Cost Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cost Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Cost Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cost Management over the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 358 371 451
Rank change year-on-year +13 +80 -44
Contract jobs citing Cost Management 43 59 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.26% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.29% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 42 27
10th Percentile £66 £57 £285
25th Percentile £406 £247 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.50% +3.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £580 £650 £638
90th Percentile £622 £743 £680
UK median daily rate £513 £650 £525
% change year-on-year -21.15% +23.81% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £48.13 - -
25th Percentile £50.00 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £61.25 - -
90th Percentile £62.38 - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 17 June 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
South West +15 18 £500 -24.24% 19
North of England +13 12 £407 -16.51% 19
Yorkshire +17 9 £407 -22.48% 10
Midlands +18 6 £550 -15.38% 12
South East -12 5 £650 +22.64% 17
West Midlands - 4 £563 - 10
North West +8 3 £525 +9.38% 9
Scotland +48 2 £388 -3.13% 7
East Midlands +3 1 £550 -15.38% 2
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 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (23.26%) Azure
2 5 (11.63%) IaaS
3 3 (6.98%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (6.98%) GitHub
3 3 (6.98%) PaaS
4 1 (2.33%) AWS
4 1 (2.33%) Azure AKS
4 1 (2.33%) Azure Functions
4 1 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (2.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (2.33%) Power BI
1 1 (2.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.33%) Hudson
2 1 (2.33%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 13 (30.23%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.95%) Finance
3 5 (11.63%) Public Sector
4 4 (9.30%) Marketing
5 3 (6.98%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (6.98%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.65%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Electronics
7 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (18.60%) Storage Manager
2 4 (9.30%) Architect
2 4 (9.30%) Senior
2 4 (9.30%) Senior Manager
2 4 (9.30%) Technical Architect
3 3 (6.98%) Analyst
3 3 (6.98%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (6.98%) Consultant
3 3 (6.98%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
3 3 (6.98%) Functional Consultant
3 3 (6.98%) Project Manager
4 2 (4.65%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (4.65%) Financial Controller
4 2 (4.65%) HR Manager
4 2 (4.65%) Programme Controller
4 2 (4.65%) Senior Project Manager
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Specialist
5 1 (2.33%) Head of Digital
5 1 (2.33%) Platform Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.65%) YAML
2 1 (2.33%) JSON
2 1 (2.33%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 10 (23.26%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.65%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.65%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.33%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (2.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.98%) Linux
1 3 (6.98%) zOS
2 1 (2.33%) VMS
2 1 (2.33%) Windows
2 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (41.86%) Project Management
2 15 (34.88%) Change Management
2 15 (34.88%) Risk Management
3 14 (32.56%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (27.91%) Earned Value Management
4 12 (27.91%) Performance Measurement
5 11 (25.58%) Decision-Making
6 9 (20.93%) ERP
6 9 (20.93%) Performance Management
7 8 (18.60%) Software Testing
7 8 (18.60%) Storage Management
8 7 (16.28%) Project Planning
9 6 (13.95%) Agile
9 6 (13.95%) Document Management
9 6 (13.95%) Performance Analysis
9 6 (13.95%) Risk Analysis
10 5 (11.63%) Roadmaps
11 4 (9.30%) Architectural Patterns
11 4 (9.30%) Budget Management
11 4 (9.30%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.98%) JCL
1 3 (6.98%) Python
2 2 (4.65%) PowerShell
2 2 (4.65%) REXX
3 1 (2.33%) Bash
3 1 (2.33%) Bicep
3 1 (2.33%) Julia
3 1 (2.33%) Perl
3 1 (2.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (2.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (27.91%) Degree
2 11 (25.58%) Security Cleared
3 8 (18.60%) SC Cleared
4 6 (13.95%) Master's Degree
5 4 (9.30%) Azure Certification
5 4 (9.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (4.65%) ACCA
6 2 (4.65%) CIMA
6 2 (4.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (2.33%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.65%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (6.98%) NFS
1 3 (6.98%) Time Sharing Option
2 2 (4.65%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (18.60%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 2 (4.65%) Ansible
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (27.91%) Microsoft
2 10 (23.26%) SAP
3 8 (18.60%) IBM
4 3 (6.98%) Broadcom
4 3 (6.98%) Brocade
4 3 (6.98%) CA
4 3 (6.98%) Dell
5 1 (2.33%) Facebook
5 1 (2.33%) Instagram
5 1 (2.33%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (2.33%) Splunk
5 1 (2.33%) VMware
5 1 (2.33%) Zscaler