Cost Optimisation Contracts in Scotland

Cost Optimization
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 127 162 169
Rank change year-on-year +35 +7 -15
Contract jobs citing Cost Optimisation 1 1 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.045% 0.035% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.051% 0.038% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 8
10th Percentile - - £523
25th Percentile - £519 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £538 £573
Median % change year-on-year - -6.11% +14.50%
75th Percentile - £556 £669
90th Percentile - - £725
UK median daily rate £575 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% +6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,967 2,651 3,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.60% 92.63% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,198 1,908 2,312
10th Percentile £229 £263 £240
25th Percentile £400 £408 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £624
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 54 46
10th Percentile £12.36 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.51 £18.35
Median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -55.69% -0.01%
75th Percentile £40.94 £53.75 £49.34
90th Percentile £60.75 £66.09 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

Cost Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Cost Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Cost Optimisation in Scotland

Cost Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cost Optimisation in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Cost Optimisation in Scotland

Cost Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Edinburgh +41 1 - -
Cost Optimisation
UK

Cost Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Statistical Modelling
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker