Cost Transparency Contracts

Cost Transparency
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Cost Transparency skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cost Transparency over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 586 714 857
Rank change year-on-year +128 +143 -169
Contract jobs citing Cost Transparency 1 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% 0.002% 0.003%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.003% 0.002% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £625 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Cost Transparency 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 37,760 54,632 81,458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.38% 89.84% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,440 37,790 57,209
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
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% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,414 1,780 1,950
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.90 £16.34 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +44.00% -
75th Percentile £58.69 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £71.83 £75.00 £63.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £19.96
% change year-on-year - +75.39% -8.21%

Cost Transparency
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Transparency in the UK

Cost Transparency
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cost Transparency in the UK

Cost Transparency
Top 2 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 18 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
London - 1 £550 -
England - 1 £550 - 1

Cost Transparency
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 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Billing
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Application Rationalisation
1 1 (100.00%) Budgeting
1 1 (100.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Expense Management
1 1 (100.00%) Financial Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management