Cost Optimisation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cost Optimization
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 366 442 467
Rank change year-on-year +76 +25 -42
Contract jobs citing Cost Optimisation 16 10 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.079% 0.043% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.093% 0.048% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 30
10th Percentile £350 £463 £436
25th Percentile £394 £519 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% - -
75th Percentile £684 £836 £672
90th Percentile £888 £842 £700
UK median daily rate £558 £544 £600
% change year-on-year +2.53% -9.38% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,192 21,035 27,290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.42% 89.50% 89.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,233 14,534 19,060
10th Percentile £250 £256 £237
25th Percentile £379 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,049 1,280 1,365
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.99 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.23 £15.43 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £47.00
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.55
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

Cost Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Optimisation in the UK excluding London

Cost Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Cost Optimisation in the UK excluding London

Cost Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Optimisation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Optimisation in the UK excluding London

Cost Optimisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cost Optimisation in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Cost Optimisation in the UK excluding London

Cost Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 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
North of England +28 9 £563 -32.55% 11
North West - 6 £675 - 5
Midlands +33 3 £350 - 6
West Midlands +23 3 £350 - 4
Yorkshire +22 3 £450 - 4
Scotland +48 2 - -
South East +17 1 £675 +22.73% 7
East of England +8 1 - - 1
Cost Optimisation
UK

Cost Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 3 (18.75%) Apache
1 3 (18.75%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (25.00%) Azure
3 3 (18.75%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (18.75%) Amazon S3
3 3 (18.75%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (18.75%) GCP
3 3 (18.75%) Snowflake
3 3 (18.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (12.50%) GitHub
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (6.25%) Salesforce Einstein
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (18.75%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 2 (12.50%) GitLab
2 2 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.25%) Publishing
4 1 (6.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Head of Engineering
3 2 (12.50%) Lead
3 2 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Performance Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Performance Test Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Performance Tester
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Product Ownership
2 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Migration
2 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
2 5 (31.25%) Computer Science
2 5 (31.25%) Data Migration
2 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Management
3 4 (25.00%) Agile
3 4 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (18.75%) Analytics
4 3 (18.75%) Data Integration
4 3 (18.75%) Data Management
4 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
4 3 (18.75%) Performance Testing
4 3 (18.75%) Task Automation
5 2 (12.50%) API Design
5 2 (12.50%) Budget Management
5 2 (12.50%) DevOps
5 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (12.50%) Microservices
5 2 (12.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) Bash
2 3 (18.75%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) Go
3 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (12.50%) NIST
1 2 (12.50%) PCI DSS
2 1 (6.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Grafana
1 3 (18.75%) Kibana
2 2 (12.50%) Ansible
2 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Informatica
2 2 (12.50%) Atlassian
3 1 (6.25%) Facebook
3 1 (6.25%) Google
3 1 (6.25%) Instagram
3 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.25%) VMware
3 1 (6.25%) Workday