Cost Reduction Contracts in the City of London

Cost Reduction
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Cost Reduction skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cost Reduction over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 172 178
Rank change year-on-year +50 +6 -40
Contract jobs citing Cost Reduction 4 5 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.18% 0.14% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.15% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £513 £184 £577
25th Percentile £531 £242 £579
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £344 £740
Median % change year-on-year +67.03% -53.48% +55.79%
75th Percentile £631 £447 £913
90th Percentile £658 £505 £935
Central London median daily rate £575 £344 £740
% change year-on-year +67.03% -53.48% +55.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Cost Reduction 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 advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,993 3,347 3,888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.51% 91.82% 91.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,405 2,259 2,945
10th Percentile £359 £355 £385
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 24 41
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.33 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.03 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -13.58% +125.31%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £62.50
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%

Cost Reduction
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Cost Reduction as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Cost Reduction in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cost Reduction in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Cost Reduction in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Reduction in the City of London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Reduction in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cost Reduction in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Cost Reduction in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 (25.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) Google Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
1 1 (25.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) BigQuery
General
1 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) PMO Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Product Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Performance Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) VMS
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Agile
1 1 (25.00%) Analytics
1 1 (25.00%) Benchmarking
1 1 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) FinOps
1 1 (25.00%) Migration
1 1 (25.00%) Product Management
1 1 (25.00%) Product Strategy
1 1 (25.00%) RBAC
1 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Change
1 1 (25.00%) Runbook
1 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (25.00%) Storage Management
1 1 (25.00%) Supplier Management
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google