Cost Management Contracts

Cost Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Cost Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cost Management 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 502 555 681
Rank change year-on-year +53 +126 -88
Contract jobs citing Cost Management 82 143 167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.26% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.29% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 93 102
10th Percentile £354 £215 £351
25th Percentile £407 £480 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year -21.15% +23.81% -8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £743 £648
90th Percentile £752 £768 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £474 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -8.50% +3.50% -9.09%
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 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 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 12 June 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 12 June 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 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 +19 69 £525 -19.23% 112
UK excluding London +13 43 £474 -8.50% 80
Work from Home +77 31 £488 -34.39% 124
London +27 23 £650 -12.52% 39
South West +15 18 £500 -24.24% 18
North of England +13 12 £407 -16.51% 17
Yorkshire +17 9 £407 -22.48% 9
Midlands +18 6 £550 -15.38% 13
South East -12 5 £650 +22.64% 19
West Midlands - 4 £563 - 11
North West +8 3 £525 +9.38% 8
Scotland +48 2 £388 -3.13% 9
East Midlands +3 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 2 (2.44%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.22%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Cloudability
1 2 (2.44%) SAP PS
2 1 (1.22%) SAP BPC
2 1 (1.22%) SAP MDG
2 1 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.22%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 21 (25.61%) Azure
2 9 (10.98%) AWS
3 5 (6.10%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (6.10%) IaaS
3 5 (6.10%) Power Platform
3 5 (6.10%) Serverless
4 4 (4.88%) Azure Functions
4 4 (4.88%) Entra ID
4 4 (4.88%) GitHub
5 3 (3.66%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (3.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (3.66%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (3.66%) PaaS
6 2 (2.44%) dbt
6 2 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.44%) OCI
6 2 (2.44%) Snowflake
6 2 (2.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.22%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.22%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.88%) Firewall
2 3 (3.66%) IP Telephony
3 1 (1.22%) Broadband
3 1 (1.22%) DNS
3 1 (1.22%) VPN
3 1 (1.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.88%) Power BI
2 2 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.22%) Big Data
3 1 (1.22%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.22%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.22%) MySQL
3 1 (1.22%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.22%) Redis
3 1 (1.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Jenkins
1 2 (2.44%) JIRA
2 1 (1.22%) Hudson
2 1 (1.22%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (1.22%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 22 (26.83%) Social Skills
2 19 (23.17%) Finance
3 9 (10.98%) Public Sector
4 7 (8.54%) Manufacturing
5 6 (7.32%) Billing
5 6 (7.32%) Marketing
6 5 (6.10%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (6.10%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (4.88%) Telecoms
8 3 (3.66%) Electronics
9 2 (2.44%) French Language
9 2 (2.44%) German Language
9 2 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.22%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.22%) Banking
10 1 (1.22%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.22%) Law
10 1 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (13.41%) Consultant
2 10 (12.20%) Architect
2 10 (12.20%) Senior
2 10 (12.20%) Storage Manager
3 9 (10.98%) Lead
4 7 (8.54%) Project Manager
4 7 (8.54%) Technical Architect
5 6 (7.32%) Senior Manager
6 5 (6.10%) Analyst
7 4 (4.88%) Oracle Consultant
8 3 (3.66%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (3.66%) Development Manager
8 3 (3.66%) Development Project Manager
8 3 (3.66%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
8 3 (3.66%) Functional Consultant
8 3 (3.66%) Senior Project Manager
8 3 (3.66%) Software Development Manager
8 3 (3.66%) Software Development Project Manager
8 3 (3.66%) Software Project Manager
8 3 (3.66%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.66%) Node.js
1 3 (3.66%) React
2 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (2.44%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (2.44%) YAML
3 1 (1.22%) EDI
3 1 (1.22%) JSON
3 1 (1.22%) Kafka
3 1 (1.22%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.41%) Management Information System
2 4 (4.88%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.66%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.22%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.22%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.22%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.22%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.10%) Linux
1 5 (6.10%) zOS
2 1 (1.22%) Unix
2 1 (1.22%) VMS
2 1 (1.22%) Windows
2 1 (1.22%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (32.93%) Project Management
2 19 (23.17%) Stakeholder Management
3 17 (20.73%) Risk Management
4 15 (18.29%) Change Management
4 15 (18.29%) Decision-Making
5 12 (14.63%) Agile
5 12 (14.63%) Earned Value Management
5 12 (14.63%) Performance Measurement
6 11 (13.41%) Migration
7 10 (12.20%) DevOps
7 10 (12.20%) Performance Management
7 10 (12.20%) Storage Management
8 9 (10.98%) ERP
8 9 (10.98%) Software Testing
9 8 (9.76%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (9.76%) Risk Analysis
10 7 (8.54%) FinOps
10 7 (8.54%) Performance Optimisation
10 7 (8.54%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (8.54%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 6 (7.32%) Python
2 4 (4.88%) JCL
3 3 (3.66%) SQL
4 2 (2.44%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.44%) REXX
5 1 (1.22%) Bash
5 1 (1.22%) Bicep
5 1 (1.22%) Java
5 1 (1.22%) Julia
5 1 (1.22%) Perl
5 1 (1.22%) R
5 1 (1.22%) Scala
5 1 (1.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (18.29%) Degree
1 15 (18.29%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.20%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.32%) Master's Degree
4 5 (6.10%) Azure Certification
4 5 (6.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.66%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.44%) ACCA
6 2 (2.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (2.44%) CIMA
6 2 (2.44%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (1.22%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.54%) PMO
2 4 (4.88%) QA
3 2 (2.44%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (4.88%) Active Directory
1 4 (4.88%) NFS
1 4 (4.88%) Time Sharing Option
2 3 (3.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.22%) Docker
4 1 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (12.20%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 3 (3.66%) Terraform
3 2 (2.44%) Ansible
4 1 (1.22%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 20 (24.39%) Microsoft
2 17 (20.73%) SAP
3 10 (12.20%) IBM
4 6 (7.32%) Oracle
5 4 (4.88%) Broadcom
5 4 (4.88%) Brocade
5 4 (4.88%) CA
5 4 (4.88%) Dell
6 3 (3.66%) Ariba
6 3 (3.66%) Genesys
6 3 (3.66%) VMware
7 2 (2.44%) Facebook
7 2 (2.44%) Instagram
7 2 (2.44%) Splunk
8 1 (1.22%) Databricks
8 1 (1.22%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (1.22%) Zscaler