Cost Management Contracts

Cost Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 500 569 675
Rank change year-on-year +69 +106 -90
Contract jobs citing Cost Management 91 137 172
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.24% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.26% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 80 104
10th Percentile £374 £57 £352
25th Percentile £407 £480 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £638 £521
Median % change year-on-year -21.57% +22.26% -9.32%
75th Percentile £594 £743 £638
90th Percentile £682 £746 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -11.79% -2.50% -8.55%
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 excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,140 52,105 79,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.25% 89.83% 90.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,924 36,124 55,482
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,724 1,874
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.17 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

Cost Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Management in the UK

Cost Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cost Management in the UK

Cost Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Management over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Management in the UK

Cost Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Cost Management in the UK

Cost Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cost Management over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cost Management in the UK

Cost Management
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 9 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
England +68 84 £500 -23.08% 123
UK excluding London +55 59 £430 -11.79% 84
Work from Home +90 29 £430 -41.22% 33
North of England +41 29 £415 -18.02% 27
Yorkshire +35 24 £414 -21.19% 11
London +35 21 £650 -9.72% 42
South West +30 19 £500 -24.24% 12
Midlands +36 6 £550 -15.38% 12
North West +11 5 £550 +14.58% 14
South East +3 4 £600 +63.27% 22
West Midlands - 4 £563 - 10
Scotland +40 1 £300 -31.43% 5
East Midlands +20 1 £550 -15.38% 2

Cost Management
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.10%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 19 (20.88%) Azure
2 12 (13.19%) GitHub
3 9 (9.89%) AWS
4 6 (6.59%) IaaS
5 5 (5.49%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (5.49%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (5.49%) Serverless
6 4 (4.40%) Azure Functions
6 4 (4.40%) PaaS
6 4 (4.40%) Power Platform
7 3 (3.30%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (3.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (3.30%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.20%) OCI
8 2 (2.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.10%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.10%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.10%) dbt
9 1 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.10%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.40%) Firewall
2 3 (3.30%) IP Telephony
3 1 (1.10%) Broadband
3 1 (1.10%) DNS
3 1 (1.10%) VPN
3 1 (1.10%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.40%) Power BI
2 1 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.10%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.10%) Redis
2 1 (1.10%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (10.99%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.20%) JIRA
3 1 (1.10%) Hudson
3 1 (1.10%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.10%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 30 (32.97%) Social Skills
2 19 (20.88%) Finance
3 10 (10.99%) Public Sector
4 7 (7.69%) Manufacturing
5 6 (6.59%) Billing
5 6 (6.59%) Marketing
6 5 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (4.40%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (4.40%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (4.40%) Telecoms
8 3 (3.30%) Electronics
9 2 (2.20%) Back Office
9 2 (2.20%) German Language
9 2 (2.20%) Retail
10 1 (1.10%) Banking
10 1 (1.10%) French Language
10 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (21.98%) Storage Manager
2 11 (12.09%) Architect
3 10 (10.99%) Project Manager
4 9 (9.89%) Technical Architect
5 8 (8.79%) Consultant
5 8 (8.79%) Lead
5 8 (8.79%) Senior
6 6 (6.59%) Senior Manager
7 5 (5.49%) Analyst
8 4 (4.40%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Oracle Consultant
9 3 (3.30%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (3.30%) Development Project Manager
9 3 (3.30%) Finance Manager
9 3 (3.30%) Finance Project Manager
9 3 (3.30%) Functional Consultant
9 3 (3.30%) Senior Project Manager
9 3 (3.30%) Software Development Manager
9 3 (3.30%) Software Development Project Manager
9 3 (3.30%) Software Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.99%) YAML
2 3 (3.30%) Node.js
2 3 (3.30%) React
3 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (2.20%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.10%) EDI
4 1 (1.10%) JSON
4 1 (1.10%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.09%) Data Centre
1 11 (12.09%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.30%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.10%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.10%) CMDB
4 1 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.10%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.10%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.10%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (17.58%) zOS
2 15 (16.48%) Linux
3 1 (1.10%) Unix
3 1 (1.10%) VMS
3 1 (1.10%) Windows
3 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (41.76%) Project Management
2 32 (35.16%) Stakeholder Management
3 22 (24.18%) Agile
4 21 (23.08%) Storage Management
5 20 (21.98%) Software Testing
6 18 (19.78%) Risk Management
7 15 (16.48%) Change Management
7 15 (16.48%) Problem Management
8 14 (15.38%) Decision-Making
9 12 (13.19%) Earned Value Management
9 12 (13.19%) Migration
9 12 (13.19%) Performance Measurement
10 10 (10.99%) Performance Management
11 9 (9.89%) ERP
12 8 (8.79%) Business Intelligence
12 8 (8.79%) DevOps
13 7 (7.69%) CI/CD
13 7 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
13 7 (7.69%) Project Planning
13 7 (7.69%) Risk Analysis
Programming Languages
1 14 (15.38%) JCL
1 14 (15.38%) Python
2 10 (10.99%) REXX
3 3 (3.30%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.20%) Bash
4 2 (2.20%) Julia
4 2 (2.20%) Perl
4 2 (2.20%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.10%) Bicep
5 1 (1.10%) Java
5 1 (1.10%) R
5 1 (1.10%) Scala
5 1 (1.10%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (16.48%) Degree
2 14 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 11 (12.09%) SC Cleared
4 6 (6.59%) Master's Degree
5 5 (5.49%) Azure Certification
5 5 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.30%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.20%) ACCA
7 2 (2.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (2.20%) CIMA
7 2 (2.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.69%) PMO
2 4 (4.40%) QA
System Software
1 14 (15.38%) NFS
1 14 (15.38%) Time Sharing Option
2 3 (3.30%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.20%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.10%) Docker
4 1 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (23.08%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 10 (10.99%) Ansible
3 4 (4.40%) Terraform
4 1 (1.10%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 21 (23.08%) IBM
1 21 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 17 (18.68%) SAP
3 15 (16.48%) Broadcom
3 15 (16.48%) Dell
4 14 (15.38%) Brocade
4 14 (15.38%) CA
5 6 (6.59%) Oracle
6 5 (5.49%) Genesys
7 3 (3.30%) VMware
8 2 (2.20%) Facebook
8 2 (2.20%) Instagram
9 1 (1.10%) Ariba
9 1 (1.10%) Databricks
9 1 (1.10%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (1.10%) Splunk
9 1 (1.10%) Zscaler