%) TanStack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 2 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Capacity Planning
1 5 (35.71%) Project Management
1 5 (35.71%) Risk Management
2 4 (28.57%) DevOps
2 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (28.57%) Project Planning
3 3 (21.43%) Budgeting
3 3 (21.43%) Change Control
3 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
3 3 (21.43%) Containerisation
3 3 (21.43%) Critical Path Analysis
3 3 (21.43%) Gantt Chart
3 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (21.43%) PRINCE2
3 3 (21.43%) Resource Allocation
3 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
3 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (21.43%) Work Breakdown Structure
4 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (14.29%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Bicep
1 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 2 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
1 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) APMP
2 2 (14.29%) ISEB
2 2 (14.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (7.14%) ACCA
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
3 1 (7.14%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
1 3 (21.43%) Terraform
2 2 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Google
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Alteryx