Cost Optimisation Contracts in London

Cost Optimization
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 341 452 548
Rank change year-on-year +111 +96 -100
Contract jobs citing Cost Optimisation 47 49 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.27% 0.18% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.20% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 21 31
10th Percentile £368 - £513
25th Percentile £494 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -5.38%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £681
90th Percentile £628 £725 £713
England median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £90.00 -
England median hourly rate - £90.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,690 24,329 35,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.66% 90.98% 92.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,247 17,488 26,241
10th Percentile £338 £375 £389
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 276 422
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.50 £17.28
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.48 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +6.12% +12.47%
75th Percentile £47.34 £63.81 £50.94
90th Percentile £65.68 £80.00 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
% change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%

Cost Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Optimisation in London

Cost Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Cost Optimisation in London

Cost Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Optimisation in London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Optimisation in London

Cost Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 5 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
Central London +43 4 £545 - 2
East London - 1 - -
Cost Optimisation
England

Cost Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 7 (14.89%) Confluence
2 3 (6.38%) Apache
2 3 (6.38%) nginx
2 3 (6.38%) OpenStack
3 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.13%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (6.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.13%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 31 (65.96%) Azure
2 22 (46.81%) AWS
3 16 (34.04%) GCP
4 11 (23.40%) PaaS
5 8 (17.02%) IaaS
5 8 (17.02%) Nutanix
5 8 (17.02%) SaaS
6 7 (14.89%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (14.89%) Rubrik
7 3 (6.38%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (2.13%) Cloud Run
9 1 (2.13%) Cloudflare
9 1 (2.13%) Entra ID
9 1 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (2.13%) Power Platform
9 1 (2.13%) Salesforce Einstein
9 1 (2.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (19.15%) Firewall
2 8 (17.02%) DHCP
2 8 (17.02%) DNS
2 8 (17.02%) TCP/IP
2 8 (17.02%) VLAN
3 7 (14.89%) Kerberos
3 7 (14.89%) NAS
3 7 (14.89%) SAN
4 2 (4.26%) 4G
4 2 (4.26%) 5G
4 2 (4.26%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (4.26%) WAN
5 1 (2.13%) BGP
5 1 (2.13%) Internet
5 1 (2.13%) LAN
5 1 (2.13%) LTE
5 1 (2.13%) OSPF
5 1 (2.13%) SD-WAN
5 1 (2.13%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (2.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.38%) Couchbase
1 3 (6.38%) NoSQL
1 3 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.13%) BigQuery
2 1 (2.13%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.13%) Power BI
2 1 (2.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (21.28%) Git
2 8 (17.02%) Jenkins
2 8 (17.02%) JIRA
3 7 (14.89%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 16 (34.04%) Social Skills
2 15 (31.91%) Finance
3 9 (19.15%) Telecoms
4 7 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (8.51%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (6.38%) Manufacturing
7 2 (4.26%) Billing
7 2 (4.26%) Dutch Language
7 2 (4.26%) Retail
8 1 (2.13%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 8 (17.02%) Cloud Engineer
2 6 (12.77%) Architect
2 6 (12.77%) Consultant
3 5 (10.64%) Senior
3 5 (10.64%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (8.51%) Analyst
4 4 (8.51%) Senior Consultant
5 3 (6.38%) FMCG Manager
5 3 (6.38%) Lead
5 3 (6.38%) SAP Manager
6 2 (4.26%) Administrator
6 2 (4.26%) Business Analyst
6 2 (4.26%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (4.26%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.26%) Project Manager
6 2 (4.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 1 (2.13%) Desktop Support
7 1 (2.13%) Developer
7 1 (2.13%) Network Engineer
7 1 (2.13%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.89%) LDAP
2 3 (6.38%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (6.38%) LAPP Stack
3 2 (4.26%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.02%) Public Cloud
1 8 (17.02%) Replication
2 7 (14.89%) Clustering
3 4 (8.51%) Management Information System
4 3 (6.38%) Cloud Native
4 3 (6.38%) FMCG
5 2 (4.26%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.13%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.13%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (2.13%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 12 (25.53%) Linux
2 8 (17.02%) Windows
3 7 (14.89%) Oracle Linux
3 7 (14.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (14.89%) Solaris
3 7 (14.89%) Windows Server
4 3 (6.38%) CentOS
4 3 (6.38%) Ubuntu
4 3 (6.38%) VMS
5 1 (2.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (27.66%) Continuous Improvement
1 13 (27.66%) DevOps
2 12 (25.53%) Agile
3 11 (23.40%) Disaster Recovery
3 11 (23.40%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (21.28%) Root Cause Analysis
4 10 (21.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 9 (19.15%) High Availability
6 8 (17.02%) Analytics
6 8 (17.02%) Data Security
6 8 (17.02%) DevSecOps
6 8 (17.02%) FinOps
6 8 (17.02%) Vulnerability Management
7 7 (14.89%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (14.89%) Deployment Automation
7 7 (14.89%) Performance Tuning
7 7 (14.89%) Project Management
7 7 (14.89%) Security Hardening
7 7 (14.89%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (23.40%) Bash
2 10 (21.28%) Python
3 9 (19.15%) PowerShell
4 4 (8.51%) Go
4 4 (8.51%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (21.28%) Azure Certification
2 4 (8.51%) Degree
3 3 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (6.38%) PMI Certification
3 3 (6.38%) PMP
4 2 (4.26%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.26%) CISM
4 2 (4.26%) CISSP
4 2 (4.26%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.26%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (2.13%) CCNA
5 1 (2.13%) CCNP
5 1 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.02%) GDPR
2 7 (14.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (6.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (6.38%) QA
4 1 (2.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (2.13%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.13%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (38.30%) Docker
2 10 (21.28%) Active Directory
3 8 (17.02%) Hyper-V
3 8 (17.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (8.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (46.81%) Terraform
2 19 (40.43%) Kubernetes
3 10 (21.28%) Ansible
4 7 (14.89%) EMC NetWorker
4 7 (14.89%) Netcool
4 7 (14.89%) Tivoli
4 7 (14.89%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 3 (6.38%) Grafana
5 3 (6.38%) Prometheus
5 3 (6.38%) ZABBIX
6 1 (2.13%) Matomo
Vendors
1 24 (51.06%) Microsoft
2 16 (34.04%) VMware
3 8 (17.02%) Cisco
4 7 (14.89%) CyberArk
4 7 (14.89%) Dell
4 7 (14.89%) EMC
4 7 (14.89%) HP
4 7 (14.89%) IBM
4 7 (14.89%) Isilon
4 7 (14.89%) Oracle
4 7 (14.89%) Qualys
4 7 (14.89%) Serena
4 7 (14.89%) ServiceNow
4 7 (14.89%) Splunk
5 3 (6.38%) SAP
6 2 (4.26%) Google
7 1 (2.13%) Facebook
7 1 (2.13%) Meraki
7 1 (2.13%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.13%) Salesforce