Cost Reduction Contracts in Manchester

Cost Reduction
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for Cost Reduction skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cost Reduction over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 106 134
Rank change year-on-year +20 +28 -37
Contract jobs citing Cost Reduction 10 12 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.66% 0.64% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.69% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £470 -
25th Percentile £738 £509 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £600 £425
Median % change year-on-year +29.17% +41.18% -19.05%
75th Percentile £813 £613 £438
90th Percentile - £620 -
North West median daily rate £618 £600 £450
% change year-on-year +2.92% +33.33% -23.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Cost Reduction is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,316 1,731 2,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.21% 91.68% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 894 1,270 1,807
10th Percentile £316 £318 £263
25th Percentile £407 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £492
Median % change year-on-year - +1.73% +9.22%
75th Percentile £594 £594 £575
90th Percentile £694 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 59 51
10th Percentile £12.43 £16.41 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £25.10 £37.30 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.72% +140.65% -3.13%
75th Percentile £57.50 £46.27 £24.38
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £33.75
North West median hourly rate £21.56 £35.00 £20.49
% change year-on-year -38.41% +70.82% +10.76%

Cost Reduction
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Reduction in Manchester

Cost Reduction
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Cost Reduction in Manchester

Cost Reduction
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Cost Reduction in Manchester

Cost Reduction
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (20.00%) nginx
1 2 (20.00%) Traefik
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) GCP
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) Google Analytics
3 1 (10.00%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
1 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Azkaban
1 1 (10.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (10.00%) Metadata
1 1 (10.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
1 2 (20.00%) GitLab
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) RStudio
General
1 9 (90.00%) Finance
2 8 (80.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (20.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Packager
3 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Governance Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Head of Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Head of Software Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Performance Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Performance Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Service Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior User Researcher
3 1 (10.00%) Service Designer
3 1 (10.00%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) cloud-init
2 1 (10.00%) Kafka
2 1 (10.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Clustering
1 2 (20.00%) PKI
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) CentOS
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Load Balancing
3 2 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) Coaching
4 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (10.00%) Microservices
4 1 (10.00%) Portfolio Management
4 1 (10.00%) Programme Management
4 1 (10.00%) Project Management
4 1 (10.00%) Qualitative Research
4 1 (10.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Bash
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) Go
2 2 (20.00%) Ruby
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) NCSC
2 1 (10.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
1 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Ansible
1 2 (20.00%) Consul
1 2 (20.00%) Docker Swarm
1 2 (20.00%) Graphite
1 2 (20.00%) HAProxy
1 2 (20.00%) Istio
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (20.00%) linkerd
1 2 (20.00%) Packer
1 2 (20.00%) Podman
1 2 (20.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (20.00%) Puppet
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
1 2 (20.00%) ZABBIX
2 1 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) PagerDuty
1 2 (20.00%) Splunk
1 2 (20.00%) VMware
2 1 (10.00%) Google