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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 248 353 448
Rank change year-on-year +105 +95 +94
Contract jobs citing Cost Optimisation 93 44 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.77% 0.25% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.29% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 21 20
10th Percentile £375 £375 £423
25th Percentile £449 £500 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £700
90th Percentile £723 £625 £727
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
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 11,187 15,413 23,359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.22% 88.53% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,539 11,060 16,862
10th Percentile £350 £343 £375
25th Percentile £431 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £593
Median % change year-on-year - -7.17% +3.04%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 306 269
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.72 £18.40
25th Percentile £23.75 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £31.35 £27.83 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.65% -28.65% +7.11%
75th Percentile £49.75 £48.75 £64.25
90th Percentile £63.45 £66.88 £82.60
England median hourly rate £28.08 £36.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% -2.67% +50.00%

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 23 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 23 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 +6 5 £557 +2.26% 6
South London - 1 £650 - 1
West London - 1 - - 24
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 (8.60%) Confluence
2 3 (3.23%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.15%) Apache
4 1 (1.08%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (9.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.15%) assyst
1 2 (2.15%) Shopify
2 1 (1.08%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 43 (46.24%) Azure
2 36 (38.71%) AWS
3 29 (31.18%) GCP
4 15 (16.13%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (16.13%) Serverless
5 14 (15.05%) AWS CloudFormation
5 14 (15.05%) SaaS
6 13 (13.98%) IaaS
6 13 (13.98%) PaaS
7 11 (11.83%) GitHub
8 9 (9.68%) Power Platform
9 7 (7.53%) Entra ID
9 7 (7.53%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (5.38%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (5.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 5 (5.38%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (4.30%) Snowflake
13 3 (3.23%) Azure Functions
13 3 (3.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.90%) VPN
2 11 (11.83%) Firewall
3 3 (3.23%) Kerberos
3 3 (3.23%) NAS
3 3 (3.23%) SAN
3 3 (3.23%) TCP/IP
3 3 (3.23%) VLAN
4 2 (2.15%) DNS
4 2 (2.15%) DSL
4 2 (2.15%) HTTP
4 2 (2.15%) SNMP
5 1 (1.08%) BGP
5 1 (1.08%) DHCP
5 1 (1.08%) MPLS
5 1 (1.08%) OSPF
5 1 (1.08%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.68%) Power BI
2 8 (8.60%) Data Lake
3 5 (5.38%) MongoDB
3 5 (5.38%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.23%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.15%) Delta Lake
5 2 (2.15%) Looker
5 2 (2.15%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.15%) Power Query
5 2 (2.15%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (2.15%) Sybase ASE
5 2 (2.15%) Tableau
6 1 (1.08%) Big Data
6 1 (1.08%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (1.08%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (1.08%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (11.83%) Jenkins
2 8 (8.60%) JIRA
3 3 (3.23%) TeamCity
4 2 (2.15%) CircleCI
4 2 (2.15%) Git
4 2 (2.15%) GitLab
4 2 (2.15%) JMeter
4 2 (2.15%) Terragrunt
5 1 (1.08%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.08%) MLflow
5 1 (1.08%) Serena SBM
5 1 (1.08%) Subversion
General
1 39 (41.94%) Social Skills
2 38 (40.86%) Finance
3 20 (21.51%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (10.75%) Marketing
5 9 (9.68%) Banking
6 8 (8.60%) Financial Institution
6 8 (8.60%) Retail
7 3 (3.23%) Legal
7 3 (3.23%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.15%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.08%) Billing
9 1 (1.08%) Digital Health
9 1 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (19.35%) Architect
2 14 (15.05%) Senior
3 11 (11.83%) Azure Engineer
4 9 (9.68%) Developer
5 8 (8.60%) Analyst
5 8 (8.60%) Cloud Engineer
5 8 (8.60%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (7.53%) Project Manager
6 7 (7.53%) SailPoint Developer
6 7 (7.53%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 7 (7.53%) Technical Manager
6 7 (7.53%) Technical Project Manager
7 6 (6.45%) Cloud Architect
8 5 (5.38%) Azure Architect
8 5 (5.38%) Financial Analyst
8 5 (5.38%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 4 (4.30%) GCP Architect
9 4 (4.30%) Site Engineer
9 4 (4.30%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 3 (3.23%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.53%) SailPoint
2 6 (6.45%) ARM Templates
3 5 (5.38%) Kafka
4 3 (3.23%) REST
4 3 (3.23%) SOAP
5 2 (2.15%) GraphQL
5 2 (2.15%) JSON
5 2 (2.15%) LDAP
5 2 (2.15%) Middleware
5 2 (2.15%) PySpark
5 2 (2.15%) VML
5 2 (2.15%) YAML
6 1 (1.08%) Akka
6 1 (1.08%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.08%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.08%) Node.js
6 1 (1.08%) Play Framework
6 1 (1.08%) Serverless Framework
6 1 (1.08%) ServiceStack
6 1 (1.08%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.75%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.53%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (7.53%) Onboarding
3 5 (5.38%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (5.38%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.30%) CMDB
4 4 (4.30%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.23%) BYOD
5 3 (3.23%) Clustering
5 3 (3.23%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.23%) Replication
6 2 (2.15%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (2.15%) FMCG
6 2 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.15%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.08%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.08%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.30%) Linux
1 4 (4.30%) Windows
2 2 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (2.15%) Solaris
2 2 (2.15%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.08%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (1.08%) Unix
3 1 (1.08%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (30.11%) DevOps
1 28 (30.11%) Infrastructure as Code
2 25 (26.88%) Migration
3 23 (24.73%) Artificial Intelligence
4 21 (22.58%) CI/CD
4 21 (22.58%) FinOps
5 20 (21.51%) Agile
5 20 (21.51%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (18.28%) Analytics
7 16 (17.20%) Cloud Security
7 16 (17.20%) ETL
8 14 (15.05%) RBAC
9 13 (13.98%) Containerisation
9 13 (13.98%) Stakeholder Management
10 12 (12.90%) Cost Management
11 11 (11.83%) AOP
11 11 (11.83%) Decision-Making
12 10 (10.75%) Collaborative Working
12 10 (10.75%) Disaster Recovery
12 10 (10.75%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 21 (22.58%) Python
2 12 (12.90%) Bicep
3 11 (11.83%) Java
4 9 (9.68%) SQL
5 8 (8.60%) JavaScript
6 7 (7.53%) BeanShell
7 6 (6.45%) PowerShell
8 5 (5.38%) Bash
9 3 (3.23%) C#
10 2 (2.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (2.15%) Go
10 2 (2.15%) Scala
11 1 (1.08%) Perl
11 1 (1.08%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.08%) Ruby
11 1 (1.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (17.20%) Azure Certification
2 10 (10.75%) Degree
3 7 (7.53%) Master's Degree
3 7 (7.53%) Security Cleared
4 6 (6.45%) AWS Certification
4 6 (6.45%) SC Cleared
5 5 (5.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (2.15%) SnowPro
6 2 (2.15%) Tableau Certification
6 2 (2.15%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.08%) CCNA
7 1 (1.08%) CCNP
7 1 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.08%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.08%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.08%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.60%) GDPR
2 6 (6.45%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.23%) PCI DSS
4 3 (3.23%) QA
4 3 (3.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.08%) HIPAA
System Software
1 16 (17.20%) Docker
2 7 (7.53%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.30%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (4.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.15%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.15%) vSphere
5 1 (1.08%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 22 (23.66%) Terraform
2 21 (22.58%) Kubernetes
3 7 (7.53%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (5.38%) Ansible
5 2 (2.15%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (2.15%) EMC NetWorker
5 2 (2.15%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.15%) Puppet
5 2 (2.15%) Salt
5 2 (2.15%) Tivoli
5 2 (2.15%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 1 (1.08%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (1.08%) Control-M
6 1 (1.08%) Data Guard
6 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 1 (1.08%) Nagios
6 1 (1.08%) Netcool
6 1 (1.08%) QRadar
Vendors
1 18 (19.35%) Microsoft
2 14 (15.05%) Google
3 9 (9.68%) ServiceNow
4 5 (5.38%) Oracle
5 4 (4.30%) Databricks
5 4 (4.30%) SAP
5 4 (4.30%) VMware
6 3 (3.23%) IBM
6 3 (3.23%) Qualys
6 3 (3.23%) Splunk
6 3 (3.23%) Sybase
7 2 (2.15%) Adobe
7 2 (2.15%) CyberArk
7 2 (2.15%) Dell
7 2 (2.15%) EMC
7 2 (2.15%) New Relic
7 2 (2.15%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.15%) Serena
7 2 (2.15%) Sitecore
8 1 (1.08%) Rollbar