Cost Accounting Contracts

Cost Accounting
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Cost Accounting skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cost Accounting over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 580 679 839
Rank change year-on-year +99 +160 -
Contract jobs citing Cost Accounting 14 37 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.062% 0.018%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.037% 0.069% 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 36 13
10th Percentile £443 £450 £309
25th Percentile £478 £509 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £566 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% +13.25% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £663 £689 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £561 £350
% change year-on-year -4.23% +60.36% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Cost Accounting 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,383 53,667 80,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.90% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,097 37,244 56,431
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,426 1,746 1,925
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.13% +80.00% -8.51%

Cost Accounting
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cost Accounting as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cost Accounting in the UK

Cost Accounting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cost Accounting.

Daily rate trend for Cost Accounting in the UK

Cost Accounting
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Accounting over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Accounting in the UK

Cost Accounting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cost Accounting.

Hourly rate trend for Cost Accounting in the UK

Cost Accounting
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 28 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
England +109 11 £575 -4.17% 10
UK excluding London +44 11 £538 -4.23% 7
Work from Home +115 7 £575 +0.44% 2
South East +12 6 £575 -1.71% 2
Scotland +19 3 £500 -9.09% 1
London +106 2 £670 +11.67% 4
South West - 1 - -
East of England - 1 £500 - 1

Cost Accounting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) SAP CO
1 1 (7.14%) SAP FI
1 1 (7.14%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) Azure
1 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle Reports
General
1 7 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (42.86%) Finance
3 5 (35.71%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Billing
5 1 (7.14%) Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (7.14%) General Ledger
5 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Legal
5 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
5 1 (7.14%) Retail Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Project Manager
2 4 (28.57%) Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) Senior
2 4 (28.57%) Senior Manager
2 4 (28.57%) Senior Project Manager
3 3 (21.43%) Consultant
3 3 (21.43%) PMO Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Functional Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Business Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Business Systems Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Cost Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Oracle Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Oracle Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Procurement Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) SAP Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) SAP FI Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Telecoms Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (7.14%) Life Science
2 1 (7.14%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Project Management
2 9 (64.29%) Project Delivery
3 8 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (50.00%) Agile
4 7 (50.00%) Project Governance
5 6 (42.86%) Business Case
5 6 (42.86%) Business Strategy
5 6 (42.86%) Change Control
5 6 (42.86%) Contingency Planning
6 5 (35.71%) Acceptance Criteria
6 5 (35.71%) Conflict Resolution
6 5 (35.71%) Logistics
6 5 (35.71%) Matrix Organization
6 5 (35.71%) Stakeholder Identification
7 4 (28.57%) DevOps
7 4 (28.57%) Kanban
7 4 (28.57%) Lean Software Development
7 4 (28.57%) Scrum
8 3 (21.43%) Product Roadmap
8 3 (21.43%) Roadmaps
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) PMP
2 2 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (7.14%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) PMO
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) SAP