Cost Management Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Cost Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Cost Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cost Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 267 317 406
Rank change year-on-year +50 +89 +139
Contract jobs citing Cost Management 37 28 71
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.37% 0.18% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.21% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 18 39
10th Percentile £373 £43 £460
25th Percentile £456 £382 £591
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £428 £720
Median % change year-on-year +25.15% -40.63% +37.14%
75th Percentile £653 £528 £743
90th Percentile £705 £558 -
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £650
% change year-on-year +4.00% -23.08% +20.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £56.25 -
UK median hourly rate £46.30 £52.50 -
% change year-on-year -11.81% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Cost Management 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 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Cost Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Cost Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cost Management trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Cost Management
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Cost Management.

Cost Management daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cost Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Cost Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Cost Management daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cost Management
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Cost Management.

Cost Management hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cost Management
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 (5.41%) CMS
1 2 (5.41%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.70%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 18 (48.65%) Azure
2 15 (40.54%) Serverless
3 14 (37.84%) AWS
4 13 (35.14%) Azure AKS
5 11 (29.73%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (29.73%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (21.62%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (21.62%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (18.92%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (18.92%) Azure Sentinel
7 7 (18.92%) PaaS
7 7 (18.92%) SaaS
8 5 (13.51%) Entra ID
8 5 (13.51%) GCP
8 5 (13.51%) GitHub
9 4 (10.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (10.81%) Amazon EventBridge
9 4 (10.81%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (10.81%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (10.81%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (18.92%) DNS
1 7 (18.92%) HTTP
1 7 (18.92%) Internet
1 7 (18.92%) TCP/IP
2 4 (10.81%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.92%) Amazon Aurora
1 7 (18.92%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (13.51%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (10.81%) NoSQL
3 4 (10.81%) Power BI
4 2 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (32.43%) Jenkins
2 4 (10.81%) GitLab
3 3 (8.11%) JIRA
General
1 12 (32.43%) Social Skills
2 10 (27.03%) Finance
3 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Billing
4 1 (2.70%) Marketing
4 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (27.03%) Senior
2 9 (24.32%) Architect
3 7 (18.92%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (16.22%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (13.51%) Azure Architect
5 5 (13.51%) Senior DevOps
5 5 (13.51%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) AWS Architect
6 4 (10.81%) AWS Solution Architect
6 4 (10.81%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (8.11%) Analyst
7 3 (8.11%) Microsoft 365 Architect
7 3 (8.11%) Senior Architect
7 3 (8.11%) Senior Cloud Architect
8 2 (5.41%) AWS DevOps
8 2 (5.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) Backend Developer
8 2 (5.41%) CMS Project Manager
8 2 (5.41%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.92%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (13.51%) REST
3 4 (10.81%) ARM Templates
4 3 (8.11%) Azure Blueprints
5 2 (5.41%) GraphQL
5 2 (5.41%) Middleware
5 2 (5.41%) Prisma
5 2 (5.41%) RESTful
6 1 (2.70%) PyTorch
6 1 (2.70%) TensorFlow
6 1 (2.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.92%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (10.81%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.81%) Management Information System
2 4 (10.81%) Onboarding
2 4 (10.81%) Public Cloud
3 3 (8.11%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (8.11%) Reinsurance
4 2 (5.41%) BYOD
5 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 11 (29.73%) Linux
2 3 (8.11%) Windows
2 3 (8.11%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.70%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (59.46%) DevOps
2 19 (51.35%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (24.32%) CI/CD
3 9 (24.32%) Containerisation
3 9 (24.32%) Continuous Integration
3 9 (24.32%) Deployment Automation
4 8 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (18.92%) Agile
5 7 (18.92%) Budgeting
5 7 (18.92%) Cloud Security
5 7 (18.92%) Configuration Management
5 7 (18.92%) Cost Optimisation
5 7 (18.92%) Migration
6 6 (16.22%) API Management
6 6 (16.22%) Event-Driven
6 6 (16.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 6 (16.22%) Microservices
7 5 (13.51%) High Availability
7 5 (13.51%) Identity Access Management
8 4 (10.81%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (18.92%) Bicep
1 7 (18.92%) PowerShell
2 5 (13.51%) SQL
3 2 (5.41%) Python
3 2 (5.41%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.70%) Groovy
4 1 (2.70%) JCL
4 1 (2.70%) R
4 1 (2.70%) REXX
Qualifications
1 10 (27.03%) SC Cleared
1 10 (27.03%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.81%) AWS Certification
2 4 (10.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 4 (10.81%) OCP
2 4 (10.81%) Oracle Certification
3 3 (8.11%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) GDPR
2 3 (8.11%) PMO
2 3 (8.11%) SOC 2
3 2 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (27.03%) Docker
2 5 (13.51%) Active Directory
2 5 (13.51%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.70%) Microcode
3 1 (2.70%) NFS
3 1 (2.70%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 19 (51.35%) Terraform
2 14 (37.84%) Kubernetes
3 12 (32.43%) Ansible
4 7 (18.92%) Grafana
4 7 (18.92%) Progress Chef
4 7 (18.92%) Prometheus
4 7 (18.92%) Puppet
5 1 (2.70%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 14 (37.84%) Microsoft
2 7 (18.92%) Red Hat
3 2 (5.41%) Google
4 1 (2.70%) Broadcom
4 1 (2.70%) Brocade
4 1 (2.70%) Databricks
4 1 (2.70%) Dell
4 1 (2.70%) IBM
4 1 (2.70%) Oracle