Cost Control Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cost Control
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 363 437 480
Rank change year-on-year +74 +43 -68
Contract jobs citing Cost Control 30 22 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.091% 0.094%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.10% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 11 20
10th Percentile £275 £400 £199
25th Percentile £400 £440 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £510 £473
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% +7.82% +11.29%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £538
90th Percentile £600 £600 £550
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 1
10th Percentile - £40.50 -
25th Percentile - £41.25 £28.50
Median hourly rate £13.99 £57.13 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -75.51% +96.98% -49.57%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £29.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £13.99 £57.13 £49.50
% change year-on-year -75.51% +15.40% -13.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,621 21,550 27,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.74% 89.52% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,547 14,954 19,191
10th Percentile £246 £255 £231
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,041 1,307 1,363
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.25 £16.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +80.00% -7.24%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £46.10
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.98 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

Cost Control
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cost Control as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cost Control in the UK excluding London

Cost Control
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cost Control in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Cost Control in the UK excluding London

Cost Control
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Control in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Control in the UK excluding London

Cost Control
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cost Control in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Cost Control in the UK excluding London

Cost Control
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 Control within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +35 9 £475 +18.75% 30
Scotland +37 7 £550 +33.33% 8
West Midlands +30 5 £475 - 14
Midlands +30 5 £475 - 17
South East +18 5 £318 -42.79% 25
North West - 5 £450 - 22
South West +12 4 £450 +12.50% 16
North East - 3 - - 2
Yorkshire +21 1 £500 +25.00% 6
Cost Control
UK

Cost Control
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (3.33%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 9 (30.00%) Azure
2 7 (23.33%) Dynamics 365
2 7 (23.33%) Entra ID
2 7 (23.33%) Power Platform
3 6 (20.00%) AWS
4 5 (16.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 5 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (10.00%) AWS Direct Connect
5 3 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (6.67%) PaaS
7 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) Firewall
2 1 (3.33%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (23.33%) Power BI
2 5 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.33%) Data Lake
General
1 14 (46.67%) Finance
2 9 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (16.67%) Telecoms
4 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
6 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.33%) Electronics
7 1 (3.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (36.67%) Project Manager
2 3 (10.00%) Administrator
2 3 (10.00%) Lead
3 2 (6.67%) AWS Specialist
3 2 (6.67%) Azure Specialist
3 2 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (6.67%) Contracts Manager
3 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 2 (6.67%) Project Leader
3 2 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (3.33%) IT Project Leader
4 1 (3.33%) Report Manager
4 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared Project Manager
4 1 (3.33%) Senior Project Controller
4 1 (3.33%) Site Controller
4 1 (3.33%) Telecoms Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.33%) Driving Licence
2 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.33%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.33%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (50.00%) Project Management
2 12 (40.00%) Project Planning
3 11 (36.67%) Risk Management
4 7 (23.33%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (23.33%) Resource Management
5 5 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
5 5 (16.67%) Cloud Operations
6 4 (13.33%) Budget Management
6 4 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (10.00%) Change Management
7 3 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (10.00%) Document Management
7 3 (10.00%) Planning and Forecasting
7 3 (10.00%) PRINCE2
7 3 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (10.00%) Supplier Management
8 2 (6.67%) Migration
8 2 (6.67%) Programme Management
8 2 (6.67%) Service Delivery
8 2 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (23.33%) PMI Certification
1 7 (23.33%) PMP
2 6 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 6 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (16.67%) AWS Certification
3 5 (16.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 4 (13.33%) Degree
5 3 (10.00%) Azure Certification
5 3 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (3.33%) APMP
6 1 (3.33%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) PMO
2 2 (6.67%) QA
3 1 (3.33%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 7 (23.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.67%) Hyper-V
2 2 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (20.00%) Oracle
1 6 (20.00%) SAP
2 3 (10.00%) IFS
3 2 (6.67%) CA
3 2 (6.67%) VMware
4 1 (3.33%) Computacenter