Cost Reduction Contracts in England

Cost Reduction
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 437 547 595
Rank change year-on-year +110 +48 -78
Contract jobs citing Cost Reduction 106 91 185
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.29% 0.19% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.21% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 28 95
10th Percentile £433 £321 £361
25th Percentile £525 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £595 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% +8.18% +11.11%
75th Percentile £753 £716 £638
90th Percentile £815 £783 £733
UK median daily rate £600 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +17.07% -6.82% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile - - £13.25
25th Percentile £30.70 - £14.00
Median hourly rate £31.80 - £35.50
75th Percentile £56.04 - £43.95
90th Percentile £69.92 - £55.83
UK median hourly rate £60.50 - £35.50
% change year-on-year - - +39.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,786 42,433 64,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.49% 89.93% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,644 29,761 45,992
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £443 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,351 1,531 1,717
10th Percentile £12.81 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.57 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.63 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +2.38% +38.82% +11.65%

Cost Reduction
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Cost Reduction as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cost Reduction in England

Cost Reduction
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cost Reduction in England.

Daily rate trend for Cost Reduction in England

Cost Reduction
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Reduction in England over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Reduction in England

Cost Reduction
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cost Reduction in England.

Hourly rate trend for Cost Reduction in England

Cost Reduction
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cost Reduction in England over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cost Reduction in England

Cost Reduction
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
London +78 36 £666 +9.67% 56
North of England +27 25 £560 -13.85% 33
Midlands - 21 £588 - 33
West Midlands - 20 £588 - 22
North West +19 17 £625 +4.17% 18
South West +15 7 £571 - 29
Yorkshire +14 5 £432 -42.40% 10
East of England +5 4 £560 +9.27% 20
South East +2 4 £663 +29.90% 35
North East +13 2 - - 6
East Midlands - 1 - - 11
Cost Reduction
UK

Cost Reduction
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (5.66%) nginx
2 4 (3.77%) Apache Solr
2 4 (3.77%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.89%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.94%) Confluence
4 1 (0.94%) ThingWorx
4 1 (0.94%) Traefik
Applications
1 5 (4.72%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.94%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.94%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (16.98%) AWS
2 10 (9.43%) GCP
3 9 (8.49%) Azure
4 5 (4.72%) SaaS
5 4 (3.77%) Apigee
5 4 (3.77%) Google Analytics
5 4 (3.77%) PaaS
6 3 (2.83%) Google Tag Manager
6 3 (2.83%) OCI
6 3 (2.83%) Serverless
7 2 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.89%) GitHub
7 2 (1.89%) IaaS
8 1 (0.94%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.94%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.94%) Datadog
8 1 (0.94%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.94%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.94%) Stackdriver
8 1 (0.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.66%) DNS
2 5 (4.72%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.77%) HTTPS
3 4 (3.77%) IPsec
4 3 (2.83%) Firewall
4 3 (2.83%) SSL
4 3 (2.83%) VPN
5 1 (0.94%) PBX
5 1 (0.94%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.77%) BigQuery
1 4 (3.77%) Couchbase
1 4 (3.77%) MySQL
1 4 (3.77%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.83%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (1.89%) Big Data
3 2 (1.89%) Hadoop
3 2 (1.89%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (0.94%) Azkaban
4 1 (0.94%) Metadata
4 1 (0.94%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.94%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.94%) Power BI
4 1 (0.94%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.94%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (4.72%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.77%) Git
2 4 (3.77%) GitLab
3 3 (2.83%) gulp
3 3 (2.83%) Maven
4 1 (0.94%) JIRA
4 1 (0.94%) RStudio
4 1 (0.94%) SonarQube
General
1 43 (40.57%) Finance
2 31 (29.25%) Public Sector
2 31 (29.25%) Social Skills
3 17 (16.04%) Law
4 11 (10.38%) Legal
5 10 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (5.66%) Billing
7 5 (4.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.77%) Local Government
9 3 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.83%) Military
9 3 (2.83%) Retail
9 3 (2.83%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.89%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.94%) Banking
11 1 (0.94%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.94%) Marketing
11 1 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 16 (15.09%) Architect
2 14 (13.21%) Analyst
2 14 (13.21%) Senior
3 12 (11.32%) IT Manager
4 11 (10.38%) Consultant
5 9 (8.49%) Vendor Manager
6 8 (7.55%) Commercial Manager
6 8 (7.55%) Lead
7 7 (6.60%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (6.60%) Technical Architect
8 6 (5.66%) Business Analyst
8 6 (5.66%) Buyer
8 6 (5.66%) IT Buyer
9 5 (4.72%) IT Consultant
9 5 (4.72%) Procurement Consultant
9 5 (4.72%) Project Manager
10 4 (3.77%) Designer
10 4 (3.77%) Security Consultant
10 4 (3.77%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (3.77%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.60%) Node.js
2 4 (3.77%) JSON
2 4 (3.77%) LEMP Stack
2 4 (3.77%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (3.77%) YAML
3 3 (2.83%) .NET
3 3 (2.83%) OAuth
3 3 (2.83%) OpenID
3 3 (2.83%) RESTful
3 3 (2.83%) SAML
4 2 (1.89%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.94%) cloud-init
5 1 (0.94%) Kafka
5 1 (0.94%) Middleware
5 1 (0.94%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.15%) Data Centre
2 13 (12.26%) Management Information System
3 9 (8.49%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.77%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.77%) PKI
5 3 (2.83%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.83%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.89%) CCTV
6 2 (1.89%) Clustering
6 2 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.89%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.89%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.89%) Robotics
7 1 (0.94%) Blackberry
7 1 (0.94%) FMCG
7 1 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.94%) IoT
7 1 (0.94%) Life Science
7 1 (0.94%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.94%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.60%) Linux
2 6 (5.66%) Android
2 6 (5.66%) Apple iOS
2 6 (5.66%) Windows
3 5 (4.72%) CentOS
4 4 (3.77%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.83%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (21.70%) Agile
2 20 (18.87%) Roadmaps
3 17 (16.04%) Decision-Making
4 16 (15.09%) Stakeholder Management
5 14 (13.21%) CI/CD
5 14 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (12.26%) DevOps
7 11 (10.38%) Business Strategy
7 11 (10.38%) Migration
7 11 (10.38%) SDLC
8 10 (9.43%) Analytics
8 10 (9.43%) Project Management
9 9 (8.49%) Configuration Management
9 9 (8.49%) Product Roadmap
9 9 (8.49%) Programme Management
10 8 (7.55%) Collaborative Working
10 8 (7.55%) Information Security
10 8 (7.55%) Mentoring
10 8 (7.55%) Technical Leadership
11 7 (6.60%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 9 (8.49%) Python
2 6 (5.66%) SQL
3 5 (4.72%) Java
3 5 (4.72%) JavaScript
4 4 (3.77%) Bash
4 4 (3.77%) PHP
5 3 (2.83%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.83%) R
6 2 (1.89%) Go
7 1 (0.94%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 33 (31.13%) Security Cleared
2 25 (23.58%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.49%) Degree
4 8 (7.55%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.83%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 2 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.94%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.94%) CCNP
7 1 (0.94%) CISSP
7 1 (0.94%) CRISC
7 1 (0.94%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.94%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.94%) MCSE
7 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.94%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.94%) PMP
7 1 (0.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (7.55%) QA
2 7 (6.60%) NIST
3 4 (3.77%) GDPR
3 4 (3.77%) HIPAA
4 3 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (2.83%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.89%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.89%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.89%) PMO
6 1 (0.94%) GxP
6 1 (0.94%) NCSC
6 1 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (3.77%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.83%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.89%) Docker
3 2 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (12.26%) Ansible
2 10 (9.43%) Kubernetes
3 8 (7.55%) Terraform
4 3 (2.83%) Data Guard
5 2 (1.89%) Istio
5 2 (1.89%) Podman
5 2 (1.89%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.89%) vRealize
6 1 (0.94%) Consul
6 1 (0.94%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.94%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.94%) Grafana
6 1 (0.94%) Graphite
6 1 (0.94%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.94%) linkerd
6 1 (0.94%) Packer
6 1 (0.94%) Puppet
6 1 (0.94%) Rundeck
6 1 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.94%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (12.26%) Google
1 13 (12.26%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.77%) Oracle
3 3 (2.83%) CA
3 3 (2.83%) CyberArk
3 3 (2.83%) Databricks
3 3 (2.83%) ServiceNow
3 3 (2.83%) Splunk
4 2 (1.89%) BiZZdesign
4 2 (1.89%) Panasonic
4 2 (1.89%) SAP
4 2 (1.89%) Teradata
4 2 (1.89%) VMware
5 1 (0.94%) Avaya
5 1 (0.94%) BEA
5 1 (0.94%) Cisco
5 1 (0.94%) Cognizant
5 1 (0.94%) Ericsson
5 1 (0.94%) Hyperion
5 1 (0.94%) Juniper