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 29 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 161 200
Rank change year-on-year +12 +39 +54
Contract jobs citing Cost Management 18 14 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.51% 0.30% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.36% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 6 15
10th Percentile £408 £431 £57
25th Percentile £586 £456 £219
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £499 £615
Median % change year-on-year +30.33% -18.90% +9.33%
75th Percentile £700 £637 £634
90th Percentile £760 £688 £650
England median daily rate £520 £565 £675
% change year-on-year -7.96% -16.30% +22.73%

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 3,164 3,891 4,968
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 89.35% 82.30% 89.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,968 2,351 3,371
10th Percentile £234 £258 £250
25th Percentile £393 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -0.87% +3.85%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 306 293 233
10th Percentile £13.68 £15.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £27.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £22.75 £57.35 £51.42
Median % change year-on-year -60.33% +11.53% +85.43%
75th Percentile £53.69 £70.39 £64.63
90th Percentile £69.65 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +53.90%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Cost Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Cost Management

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 29 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Management in the South East

Cost Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Cost Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Cost Management

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 29 August 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
Berkshire +20 15 £675 +12.73% 7
Thames Valley +13 15 £675 +35.68% 11
Hampshire +13 2 £478 -13.18% 3
Surrey +11 1 - -
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (38.89%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (33.33%) SAP CO
2 6 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (27.78%) SAP FI
3 5 (27.78%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (11.11%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) Power Platform
3 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 2 (11.11%) GitHub
3 2 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.56%) AWS
4 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.56%) Azure AKS
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (5.56%) Dagster
4 1 (5.56%) GCP
4 1 (5.56%) Serverless
4 1 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) Power BI
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.56%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
1 1 (5.56%) Poetry
1 1 (5.56%) Pylint
1 1 (5.56%) SonarQube
General
1 15 (83.33%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Aerospace
4 1 (5.56%) Billing
4 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Architect
2 6 (33.33%) SAP Architect
3 4 (22.22%) ERP Manager
3 4 (22.22%) Principal Architect
3 4 (22.22%) Programme Manager
4 3 (16.67%) Oracle Programme Manager
4 3 (16.67%) Oracle Project Manager
4 3 (16.67%) Project Manager
5 2 (11.11%) ERP Project Manager
5 2 (11.11%) IT Manager
5 2 (11.11%) IT Project Manager
5 2 (11.11%) Lead
5 2 (11.11%) Technical Leader
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Budget Controller
6 1 (5.56%) Business Systems Manager
6 1 (5.56%) DevOps Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Oracle Financials Project Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (5.56%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (5.56%) Kafka
2 1 (5.56%) PySpark
2 1 (5.56%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Augmented Reality
2 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Agile
1 7 (38.89%) Decision-Making
1 7 (38.89%) ERP
1 7 (38.89%) Stakeholder Management
1 7 (38.89%) Waterfall
2 6 (33.33%) Accounts Receivable
2 6 (33.33%) Cost Centre Accounting
2 6 (33.33%) Cost Control
2 6 (33.33%) Profit Centre Accounting
2 6 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 6 (33.33%) Resource Allocation
2 6 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 5 (27.78%) Artificial Intelligence
3 5 (27.78%) Business Activity Monitoring
3 5 (27.78%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (27.78%) Cash Management
3 5 (27.78%) Generative AI
4 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (16.67%) Project Governance
5 3 (16.67%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) Bicep
2 1 (5.56%) Python
2 1 (5.56%) SQL
2 1 (5.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.56%) JSP 440
1 1 (5.56%) NCSC
1 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Oracle
2 6 (33.33%) SAP
3 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.56%) Databricks
4 1 (5.56%) Google