Cost Management Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Cost Management
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Cost Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 - 56
Rank change year-on-year - - +12
Contract jobs citing Cost Management 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 0.19% - 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% - 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £805 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £871 - £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.38%
75th Percentile £937 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £575 £475 £600
% change year-on-year +21.05% -20.83% +4.80%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 429 262 482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 82.98% 89.42% 82.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 184 350
10th Percentile £204 £195 £245
25th Percentile £363 £296 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £563 £548 £619
90th Percentile £678 £656 £700
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 25 55
10th Percentile £25.95 £20.50 £11.71
25th Percentile £55.00 £24.18 £13.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £28.00 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +132.14% +36.59% -54.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.39 £57.50
90th Percentile £73.49 £62.50 £76.86
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £27.76 £47.50
% change year-on-year +98.13% -41.56% -4.04%

Cost Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cost Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Cost Management job vacancy trend in Surrey

Cost Management
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Cost Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Cost Management

Cost Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (100.00%) OneDrive
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) E-Discovery
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft