Cost Optimisation Contracts in Manchester

Cost Optimization
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 - 134
Rank change year-on-year - - -37
Contract jobs citing Cost Optimisation 5 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.32% - 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% - 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile £485 - £480
25th Percentile £650 - £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - £600
75th Percentile £888 - £700
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £675 - £588

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,341 1,737 2,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.13% 91.81% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 914 1,272 1,807
10th Percentile £313 £315 £263
25th Percentile £406 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £492
Median % change year-on-year - +1.73% +9.22%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £575
90th Percentile £694 £663 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 61 51
10th Percentile £12.42 £14.65 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £24.19 £37.30 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.15% +140.65% -3.13%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £24.38
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £33.75
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.49
% change year-on-year -40.00% +70.82% +10.76%

Cost Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Optimisation in Manchester

Cost Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Cost Optimisation in Manchester

Cost Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Optimisation in Manchester over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Optimisation in Manchester

Cost Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (40.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Head of Engineering
1 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) API Design
2 2 (40.00%) Budget Management
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (40.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Identity Management
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (20.00%) FinOps
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Go
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (40.00%) NIST
1 2 (40.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (20.00%) Facebook
2 1 (20.00%) Instagram
2 1 (20.00%) VMware