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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 261 288 378
Rank change year-on-year +27 +90 +156
Contract jobs citing Cost Management 47 43 66
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.46% 0.33% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.37% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 21 51
10th Percentile £402 £375 £533
25th Percentile £476 £463 £640
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £607 £525 £743
Median % change year-on-year +15.62% -29.34% +44.98%
75th Percentile £653 £550 -
90th Percentile £748 £675 £745
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £675
% change year-on-year -5.45% -18.52% +26.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £51.25 -
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 9,362 11,526 20,052
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.77% 87.23% 89.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,276 7,736 14,114
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.10% -2.33% -0.92%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 281 403 482
10th Percentile £12.62 £17.54 £17.50
25th Percentile £18.54 £30.63 £25.95
Median hourly rate £34.48 £43.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.81% -14.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.14 £67.50
90th Percentile £71.25 £75.00 £78.98
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.90% -4.71% +62.40%

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 2 August 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 1 (2.13%) CMS
1 1 (2.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Oracle ASCP
1 3 (6.38%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (6.38%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (2.13%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 20 (42.55%) Azure
2 18 (38.30%) AWS
3 16 (34.04%) AWS CloudFormation
4 15 (31.91%) Amazon EKS
4 15 (31.91%) GitHub
5 12 (25.53%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (23.40%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (23.40%) Azure AKS
7 10 (21.28%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (19.15%) PaaS
8 9 (19.15%) Serverless
9 8 (17.02%) Entra ID
10 6 (12.77%) SaaS
11 5 (10.64%) IaaS
12 4 (8.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (8.51%) AWS CodePipeline
12 4 (8.51%) AWS Fargate
12 4 (8.51%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (8.51%) Azure Machine Learning
12 4 (8.51%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (23.40%) DNS
1 11 (23.40%) HTTP
1 11 (23.40%) Internet
1 11 (23.40%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.13%) Firewall
2 1 (2.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (23.40%) Amazon Aurora
1 11 (23.40%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (14.89%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (8.51%) Delta Lake
4 3 (6.38%) Power BI
5 1 (2.13%) Data Mining
5 1 (2.13%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.13%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (36.17%) Jenkins
2 4 (8.51%) GitLab
3 1 (2.13%) JIRA
General
1 14 (29.79%) Finance
1 14 (29.79%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.38%) Banking
3 3 (6.38%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.13%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.13%) Billing
4 1 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.13%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.13%) Legal
4 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (27.66%) Architect
2 12 (25.53%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (23.40%) Senior
4 9 (19.15%) Senior DevOps
4 9 (19.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 8 (17.02%) Azure Architect
5 8 (17.02%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (14.89%) Cloud Architect
7 5 (10.64%) AWS Architect
7 5 (10.64%) AWS Solution Architect
7 5 (10.64%) Operations Engineer
8 4 (8.51%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (8.51%) Consultant
9 3 (6.38%) Analyst
9 3 (6.38%) Oracle Consultant
9 3 (6.38%) Oracle Supply Chain Consultant
9 3 (6.38%) Programme Manager
9 3 (6.38%) Project Manager
9 3 (6.38%) Supply Chain Consultant
10 2 (4.26%) Senior Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (23.40%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (12.77%) ARM Templates
3 4 (8.51%) ADO
3 4 (8.51%) REST
4 3 (6.38%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (4.26%) Azure Blueprints
5 2 (4.26%) Middleware
6 1 (2.13%) SailPoint
6 1 (2.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (21.28%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (12.77%) Management Information System
3 5 (10.64%) Public Cloud
3 5 (10.64%) Reinsurance
4 4 (8.51%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.26%) Data Centre
5 2 (4.26%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.13%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 17 (36.17%) Linux
2 5 (10.64%) Windows
3 4 (8.51%) VMS
4 1 (2.13%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (57.45%) DevOps
1 27 (57.45%) Infrastructure as Code
2 16 (34.04%) CI/CD
2 16 (34.04%) Containerisation
3 15 (31.91%) Deployment Automation
4 13 (27.66%) Continuous Integration
5 11 (23.40%) Configuration Management
6 9 (19.15%) Agile
6 9 (19.15%) Cloud Security
6 9 (19.15%) Migration
6 9 (19.15%) RBAC
7 7 (14.89%) Analytics
7 7 (14.89%) Budgeting
7 7 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (14.89%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (14.89%) User Acceptance Testing
8 6 (12.77%) Cost Optimisation
8 6 (12.77%) Project Delivery
9 5 (10.64%) Data Engineering
9 5 (10.64%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 11 (23.40%) Bicep
1 11 (23.40%) PowerShell
2 7 (14.89%) SQL
3 4 (8.51%) Bash
4 2 (4.26%) Python
5 1 (2.13%) JCL
5 1 (2.13%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (2.13%) REXX
Qualifications
1 19 (40.43%) SC Cleared
1 19 (40.43%) Security Cleared
2 11 (23.40%) Azure Certification
3 7 (14.89%) Oracle Certification
4 5 (10.64%) AWS Certification
4 5 (10.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 5 (10.64%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (8.51%) OCP
6 2 (4.26%) Degree
7 1 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.13%) GCIA
7 1 (2.13%) GCIH
7 1 (2.13%) MRICS
7 1 (2.13%) PMI Certification
7 1 (2.13%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.89%) GDPR
1 7 (14.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (8.51%) NIST
3 1 (2.13%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.13%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.13%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (2.13%) GxP
3 1 (2.13%) JSP 440
3 1 (2.13%) NCSC
3 1 (2.13%) PMO
3 1 (2.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (34.04%) Docker
2 8 (17.02%) Active Directory
3 3 (6.38%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.13%) Microcode
4 1 (2.13%) NFS
4 1 (2.13%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 27 (57.45%) Terraform
2 21 (44.68%) Kubernetes
3 17 (36.17%) Ansible
4 11 (23.40%) Grafana
4 11 (23.40%) Progress Chef
4 11 (23.40%) Prometheus
4 11 (23.40%) Puppet
5 1 (2.13%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 15 (31.91%) Microsoft
2 11 (23.40%) Red Hat
3 6 (12.77%) Oracle
4 5 (10.64%) Databricks
5 4 (8.51%) OpenAI
6 3 (6.38%) Google
7 1 (2.13%) Ariba
7 1 (2.13%) Broadcom
7 1 (2.13%) Brocade
7 1 (2.13%) Dell
7 1 (2.13%) IBM
7 1 (2.13%) NEC
7 1 (2.13%) SAP