Cost Optimisation Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cost Optimization
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 318 445 540
Rank change year-on-year +127 +95 -78
Contract jobs citing Cost Optimisation 34 25 94
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.22% 0.097% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.11% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 56
10th Percentile £445 £425 £425
25th Percentile £500 £466 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £650
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -23.08% +30.00%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £703
90th Percentile £615 £600 £750
UK median daily rate £575 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £90.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £90.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,505 23,232 40,651
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.83% 89.84% 91.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,015 16,421 29,503
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.03%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 532 547
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £24.25 £30.54 £19.96
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.23 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

Cost Optimisation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cost Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cost Optimisation trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cost Optimisation
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cost Optimisation.

Cost Optimisation daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cost Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cost Optimisation over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Cost Optimisation daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cost Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 10 (29.41%) Confluence
2 2 (5.88%) Apache
2 2 (5.88%) nginx
2 2 (5.88%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (8.82%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 27 (79.41%) Azure
2 19 (55.88%) AWS
3 13 (38.24%) GCP
4 9 (26.47%) PaaS
5 7 (20.59%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (20.59%) IaaS
5 7 (20.59%) Nutanix
5 7 (20.59%) Rubrik
5 7 (20.59%) SaaS
6 2 (5.88%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.94%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (2.94%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 8 (23.53%) DNS
2 7 (20.59%) DHCP
2 7 (20.59%) Firewall
2 7 (20.59%) Kerberos
2 7 (20.59%) NAS
2 7 (20.59%) SAN
2 7 (20.59%) TCP/IP
2 7 (20.59%) VLAN
3 2 (5.88%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (2.94%) 4G
4 1 (2.94%) 5G
4 1 (2.94%) LTE
4 1 (2.94%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) Couchbase
1 2 (5.88%) NoSQL
1 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (29.41%) JIRA
2 9 (26.47%) Git
3 7 (20.59%) Jenkins
3 7 (20.59%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.94%) GitLab
General
1 10 (29.41%) Finance
2 7 (20.59%) Social Skills
3 5 (14.71%) Telecoms
4 3 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Billing
6 1 (2.94%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.94%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 8 (23.53%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (11.76%) Consultant
3 3 (8.82%) FMCG Manager
3 3 (8.82%) SAP Manager
3 3 (8.82%) Senior
4 2 (5.88%) Analyst
4 2 (5.88%) Architect
4 2 (5.88%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (5.88%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Project Manager
4 2 (5.88%) Security Manager
4 2 (5.88%) Security Project Manager
4 2 (5.88%) Senior Consultant
4 2 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.88%) Technical Manager
4 2 (5.88%) Technical Project Manager
5 1 (2.94%) Business Analyst
5 1 (2.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.59%) LDAP
2 2 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (5.88%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (2.94%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (23.53%) Replication
2 7 (20.59%) Clustering
3 5 (14.71%) Public Cloud
4 3 (8.82%) FMCG
5 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
5 2 (5.88%) Management Information System
5 2 (5.88%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (29.41%) Linux
2 8 (23.53%) Windows
2 8 (23.53%) Windows Server
3 7 (20.59%) Oracle Linux
3 7 (20.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (20.59%) Solaris
4 2 (5.88%) CentOS
4 2 (5.88%) Ubuntu
4 2 (5.88%) VMS
5 1 (2.94%) Android
5 1 (2.94%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.94%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (41.18%) Agile
2 13 (38.24%) DevOps
3 12 (35.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 10 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (26.47%) Disaster Recovery
5 9 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (26.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 8 (23.53%) DevSecOps
6 8 (23.53%) Vulnerability Management
7 7 (20.59%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (20.59%) Data Security
7 7 (20.59%) Deployment Automation
7 7 (20.59%) High Availability
7 7 (20.59%) Performance Tuning
7 7 (20.59%) Root Cause Analysis
7 7 (20.59%) Security Hardening
7 7 (20.59%) Service Catalogue
7 7 (20.59%) Storage Management
8 5 (14.71%) AOP
8 5 (14.71%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (29.41%) Python
2 9 (26.47%) Bash
2 9 (26.47%) PowerShell
3 3 (8.82%) Go
4 2 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (29.41%) Azure Certification
2 3 (8.82%) PMI Certification
2 3 (8.82%) PMP
3 2 (5.88%) Degree
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (20.59%) GDPR
1 7 (20.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.94%) NIST
2 1 (2.94%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (55.88%) Docker
2 9 (26.47%) Hyper-V
2 9 (26.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (20.59%) Active Directory
4 2 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.94%) vCloud
5 1 (2.94%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.94%) VMware NSX
5 1 (2.94%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (2.94%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (58.82%) Terraform
2 19 (55.88%) Kubernetes
3 11 (32.35%) Ansible
4 7 (20.59%) EMC NetWorker
4 7 (20.59%) Netcool
4 7 (20.59%) Tivoli
4 7 (20.59%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 2 (5.88%) Grafana
5 2 (5.88%) Prometheus
5 2 (5.88%) ZABBIX
6 1 (2.94%) Matomo
Vendors
1 17 (50.00%) VMware
2 16 (47.06%) Microsoft
3 7 (20.59%) Cisco
3 7 (20.59%) CyberArk
3 7 (20.59%) Dell
3 7 (20.59%) EMC
3 7 (20.59%) HP
3 7 (20.59%) IBM
3 7 (20.59%) Isilon
3 7 (20.59%) Oracle
3 7 (20.59%) Qualys
3 7 (20.59%) Serena
3 7 (20.59%) ServiceNow
3 7 (20.59%) Splunk
4 3 (8.82%) SAP
5 1 (2.94%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.94%) Citrix
5 1 (2.94%) Facebook
5 1 (2.94%) Instagram