18 of 18 Contract Cost Optimisation Jobs in the UK

Junior IT Procurement Manager

Hiring Organisation
NRL Recruitment
Location
Dartford, Kent, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
recruiting for a Junior IT Procurement Manager in Dartford to support IT Procurement activities across hardware, software, and SaaS, ensuring compliance, cost optimisation, and vendor relationship management. Key Responsibilities Review, analyse, draft, and revise IT vendor agreements to align with business and legal expectations. Determine and negotiate … multiple disciplines simultaneously. Resilient and adaptable when facing challenges. A genuine interest in IT and related technologies. Desirable Skills Experience in cost optimisation or IT governance functions. Familiarity with software licensing and SaaS lifecycle management. The NRL Group connect global companies with the right people to bring ...

Lead Azure Databricks Platform Engineer / Architect

Hiring Organisation
TXP
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
£500 - £501 per day
platform controls, and enhancing the Databricks Discovery Zone to support workloads currently delivered through POSIT/RStudio. Key Responsibilities 1. Databricks Serverless Enablement and Optimisation Assess existing workloads and determine suitability for Serverless, classic, job or interactive compute based on duration, utilisation, SLA, concurrency, performance and cost. Enable … Implement compute policies, autoscaling, quotas, budget controls and operational guardrails. Measure cost and performance outcomes, identify idle or oversized compute, and recommend optimisation actions. 2. FinOps and Enterprise Platform Controls Define and embed a practical FinOps operating model covering ownership, accountability, projects, environments, teams, applications and cost ...

Senior Systems Engineer - Secure Cloud & Infrastructure

Hiring Organisation
CBSbutler Holdings Limited trading as CBSbutler
Location
Reading, Berkshire, Great Lea Common, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£65 - £71/hour
Defined Networking (SDN). Knowledge of Zero Trust Architecture principles. Experience with service mesh technologies such as Istio. Knowledge of cloud cost optimisation and FinOps principles. Experience with edge or distributed computing architectures. Experience supporting infrastructure transformation and cloud migration programmes. Qualifications A Bachelor's degree ...

Azure DevOps Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Queen Square Recruitment Ltd
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£485/day
GitLab CI/CD or Bamboo. Knowledge of MLOps, Databricks, Snowflake, Kafka/Event Streaming, Ansible or Chef. Knowledge of FinOps and Azure cost optimisation. Experience working within BFSI environments with security and compliance requirements. Familiarity with SonarQube, Nexus, Artifactory, Veracode, Checkmarx or Fortify. If you have ...

Splunk Enterprise/Cloud Administrator

Hiring Organisation
Infoplus Technologies UK Ltd
Location
Manchester, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP Annual
simplification of operational processes Ensure adherence to security, compliance, and audit requirements Contribute to service improvement initiatives, including reliability, resilience, and cost optimisation Deliver optimisation for monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions to support critical applications and services Participate in on-call/24x7 support rota where ...

AWS Platform Architect, Harness, Hybrid

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson Recruitment
Location
South West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£800 - £850 per day
This is a key contract role focused on defining AWS architecture standards, driving cloud adoption, and ensuring platforms remain secure, scalable, resilient and cost-effective. You'll work closely with Engineering, Security and Operations teams, acting as the technical authority for cloud architecture and platform strategy. Key Responsibilities … strategy and standards. Develop cloud roadmaps, blueprints and architectural patterns. Design secure, scalable and resilient cloud platforms. Drive governance, compliance and cost optimisation across the AWS estate. Support cloud-native and hybrid cloud initiatives. Champion Infrastructure as Code, automation and DevOps best practices. Support the development ...

Senior AWS Platform Engineer (AI Platform)

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson Recruitment
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£550 - £600 per day
governance knowledge - identity management, policy-as-code, and compliance standards (ISO, SOC, GDPR) in a regulated setting Proven track record designing scalable, resilient, cost-efficient AWS solutions in complex enterprise environments Strong analytical and decision-making skills , and the ability to explain technical concepts clearly to technical … engineering standards, and embed golden paths that simplify and standardise how we build and run services Enable automation, reliability and cost optimisation at scale - treating infrastructure, pipelines and policy as code Mentor and support engineers, influence technical direction, and work across teams to deliver cloud-native solutions ...

Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Experis
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£750 - £830/day
systems in production environments. Experience architecting, developing, and deploying distributed training pipelines for large models with PyTorch or TensorFlow. Expertise in performance optimization, cost optimization, and efficient compute resource management in cloud environments. Experience running production services at scale, including defining and working to service-level objectives (SLOs ...

GCP Developer

Hiring Organisation
LA International Computer Consultants Ltd
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP 495 Daily
production environments. * In-depth Google Cloud development experience - architecting, building, deploying, and operating production cloud-native workloads using core GCP services; understanding cost optimization and security best practices * Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery - designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and deployment strategies * Advanced understanding ...

AWS Security & Cloud Architect

Hiring Organisation
Third Nexus Group Limited
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£400 - £450/day
Expertise AWS WAF Amazon CloudFront AWS Shield Advanced Amazon Athena Amazon S3 Amazon CloudWatch Amazon Kinesis Firehose AWS Lambda API Security Cost Optimisation Cloud Engineering AWS CDK CloudFormation Terraform CI/CD Pipelines Security & Networking Web Application Security Bot Management API Security DDoS Protection Data & Analytics ...

Microsoft Power Platform CoPilot Architect

Hiring Organisation
Ixceed Solutions Ltd
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Functions Storage Key Vault Event GridService Bus Knowledge of RAG design chunking strategies embeddings hybrid search rerankers Proficient in CICD IaC observability and cost optimization for LLM workloads Job Description Role Overview We are seeking an experienced Microsoft Copilot Studio Power Platform Architect with strong hands on expertise ...

ITAM Architect

Hiring Organisation
Experis
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£500 - £580/day
processes, and tooling. The role ensures effective management of hardware, software, cloud, and digital assets throughout their lifecycle while supporting compliance, cost optimisation, operational efficiency, and business transformation initiatives. The ITAM Architect serves as the technical authority for ITAM solutions and works closely with Infrastructure, Security, Procurement … processes support auditability and regulatory compliance. Software Asset Management Define software licensing and entitlement management strategies. Support software compliance programmes and vendor audits. Drive optimisation initiatives to reduce software spend. Establish software reclamation and licence harvesting processes. Hardware Asset Management Define standards for hardware inventory and lifecycle control. Implement ...

Databricks Lead Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Anson Mccade
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Databricks-native ingestion approaches such as AutoLoader and/or Lakeflow Connect • Strong PySpark and SQL skills • Delta Lake experience, including MERGE, schema evolution, optimisation and performance tuning • Experience with Databricks Workflows and production pipeline orchestration • Strong understanding of CI/CD, testing, monitoring, alerting, incident triage and operational … Vector Search, model serving or RAG pipelines • Lakeflow ingestion connectors • Row-level security, column masking and sensitive data handling through Unity Catalog • Databricks performance optimisation, including Photon, cluster sizing, partitioning and shuffle/skew mitigation • Cost optimisation and understanding of Databricks compute and DBU drivers This ...

Interim Technology Services Manager

Hiring Organisation
Morgan Law
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£65000 - £70000/annum
trusted advisor and business partner for SMT and other colleagues, providing expertise, identifying opportunities and delivering solutions for modernisation, automation, and cost optimisation across the organisation. Approve the purchase of any new software or online services ensuring that they meet the needs of the colleagues who will … them and are secure, appropriately supported, adhere to our technology standards, and are cost-effective Experience needed: Strong experience managing and developing a technology infrastructure for a similar organisation Extensive experience of technology procurement and supplier management Good understanding of technologies relevant, particularly Microsoft 365, Microsoft Intune, Entra ...

Infrastructure System Engineer

Hiring Organisation
VIQU IT Recruitment
Location
County Durham, North East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Amazon Web Services (AWS). Manage AWS core services including EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, Route 53, and RDS. Monitor cloud security, compliance, and cost optimization using AWS native tools. Troubleshoot AWS networking, security groups, and hybrid cloud connectivity (VPN/Direct Connect). We are looking for thefollowing ...

Infrastructure System Engineer

Hiring Organisation
VIQU IT
Location
Sunderland, Tyne & Wear, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£400 - £450/day Outside IR35
Amazon Web Services (AWS). Manage AWS core services including EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, Route 53, and RDS. Monitor cloud security, compliance, and cost optimization using AWS native tools. Troubleshoot AWS networking, security groups, and hybrid cloud connectivity (VPN/Direct Connect). We are looking for thefollowing ...

Interim FP&A Manager

Hiring Organisation
Walker Hamill
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
From £400 to £500 per day
highlight trends, risks, and opportunities across Group and site performance. Prepare high-quality management information and board-ready reporting for assigned sites and cost centres. Support the month-end close … process by reviewing performance, validating assumptions, and contributing to management accounting outputs. Perform timely ad-hoc analysis to support investment decisions, cost optimisation initiatives, and operational priorities. Partner with finance stakeholders to identify, scope, and deliver enhancements to the Yardi ERP system and FP&A planning tools. ...

Laboratory Procurement Manager 6 month FTC

Hiring Organisation
Hays Procurement Jobs
Location
Cambridgeshire, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£50000 - £60000/annum £50 - 60,000 (6month FTC)
specialist technical categories. Supporting capital expenditure projects and equipment investment programmes. Reviewing existing contracts and maintenance arrangements to identify opportunities for improvement and cost optimisation. Working collaboratively with internal stakeholders to understand future requirements and procurement priorities. Ensuring procurement activity is conducted in accordance with established governance ...