Cost Transparency Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cost Transparency
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Cost Transparency skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cost Transparency over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 334 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cost Transparency 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.016% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.017% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - -
UK median daily rate £300 £550 -
% change year-on-year -45.45% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £28.50 - -
Median hourly rate £29.00 - -
75th Percentile £29.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £29.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Cost Transparency 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 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Cost Transparency
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Transparency in the UK excluding London

Cost Transparency
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Cost Transparency in the UK excluding London

Cost Transparency
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 Transparency within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Northern Ireland - 2 £300 -
Cost Transparency
UK

Cost Transparency
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 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) General Ledger
1 2 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Business Systems Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 2 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Epics
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Operations Management
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
1 2 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Creative Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree