Cost Optimisation Contracts in London

Cost Optimization
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 265 343 445
Rank change year-on-year +78 +102 +93
Contract jobs citing Cost Optimisation 88 48 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.70% 0.27% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.30% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 20 22
10th Percentile £375 £368 £425
25th Percentile £439 £494 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £628
90th Percentile £726 £628 £723
England median daily rate £525 £570 £500
% change year-on-year -7.89% +14.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
England median hourly rate - - £90.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
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 London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Optimisation in London

Cost Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Cost Optimisation in London

Cost Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Cost Optimisation in London

Cost Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
Central London +5 5 £557 +2.26% 1
West London - 3 £409 - 4
South London - 1 £650 -
Cost Optimisation
England

Cost Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 8 (9.09%) Confluence
2 2 (2.27%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.14%) Apache
3 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.27%) assyst
1 2 (2.27%) Shopify
2 1 (1.14%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 40 (45.45%) Azure
2 32 (36.36%) AWS
3 27 (30.68%) GCP
4 15 (17.05%) Serverless
5 14 (15.91%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (14.77%) SaaS
7 12 (13.64%) IaaS
7 12 (13.64%) PaaS
8 11 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (11.36%) GitHub
10 7 (7.95%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (6.82%) Entra ID
11 6 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (6.82%) Power Platform
12 5 (5.68%) Azure Functions
12 5 (5.68%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (4.55%) Azure AKS
13 4 (4.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 4 (4.55%) Snowflake
14 3 (3.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.50%) VPN
2 10 (11.36%) Firewall
3 3 (3.41%) Kerberos
3 3 (3.41%) NAS
3 3 (3.41%) SAN
3 3 (3.41%) TCP/IP
3 3 (3.41%) VLAN
4 2 (2.27%) DNS
4 2 (2.27%) DSL
4 2 (2.27%) HTTP
4 2 (2.27%) SNMP
5 1 (1.14%) BGP
5 1 (1.14%) DHCP
5 1 (1.14%) MPLS
5 1 (1.14%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.09%) Data Lake
2 6 (6.82%) Power BI
3 5 (5.68%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.41%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.41%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.27%) Looker
6 2 (2.27%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.27%) Redis
6 2 (2.27%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (2.27%) Sybase ASE
6 2 (2.27%) Tableau
7 1 (1.14%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.14%) Cloudera CDH
7 1 (1.14%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.14%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (1.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (10.23%) Jenkins
2 8 (9.09%) JIRA
3 3 (3.41%) TeamCity
4 2 (2.27%) CircleCI
4 2 (2.27%) Git
4 2 (2.27%) GitLab
4 2 (2.27%) JMeter
4 2 (2.27%) Terragrunt
5 1 (1.14%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.14%) Serena SBM
5 1 (1.14%) Subversion
General
1 34 (38.64%) Social Skills
2 32 (36.36%) Finance
3 20 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.23%) Banking
4 9 (10.23%) Marketing
5 8 (9.09%) Retail
6 7 (7.95%) Financial Institution
7 4 (4.55%) Legal
8 3 (3.41%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.27%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.14%) Billing
10 1 (1.14%) Digital Health
10 1 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (19.32%) Architect
2 12 (13.64%) Senior
3 11 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
4 10 (11.36%) Developer
5 8 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
5 8 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (7.95%) Analyst
6 7 (7.95%) Project Manager
6 7 (7.95%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 6 (6.82%) SailPoint Developer
7 6 (6.82%) Technical Manager
7 6 (6.82%) Technical Project Manager
8 5 (5.68%) Cloud Architect
8 5 (5.68%) Financial Analyst
8 5 (5.68%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Azure Architect
9 4 (4.55%) GCP Architect
9 4 (4.55%) Site Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 3 (3.41%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.82%) SailPoint
2 5 (5.68%) ARM Templates
2 5 (5.68%) Kafka
3 4 (4.55%) GraphQL
4 3 (3.41%) REST
4 3 (3.41%) SOAP
5 2 (2.27%) LDAP
5 2 (2.27%) Middleware
5 2 (2.27%) Prisma
5 2 (2.27%) PySpark
5 2 (2.27%) RESTful
5 2 (2.27%) VML
6 1 (1.14%) Akka
6 1 (1.14%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.14%) JSON
6 1 (1.14%) Play Framework
6 1 (1.14%) Serverless Framework
6 1 (1.14%) TypeORM
6 1 (1.14%) Web Services
6 1 (1.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.95%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (7.95%) Onboarding
3 6 (6.82%) Management Information System
4 5 (5.68%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (4.55%) CMDB
5 4 (4.55%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.41%) BYOD
6 3 (3.41%) Clustering
6 3 (3.41%) Replication
7 2 (2.27%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (2.27%) FMCG
7 2 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.27%) Private Cloud
7 2 (2.27%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.14%) Fixed Income
8 1 (1.14%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.55%) Linux
1 4 (4.55%) Windows
2 2 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (2.27%) Solaris
2 2 (2.27%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.14%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (1.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (29.55%) DevOps
2 24 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
3 23 (26.14%) Migration
4 21 (23.86%) Artificial Intelligence
5 19 (21.59%) CI/CD
5 19 (21.59%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (19.32%) Agile
6 17 (19.32%) FinOps
7 16 (18.18%) Cloud Security
8 14 (15.91%) Analytics
8 14 (15.91%) Cost Management
9 13 (14.77%) Containerisation
9 13 (14.77%) ETL
9 13 (14.77%) RBAC
10 11 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (11.36%) Collaborative Working
11 10 (11.36%) Disaster Recovery
12 9 (10.23%) Decision-Making
12 9 (10.23%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 16 (18.18%) Python
2 11 (12.50%) Bicep
3 9 (10.23%) Java
4 8 (9.09%) SQL
5 7 (7.95%) JavaScript
6 6 (6.82%) BeanShell
6 6 (6.82%) PowerShell
7 5 (5.68%) Bash
8 3 (3.41%) C#
9 2 (2.27%) Go
9 2 (2.27%) Scala
9 2 (2.27%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.14%) Perl
10 1 (1.14%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.14%) Ruby
10 1 (1.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (15.91%) Azure Certification
2 9 (10.23%) Degree
3 7 (7.95%) Master's Degree
3 7 (7.95%) Security Cleared
4 6 (6.82%) SC Cleared
5 4 (4.55%) AWS Certification
5 4 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.27%) SnowPro
6 2 (2.27%) Tableau Certification
6 2 (2.27%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.14%) CCNA
7 1 (1.14%) CCNP
7 1 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.14%) CISSP
7 1 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.14%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.14%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.09%) GDPR
2 6 (6.82%) Data Quality
3 5 (5.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.41%) PCI DSS
4 3 (3.41%) QA
4 3 (3.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.14%) HIPAA
System Software
1 16 (18.18%) Docker
2 6 (6.82%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.27%) vSphere
5 1 (1.14%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 21 (23.86%) Kubernetes
2 19 (21.59%) Terraform
3 6 (6.82%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (5.68%) Ansible
5 2 (2.27%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (2.27%) EMC NetWorker
5 2 (2.27%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.27%) Puppet
5 2 (2.27%) Salt
5 2 (2.27%) Tivoli
5 2 (2.27%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 1 (1.14%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (1.14%) Control-M
6 1 (1.14%) Data Guard
6 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 1 (1.14%) Nagios
6 1 (1.14%) Netcool
6 1 (1.14%) QRadar
Vendors
1 16 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 14 (15.91%) Google
3 9 (10.23%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.55%) Oracle
4 4 (4.55%) VMware
5 3 (3.41%) Databricks
5 3 (3.41%) IBM
5 3 (3.41%) Qualys
5 3 (3.41%) SAP
5 3 (3.41%) Splunk
5 3 (3.41%) Sybase
6 2 (2.27%) Adobe
6 2 (2.27%) CyberArk
6 2 (2.27%) Dell
6 2 (2.27%) EMC
6 2 (2.27%) New Relic
6 2 (2.27%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.27%) Serena
6 2 (2.27%) Sitecore
7 1 (1.14%) BMC