Cost Control Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cost Control
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 325 436 575
Rank change year-on-year +111 +139 -85
Contract jobs citing Cost Control 20 18 37
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.14% 0.073% 0.084%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.081% 0.092%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 15 31
10th Percentile £273 £502 £362
25th Percentile £488 £510 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £628 £588 £675
90th Percentile £780 £685 -
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £41.25 £67.50
Median hourly rate £13.99 £42.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.08% -39.29% +21.74%
75th Percentile - £43.75 £72.50
90th Percentile - - -
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
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,973 22,093 40,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.88% 89.67% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,721 15,633 29,139
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.58% +3.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 507 534
10th Percentile £14.94 £18.63 £14.08
25th Percentile £24.44 £26.25 £20.56
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Cost Control
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cost Control as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cost Control trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cost Control
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cost Control.

Cost Control daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cost Control
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cost Control over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Cost Control daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cost Control
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cost Control.

Cost Control hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cost Control
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 9 (45.00%) AWS
1 9 (45.00%) Azure
1 9 (45.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 9 (45.00%) Dynamics 365
1 9 (45.00%) Entra ID
1 9 (45.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (20.00%) AWS Direct Connect
2 4 (20.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (10.00%) Asana
3 2 (10.00%) Miro
4 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (45.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.00%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
2 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (15.00%) Finance
1 3 (15.00%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.00%) Electronics
3 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.00%) Marketing
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) AWS Specialist
1 4 (20.00%) Azure Specialist
2 3 (15.00%) Administrator
2 3 (15.00%) Cloud Specialist
2 3 (15.00%) Project Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Agile Delivery Lead
3 2 (10.00%) Lead
4 1 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Contracts Manager
4 1 (5.00%) PRINCE2 Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Report Manager
4 1 (5.00%) SAP BI Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) SAP Manager
4 1 (5.00%) SAP Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Senior
4 1 (5.00%) Telecoms Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) ADO
1 2 (10.00%) React
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Android
1 2 (10.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Capacity Planning
1 9 (45.00%) Cloud Operations
2 5 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 4 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (20.00%) Planning and Forecasting
3 4 (20.00%) Supplier Management
4 3 (15.00%) Agile
4 3 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (15.00%) Document Management
4 3 (15.00%) Project Management
4 3 (15.00%) Project Planning
4 3 (15.00%) Risk Management
5 2 (10.00%) Content Management
5 2 (10.00%) Kanban
5 2 (10.00%) Performance Management
5 2 (10.00%) PLM
5 2 (10.00%) PRINCE2
5 2 (10.00%) Scrum
5 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (10.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) Java
1 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (45.00%) AWS Certification
1 9 (45.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 6 (30.00%) Azure Certification
3 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 3 (15.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
5 1 (5.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 12207
1 2 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 9 (45.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) Oracle
2 9 (45.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (25.00%) SAP
4 3 (15.00%) IFS
5 1 (5.00%) Ariba
5 1 (5.00%) Computacenter