Cost Reduction Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cost Reduction
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 Reduction skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cost Reduction over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 323 394 427
Rank change year-on-year +71 +33 -47
Contract jobs citing Cost Reduction 68 62 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.26% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.29% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 28 42
10th Percentile £403 £146 £309
25th Percentile £525 £213 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £459
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +8.99% +1.94%
75th Percentile £625 £716 £585
90th Percentile £770 £758 £616
UK median daily rate £600 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 8
10th Percentile £30.70 - £12.13
25th Percentile £45.48 - £12.69
Median hourly rate £60.50 - £28.75
75th Percentile £60.75 - £44.77
90th Percentile £68.12 - £52.18
UK median hourly rate £60.50 - £35.50
% change year-on-year - - +39.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,514 21,548 27,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.76% 89.51% 88.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,486 14,951 19,202
10th Percentile £248 £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% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,030 1,307 1,367
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.18 £16.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +80.00% -8.51%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £45.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.98 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

Cost Reduction
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Reduction in the UK excluding London

Cost Reduction
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Cost Reduction in the UK excluding London

Cost Reduction
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Reduction in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Reduction in the UK excluding London

Cost Reduction
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Cost Reduction in the UK excluding London

Cost Reduction
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cost Reduction in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cost Reduction in the UK excluding London

Cost Reduction
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 Reduction within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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 +37 29 £555 -14.62% 40
Midlands +45 22 £575 +155.56% 35
West Midlands +48 21 £575 +155.56% 26
North West +30 20 £618 +2.92% 20
Yorkshire +23 7 £416 -44.53% 15
South West +12 5 £350 -46.15% 19
East of England +10 5 £560 +9.27% 19
Scotland +30 4 - - 9
South East +10 4 £663 +29.90% 34
North East +19 2 - - 5
East Midlands - 1 - - 9
Cost Reduction
UK

Cost Reduction
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 6 (8.82%) nginx
2 4 (5.88%) Apache Solr
3 3 (4.41%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.94%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.94%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.94%) SAP BPC
1 2 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (13.24%) AWS
2 7 (10.29%) GCP
3 3 (4.41%) Apigee
3 3 (4.41%) Azure
4 2 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (2.94%) Google Analytics
4 2 (2.94%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (1.47%) AWS KMS
5 1 (1.47%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (1.47%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.47%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.47%) GitHub
5 1 (1.47%) Google Tag Manager
5 1 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.47%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.47%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.29%) DNS
2 6 (8.82%) TCP/IP
3 4 (5.88%) HTTPS
3 4 (5.88%) IPsec
4 3 (4.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.88%) Couchbase
1 4 (5.88%) MySQL
1 4 (5.88%) NoSQL
2 3 (4.41%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (2.94%) Big Data
3 2 (2.94%) Hadoop
3 2 (2.94%) Power BI
3 2 (2.94%) SAP HANA
3 2 (2.94%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.47%) Azkaban
4 1 (1.47%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.47%) Metadata
4 1 (1.47%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.47%) SAP BW
4 1 (1.47%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (7.35%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.41%) gulp
2 3 (4.41%) Maven
3 2 (2.94%) Git
3 2 (2.94%) GitLab
4 1 (1.47%) RStudio
General
1 27 (39.71%) Finance
2 18 (26.47%) Public Sector
2 18 (26.47%) Social Skills
3 13 (19.12%) Law
4 8 (11.76%) Manufacturing
5 5 (7.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.88%) Legal
7 3 (4.41%) Military
8 2 (2.94%) Billing
8 2 (2.94%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.47%) Banking
9 1 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (14.71%) Analyst
1 10 (14.71%) Consultant
1 10 (14.71%) IT Manager
2 9 (13.24%) Vendor Manager
3 8 (11.76%) Commercial Manager
4 6 (8.82%) Buyer
4 6 (8.82%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (8.82%) IT Buyer
4 6 (8.82%) Senior
5 5 (7.35%) IT Consultant
5 5 (7.35%) Procurement Consultant
6 4 (5.88%) Business Analyst
6 4 (5.88%) Designer
6 4 (5.88%) Hardware Engineer
6 4 (5.88%) Lead
6 4 (5.88%) Security Consultant
7 3 (4.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Project Manager
8 2 (2.94%) Procurement Manager
8 2 (2.94%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.88%) JSON
1 4 (5.88%) LEMP Stack
1 4 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (5.88%) YAML
2 3 (4.41%) .NET
2 3 (4.41%) Node.js
2 3 (4.41%) OAuth
2 3 (4.41%) OpenID
2 3 (4.41%) RESTful
2 3 (4.41%) SAML
3 2 (2.94%) cloud-init
4 1 (1.47%) Kafka
4 1 (1.47%) Middleware
4 1 (1.47%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.59%) Data Centre
2 13 (19.12%) Management Information System
3 5 (7.35%) PKI
4 4 (5.88%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.41%) Clustering
5 3 (4.41%) Mobile App
5 3 (4.41%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.94%) Life Science
6 2 (2.94%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.94%) Operational Technology
6 2 (2.94%) Robotics
7 1 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.47%) FMCG
7 1 (1.47%) IoT
7 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.47%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.82%) CentOS
1 6 (8.82%) Linux
2 3 (4.41%) Android
2 3 (4.41%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.47%) Windows
4 1 (1.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (19.12%) Configuration Management
2 11 (16.18%) Decision-Making
3 10 (14.71%) Agile
3 10 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (14.71%) Process Improvement
4 9 (13.24%) Analytics
4 9 (13.24%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (11.76%) Information Security
5 8 (11.76%) Roadmaps
5 8 (11.76%) SDLC
6 7 (10.29%) CI/CD
6 7 (10.29%) DevOps
6 7 (10.29%) Project Management
7 6 (8.82%) Migration
8 5 (7.35%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (7.35%) Data Management
8 5 (7.35%) Line Management
8 5 (7.35%) Microservices
8 5 (7.35%) Visualisation
9 4 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.76%) Python
2 4 (5.88%) PHP
2 4 (5.88%) SQL
3 3 (4.41%) Bash
3 3 (4.41%) Java
3 3 (4.41%) JavaScript
3 3 (4.41%) R
4 2 (2.94%) Go
4 2 (2.94%) Ruby
5 1 (1.47%) Julia
5 1 (1.47%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (19.12%) Security Cleared
2 12 (17.65%) Degree
3 11 (16.18%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.41%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.47%) CISSP
5 1 (1.47%) CRISC
5 1 (1.47%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.47%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.47%) MCSE
5 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.76%) QA
2 7 (10.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (10.29%) NIST
3 4 (5.88%) GDPR
3 4 (5.88%) HIPAA
4 3 (4.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (4.41%) PCI DSS
5 2 (2.94%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (2.94%) GxP
5 2 (2.94%) NCSC
5 2 (2.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.47%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.47%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (5.88%) Firmware
2 2 (2.94%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.94%) Docker
2 2 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (13.24%) Ansible
2 6 (8.82%) Kubernetes
2 6 (8.82%) Terraform
3 2 (2.94%) Consul
3 2 (2.94%) Docker Swarm
3 2 (2.94%) Graphite
3 2 (2.94%) HAProxy
3 2 (2.94%) Istio
3 2 (2.94%) linkerd
3 2 (2.94%) Packer
3 2 (2.94%) Podman
3 2 (2.94%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.94%) Puppet
3 2 (2.94%) ZABBIX
4 1 (1.47%) CA Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.47%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (1.47%) SCCM
4 1 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (14.71%) Google
2 8 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.82%) SAP
4 4 (5.88%) Databricks
5 3 (4.41%) CA
6 2 (2.94%) Hyperion
6 2 (2.94%) PagerDuty
6 2 (2.94%) Splunk
6 2 (2.94%) Teradata
6 2 (2.94%) VMware
7 1 (1.47%) BEA
7 1 (1.47%) Cognizant
7 1 (1.47%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.47%) Oracle
7 1 (1.47%) ServiceNow