Cost Reduction Contracts in the North West

Cost Reduction
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 140 170
Rank change year-on-year +23 +30 -43
Contract jobs citing Cost Reduction 20 13 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.72% 0.40% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.45% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 3
10th Percentile £543 £470 £415
25th Percentile £571 £509 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 £600 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.92% +33.33% -23.34%
75th Percentile £636 £613 £554
90th Percentile £725 £620 £601
England median daily rate £600 £563 £550
% change year-on-year +6.67% +2.27% +18.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £41.67
Median hourly rate - - £44.45
75th Percentile - - £47.22
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £31.80 - £35.50
% change year-on-year - - +39.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,385 2,910 3,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.32% 90.57% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,526 2,071 2,633
10th Percentile £306 £313 £230
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £589 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 145 164
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.49 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.28 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +10.64%
75th Percentile £45.44 £48.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Cost Reduction
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Reduction in the North West

Cost Reduction
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Cost Reduction in the North West

Cost Reduction
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Reduction in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Reduction in the North West

Cost Reduction
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Cost Reduction in the North West

Cost Reduction
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 27 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
Manchester +14 10 £775 +29.17% 10
Cheshire - 6 £610 - 4
Cost Reduction
England

Cost Reduction
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (10.00%) nginx
1 2 (10.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (10.00%) Traefik
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) SAP BPC
1 1 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) GCP
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (10.00%) Azure
3 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (5.00%) AWS KMS
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub
4 1 (5.00%) Google Analytics
4 1 (5.00%) Google Tag Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) DNS
2 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (10.00%) Big Data
1 2 (10.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (10.00%) Power BI
1 2 (10.00%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (5.00%) Azkaban
2 1 (5.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (5.00%) Metadata
2 1 (5.00%) SAP BW
2 1 (5.00%) SAP HANA
2 1 (5.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Git
1 2 (10.00%) GitLab
1 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) RStudio
General
1 16 (80.00%) Finance
2 13 (65.00%) Public Sector
3 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Military
5 1 (5.00%) Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Consultant
2 4 (20.00%) Analyst
2 4 (20.00%) Security Consultant
2 4 (20.00%) Senior
3 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Principal Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) Principal Security Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Data Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Designer
5 1 (5.00%) Governance Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Head of Software Engineering
5 1 (5.00%) Performance Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Designer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Performance Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Senior User Researcher
5 1 (5.00%) Supply Chain Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) cloud-init
2 1 (5.00%) Kafka
2 1 (5.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) PKI
2 4 (20.00%) Management Information System
3 3 (15.00%) Virtual Team
4 2 (10.00%) Clustering
4 2 (10.00%) Onboarding
5 1 (5.00%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (5.00%) Life Science
5 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
5 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) CentOS
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
1 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Roadmaps
2 5 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 4 (20.00%) Agile
3 4 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
3 4 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (20.00%) Information Security
3 4 (20.00%) SDLC
4 3 (15.00%) Analytics
4 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (15.00%) DevOps
4 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.00%) Risk Management
4 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
4 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (15.00%) Virtual Team Management
5 2 (10.00%) Continuous Deployment
5 2 (10.00%) Data Encryption
5 2 (10.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) Python
2 3 (15.00%) Bash
2 3 (15.00%) SQL
3 2 (10.00%) Go
3 2 (10.00%) R
3 2 (10.00%) Ruby
4 1 (5.00%) Julia
4 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (25.00%) Degree
2 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 3 (15.00%) NIST
1 3 (15.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (10.00%) NCSC
3 1 (5.00%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (5.00%) GxP
3 1 (5.00%) QA
3 1 (5.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
1 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Ansible
1 2 (10.00%) Consul
1 2 (10.00%) Docker Swarm
1 2 (10.00%) Graphite
1 2 (10.00%) HAProxy
1 2 (10.00%) Istio
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (10.00%) linkerd
1 2 (10.00%) Packer
1 2 (10.00%) Podman
1 2 (10.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (10.00%) Puppet
1 2 (10.00%) Terraform
1 2 (10.00%) ZABBIX
2 1 (5.00%) CA Single Sign-On
2 1 (5.00%) SCCM
2 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) CA
2 3 (15.00%) Databricks
3 2 (10.00%) Google
3 2 (10.00%) PagerDuty
3 2 (10.00%) SAP
3 2 (10.00%) Splunk
3 2 (10.00%) Teradata
3 2 (10.00%) VMware
4 1 (5.00%) CyberArk
4 1 (5.00%) Hyperion
4 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow