Cost Management Contracts in the West Midlands

Cost Management
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 109 - 167
Rank change year-on-year - - -41
Contract jobs citing Cost Management 3 0 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.15% - 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% - 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £415 - £483
25th Percentile £475 - £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £625
75th Percentile £625 - £638
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £500 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -1.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,632 2,114 3,192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.08% 88.67% 90.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,080 1,452 2,354
10th Percentile £275 £263 £270
25th Percentile £375 £401 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £512 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +5.03% +16.42%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £694 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 45 69
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%
75th Percentile £41.13 £23.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.75 £51.25 £22.05
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

Cost Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Cost Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Cost Management in the West Midlands

Cost Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cost Management in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Cost Management in the West Midlands

Cost Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Management in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Management in the West Midlands

Cost Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cost Management in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Cost Management in the West Midlands

Cost Management
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Coventry - 2 £600 -
Birmingham - 1 £400 - 5
Cost Management
England

Cost Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Functions
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) IaaS
1 1 (33.33%) PaaS
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Hudson
1 1 (33.33%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) HR Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Project Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) PRINCE2
1 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
1 2 (66.67%) Project Management
1 2 (66.67%) Target Operating Model
2 1 (33.33%) API Management
2 1 (33.33%) B2C
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bicep
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) LogicMonitor
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft