Cost Accounting Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Cost Accounting
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Cost Accounting skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 395 353 391
Rank change year-on-year -42 +38 +98
Contract jobs citing Cost Accounting 2 15 24
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.011% 0.092% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.013% 0.11% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 15 23
10th Percentile - £417 £475
25th Percentile - £465 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £573 £525
Median % change year-on-year -21.40% +9.05% -5.41%
75th Percentile - £599 £588
90th Percentile - £667 £668
UK median daily rate £650 £574 £525
% change year-on-year +13.29% +9.29% -5.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Cost Accounting 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,382 13,893 18,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 87.45% 84.90% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,351 7,917 11,791
10th Percentile £220 £245 £250
25th Percentile £368 £382 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,748 905 1,265
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.06 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £19.25 £17.75
Median hourly rate £22.85 £32.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.69% -26.97% +48.33%
75th Percentile £44.84 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.14 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%

Cost Accounting
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cost Accounting relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Cost Accounting job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Cost Accounting
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Cost Accounting.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Cost Accounting

Cost Accounting
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cost Accounting within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 November 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
Scotland -1 2 £450 -23.44%
Cost Accounting
UK

Cost Accounting
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) PMO Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Senior PMO
2 1 (50.00%) Senior PMO Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ADO
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Coaching
1 2 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Lean Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Logistics
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft