Cost Control Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Cost Control
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Cost Control skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cost Control 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.50% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £457 - -
25th Percentile £472 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 - -
75th Percentile £513 - -
90th Percentile £517 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £502 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

Cost Control 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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,064 451 423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 89.34% 95.35% 86.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 687 292 233
10th Percentile £363 £291 £314
25th Percentile £425 £385 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.41%
75th Percentile £569 £551 £580
90th Percentile £688 £638 £622
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 7 21
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.86 £10.90
25th Percentile £13.69 £18.10 £12.55
Median hourly rate £16.67 £18.51 £12.83
Median % change year-on-year -9.94% +44.27% +20.70%
75th Percentile £22.20 £18.87 £13.23
90th Percentile £23.87 - £22.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 £21.69 £13.23
% change year-on-year +5.16% +63.95% +24.46%

Cost Control
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cost Control relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Cost Control job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Cost Control
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Cost Control.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Cost Control

Cost Control
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 25 June 2026. 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
Sheffield - 5 £502 - 2
Doncaster - 1 - -
Cost Control
Yorkshire

Cost Control
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Asana
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Banking Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Banking Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Credit Risk
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) AI
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (66.67%) LLM
1 4 (66.67%) Secrets Management
2 3 (50.00%) Auto-Scaling
2 3 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 3 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (50.00%) Observability
2 3 (50.00%) Release Automation
2 3 (50.00%) Runbook
2 3 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Budgeting
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Generative AI
3 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bash
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) ACCA
1 1 (16.67%) CIMA
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
1 1 (16.67%) MBA
1 1 (16.67%) PgMP
1 1 (16.67%) PMI Certification
1 1 (16.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Dodd-Frank
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft