Cost Optimisation Contracts in the North of England

Cost Optimization
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Cost Optimisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cost Optimisation over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 183 214 225
Rank change year-on-year +31 +11 -46
Contract jobs citing Cost Optimisation 7 5 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.15% 0.086% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.095% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 6
10th Percentile £500 £483 £441
25th Percentile £631 £494 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £662 £588
Median % change year-on-year +0.08% +12.68% -2.08%
75th Percentile £834 £839 £700
90th Percentile £888 £843 -
England median daily rate £570 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +14.00% -9.09% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Cost Optimisation 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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,110 5,288 6,359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.80% 90.70% 88.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,521 3,674 4,657
10th Percentile £288 £303 £240
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 356 207 261
10th Percentile £11.04 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.48 £15.25 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.61 £27.70 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.43% +49.73% -
75th Percentile £44.24 £45.05 £32.77
90th Percentile £53.88 £65.00 £50.78
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

Cost Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Cost Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Cost Optimisation in the North of England

Cost Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cost Optimisation in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Cost Optimisation in the North of England

Cost Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Optimisation in the North of England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Optimisation in the North of England

Cost Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
North West - 6 £675 - 7
Yorkshire +21 1 £625 +28.21% 5
Cost Optimisation
England

Cost Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (28.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) GCP
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) BigQuery
1 1 (14.29%) Looker
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket
1 2 (28.57%) GitLab
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) DevOps Platform Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Head of Engineering
1 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
1 4 (57.14%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) API Design
3 2 (28.57%) Budget Management
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
3 2 (28.57%) Data Migration
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Identity Management
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 2 (28.57%) Microservices
3 2 (28.57%) Security Operations
4 1 (14.29%) Cost Management
4 1 (14.29%) FinOps
4 1 (14.29%) Resource Allocation
4 1 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (14.29%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Go
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) LookML
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (28.57%) NIST
1 2 (28.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Atlassian
1 2 (28.57%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Facebook
2 1 (14.29%) Instagram
2 1 (14.29%) VMware