Cost Optimisation Contracts in the East of England

Cost Optimization
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 78 - 121
Rank change year-on-year - - +24
Contract jobs citing Cost Optimisation 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.43% - 0.097%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% - 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £524 - £430
25th Percentile £559 - £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 - £450
75th Percentile £734 - £463
90th Percentile £781 - £470
England median daily rate £525 £570 £500
% change year-on-year -7.89% +14.00% -9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 837 1,644 1,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.23% 86.12% 87.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 703 1,064
10th Percentile £225 £207 £200
25th Percentile £400 £339 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 607 340
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £14.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Cost Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Cost Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Cost Optimisation in the East of England

Cost Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cost Optimisation in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Cost Optimisation in the East of England

Cost Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Optimisation in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Optimisation in the East of England

Cost Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England 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
Bedfordshire - 2 £500 - 6
Essex - 1 - - 10
Hertfordshire - 1 £775 - 11
Cost Optimisation
England

Cost Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CodeBuild
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Local Government
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Delivery Manager
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Category Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Data Governance Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Procurement Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Delivery Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Technical Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Delivery Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Culture of Ownership
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Licensing
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Budget Management
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Cost Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Data Management
2 1 (25.00%) E-Procurement
2 1 (25.00%) ERP
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Supply Chain Management
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Spotify