Cost Management Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Cost Management
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Cost Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 93 104
Rank change year-on-year -18 +11 +37
Contract jobs citing Cost Management 15 5 5
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.84% 0.36% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 0.43% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 5
10th Percentile £297 £500 -
25th Percentile £308 £519 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £355 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -38.26% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £463 £619 £750
90th Percentile £575 £630 £990
England median daily rate £525 £550 £675
% change year-on-year -4.55% -18.52% +26.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £20.00 -
England median hourly rate £45.00 £20.00 -
% change year-on-year +125.00% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 requiring process or methodology skills in Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,593 1,170 1,644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.60% 84.78% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,051 668 1,064
10th Percentile £252 £262 £282
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £649 £650 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 36 27
10th Percentile £15.25 - £16.28
25th Percentile £18.87 £12.55 £18.50
Median hourly rate £22.58 £18.07 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +24.95% -15.22% +12.16%
75th Percentile £25.15 £28.75 £28.39
90th Percentile £65.50 £38.75 £44.20
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.04 £45.00
% change year-on-year -33.88% -15.48% +28.57%

Cost Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cost Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Cost Management job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Cost Management
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Cost Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Cost Management

Cost Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Management in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 5 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Management in Yorkshire

Cost Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Cost Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Cost Management

Cost Management
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 5 November 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
South Yorkshire -22 13 £349 - 1
West Yorkshire -19 2 £538 -6.52% 1
Cost Management
England

Cost Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Applications
1 11 (73.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (40.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 4 (26.67%) PowerApps
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.67%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (6.67%) Serverless
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (66.67%) Power BI
2 4 (26.67%) Data Mining
2 4 (26.67%) Relational Database
3 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
General
1 13 (86.67%) Finance
2 9 (60.00%) Presentation Skills
2 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (26.67%) Banking
4 4 (26.67%) Billing
5 2 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
6 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (80.00%) Analyst
2 8 (53.33%) Data Analyst
3 6 (40.00%) Report Analyst
4 5 (33.33%) Senior
4 5 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Finance Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Financial Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) IT Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Lead
5 1 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Quantity Surveyor
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Financial Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Reporting Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Service Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Telecoms Quantity Surveyor
Miscellaneous
1 12 (80.00%) Data Centre
2 9 (60.00%) Mainframe
3 6 (40.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Budgeting
1 12 (80.00%) Virtual Environments
2 10 (66.67%) ITIL
2 10 (66.67%) Service Management
3 6 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (40.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 6 (40.00%) Data Analysis
3 6 (40.00%) Data Mapping
3 6 (40.00%) Data Visualisation
3 6 (40.00%) FinOps
3 6 (40.00%) Portfolio Management
3 6 (40.00%) Visualisation
4 5 (33.33%) Analytics
4 5 (33.33%) Cost Reduction
4 5 (33.33%) Cost Transparency
4 5 (33.33%) Data Transformation
4 5 (33.33%) Financial Modelling
5 4 (26.67%) Data Analytics
5 4 (26.67%) Data Management
6 1 (6.67%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) ACCA
2 1 (6.67%) CIMA
2 1 (6.67%) NVQ Level 4
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Databricks
2 1 (6.67%) NEC