Cost Optimisation Contracts in the West Midlands

Cost Optimization
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 109 136 173
Rank change year-on-year +27 +37 -46
Contract jobs citing Cost Optimisation 3 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.15% 0.17% 0.028%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.19% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% +5.56% -
England median daily rate £570 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +14.00% -9.09% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,632 2,114 3,192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.08% 88.67% 90.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,080 1,452 2,354
10th Percentile £275 £263 £270
25th Percentile £375 £401 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £512 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +5.03% +16.42%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £694 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 45 69
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%
75th Percentile £41.13 £23.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.75 £51.25 £22.05
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

Cost Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Optimisation in the West Midlands

Cost Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cost Optimisation in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Cost Optimisation in the West Midlands

Cost Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Warwickshire - 2 - - 1
Coventry - 1 £350 - 1
Cost Optimisation
England

Cost Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Test Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Test Leader
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Tester
1 1 (33.33%) Test Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Test Leader
1 1 (33.33%) Tester
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Testing
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
1 3 (100.00%) Kibana