Cost Optimisation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cost Optimization
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 381 446 467
Rank change year-on-year +65 +21 -59
Contract jobs citing Cost Optimisation 12 13 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.058% 0.054% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.068% 0.060% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 31
10th Percentile £368 £455 £438
25th Percentile £563 £488 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +23.26% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £738 £696 £669
90th Percentile £888 £840 £700
UK median daily rate £575 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% +6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,621 21,550 27,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.74% 89.52% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,547 14,954 19,191
10th Percentile £246 £255 £231
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,041 1,307 1,363
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.25 £16.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +80.00% -7.24%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £46.10
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.98 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

Cost Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cost Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cost Optimisation in the UK excluding London

Cost Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cost Optimisation in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Cost Optimisation in the UK excluding London

Cost Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Optimisation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Optimisation in the UK excluding London

Cost Optimisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cost Optimisation in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Cost Optimisation in the UK excluding London

Cost Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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 of England +31 7 £663 +0.08% 13
North West - 6 £675 - 7
Midlands +27 3 £350 -26.32% 3
West Midlands +27 3 £350 -26.32% 2
Scotland +35 1 - -
Yorkshire +21 1 £625 +28.21% 5
South East +17 1 £675 +22.73% 8
Cost Optimisation
UK

Cost Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) GCP
3 2 (16.67%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (8.33%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) BigQuery
1 1 (8.33%) Looker
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Bitbucket
1 2 (16.67%) GitLab
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Publishing
3 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Head of Engineering
2 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Data Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Performance Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Performance Test Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Performance Tester
3 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Agile
1 4 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (25.00%) Migration
2 3 (25.00%) Performance Testing
3 2 (16.67%) API Design
3 2 (16.67%) Budget Management
3 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 2 (16.67%) Data Migration
3 2 (16.67%) DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) Identity Management
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 2 (16.67%) Microservices
3 2 (16.67%) Security Operations
4 1 (8.33%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (8.33%) Matrix Organization
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Go
1 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) LookML
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (16.67%) NIST
1 2 (16.67%) PCI DSS
2 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Grafana
1 3 (25.00%) Kibana
2 2 (16.67%) Ansible
2 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Atlassian
1 2 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) Facebook
2 1 (8.33%) Instagram
2 1 (8.33%) VMware