Cost Control Contracts in the South West

Cost Control
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Cost Control skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cost Control over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 151 163 176
Rank change year-on-year +12 +13 -35
Contract jobs citing Cost Control 4 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.13% 0.11% 0.027%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.12% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £400 - £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £390
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +2.56% -29.09%
75th Percentile £516 £469 £395
90th Percentile £526 £510 -
England median daily rate £475 £563 £523
% change year-on-year -15.56% +7.66% +22.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Cost Control 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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,651 3,250 3,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.90% 89.63% 88.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,695 2,396 2,328
10th Percentile £217 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +6.84%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £590
90th Percentile £700 £719 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 332 335 194
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.44 £17.00 £20.08
Median hourly rate £50.00 £61.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.70% +26.16% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.36 £69.95
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

Cost Control
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Control in the South West

Cost Control
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cost Control in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Cost Control in the South West

Cost Control
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cost Control in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Cost Control in the South West

Cost Control
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cost Control within the South West region over the 6 months to 29 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
Gloucestershire - 2 £450 - 1
Somerset +6 1 £532 - 4
Bristol - 1 - - 9
Cost Control
England

Cost Control
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (50.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Project Controller
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Project Controller
2 1 (25.00%) Site Controller
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) ANOVA
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Commercial Awareness
3 1 (25.00%) Earned Value Management
3 1 (25.00%) Pay per click
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) CA
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) SAP