Cost Control Contracts in England

Cost Control
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Cost Control skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cost Control over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 497 607 707
Rank change year-on-year +110 +100 -81
Contract jobs citing Cost Control 34 33 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.093% 0.068% 0.088%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.076% 0.097%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 19 43
10th Percentile £340 £440 £366
25th Percentile £413 £508 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +5.77% +22.35%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £638
90th Percentile £703 £720 £715
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile - £40.25 £32.40
25th Percentile - £40.63 £38.25
Median hourly rate £13.99 £42.50 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -67.08% -14.14% -13.91%
75th Percentile £26.74 £52.41 £61.75
90th Percentile £49.70 £57.60 £68.20
UK median hourly rate £13.99 £49.81 £49.50
% change year-on-year -71.91% +0.63% -13.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Cost Control is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,464 43,415 63,929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.38% 90.10% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,624 30,476 45,458
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £448 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,526 1,738
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.95 £16.20 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Cost Control
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Cost Control as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cost Control in England

Cost Control
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cost Control in England.

Daily rate trend for Cost Control in England

Cost Control
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Control in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Control in England

Cost Control
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cost Control in England.

Hourly rate trend for Cost Control in England

Cost Control
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cost Control in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cost Control in England

Cost Control
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cost Control within the England region over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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
London +95 14 £550 -4.35% 29
North of England +39 8 £450 +12.50% 24
West Midlands +25 5 £475 - 14
Midlands +25 5 £475 - 17
South West +7 5 £491 +22.75% 17
North West - 5 £450 - 17
North East - 3 - - 1
South East +31 2 £488 -4.41% 27
Cost Control
UK

Cost Control
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (8.82%) Confluence
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (8.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.94%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.94%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 6 (17.65%) Power Platform
2 4 (11.76%) Azure
2 4 (11.76%) Dynamics 365
2 4 (11.76%) Entra ID
3 2 (5.88%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 2 (5.88%) Asana
3 2 (5.88%) AWS
3 2 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (5.88%) Miro
3 2 (5.88%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) Firewall
2 1 (2.94%) 5G
2 1 (2.94%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.65%) Power BI
2 2 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.94%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) JIRA
General
1 22 (64.71%) Finance
2 12 (35.29%) Social Skills
3 7 (20.59%) Public Sector
4 5 (14.71%) Telecoms
5 4 (11.76%) Advertising
5 4 (11.76%) Fire and Rescue
5 4 (11.76%) Local Government
5 4 (11.76%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (5.88%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.94%) Electronics
7 1 (2.94%) Marketing
7 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (41.18%) Project Manager
2 4 (11.76%) Lead
2 4 (11.76%) Senior
3 3 (8.82%) Administrator
4 2 (5.88%) Agile Delivery Lead
4 2 (5.88%) Analyst
4 2 (5.88%) AWS Specialist
4 2 (5.88%) Azure Specialist
4 2 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) PMO Analyst
5 1 (2.94%) IT Manager
5 1 (2.94%) Quantity Surveyor
5 1 (2.94%) Report Manager
5 1 (2.94%) Senior Manager
5 1 (2.94%) Senior PMO
5 1 (2.94%) Senior PMO Analyst
5 1 (2.94%) Senior Project Controller
5 1 (2.94%) Telecoms Quantity Surveyor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.88%) ADO
1 2 (5.88%) React
2 1 (2.94%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.88%) PMI
3 1 (2.94%) CMDB
3 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.94%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.94%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.88%) Android
1 2 (5.88%) Apple iOS
1 2 (5.88%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (35.29%) Project Management
2 10 (29.41%) Risk Management
3 7 (20.59%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (20.59%) Project Planning
4 6 (17.65%) Resource Management
5 5 (14.71%) Budget Management
5 5 (14.71%) Project Delivery
5 5 (14.71%) Risk Assessment
6 4 (11.76%) Agile
6 4 (11.76%) Change Control
6 4 (11.76%) Change Management
6 4 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (8.82%) Document Management
7 3 (8.82%) PRINCE2
7 3 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (8.82%) Scrum
7 3 (8.82%) Service Delivery
8 2 (5.88%) ERP
8 2 (5.88%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.88%) Java
1 2 (5.88%) JavaScript
1 2 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (20.59%) PMI Certification
2 6 (17.65%) Security Cleared
3 5 (14.71%) PMP
3 5 (14.71%) SC Cleared
4 3 (8.82%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (8.82%) Degree
5 2 (5.88%) AWS Certification
5 2 (5.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (5.88%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.94%) APMP
6 1 (2.94%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 12207
1 2 (5.88%) PMO
1 2 (5.88%) QA
2 1 (2.94%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 4 (11.76%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.88%) Hyper-V
2 2 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (17.65%) SAP
2 4 (11.76%) Oracle
3 3 (8.82%) IFS
4 2 (5.88%) CA
4 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.88%) NEC
4 2 (5.88%) VMware
5 1 (2.94%) Computacenter
5 1 (2.94%) Progress