Cost Control Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cost Control
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Cost Control skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cost Control over the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 324 436 588
Rank change year-on-year +112 +152 -87
Contract jobs citing Cost Control 17 21 35
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.088% 0.080%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.098% 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 17 28
10th Percentile £251 £503 £377
25th Percentile £525 £510 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £684 £588 £581
90th Percentile £788 £705 £905
UK median daily rate £475 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -11.63% +7.50% +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £41.25 £67.50
Median hourly rate £13.99 £42.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.08% -39.29% -
75th Percentile - £43.75 £72.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £13.99 £49.81 £49.50
% change year-on-year -71.91% +0.63% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Cost Control falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,871 21,399 39,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.23% 89.63% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,673 15,206 29,099
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 495 518
10th Percentile £15.02 £18.49 £14.96
25th Percentile £24.00 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.13 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.51% +30.33% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.95 £78.45 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Cost Control
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cost Control as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cost Control trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cost Control
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cost Control.

Cost Control daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cost Control
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cost Control over the 6 months to 24 June 2024.

Cost Control daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cost Control
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cost Control.

Cost Control hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cost Control
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 9 (52.94%) AWS
1 9 (52.94%) Azure
1 9 (52.94%) Azure Sentinel
1 9 (52.94%) Dynamics 365
1 9 (52.94%) Entra ID
1 9 (52.94%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (23.53%) AWS Direct Connect
2 4 (23.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (11.76%) Asana
3 2 (11.76%) Miro
4 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (52.94%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
General
1 3 (17.65%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Electronics
3 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.88%) Marketing
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) AWS Specialist
1 4 (23.53%) Azure Specialist
2 3 (17.65%) Administrator
2 3 (17.65%) Cloud Specialist
3 2 (11.76%) Agile Delivery Lead
3 2 (11.76%) Lead
3 2 (11.76%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.88%) PRINCE2 Project Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Report Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) ADO
1 2 (11.76%) React
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Android
1 2 (11.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Capacity Planning
1 9 (52.94%) Cloud Operations
2 5 (29.41%) Service Delivery
3 4 (23.53%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (23.53%) Planning and Forecasting
3 4 (23.53%) Supplier Management
4 3 (17.65%) Agile
4 3 (17.65%) Document Management
5 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (11.76%) Content Management
5 2 (11.76%) Performance Management
5 2 (11.76%) PLM
5 2 (11.76%) PRINCE2
5 2 (11.76%) Project Management
5 2 (11.76%) Project Planning
5 2 (11.76%) Risk Management
5 2 (11.76%) Scrum
5 2 (11.76%) SDLC
5 2 (11.76%) Software Delivery
5 2 (11.76%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) Java
1 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (52.94%) AWS Certification
1 9 (52.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 6 (35.29%) Azure Certification
3 3 (17.65%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) PMI Certification
4 1 (5.88%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 12207
1 2 (11.76%) QA
System Software
1 9 (52.94%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) Oracle
2 9 (52.94%) Microsoft
3 4 (23.53%) SAP
4 3 (17.65%) IFS
5 1 (5.88%) Computacenter