Cost Reduction Contracts in the East of England

Cost Reduction
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Cost Reduction skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cost Reduction over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 101 116
Rank change year-on-year +13 +15 -
Contract jobs citing Cost Reduction 3 3 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.24% 0.18% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.21% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £560 £523
Median % change year-on-year +11.61% +7.18% -
75th Percentile £638 - £550
90th Percentile - - £663
England median daily rate £500 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £31.80 -
England median hourly rate £47.12 £31.80 £52.00
% change year-on-year +48.18% -38.85% +84.72%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

Cost Reduction 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 1,099 1,417 1,741
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 88.34% 83.50% 87.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 521 563 995
10th Percentile £200 £200 £225
25th Percentile £373 £311 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £551 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 524 361
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.48 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.96 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +90.48% +6.01%
75th Percentile £67.00 £60.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.42 £70.00 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +63.46%

Cost Reduction
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Reduction in the East of England

Cost Reduction
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Cost Reduction in the East of England

Cost Reduction
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cost Reduction in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Cost Reduction in the East of England

Cost Reduction
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 Reduction within the East of England region over the 6 months to 26 July 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 -7 2 £625 +11.61% 2
Cambridgeshire - 1 £625 - 5
Cost Reduction
England

Cost Reduction
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
1 2 (66.67%) SAP HANA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Manufacturing
1 2 (66.67%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Life Science
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Licensing
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Biotechnology
1 2 (66.67%) Business Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Management
1 2 (66.67%) Data Science
1 2 (66.67%) ERP
1 2 (66.67%) Project Management
1 2 (66.67%) Use Case
1 2 (66.67%) User Experience
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 1 (33.33%) Contract Negotiation
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Software Asset Management
2 1 (33.33%) Software Licensing
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GxP
1 2 (66.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) Ariba
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft