Cost Optimisation Contracts in Central London

Cost Optimization
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Cost Optimisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cost Optimisation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 129 170
Rank change year-on-year +5 +41 +10
Contract jobs citing Cost Optimisation 5 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.25% 0.16% 0.052%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.18% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £517 -
25th Percentile £541 £524 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £557 £545 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.26% - -
75th Percentile £574 £564 -
90th Percentile - £569 -
London median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Cost Optimisation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Cost Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Optimisation in Central London

Cost Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Cost Optimisation in Central London

Cost Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +11 5 £557 - 1
Cost Optimisation
London

Cost Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) IaaS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) Nutanix
2 1 (20.00%) OCI
2 1 (20.00%) PaaS
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) Rubrik
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
2 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database 11g
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database 12c
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (20.00%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) Serena SBM
1 1 (20.00%) Subversion
1 1 (20.00%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Lead
1 1 (20.00%) Product Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Solaris
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (40.00%) Budget Control
2 2 (40.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Data Security
3 1 (20.00%) Database Security
3 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (20.00%) FinOps
3 1 (20.00%) Fintech
3 1 (20.00%) IT Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Logistics
3 1 (20.00%) Mathematics
3 1 (20.00%) Operations Management
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Resource Management
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) C#
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) Perl
1 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) Ruby
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
1 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Control-M
1 1 (20.00%) Data Guard
1 1 (20.00%) EMC NetWorker
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
1 1 (20.00%) QRadar
1 1 (20.00%) Tivoli
1 1 (20.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) BMC
2 1 (20.00%) CyberArk
2 1 (20.00%) EMC
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Qualys
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) Serena
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) Sybase
2 1 (20.00%) VMware