Cost Optimisation Contracts in England

Cost Optimization
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Cost Optimisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cost Optimisation over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 477 585 691
Rank change year-on-year +108 +106 -101
Contract jobs citing Cost Optimisation 61 63 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.13% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.14% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 28 60
10th Percentile £350 £425 £450
25th Percentile £466 £448 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -6.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £619 £653 £675
90th Percentile £689 £730 £713
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% +7.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £90.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £90.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Cost Optimisation 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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,926 45,112 64,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.59% 90.20% 90.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,947 31,664 45,849
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,243 1,598 1,761
10th Percentile £12.92 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.33 £37.15 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% +52.57% +3.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Cost Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Cost Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cost Optimisation in England

Cost Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Cost Optimisation in England

Cost Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Optimisation in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Optimisation in England

Cost Optimisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Cost Optimisation in England

Cost Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cost Optimisation within the England region over the 6 months to 4 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
London +98 47 £550 +10.00% 15
North of England +32 9 £563 -32.55% 9
North West - 6 £675 - 4
Midlands +29 3 £350 - 4
West Midlands +25 3 £350 - 3
Yorkshire +23 3 £450 - 4
South East +21 1 £675 +22.73% 6
Cost Optimisation
UK

Cost Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 10 (16.39%) Confluence
2 6 (9.84%) Apache
3 3 (4.92%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (4.92%) nginx
3 3 (4.92%) OpenStack
4 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.64%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (4.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.64%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 35 (57.38%) Azure
2 30 (49.18%) AWS
3 19 (31.15%) GCP
4 11 (18.03%) PaaS
5 10 (16.39%) Cloud Computing
6 8 (13.11%) IaaS
6 8 (13.11%) Nutanix
6 8 (13.11%) SaaS
7 7 (11.48%) Rubrik
8 4 (6.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (4.92%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (4.92%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (4.92%) Amazon S3
9 3 (4.92%) Snowflake
10 2 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (3.28%) GitHub
11 1 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (1.64%) Cloud Run
11 1 (1.64%) Entra ID
11 1 (1.64%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (16.39%) DNS
2 9 (14.75%) Firewall
3 8 (13.11%) DHCP
3 8 (13.11%) TCP/IP
3 8 (13.11%) VLAN
4 7 (11.48%) Kerberos
4 7 (11.48%) NAS
4 7 (11.48%) SAN
5 2 (3.28%) 4G
5 2 (3.28%) 5G
5 2 (3.28%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (3.28%) WAN
6 1 (1.64%) BGP
6 1 (1.64%) Internet
6 1 (1.64%) LAN
6 1 (1.64%) Network Security
6 1 (1.64%) OSPF
6 1 (1.64%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (1.64%) VPN
6 1 (1.64%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.92%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (4.92%) Couchbase
1 3 (4.92%) MySQL
1 3 (4.92%) NoSQL
1 3 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.64%) BigQuery
2 1 (1.64%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.64%) Power BI
2 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (21.31%) Git
2 11 (18.03%) JIRA
3 8 (13.11%) Jenkins
4 7 (11.48%) TeamCity
5 2 (3.28%) Bitbucket
5 2 (3.28%) GitLab
6 1 (1.64%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 21 (34.43%) Social Skills
2 18 (29.51%) Finance
3 9 (14.75%) Telecoms
4 8 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (8.20%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (6.56%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.28%) Billing
7 2 (3.28%) Dutch Language
7 2 (3.28%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.28%) Retail
8 1 (1.64%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 11 (18.03%) Cloud Engineer
2 8 (13.11%) Architect
3 7 (11.48%) Senior
4 6 (9.84%) Consultant
5 5 (8.20%) Analyst
5 5 (8.20%) Lead
5 5 (8.20%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (6.56%) Senior Consultant
7 3 (4.92%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) FMCG Manager
7 3 (4.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Project Manager
7 3 (4.92%) SAP Manager
8 2 (3.28%) Administrator
8 2 (3.28%) Business Analyst
8 2 (3.28%) Cloud Architect
8 2 (3.28%) Cloud Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.28%) Head of Engineering
8 2 (3.28%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.48%) LDAP
2 3 (4.92%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (4.92%) LAPP Stack
3 2 (3.28%) SailPoint
3 2 (3.28%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.11%) Public Cloud
1 8 (13.11%) Replication
2 7 (11.48%) Clustering
3 4 (6.56%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.92%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.92%) FMCG
4 3 (4.92%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.28%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.64%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.64%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.64%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 12 (19.67%) Linux
2 8 (13.11%) Windows
3 7 (11.48%) Oracle Linux
3 7 (11.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (11.48%) Solaris
3 7 (11.48%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.92%) CentOS
4 3 (4.92%) Ubuntu
4 3 (4.92%) VMS
5 1 (1.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (26.23%) Agile
2 15 (24.59%) DevOps
3 14 (22.95%) Continuous Improvement
4 13 (21.31%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (18.03%) Disaster Recovery
7 10 (16.39%) Root Cause Analysis
7 10 (16.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 9 (14.75%) Analytics
8 9 (14.75%) CI/CD
8 9 (14.75%) FinOps
8 9 (14.75%) High Availability
9 8 (13.11%) Computer Science
9 8 (13.11%) Data Security
9 8 (13.11%) DevSecOps
9 8 (13.11%) Project Management
9 8 (13.11%) Vulnerability Management
10 7 (11.48%) Deployment Automation
10 7 (11.48%) Service Catalogue
10 7 (11.48%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (24.59%) Python
2 14 (22.95%) Bash
3 11 (18.03%) PowerShell
4 7 (11.48%) SQL
5 6 (9.84%) Go
Qualifications
1 11 (18.03%) Azure Certification
2 8 (13.11%) Degree
3 4 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.92%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.92%) PMI Certification
4 3 (4.92%) PMP
4 3 (4.92%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.92%) Security Cleared
5 2 (3.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (3.28%) CISM
5 2 (3.28%) CISSP
6 1 (1.64%) CCNA
6 1 (1.64%) CCNP
6 1 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.11%) GDPR
2 7 (11.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (6.56%) QA
4 3 (4.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (3.28%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (3.28%) NIST
5 2 (3.28%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (1.64%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.64%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (32.79%) Docker
2 10 (16.39%) Active Directory
3 9 (14.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (13.11%) Hyper-V
5 4 (6.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (39.34%) Terraform
2 21 (34.43%) Kubernetes
3 12 (19.67%) Ansible
4 7 (11.48%) EMC NetWorker
4 7 (11.48%) Netcool
4 7 (11.48%) Tivoli
4 7 (11.48%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 6 (9.84%) Grafana
6 3 (4.92%) Kibana
6 3 (4.92%) Prometheus
6 3 (4.92%) ZABBIX
7 1 (1.64%) Matomo
Vendors
1 24 (39.34%) Microsoft
2 17 (27.87%) VMware
3 8 (13.11%) Cisco
3 8 (13.11%) ServiceNow
4 7 (11.48%) CyberArk
4 7 (11.48%) Dell
4 7 (11.48%) EMC
4 7 (11.48%) HP
4 7 (11.48%) IBM
4 7 (11.48%) Isilon
4 7 (11.48%) Oracle
4 7 (11.48%) Qualys
4 7 (11.48%) Serena
4 7 (11.48%) Splunk
5 3 (4.92%) Google
5 3 (4.92%) Informatica
5 3 (4.92%) SAP
6 2 (3.28%) Atlassian
6 2 (3.28%) Facebook
6 2 (3.28%) Instagram