Cost Reduction Contracts

Cost Reduction
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 476 591 603
Rank change year-on-year +115 +12 -50
Contract jobs citing Cost Reduction 118 125 254
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.21% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.23% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 47 133
10th Percentile £413 £156 £363
25th Percentile £500 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% +22.22%
75th Percentile £743 £719 £650
90th Percentile £808 £800 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £500 £459
% change year-on-year +15.00% +8.99% +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 9
10th Percentile £30.70 - £12.25
25th Percentile £45.48 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £60.50 - £35.50
75th Percentile £60.75 - £43.95
90th Percentile £68.12 - £50.52
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.50 - £28.75
% change year-on-year - - +12.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,383 53,667 80,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.90% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,097 37,244 56,431
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,426 1,746 1,925
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.13% +80.00% -8.51%

Cost Reduction
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Reduction in the UK

Cost Reduction
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cost Reduction in the UK

Cost Reduction
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Reduction over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Reduction in the UK

Cost Reduction
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Cost Reduction in the UK

Cost Reduction
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cost Reduction over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cost Reduction in the UK

Cost Reduction
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 28 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
England +116 109 £600 +7.87% 192
UK excluding London +71 68 £575 +15.00% 153
Work from Home +140 39 £563 -10.00% 72
London +97 35 £654 +18.87% 51
North of England +37 29 £555 -14.62% 38
Midlands +45 22 £575 +155.56% 35
West Midlands +48 21 £575 +155.56% 26
North West +30 20 £618 +2.92% 18
Yorkshire +23 7 £416 -44.53% 15
South West +12 5 £350 -46.15% 17
East of England +10 5 £560 +9.27% 17
Scotland +30 4 - - 9
South East +10 4 £663 +29.90% 34
North East +19 2 - - 5
East Midlands - 1 - - 9

Cost Reduction
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (5.08%) nginx
1 6 (5.08%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.24%) IIS
3 4 (3.39%) Apache Solr
4 2 (1.69%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.69%) CMS
4 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.69%) Traefik
Applications
1 6 (5.08%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (3.39%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (2.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.54%) SAP BPC
1 3 (2.54%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (16.10%) AWS
2 11 (9.32%) Azure
3 10 (8.47%) GCP
4 6 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (5.08%) Entra ID
5 5 (4.24%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (3.39%) Apigee
6 4 (3.39%) Google Analytics
6 4 (3.39%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.54%) SaaS
8 2 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.69%) GitHub
8 2 (1.69%) Google Tag Manager
8 2 (1.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (1.69%) Yammer
9 1 (0.85%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.17%) DNS
2 10 (8.47%) Firewall
3 8 (6.78%) SSL
4 6 (5.08%) TCP/IP
5 5 (4.24%) Network Security
6 4 (3.39%) HTTPS
6 4 (3.39%) IPsec
7 3 (2.54%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.39%) Couchbase
1 4 (3.39%) MySQL
1 4 (3.39%) NoSQL
1 4 (3.39%) Power BI
2 3 (2.54%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (2.54%) BigQuery
2 3 (2.54%) SAP HANA
3 2 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (1.69%) Big Data
3 2 (1.69%) Hadoop
3 2 (1.69%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (0.85%) Azkaban
4 1 (0.85%) Metadata
4 1 (0.85%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.85%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.85%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (4.24%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.54%) GitLab
2 3 (2.54%) gulp
2 3 (2.54%) Maven
3 2 (1.69%) Git
4 1 (0.85%) RStudio
General
1 48 (40.68%) Finance
2 39 (33.05%) Social Skills
3 32 (27.12%) Public Sector
4 16 (13.56%) Law
5 10 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (8.47%) Legal
5 10 (8.47%) Manufacturing
6 5 (4.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.39%) Local Government
7 4 (3.39%) Marketing
7 4 (3.39%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.54%) Military
8 3 (2.54%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (2.54%) Retail
9 2 (1.69%) Billing
9 2 (1.69%) Electronics
9 2 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.85%) Dutch Language
Job Titles
1 17 (14.41%) Analyst
2 14 (11.86%) Senior
3 13 (11.02%) Architect
3 13 (11.02%) Lead
4 12 (10.17%) Consultant
4 12 (10.17%) IT Manager
5 9 (7.63%) Vendor Manager
6 8 (6.78%) Commercial Manager
6 8 (6.78%) Technical Leader
7 7 (5.93%) Business Analyst
7 7 (5.93%) Technical Architect
8 6 (5.08%) Buyer
8 6 (5.08%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (5.08%) IT Buyer
8 6 (5.08%) Project Manager
9 5 (4.24%) IT Consultant
9 5 (4.24%) Procurement Consultant
9 5 (4.24%) Senior Manager
10 4 (3.39%) Hardware Engineer
10 4 (3.39%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.93%) Node.js
2 5 (4.24%) ARM Templates
3 4 (3.39%) JSON
3 4 (3.39%) LEMP Stack
3 4 (3.39%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (3.39%) YAML
4 3 (2.54%) .NET
4 3 (2.54%) OAuth
4 3 (2.54%) OpenID
4 3 (2.54%) RESTful
4 3 (2.54%) SAML
5 2 (1.69%) cloud-init
5 2 (1.69%) Web Services
6 1 (0.85%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.85%) CSS
6 1 (0.85%) HTML
6 1 (0.85%) Kafka
6 1 (0.85%) Middleware
6 1 (0.85%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.71%) Data Centre
1 15 (12.71%) Management Information System
2 10 (8.47%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.24%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (4.24%) PKI
4 4 (3.39%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.39%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.54%) Clustering
5 3 (2.54%) Life Science
5 3 (2.54%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.54%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.69%) CCTV
6 2 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.69%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.69%) Robotics
6 2 (1.69%) Social Media
7 1 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.85%) Solar Panel
7 1 (0.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.32%) Linux
1 11 (9.32%) Windows
2 6 (5.08%) Android
2 6 (5.08%) Apple iOS
2 6 (5.08%) CentOS
3 5 (4.24%) VMS
4 4 (3.39%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.69%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (19.49%) Agile
2 22 (18.64%) Roadmaps
3 17 (14.41%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (14.41%) Stakeholder Management
4 16 (13.56%) Decision-Making
5 14 (11.86%) Configuration Management
5 14 (11.86%) Migration
5 14 (11.86%) Project Management
6 13 (11.02%) Analytics
6 13 (11.02%) DevOps
7 12 (10.17%) Process Improvement
7 12 (10.17%) Technical Leadership
8 11 (9.32%) CI/CD
9 10 (8.47%) Collaborative Working
9 10 (8.47%) Programme Management
9 10 (8.47%) SDLC
10 9 (7.63%) Business Strategy
11 8 (6.78%) Business Case
11 8 (6.78%) Information Security
11 8 (6.78%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (10.17%) SQL
2 9 (7.63%) PowerShell
2 9 (7.63%) Python
3 4 (3.39%) Bash
3 4 (3.39%) Java
3 4 (3.39%) JavaScript
3 4 (3.39%) PHP
4 3 (2.54%) Go
4 3 (2.54%) R
5 2 (1.69%) Ruby
6 1 (0.85%) Julia
6 1 (0.85%) VBA
Qualifications
1 27 (22.88%) Security Cleared
2 22 (18.64%) SC Cleared
3 12 (10.17%) Degree
4 6 (5.08%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.85%) CISSP
6 1 (0.85%) CRISC
6 1 (0.85%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.85%) MCSE
6 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.47%) QA
2 7 (5.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (5.93%) NIST
3 4 (3.39%) GDPR
3 4 (3.39%) HIPAA
4 3 (2.54%) GxP
4 3 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (2.54%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.54%) PMO
4 3 (2.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.69%) NCSC
6 1 (0.85%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (7.63%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.39%) Firmware
3 2 (1.69%) Docker
3 2 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (8.47%) Ansible
2 7 (5.93%) Terraform
3 6 (5.08%) Kubernetes
3 6 (5.08%) SCCM
4 3 (2.54%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.69%) Consul
5 2 (1.69%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (1.69%) Graphite
5 2 (1.69%) HAProxy
5 2 (1.69%) Istio
5 2 (1.69%) linkerd
5 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.69%) Packer
5 2 (1.69%) Podman
5 2 (1.69%) Puppet
5 2 (1.69%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.85%) CA Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.85%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.85%) Grafana
6 1 (0.85%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 15 (12.71%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.02%) Google
3 11 (9.32%) SAP
4 4 (3.39%) Databricks
4 4 (3.39%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.54%) CA
5 3 (2.54%) Hyperion
5 3 (2.54%) Splunk
6 2 (1.69%) PagerDuty
6 2 (1.69%) Panasonic
6 2 (1.69%) Teradata
6 2 (1.69%) VMware
7 1 (0.85%) BEA
7 1 (0.85%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (0.85%) Cognizant
7 1 (0.85%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.85%) New Relic
7 1 (0.85%) TOWER Software
7 1 (0.85%) webMethods
7 1 (0.85%) Workday