Cost Reduction Contracts in the Midlands

Cost Reduction
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 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 105 114 -
Rank change year-on-year +9 - -
Contract jobs citing Cost Reduction 12 21 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.61% 0.78% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.95% -
Number of daily rates quoted 11 19 0
10th Percentile - £503 -
25th Percentile £450 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - -
75th Percentile £519 £625 -
90th Percentile £540 £785 -
England median daily rate £500 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,749 2,203 2,852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.29% 81.87% 87.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,148 1,485 2,002
10th Percentile £200 £233 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £468 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% -6.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £551 £595 £597
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 170 101
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.06 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.60 £15.00
Median hourly rate £18.75 £18.00 £22.41
Median % change year-on-year +4.18% -19.68% +28.06%
75th Percentile £25.15 £32.53 £40.25
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £57.50
England median hourly rate £28.08 £36.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% -2.67% +50.00%

Cost Reduction
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Reduction in the Midlands

Cost Reduction
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Cost Reduction in the Midlands

Cost Reduction
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Reduction in the Midlands over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Reduction in the Midlands

Cost Reduction
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Cost Reduction in the Midlands

Cost Reduction
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +3 10 £500 -13.04% 62
East Midlands +12 2 £450 - 41
Cost Reduction
England

Cost Reduction
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Banking
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Architect
2 6 (50.00%) Applications Architect
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Architect
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Solution Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Security Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Apache Axis
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Blockchain
1 4 (33.33%) Data Structures
1 4 (33.33%) IoT
2 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
1 3 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Windows
2 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
2 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Agile
2 7 (58.33%) DevOps
3 6 (50.00%) Microservices
3 6 (50.00%) SOA
3 6 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (33.33%) Architectural Design
5 4 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (33.33%) Interface Catalogue
5 4 (33.33%) Machine Learning
5 4 (33.33%) Migration
5 4 (33.33%) Project Planning
5 4 (33.33%) Roadmaps
5 4 (33.33%) Thought Leadership
6 3 (25.00%) Business Strategy
6 3 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
6 3 (25.00%) Process Improvement
6 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 2 (16.67%) Design Patterns
7 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) C#
1 2 (16.67%) Java
1 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (16.67%) Python
1 2 (16.67%) Ruby
1 2 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) CISSP
2 2 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Ansible
1 3 (25.00%) Opsview
1 3 (25.00%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) PagerDuty