Cost Management Contracts in England

Cost Management
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Cost Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cost Management over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 448 508 626
Rank change year-on-year +60 +118 -94
Contract jobs citing Cost Management 83 138 151
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.28% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.32% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 86 92
10th Percentile £375 £135 £363
25th Percentile £407 £482 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £630 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.63% +20.00% -7.08%
75th Percentile £594 £743 £639
90th Percentile £663 - £699
UK median daily rate £500 £630 £515
% change year-on-year -20.63% +22.29% -10.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £46.00 - -
25th Percentile £50.00 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £61.25 - -
90th Percentile £65.15 - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Cost Management 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 31,426 43,648 64,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.34% 90.08% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,611 30,630 45,872
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £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 2,247 1,533 1,757
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.13 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

Cost Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Management in England

Cost Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Cost Management in England

Cost Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Management in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Management in England

Cost Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Cost Management in England

Cost Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cost Management in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cost Management in England

Cost Management
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 Management within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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
North of England +43 29 £415 -18.02% 23
Yorkshire +36 24 £414 -21.19% 10
London +47 21 £650 -11.14% 40
South West +23 18 £500 -24.24% 13
Midlands +19 6 £550 -15.38% 18
North West +12 5 £550 +14.58% 12
South East -8 4 £600 +4.80% 29
West Midlands - 4 £563 - 18
East Midlands +13 1 £550 -15.38%
Cost Management
UK

Cost Management
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 1 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.20%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 16 (19.28%) Azure
2 11 (13.25%) GitHub
3 6 (7.23%) AWS
4 5 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (6.02%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (6.02%) IaaS
5 4 (4.82%) Azure Functions
5 4 (4.82%) Serverless
6 3 (3.61%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (3.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (3.61%) Entra ID
6 3 (3.61%) PaaS
6 3 (3.61%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.20%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.20%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.20%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.20%) dbt
7 1 (1.20%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.20%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.82%) Firewall
2 3 (3.61%) IP Telephony
3 1 (1.20%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.61%) Power BI
2 1 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.20%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.20%) Redis
2 1 (1.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (12.05%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.41%) JIRA
3 1 (1.20%) Hudson
3 1 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.20%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 28 (33.73%) Social Skills
2 18 (21.69%) Finance
3 10 (12.05%) Public Sector
4 6 (7.23%) Billing
4 6 (7.23%) Marketing
5 5 (6.02%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.82%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.82%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (4.82%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.61%) Electronics
8 2 (2.41%) Back Office
8 2 (2.41%) Retail
9 1 (1.20%) Banking
9 1 (1.20%) German Language
9 1 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (24.10%) Storage Manager
2 10 (12.05%) Project Manager
3 9 (10.84%) Architect
3 9 (10.84%) Technical Architect
4 8 (9.64%) Senior
5 7 (8.43%) Lead
6 6 (7.23%) Consultant
6 6 (7.23%) Senior Manager
7 4 (4.82%) Analyst
8 3 (3.61%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (3.61%) Development Manager
8 3 (3.61%) Development Project Manager
8 3 (3.61%) Finance Project Manager
8 3 (3.61%) Functional Consultant
8 3 (3.61%) Oracle Consultant
8 3 (3.61%) Senior Project Manager
8 3 (3.61%) Software Development Manager
8 3 (3.61%) Software Development Project Manager
8 3 (3.61%) Software Project Manager
8 3 (3.61%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.05%) YAML
2 3 (3.61%) Node.js
2 3 (3.61%) React
3 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (1.20%) EDI
4 1 (1.20%) JSON
4 1 (1.20%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.25%) Management Information System
2 10 (12.05%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.61%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.20%) CMDB
5 1 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.20%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.20%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (19.28%) zOS
2 15 (18.07%) Linux
3 1 (1.20%) Unix
3 1 (1.20%) VMS
3 1 (1.20%) Windows
3 1 (1.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (44.58%) Project Management
2 31 (37.35%) Stakeholder Management
3 22 (26.51%) Agile
4 21 (25.30%) Storage Management
5 20 (24.10%) Software Testing
6 17 (20.48%) Risk Management
7 15 (18.07%) Change Management
7 15 (18.07%) Problem Management
8 13 (15.66%) Decision-Making
9 12 (14.46%) Earned Value Management
9 12 (14.46%) Performance Measurement
10 10 (12.05%) Migration
10 10 (12.05%) Performance Management
11 9 (10.84%) ERP
12 7 (8.43%) Risk Analysis
13 6 (7.23%) Business Intelligence
13 6 (7.23%) Document Management
13 6 (7.23%) Project Planning
13 6 (7.23%) Service Management
13 6 (7.23%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 14 (16.87%) JCL
2 12 (14.46%) Python
3 10 (12.05%) REXX
4 2 (2.41%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.20%) Bash
5 1 (1.20%) Bicep
5 1 (1.20%) Java
5 1 (1.20%) Julia
5 1 (1.20%) Perl
5 1 (1.20%) R
5 1 (1.20%) Scala
5 1 (1.20%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.20%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (16.87%) Degree
1 14 (16.87%) Security Cleared
2 11 (13.25%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.23%) Master's Degree
4 5 (6.02%) Azure Certification
5 4 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.41%) ACCA
6 2 (2.41%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (2.41%) CIMA
6 2 (2.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.82%) PMO
1 4 (4.82%) QA
System Software
1 14 (16.87%) NFS
1 14 (16.87%) Time Sharing Option
2 3 (3.61%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.20%) Docker
4 1 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (25.30%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 10 (12.05%) Ansible
3 2 (2.41%) Terraform
4 1 (1.20%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 21 (25.30%) IBM
2 20 (24.10%) Microsoft
3 17 (20.48%) SAP
4 15 (18.07%) Broadcom
4 15 (18.07%) Dell
5 14 (16.87%) Brocade
5 14 (16.87%) CA
6 5 (6.02%) Genesys
7 4 (4.82%) Oracle
8 2 (2.41%) Facebook
8 2 (2.41%) Instagram
8 2 (2.41%) VMware
9 1 (1.20%) Ariba
9 1 (1.20%) Databricks
9 1 (1.20%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (1.20%) Splunk
9 1 (1.20%) Zscaler