Cost Reduction Contracts in London

Cost Reduction
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 307 356 448
Rank change year-on-year +49 +92 +66
Contract jobs citing Cost Reduction 46 35 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.37% 0.20% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.22% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 26 16
10th Percentile £378 £419 £285
25th Percentile £481 £506 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £654 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.05% +18.87% -4.35%
75th Percentile £711 £763 £753
90th Percentile £773 £815 £975
England median daily rate £525 £600 £556
% change year-on-year -12.50% +7.87% +1.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 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 Reduction
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Reduction in London

Cost Reduction
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Cost Reduction in London

Cost Reduction
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Cost Reduction in London

Cost Reduction
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Cost Reduction in London

Cost Reduction
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 Reduction 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 +8 8 £725 +26.09% 2
Cost Reduction
England

Cost Reduction
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 6 (13.04%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (13.04%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (4.35%) Trello
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Shopify
2 1 (2.17%) SAP EWM
2 1 (2.17%) SAP GTS
2 1 (2.17%) SAP IBP
2 1 (2.17%) SAP MM
2 1 (2.17%) SAP PP
2 1 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.17%) SAP SCM
2 1 (2.17%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (21.74%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (19.57%) Azure
3 6 (13.04%) Entra ID
4 5 (10.87%) Serverless
5 4 (8.70%) AWS
5 4 (8.70%) Azure Functions
5 4 (8.70%) Azure Logic Apps
5 4 (8.70%) GCP
5 4 (8.70%) OneDrive
5 4 (8.70%) Power Platform
6 3 (6.52%) SaaS
7 2 (4.35%) Asana
7 2 (4.35%) BigCommerce
7 2 (4.35%) Cloud Run
7 2 (4.35%) Datadog
7 2 (4.35%) GitHub
7 2 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (4.35%) Snowflake
7 2 (4.35%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.35%) DSL
1 2 (4.35%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.70%) Power BI
2 2 (4.35%) Big Data
2 2 (4.35%) MongoDB
2 2 (4.35%) Tableau
3 1 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.17%) MySQL
3 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.35%) CircleCI
2 2 (4.35%) Cucumber
2 2 (4.35%) ERwin
2 2 (4.35%) JMeter
2 2 (4.35%) Terragrunt
3 1 (2.17%) Gatling
3 1 (2.17%) Git
3 1 (2.17%) GitLab
3 1 (2.17%) Jasmine
3 1 (2.17%) JIRA
3 1 (2.17%) JUnit
General
1 24 (52.17%) Finance
2 21 (45.65%) Social Skills
3 12 (26.09%) Public Sector
4 9 (19.57%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (17.39%) Marketing
6 5 (10.87%) Banking
6 5 (10.87%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (8.70%) Electronics
7 4 (8.70%) Manufacturing
7 4 (8.70%) Retail
7 4 (8.70%) Telecoms
8 2 (4.35%) Legal
8 2 (4.35%) Military
9 1 (2.17%) Billing
9 1 (2.17%) French Language
9 1 (2.17%) German Language
9 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (2.17%) Italian Language
9 1 (2.17%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 8 (17.39%) Architect
2 6 (13.04%) Analyst
2 6 (13.04%) Business Analyst
2 6 (13.04%) Consultant
2 6 (13.04%) Senior
3 5 (10.87%) Data Business Analyst
3 5 (10.87%) Lead
4 4 (8.70%) Data Analyst
4 4 (8.70%) IT Manager
4 4 (8.70%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 4 (8.70%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Market Analyst
5 3 (6.52%) Market Data Analyst
5 3 (6.52%) Security Consultant
6 2 (4.35%) Credit Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Data Consultant
6 2 (4.35%) Exchange Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Market Data Business Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Product Manager
6 2 (4.35%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (4.35%) GraphQL
2 2 (4.35%) Kafka
2 2 (4.35%) VML
2 2 (4.35%) Web Services
3 1 (2.17%) HTML
3 1 (2.17%) OpenAPI
3 1 (2.17%) RESTful
3 1 (2.17%) Spring
3 1 (2.17%) Spring Batch
3 1 (2.17%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.17%) Spring Security
3 1 (2.17%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) Onboarding
2 4 (8.70%) Social Media
3 3 (6.52%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.35%) FMCG
4 2 (4.35%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.35%) Shadow IT
5 1 (2.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (2.17%) Fixed Income
5 1 (2.17%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.70%) Windows
2 2 (4.35%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.17%) Linux
3 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (28.26%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (19.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (17.39%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (17.39%) Contract Negotiation
3 8 (17.39%) Cost Optimisation
3 8 (17.39%) Data Analysis
3 8 (17.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 7 (15.22%) Process Improvement
4 7 (15.22%) Roadmaps
5 6 (13.04%) Cost Transparency
5 6 (13.04%) Decision-Making
5 6 (13.04%) Identity Access Management
5 6 (13.04%) Identity Management
6 5 (10.87%) Cloud Security
6 5 (10.87%) DevOps
6 5 (10.87%) ERP
6 5 (10.87%) Programme Management
6 5 (10.87%) Project Management
7 4 (8.70%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.04%) PowerShell
2 2 (4.35%) Java
2 2 (4.35%) SQL
3 1 (2.17%) Bash
3 1 (2.17%) Go
Qualifications
1 7 (15.22%) Degree
2 3 (6.52%) Master's Degree
2 3 (6.52%) SC Cleared
2 3 (6.52%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.35%) Azure Certification
3 2 (4.35%) PMI Certification
3 2 (4.35%) PMP
4 1 (2.17%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.70%) Accessibility
2 3 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 3 (6.52%) NIST
2 3 (6.52%) PCI DSS
2 3 (6.52%) QA
3 2 (4.35%) GDPR
4 1 (2.17%) GRC
4 1 (2.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (17.39%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.35%) Docker
3 1 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (10.87%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.35%) Ansible
2 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (4.35%) Progress Chef
2 2 (4.35%) Puppet
2 2 (4.35%) Salt
2 2 (4.35%) Terraform
3 1 (2.17%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 11 (23.91%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.22%) SAP
3 3 (6.52%) Salesforce
4 2 (4.35%) Adobe
4 2 (4.35%) Google
4 2 (4.35%) New Relic
4 2 (4.35%) Sitecore
4 2 (4.35%) Zscaler
5 1 (2.17%) Bloomberg
5 1 (2.17%) Oracle