Cost Control Contracts

Cost Control
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Cost Control skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cost Control over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 536 651 777
Rank change year-on-year +115 +126 -71
Contract jobs citing Cost Control 48 46 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.083% 0.081%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.092% 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 28 47
10th Percentile £288 £435 £342
25th Percentile £413 £504 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +7.50% +14.94%
75th Percentile £575 £646 £563
90th Percentile £700 £741 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £510 £463
% change year-on-year -6.86% +10.27% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 2
10th Percentile - £40.38 £32.40
25th Percentile - £40.94 £38.25
Median hourly rate £13.99 £49.81 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -71.91% +0.63% -
75th Percentile £26.74 £62.05 £61.75
90th Percentile £49.70 £63.82 £68.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.99 £49.81 £29.00
% change year-on-year -71.91% +71.77% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Cost Control falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

Cost Control
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Control in the UK

Cost Control
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cost Control in the UK

Cost Control
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Control over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Control in the UK

Cost Control
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Cost Control in the UK

Cost Control
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cost Control over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cost Control in the UK

Cost Control
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 Control within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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 +86 38 £475 -15.96% 117
UK excluding London +41 34 £475 -6.86% 94
Work from Home +112 17 £550 +4.76% 22
London +73 12 £488 -15.22% 20
North of England +23 9 £391 -2.19% 23
Scotland +52 8 £550 +33.33% 5
North West +20 6 £391 -46.03% 15
South West +3 6 £491 +22.75% 19
East of England +7 5 - - 12
West Midlands +19 4 £475 - 11
Midlands +18 4 £475 - 17
North East - 3 - - 1
South East +13 2 £488 -4.41% 20

Cost Control
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 3 (6.25%) Confluence
2 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.08%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 13 (27.08%) Azure
2 11 (22.92%) Dynamics 365
2 11 (22.92%) Entra ID
3 10 (20.83%) AWS
4 9 (18.75%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 9 (18.75%) Azure Sentinel
4 9 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (16.67%) Power Platform
6 4 (8.33%) AWS Direct Connect
6 4 (8.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (4.17%) Asana
7 2 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (4.17%) Miro
7 2 (4.17%) PaaS
8 1 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.17%) Firewall
2 1 (2.08%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.75%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (16.67%) Power BI
3 1 (2.08%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 20 (41.67%) Finance
2 15 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 8 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 7 (14.58%) Manufacturing
5 5 (10.42%) Advertising
5 5 (10.42%) Aerospace
5 5 (10.42%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (8.33%) Fire and Rescue
6 4 (8.33%) Local Government
6 4 (8.33%) Telecoms
7 2 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (4.17%) Aviation
7 2 (4.17%) Electronics
8 1 (2.08%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 23 (47.92%) Project Manager
2 5 (10.42%) Lead
3 4 (8.33%) AWS Specialist
3 4 (8.33%) Azure Specialist
4 3 (6.25%) Administrator
4 3 (6.25%) Cloud Specialist
4 3 (6.25%) Senior
5 2 (4.17%) Agile Delivery Lead
5 2 (4.17%) Analyst
5 2 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (4.17%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (2.08%) PMO Analyst
6 1 (2.08%) PRINCE2 Project Manager
6 1 (2.08%) Project Analyst
6 1 (2.08%) Project Controller
6 1 (2.08%) SAP Manager
6 1 (2.08%) SAP Project Manager
6 1 (2.08%) Senior Manager
6 1 (2.08%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.17%) ADO
1 2 (4.17%) React
2 1 (2.08%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.17%) PMI
4 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.08%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.08%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.08%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.17%) Android
1 2 (4.17%) Apple iOS
1 2 (4.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (43.75%) Project Management
2 11 (22.92%) Project Planning
2 11 (22.92%) Risk Management
3 9 (18.75%) Capacity Planning
3 9 (18.75%) Cloud Operations
4 8 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (16.67%) Project Delivery
5 7 (14.58%) Matrix Organization
6 6 (12.50%) Change Control
6 6 (12.50%) Service Delivery
7 5 (10.42%) Agile
7 5 (10.42%) Budget Management
7 5 (10.42%) Business Strategy
7 5 (10.42%) Change Management
8 4 (8.33%) Planning and Forecasting
8 4 (8.33%) PRINCE2
8 4 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (8.33%) Risk Assessment
8 4 (8.33%) Scrum
8 4 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.17%) Java
1 2 (4.17%) JavaScript
1 2 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (18.75%) AWS Certification
1 9 (18.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 8 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 7 (14.58%) PMI Certification
3 7 (14.58%) SC Cleared
4 6 (12.50%) Azure Certification
4 6 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (12.50%) Degree
4 6 (12.50%) PMP
5 2 (4.17%) APMP
6 1 (2.08%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.08%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.25%) PMO
1 3 (6.25%) QA
2 2 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 1 (2.08%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 11 (22.92%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.17%) Hyper-V
2 2 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (20.83%) Microsoft
1 10 (20.83%) Oracle
2 6 (12.50%) SAP
3 3 (6.25%) IFS
4 2 (4.17%) CA
4 2 (4.17%) NEC
4 2 (4.17%) Twitter
4 2 (4.17%) VMware
5 1 (2.08%) Computacenter
5 1 (2.08%) Facebook
5 1 (2.08%) Progress