Cost Reduction Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Cost Reduction
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Cost Reduction skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cost Reduction over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 277 306 452
Rank change year-on-year +29 +146 +40
Contract jobs citing Cost Reduction 27 39 25
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.27% 0.25% 0.097%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.29% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 22 15
10th Percentile £463 £439 £472
25th Percentile £500 £525 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £563 £625
Median % change year-on-year +0.09% -10.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £616 £656 £750
90th Percentile £725 £753 £815
UK median daily rate £540 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% +14.29% -4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Cost Reduction falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Cost Reduction
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Cost Reduction as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cost Reduction trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Cost Reduction
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Cost Reduction.

Cost Reduction daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cost Reduction
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Cost Reduction over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Cost Reduction daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cost Reduction
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Cost Reduction.

Cost Reduction hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cost Reduction
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 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.93%) AWS
2 5 (18.52%) Azure
2 5 (18.52%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 3 (11.11%) Yammer
4 2 (7.41%) Entra ID
4 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (3.70%) GCP
5 1 (3.70%) SaaS
5 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (3.70%) Extranet
2 1 (3.70%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) Data Mining
1 3 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (11.11%) Power BI
2 2 (7.41%) MySQL
3 1 (3.70%) Big Data
3 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) GitLab
2 1 (3.70%) Cucumber
2 1 (3.70%) ERwin
2 1 (3.70%) Gatling
2 1 (3.70%) Grunt
2 1 (3.70%) gulp
2 1 (3.70%) Jasmine
2 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.70%) Mocha
General
1 14 (51.85%) Finance
1 14 (51.85%) Social Skills
2 10 (37.04%) Public Sector
3 4 (14.81%) Marketing
4 3 (11.11%) Banking
4 3 (11.11%) Electronics
4 3 (11.11%) Manufacturing
4 3 (11.11%) Telecoms
5 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (7.41%) Italian Language
5 2 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.70%) French Language
6 1 (3.70%) German Language
6 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.70%) Legal
6 1 (3.70%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 5 (18.52%) Senior
2 4 (14.81%) Analyst
2 4 (14.81%) Business Analyst
3 3 (11.11%) Data Analyst
3 3 (11.11%) Data Business Analyst
3 3 (11.11%) Data Scientist
3 3 (11.11%) Developer
3 3 (11.11%) Exchange Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) IT Manager
3 3 (11.11%) Lead
4 2 (7.41%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Credit Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Lead Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Market Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Market Data Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Market Data Business Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) Spring
1 3 (11.11%) Spring Boot
1 3 (11.11%) Web Services
1 3 (11.11%) XML
2 1 (3.70%) CSS
2 1 (3.70%) HTML
2 1 (3.70%) HTML5
2 1 (3.70%) jQuery
2 1 (3.70%) Kafka
2 1 (3.70%) Mustache
2 1 (3.70%) Node.js
2 1 (3.70%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Onboarding
2 3 (11.11%) Algorithms
2 3 (11.11%) NHS
2 3 (11.11%) Public Cloud
2 3 (11.11%) Social Media
3 2 (7.41%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (7.41%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.11%) Linux
1 3 (11.11%) Windows
1 3 (11.11%) Windows 10
2 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (25.93%) Actionable Insight
4 6 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
4 6 (22.22%) Data Analysis
5 5 (18.52%) Agile
5 5 (18.52%) Analytics
5 5 (18.52%) Contract Negotiation
5 5 (18.52%) ETL
6 4 (14.81%) Cost Optimisation
6 4 (14.81%) Cost Transparency
6 4 (14.81%) Decision-Making
6 4 (14.81%) Machine Learning
6 4 (14.81%) Mentoring
6 4 (14.81%) Microservices
6 4 (14.81%) TDD
7 3 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
7 3 (11.11%) Digital Marketing
7 3 (11.11%) Process Improvement
7 3 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.93%) JavaScript
2 5 (18.52%) Java
3 4 (14.81%) SQL
4 3 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 2 (7.41%) Shell Script
5 2 (7.41%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.70%) Go
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) SC Cleared
1 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (7.41%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.70%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (3.70%) GDPR
3 1 (3.70%) GRC
3 1 (3.70%) QA
3 1 (3.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (11.11%) Terraform
2 1 (3.70%) Ansible
2 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.70%) Opsview
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.81%) SAP
3 1 (3.70%) Google
3 1 (3.70%) PagerDuty