Cost Transparency Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Cost Transparency
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Cost Transparency skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cost Transparency 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.045% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.051% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £355 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,954 1,425 1,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 87.23% 85.69% 85.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,233 903 1,066
10th Percentile £263 £225 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
75th Percentile £584 £612 £600
90th Percentile £674 £713 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 46 49
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.70 £14.46
25th Percentile £16.12 £16.81 £17.50
Median hourly rate £20.50 £23.89 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.19% +3.87% +29.94%
75th Percentile £27.21 £34.69 £55.00
90th Percentile £40.19 £52.50 £67.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

Cost Transparency
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cost Transparency relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Cost Transparency job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Cost Transparency
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 Transparency within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
Warwickshire - 1 - -
Cost Transparency
England

Cost Transparency
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
1 1 (100.00%) Business Agility
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Contract Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Demand Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Register
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Scorecard
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
1 1 (100.00%) SLA