Cost Reduction Contracts in the North of England

Cost Reduction
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 158 187
Rank change year-on-year 0 +29 +33
Contract jobs citing Cost Reduction 9 28 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.27% 0.60% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.71% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 11 6
10th Percentile £381 £400 £509
25th Percentile £419 £434 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £560 £650
Median % change year-on-year -12.72% -13.85% +20.15%
75th Percentile £559 £623 £769
90th Percentile £597 £638 £788
England median daily rate £500 £600 £538
% change year-on-year -16.67% +11.63% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £32.15 - -
25th Percentile £33.09 - -
Median hourly rate £36.06 - -
75th Percentile £40.42 - -
90th Percentile £42.20 - -
England median hourly rate £36.06 £31.80 -
% change year-on-year +13.38% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,980 3,971 5,062
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.62% 85.53% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,918 2,420 3,499
10th Percentile £263 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £557 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 365 201
10th Percentile £13.50 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.51 £12.50 £15.72
Median hourly rate £26.28 £17.72 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year +48.29% -36.67% +46.32%
75th Percentile £57.17 £45.00 £44.50
90th Percentile £82.01 £59.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -21.23% +1.39% +44.00%

Cost Reduction
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Reduction in the North of England

Cost Reduction
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Cost Reduction in the North of England

Cost Reduction
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Reduction in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Reduction in the North of England

Cost Reduction
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cost Reduction in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Cost Reduction in the North of England

Cost Reduction
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 Reduction within the North of England region over the 6 months to 17 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
North West +5 7 £489 -20.85% 18
Yorkshire +10 2 - - 10
Cost Reduction
England

Cost Reduction
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 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) ShareGate
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Grunt
1 1 (11.11%) gulp
1 1 (11.11%) Jasmine
1 1 (11.11%) Mocha
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
1 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Applications Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Consultant
1 2 (22.22%) Network Manager
1 2 (22.22%) Network Services Manager
1 2 (22.22%) Security Consultant
1 2 (22.22%) Service Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Business Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Business Systems Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Front-End Developer
2 1 (11.11%) SharePoint Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Software Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) CSS
1 1 (11.11%) HTML
1 1 (11.11%) HTML5
1 1 (11.11%) jQuery
1 1 (11.11%) Mustache
1 1 (11.11%) Node.js
1 1 (11.11%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Blockchain
1 2 (22.22%) Data Structures
1 2 (22.22%) IoT
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) Roadmaps
2 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 3 (33.33%) Migration
3 3 (33.33%) Service Design
4 2 (22.22%) Commercial Awareness
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (22.22%) Information Security
4 2 (22.22%) IT Strategy
4 2 (22.22%) Machine Learning
4 2 (22.22%) Microservices
4 2 (22.22%) Product Management
4 2 (22.22%) Programme Management
4 2 (22.22%) Scorecard
4 2 (22.22%) SDLC
4 2 (22.22%) SOA
4 2 (22.22%) Software License Management
4 2 (22.22%) Transition Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Java
1 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (11.11%) NIST
1 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
1 1 (11.11%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) TOWER Software
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Nintex