Cost Reduction Contracts in England

Cost Reduction
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 426 553 598
Rank change year-on-year +127 +45 -83
Contract jobs citing Cost Reduction 109 110 181
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.29% 0.22% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.24% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 41 94
10th Percentile £413 £213 £363
25th Percentile £525 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +2.27% +18.28%
75th Percentile £750 £725 £636
90th Percentile £813 £800 £725
UK median daily rate £600 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +11.63% -2.27% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 9
10th Percentile - - £12.25
25th Percentile £30.70 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £31.80 - £35.50
75th Percentile £56.04 - £43.95
90th Percentile £69.92 - £50.52
UK median hourly rate £60.50 - £35.50
% change year-on-year - - +39.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,985 45,619 64,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.25% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,974 32,022 45,804
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,225 1,607 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Cost Reduction
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Reduction in England

Cost Reduction
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Cost Reduction in England

Cost Reduction
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Reduction in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Reduction in England

Cost Reduction
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Cost Reduction in England

Cost Reduction
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cost Reduction in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cost Reduction in England

Cost Reduction
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 Reduction within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +90 35 £654 +16.22% 49
North of England +38 29 £555 -14.62% 39
Midlands +41 22 £575 +155.56% 36
West Midlands +47 21 £575 +155.56% 27
North West +23 20 £618 +2.92% 19
Yorkshire +20 7 £416 -44.53% 15
South West +20 5 £350 -46.15% 18
East of England +18 5 £560 +9.27% 17
South East +16 4 £663 +29.90% 34
North East +18 2 - - 5
East Midlands - 1 - - 9
Cost Reduction
UK

Cost Reduction
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 6 (5.50%) nginx
1 6 (5.50%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.67%) Apache Solr
3 2 (1.83%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.83%) CMS
3 2 (1.83%) IIS
3 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.83%) Traefik
Applications
1 6 (5.50%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.75%) SAP BPC
1 3 (2.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (17.43%) AWS
2 10 (9.17%) GCP
3 8 (7.34%) Azure
4 4 (3.67%) Apigee
4 4 (3.67%) Google Analytics
4 4 (3.67%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.75%) Entra ID
5 3 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.75%) SaaS
6 2 (1.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (1.83%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (1.83%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.83%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (1.83%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.83%) GitHub
6 2 (1.83%) Google Tag Manager
6 2 (1.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (1.83%) Yammer
7 1 (0.92%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.26%) DNS
2 7 (6.42%) Firewall
3 6 (5.50%) TCP/IP
4 5 (4.59%) SSL
5 4 (3.67%) HTTPS
5 4 (3.67%) IPsec
6 3 (2.75%) VPN
7 2 (1.83%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.67%) Couchbase
1 4 (3.67%) MySQL
1 4 (3.67%) NoSQL
1 4 (3.67%) Power BI
2 3 (2.75%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (2.75%) BigQuery
2 3 (2.75%) SAP HANA
3 2 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (1.83%) Big Data
3 2 (1.83%) Hadoop
3 2 (1.83%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (0.92%) Azkaban
4 1 (0.92%) Metadata
4 1 (0.92%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.92%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.92%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (4.59%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.75%) GitLab
2 3 (2.75%) gulp
2 3 (2.75%) Maven
3 2 (1.83%) Git
4 1 (0.92%) RStudio
General
1 48 (44.04%) Finance
2 36 (33.03%) Social Skills
3 30 (27.52%) Public Sector
4 16 (14.68%) Law
5 10 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (9.17%) Legal
6 6 (5.50%) Manufacturing
7 5 (4.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.67%) Local Government
8 4 (3.67%) Marketing
8 4 (3.67%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.75%) Military
9 3 (2.75%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (2.75%) Retail
10 2 (1.83%) Billing
10 2 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.83%) Electronics
10 2 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.92%) Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (15.60%) Analyst
2 13 (11.93%) Architect
2 13 (11.93%) Senior
3 12 (11.01%) Consultant
3 12 (11.01%) IT Manager
4 10 (9.17%) Lead
5 9 (8.26%) Vendor Manager
6 8 (7.34%) Commercial Manager
7 7 (6.42%) Business Analyst
7 7 (6.42%) Technical Architect
8 6 (5.50%) Buyer
8 6 (5.50%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (5.50%) IT Buyer
9 5 (4.59%) IT Consultant
9 5 (4.59%) Procurement Consultant
9 5 (4.59%) Project Manager
9 5 (4.59%) Technical Leader
10 4 (3.67%) Designer
10 4 (3.67%) Security Consultant
10 4 (3.67%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.42%) Node.js
2 4 (3.67%) JSON
2 4 (3.67%) LEMP Stack
2 4 (3.67%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (3.67%) YAML
3 3 (2.75%) .NET
3 3 (2.75%) OAuth
3 3 (2.75%) OpenID
3 3 (2.75%) RESTful
3 3 (2.75%) SAML
4 2 (1.83%) ARM Templates
4 2 (1.83%) cloud-init
4 2 (1.83%) Web Services
5 1 (0.92%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.92%) CSS
5 1 (0.92%) HTML
5 1 (0.92%) Kafka
5 1 (0.92%) Middleware
5 1 (0.92%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.76%) Data Centre
1 15 (13.76%) Management Information System
2 10 (9.17%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.59%) PKI
4 4 (3.67%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.67%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.75%) Clustering
5 3 (2.75%) Life Science
5 3 (2.75%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.75%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.83%) CCTV
6 2 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.83%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.83%) Robotics
6 2 (1.83%) Social Media
7 1 (0.92%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.92%) Solar Panel
7 1 (0.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.34%) Linux
1 8 (7.34%) Windows
2 6 (5.50%) Android
2 6 (5.50%) Apple iOS
2 6 (5.50%) CentOS
3 4 (3.67%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.83%) VMS
4 2 (1.83%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (21.10%) Agile
2 21 (19.27%) Roadmaps
3 17 (15.60%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (15.60%) Stakeholder Management
4 16 (14.68%) Decision-Making
5 13 (11.93%) Analytics
5 13 (11.93%) Project Management
6 11 (10.09%) CI/CD
6 11 (10.09%) Migration
7 10 (9.17%) Collaborative Working
7 10 (9.17%) Configuration Management
7 10 (9.17%) DevOps
7 10 (9.17%) Programme Management
7 10 (9.17%) SDLC
8 9 (8.26%) Business Strategy
8 9 (8.26%) Technical Leadership
9 8 (7.34%) Business Case
9 8 (7.34%) Data Management
9 8 (7.34%) Information Security
9 8 (7.34%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 9 (8.26%) Python
1 9 (8.26%) SQL
2 6 (5.50%) PowerShell
3 4 (3.67%) Bash
3 4 (3.67%) Java
3 4 (3.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (3.67%) PHP
4 3 (2.75%) Go
4 3 (2.75%) R
5 2 (1.83%) Ruby
6 1 (0.92%) Julia
6 1 (0.92%) VBA
Qualifications
1 26 (23.85%) Security Cleared
2 21 (19.27%) SC Cleared
3 12 (11.01%) Degree
4 6 (5.50%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.92%) CISSP
6 1 (0.92%) CRISC
6 1 (0.92%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.92%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.92%) MCSE
6 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.17%) QA
2 7 (6.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (6.42%) NIST
3 4 (3.67%) GDPR
3 4 (3.67%) HIPAA
4 3 (2.75%) GxP
4 3 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (2.75%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.83%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.83%) NCSC
5 2 (1.83%) PMO
6 1 (0.92%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (5.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.83%) Docker
2 2 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (9.17%) Ansible
2 7 (6.42%) Terraform
3 6 (5.50%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.75%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.75%) SCCM
5 2 (1.83%) Consul
5 2 (1.83%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (1.83%) Graphite
5 2 (1.83%) HAProxy
5 2 (1.83%) Istio
5 2 (1.83%) linkerd
5 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.83%) Packer
5 2 (1.83%) Podman
5 2 (1.83%) Puppet
5 2 (1.83%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.92%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.92%) Grafana
6 1 (0.92%) Rundeck
6 1 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (12.84%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.93%) Google
3 11 (10.09%) SAP
4 4 (3.67%) Databricks
4 4 (3.67%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.75%) CA
5 3 (2.75%) Hyperion
5 3 (2.75%) Splunk
6 2 (1.83%) PagerDuty
6 2 (1.83%) Panasonic
6 2 (1.83%) Teradata
6 2 (1.83%) VMware
7 1 (0.92%) BEA
7 1 (0.92%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (0.92%) Cognizant
7 1 (0.92%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.92%) New Relic
7 1 (0.92%) TOWER Software
7 1 (0.92%) webMethods
7 1 (0.92%) Workday