Cost Accounting Contracts

Cost Accounting
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Cost Accounting skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cost Accounting over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 567 644 816
Rank change year-on-year +77 +172 -95
Contract jobs citing Cost Accounting 8 38 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.019% 0.068% 0.025%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.022% 0.076% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 35 19
10th Percentile £405 £475 £430
25th Percentile £450 £511 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £556
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -1.08% +75.48%
75th Percentile £663 £588 £595
90th Percentile £667 £600 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £593
% change year-on-year -9.09% -7.17% +87.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Cost Accounting 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

Cost Accounting
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cost Accounting as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cost Accounting in the UK

Cost Accounting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cost Accounting in the UK

Cost Accounting
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Accounting over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Accounting in the UK

Cost Accounting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Cost Accounting in the UK

Cost Accounting
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cost Accounting within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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
England +81 8 £500 -11.11% 3
UK excluding London +12 6 £500 -9.09% 3
South East +6 4 £538 -2.27% 1
Work from Home +100 3 £500 -8.05% 1
London +93 1 £670 +11.67% 1
East of England - 1 £500 -
South West - 1 - -

Cost Accounting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) SAP CO
1 1 (12.50%) SAP FI
1 1 (12.50%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Billing
4 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (12.50%) General Ledger
4 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Legal
4 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Analyst
1 3 (37.50%) Consultant
1 3 (37.50%) PMO Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Functional Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Logistics Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Functional Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Procurement Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) SAP CO Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) SAP FI Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Supply Chain Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (12.50%) Life Science
2 1 (12.50%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
1 5 (62.50%) Logistics
1 5 (62.50%) Project Delivery
1 5 (62.50%) Project Management
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Kanban
2 4 (50.00%) Lean Software Development
2 4 (50.00%) Scrum
3 3 (37.50%) PRINCE2
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) Product Roadmap
3 3 (37.50%) Project Governance
3 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
4 2 (25.00%) Business Case
4 2 (25.00%) Objectives and Key Results
5 1 (12.50%) Budget Management
5 1 (12.50%) Budgeting
5 1 (12.50%) Business Strategy
5 1 (12.50%) Conflict Resolution
5 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Identification
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) PMP
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (12.50%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) SAP