Cost Reduction Contracts in the South West

Cost Reduction
England > South West

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 139 164 176
Rank change year-on-year +25 +12 -34
Contract jobs citing Cost Reduction 5 7 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.16% 0.19% 0.054%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.22% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £325 - £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - £468
Median % change year-on-year - - -28.08%
75th Percentile £375 - £476
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £600 £544 £550
% change year-on-year +10.34% -1.14% +17.02%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,654 3,248 3,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.02% 89.70% 88.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,694 2,395 2,337
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £589
90th Percentile £700 £723 £668
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 332 192
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £16.89 £20.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £61.50 £48.61
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +26.52% +8.02%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.31 £69.98
England median hourly rate £36.00 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -3.59% +53.69% +1.23%

Cost Reduction
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Reduction in the South West

Cost Reduction
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cost Reduction in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Cost Reduction in the South West

Cost Reduction
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cost Reduction in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Cost Reduction in the South West

Cost Reduction
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 2 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
Dorset - 4 - -
Wiltshire - 1 £350 - 3
Cost Reduction
England

Cost Reduction
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (80.00%) Apache Solr
1 4 (80.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) DNS
1 4 (80.00%) HTTPS
1 4 (80.00%) IPsec
1 4 (80.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Couchbase
1 4 (80.00%) MySQL
1 4 (80.00%) NoSQL
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (80.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Server Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) JSON
1 4 (80.00%) LEMP Stack
1 4 (80.00%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (80.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (80.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) CentOS
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) Configuration Management
1 4 (80.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) Information Security
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (80.00%) Microservices
1 4 (80.00%) Migration
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (80.00%) Risk Assessment
1 4 (80.00%) SDLC
1 4 (80.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (20.00%) Compliance Management
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) MCSE
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) GDPR
1 4 (80.00%) HIPAA
1 4 (80.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (80.00%) NIST
1 4 (80.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Ansible
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) BEA
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft