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

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 311 351 445
Rank change year-on-year +40 +94 +90
Contract jobs citing Cost Reduction 37 36 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.30% 0.21% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.23% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 29 13
10th Percentile £378 £423 £216
25th Percentile £463 £500 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £658 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.35% +31.51% -11.11%
75th Percentile £684 £769 £590
90th Percentile £808 £815 £975
England median daily rate £500 £600 £544
% change year-on-year -16.67% +10.34% -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 11,393 15,485 23,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.20% 88.60% 90.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,687 11,108 17,072
10th Percentile £350 £340 £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 £681 £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 184 308 267
10th Percentile £16.04 £15.81 £18.30
25th Percentile £22.86 £20.00 £22.45
Median hourly rate £33.00 £27.92 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year +18.19% -25.23% +2.55%
75th Percentile £50.50 £48.75 £63.88
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.83 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.41 £36.50 £36.54
% change year-on-year -22.16% -0.11% +46.16%

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 21 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 21 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 +9 4 £638 +10.87% 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 (16.22%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (16.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.70%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Shopify
2 1 (2.70%) SAP EWM
2 1 (2.70%) SAP GTS
2 1 (2.70%) SAP IBP
2 1 (2.70%) SAP MM
2 1 (2.70%) SAP PP
2 1 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.70%) SAP SCM
2 1 (2.70%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (27.03%) Azure
2 9 (24.32%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (16.22%) Entra ID
4 5 (13.51%) GCP
4 5 (13.51%) Power Platform
5 4 (10.81%) AWS
5 4 (10.81%) Azure Functions
5 4 (10.81%) Azure Logic Apps
5 4 (10.81%) OneDrive
5 4 (10.81%) Serverless
6 2 (5.41%) BigCommerce
6 2 (5.41%) Cloud Run
6 2 (5.41%) Datadog
6 2 (5.41%) GitHub
6 2 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (5.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (5.41%) SaaS
6 2 (5.41%) Snowflake
6 2 (5.41%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) DSL
1 2 (5.41%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.51%) Power BI
2 2 (5.41%) Big Data
2 2 (5.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (5.41%) CircleCI
1 2 (5.41%) ERwin
1 2 (5.41%) Jenkins
1 2 (5.41%) JMeter
1 2 (5.41%) Terragrunt
General
1 19 (51.35%) Social Skills
2 18 (48.65%) Finance
3 7 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (18.92%) Marketing
3 7 (18.92%) Public Sector
4 5 (13.51%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (10.81%) Banking
5 4 (10.81%) Retail
6 3 (8.11%) Electronics
6 3 (8.11%) Manufacturing
6 3 (8.11%) Telecoms
7 2 (5.41%) Legal
7 2 (5.41%) Military
8 1 (2.70%) French Language
8 1 (2.70%) German Language
8 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.70%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 8 (21.62%) Architect
2 6 (16.22%) Consultant
3 5 (13.51%) Analyst
4 4 (10.81%) Business Analyst
4 4 (10.81%) Data Business Analyst
4 4 (10.81%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 4 (10.81%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Data Analyst
5 3 (8.11%) IT Manager
5 3 (8.11%) Lead
5 3 (8.11%) Security Consultant
5 3 (8.11%) Senior
6 2 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Data Consultant
6 2 (5.41%) Exchange Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) GCP Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Market Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Market Data Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (5.41%) GraphQL
2 2 (5.41%) Kafka
2 2 (5.41%) VML
2 2 (5.41%) Web Services
3 1 (2.70%) HTML
3 1 (2.70%) JSON
3 1 (2.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Onboarding
2 3 (8.11%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (8.11%) Social Media
3 2 (5.41%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.41%) FMCG
4 1 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.70%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.70%) IoT
4 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) Shadow IT
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.11%) Windows
2 2 (5.41%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (24.32%) Cost Optimisation
3 8 (21.62%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (21.62%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (18.92%) Roadmaps
4 7 (18.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 6 (16.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (16.22%) Contract Negotiation
5 6 (16.22%) Data Analysis
5 6 (16.22%) Identity Access Management
5 6 (16.22%) Identity Management
5 6 (16.22%) Process Improvement
6 5 (13.51%) Actionable Insight
6 5 (13.51%) Decision-Making
7 4 (10.81%) Collaborative Working
7 4 (10.81%) Cost Transparency
7 4 (10.81%) Data Loss Prevention
7 4 (10.81%) IT Strategy
7 4 (10.81%) Storage Management
7 4 (10.81%) Supplier Relationship Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (16.22%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.70%) Go
2 1 (2.70%) Python
2 1 (2.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (16.22%) Degree
2 3 (8.11%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.41%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.70%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.70%) PMP
4 1 (2.70%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) Accessibility
1 3 (8.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (8.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 3 (8.11%) NIST
1 3 (8.11%) PCI DSS
2 2 (5.41%) GDPR
2 2 (5.41%) QA
3 1 (2.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (18.92%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (8.11%) Kubernetes
1 3 (8.11%) Terraform
2 2 (5.41%) Ansible
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (5.41%) Progress Chef
2 2 (5.41%) Puppet
2 2 (5.41%) Salt
Vendors
1 11 (29.73%) Microsoft
2 6 (16.22%) SAP
3 3 (8.11%) Salesforce
4 2 (5.41%) Adobe
4 2 (5.41%) Google
4 2 (5.41%) New Relic
4 2 (5.41%) Sitecore
5 1 (2.70%) Bloomberg
5 1 (2.70%) Zscaler