Cost Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cost Management
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 Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cost Management 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 337 404 448
Rank change year-on-year +67 +44 -57
Contract jobs citing Cost Management 56 55 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.23% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.26% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 35 32
10th Percentile £285 £57 £264
25th Percentile £407 £381 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +5.00% -7.98%
75th Percentile £550 £651 £626
90th Percentile £594 £734 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £650 £538
% change year-on-year -23.08% +20.93% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile £48.13 - -
25th Percentile £50.00 - £16.75
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £18.50
75th Percentile £61.25 - £20.25
90th Percentile £62.38 - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 - £18.50
% change year-on-year - - -75.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Cost Management 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 Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Management in the UK excluding London

Cost Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Cost Management in the UK excluding London

Cost Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Cost Management in the UK excluding London

Cost Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Cost Management in the UK excluding London

Cost Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cost Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cost Management in the UK excluding London

Cost Management
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 Management 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 +41 29 £415 -20.95% 21
Yorkshire +37 24 £414 -21.19% 9
South West +26 19 £500 -24.24% 11
Midlands +28 5 £550 -15.38% 14
North West +22 5 £550 -2.22% 10
West Midlands - 3 £600 - 9
South East -5 2 £600 +13.21% 20
Scotland +34 1 £300 -31.43% 6
East Midlands +18 1 £550 -15.38% 5
Cost Management
UK

Cost Management
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:

Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (19.64%) GitHub
2 10 (17.86%) Azure
3 5 (8.93%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (8.93%) IaaS
4 4 (7.14%) PaaS
5 3 (5.36%) AWS
6 1 (1.79%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.79%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.79%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.79%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.79%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.79%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (1.79%) Data Lake
1 1 (1.79%) Power BI
1 1 (1.79%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (17.86%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.79%) Hudson
2 1 (1.79%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 21 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.50%) Finance
3 3 (5.36%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (5.36%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (5.36%) Marketing
3 3 (5.36%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.57%) Back Office
4 2 (3.57%) Retail
5 1 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.79%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 18 (32.14%) Storage Manager
2 7 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 4 (7.14%) Architect
3 4 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (7.14%) Senior
3 4 (7.14%) Senior Manager
3 4 (7.14%) Technical Architect
4 3 (5.36%) Analyst
4 3 (5.36%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (5.36%) Consultant
4 3 (5.36%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 3 (5.36%) Finance Manager
4 3 (5.36%) Finance Project Manager
4 3 (5.36%) Functional Consultant
5 2 (3.57%) IT Manager
5 2 (3.57%) IT Project Manager
5 2 (3.57%) SAP Manager
5 2 (3.57%) SAP Project Manager
5 2 (3.57%) Senior Project Manager
5 2 (3.57%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (17.86%) YAML
2 1 (1.79%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.86%) Management Information System
2 9 (16.07%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.79%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.79%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (25.00%) zOS
2 13 (23.21%) Linux
3 1 (1.79%) Windows
3 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (55.36%) Project Management
2 27 (48.21%) Stakeholder Management
3 19 (33.93%) Software Testing
3 19 (33.93%) Storage Management
4 18 (32.14%) Agile
5 15 (26.79%) Risk Management
6 13 (23.21%) Problem Management
7 12 (21.43%) Change Management
7 12 (21.43%) Earned Value Management
7 12 (21.43%) Performance Measurement
8 9 (16.07%) Decision-Making
8 9 (16.07%) ERP
8 9 (16.07%) Performance Management
9 7 (12.50%) Project Planning
10 6 (10.71%) Document Management
10 6 (10.71%) Performance Analysis
10 6 (10.71%) Risk Analysis
11 5 (8.93%) Budgeting
11 5 (8.93%) Project Delivery
11 5 (8.93%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 13 (23.21%) JCL
2 12 (21.43%) Python
3 10 (17.86%) REXX
4 3 (5.36%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.57%) Bash
5 2 (3.57%) Julia
5 2 (3.57%) Perl
5 2 (3.57%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.79%) Bicep
6 1 (1.79%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (17.86%) Degree
1 10 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 8 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (7.14%) Master's Degree
4 3 (5.36%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (1.79%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.57%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (23.21%) NFS
1 13 (23.21%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (33.93%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 10 (17.86%) Ansible
3 2 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (33.93%) IBM
2 14 (25.00%) Broadcom
2 14 (25.00%) Dell
3 13 (23.21%) Brocade
3 13 (23.21%) CA
3 13 (23.21%) Microsoft
4 11 (19.64%) SAP
5 1 (1.79%) Facebook
5 1 (1.79%) Instagram
5 1 (1.79%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (1.79%) Splunk
5 1 (1.79%) VMware