Cost Reduction Contracts in England

Cost Reduction
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 395 433 543
Rank change year-on-year +38 +110 +57
Contract jobs citing Cost Reduction 90 109 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.37% 0.29% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.34% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 61 40
10th Percentile £378 £413 £213
25th Percentile £450 £525 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £556
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +7.87% +1.14%
75th Percentile £638 £750 £725
90th Percentile £738 £813 £800
UK median daily rate £540 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% +14.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £32.15 - -
25th Percentile £33.09 £30.70 -
Median hourly rate £36.06 £31.80 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.38% - -
75th Percentile £40.42 £56.04 -
90th Percentile £42.20 £69.92 -
UK median hourly rate £36.06 £60.50 -
% change year-on-year -40.40% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Cost Reduction
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Reduction in England

Cost Reduction
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Cost Reduction in England

Cost Reduction
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Cost Reduction in England

Cost Reduction
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Cost Reduction in England

Cost Reduction
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
London +49 46 £575 -12.05% 136
Midlands +12 12 £500 -13.04% 17
South West +52 11 £538 +53.57% 9
North of England +1 11 £615 +10.81% 43
West Midlands +3 10 £500 -13.04% 9
South East +49 7 £450 -32.08% 26
North West +4 7 £615 -0.40% 23
East of England +29 4 £353 -37.05% 8
Yorkshire +4 3 - - 13
East Midlands +11 2 £450 - 6
North East -1 1 - - 7
Cost Reduction
UK

Cost Reduction
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 7 (7.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.22%) Trello
3 1 (1.11%) CATIA
3 1 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Shopify
2 1 (1.11%) SAP EWM
2 1 (1.11%) SAP GTS
2 1 (1.11%) SAP IBP
2 1 (1.11%) SAP MM
2 1 (1.11%) SAP PP
2 1 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.11%) SAP SCM
2 1 (1.11%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (15.56%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (14.44%) Azure
3 11 (12.22%) SaaS
4 10 (11.11%) AWS
5 9 (10.00%) PaaS
6 6 (6.67%) Entra ID
7 5 (5.56%) GCP
7 5 (5.56%) Power Platform
7 5 (5.56%) Serverless
8 4 (4.44%) Azure Functions
8 4 (4.44%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (4.44%) OneDrive
9 3 (3.33%) Cloud Run
9 3 (3.33%) GitHub
9 3 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (3.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (3.33%) Yammer
10 2 (2.22%) BigCommerce
10 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (2.22%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.89%) PBX
1 8 (8.89%) VoIP
2 3 (3.33%) Firewall
3 2 (2.22%) DSL
4 1 (1.11%) Extranet
4 1 (1.11%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.56%) Power BI
2 3 (3.33%) Tableau
3 2 (2.22%) Big Data
3 2 (2.22%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.11%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.11%) MySQL
4 1 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (5.56%) GitLab
1 5 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.33%) CircleCI
2 3 (3.33%) Terragrunt
3 2 (2.22%) Cucumber
3 2 (2.22%) ERwin
3 2 (2.22%) Jasmine
3 2 (2.22%) JMeter
4 1 (1.11%) Gatling
4 1 (1.11%) Git
4 1 (1.11%) Grunt
4 1 (1.11%) gulp
4 1 (1.11%) JIRA
4 1 (1.11%) JUnit
4 1 (1.11%) Mocha
General
1 38 (42.22%) Finance
2 33 (36.67%) Social Skills
3 22 (24.44%) Public Sector
4 13 (14.44%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (14.44%) Telecoms
5 10 (11.11%) Marketing
6 8 (8.89%) Banking
7 6 (6.67%) Electronics
7 6 (6.67%) Manufacturing
7 6 (6.67%) Retail
8 5 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (4.44%) Military
10 2 (2.22%) Italian Language
10 2 (2.22%) Legal
10 2 (2.22%) Local Government
11 1 (1.11%) Automotive
11 1 (1.11%) Billing
11 1 (1.11%) French Language
11 1 (1.11%) German Language
11 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 21 (23.33%) Architect
2 9 (10.00%) Senior
3 8 (8.89%) Analyst
3 8 (8.89%) Applications Architect
4 7 (7.78%) Business Analyst
4 7 (7.78%) Consultant
5 6 (6.67%) Lead
6 5 (5.56%) Data Business Analyst
6 5 (5.56%) IT Manager
6 5 (5.56%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 4 (4.44%) Data Analyst
7 4 (4.44%) Microsoft 365 Architect
7 4 (4.44%) Security Consultant
8 3 (3.33%) Exchange Engineer
8 3 (3.33%) GCP Architect
8 3 (3.33%) Infrastructure Architect
8 3 (3.33%) Market Analyst
8 3 (3.33%) Market Data Analyst
8 3 (3.33%) Senior Manager
8 3 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Graph
2 3 (3.33%) GraphQL
2 3 (3.33%) Web Services
3 2 (2.22%) Apache Axis
3 2 (2.22%) HTML
3 2 (2.22%) Kafka
3 2 (2.22%) VML
4 1 (1.11%) cloud-init
4 1 (1.11%) HTML5
4 1 (1.11%) jQuery
4 1 (1.11%) Mustache
4 1 (1.11%) Node.js
4 1 (1.11%) OpenAPI
4 1 (1.11%) RESTful
4 1 (1.11%) Sass
4 1 (1.11%) Spring
4 1 (1.11%) Spring Batch
4 1 (1.11%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.11%) Spring Security
4 1 (1.11%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 8 (8.89%) Blackberry
2 8 (8.89%) Video Conferencing
3 7 (7.78%) IoT
4 6 (6.67%) Blockchain
4 6 (6.67%) Data Structures
5 5 (5.56%) Management Information System
5 5 (5.56%) Social Media
6 4 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (3.33%) Cloud Native
8 2 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (2.22%) FMCG
8 2 (2.22%) Shadow IT
9 1 (1.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (1.11%) Fixed Income
9 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Licensing
9 1 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.78%) Windows
2 5 (5.56%) Linux
2 5 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.33%) Windows 10
4 2 (2.22%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.22%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.11%) CentOS
5 1 (1.11%) Unix
5 1 (1.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (25.56%) Roadmaps
3 21 (23.33%) Agile
4 16 (17.78%) DevOps
5 15 (16.67%) Migration
6 14 (15.56%) Thought Leadership
7 13 (14.44%) Process Improvement
7 13 (14.44%) Service Design
8 12 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
8 12 (13.33%) Commercial Awareness
8 12 (13.33%) Cost Optimisation
8 12 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
9 11 (12.22%) Decision-Making
10 10 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (11.11%) Data Analysis
10 10 (11.11%) Product Roadmap
11 9 (10.00%) Contract Negotiation
11 9 (10.00%) Microservices
11 9 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 9 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (5.56%) Java
2 5 (5.56%) SQL
3 3 (3.33%) Python
4 2 (2.22%) Bash
4 2 (2.22%) C#
4 2 (2.22%) Go
4 2 (2.22%) Ruby
5 1 (1.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 28 (31.11%) Security Cleared
2 26 (28.89%) SC Cleared
3 10 (11.11%) Degree
4 9 (10.00%) DV Cleared
5 8 (8.89%) CCNP
5 8 (8.89%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (8.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 4 (4.44%) Master's Degree
7 3 (3.33%) PMI Certification
7 3 (3.33%) PMP
8 2 (2.22%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.22%) CISSP
8 2 (2.22%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (2.22%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 1 (1.11%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (1.11%) MBA
9 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.11%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 1 (1.11%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.44%) QA
4 3 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (3.33%) NIST
4 3 (3.33%) PCI DSS
5 2 (2.22%) GDPR
6 1 (1.11%) GRC
6 1 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (12.22%) Active Directory
2 8 (8.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.22%) Docker
4 1 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (7.78%) Terraform
2 6 (6.67%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.56%) Ansible
4 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (3.33%) Opsview
5 2 (2.22%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.22%) Puppet
5 2 (2.22%) Salt
5 2 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.11%) Data Guard
6 1 (1.11%) Packer
Vendors
1 16 (17.78%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.00%) SAP
3 8 (8.89%) Avaya
3 8 (8.89%) Cisco
3 8 (8.89%) Ericsson
3 8 (8.89%) F5
3 8 (8.89%) Juniper
3 8 (8.89%) Nokia
3 8 (8.89%) Palo Alto
3 8 (8.89%) Ribbon
3 8 (8.89%) VMware
4 4 (4.44%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.33%) PagerDuty
6 2 (2.22%) Adobe
6 2 (2.22%) Google
6 2 (2.22%) New Relic
6 2 (2.22%) Sitecore
6 2 (2.22%) TOWER Software
6 2 (2.22%) Zscaler
7 1 (1.11%) Pega