Cost Reduction Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cost Reduction
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 318 385 426
Rank change year-on-year +67 +41 -41
Contract jobs citing Cost Reduction 67 59 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.26% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.29% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 26 40
10th Percentile £404 £146 £213
25th Percentile £525 £240 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +11.11% -9.55%
75th Percentile £625 £691 £575
90th Percentile £768 £763 £620
UK median daily rate £600 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +17.07% -6.82% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 8
10th Percentile £30.70 - £12.13
25th Percentile £45.48 - £12.69
Median hourly rate £60.50 - £28.75
75th Percentile £60.75 - £44.77
90th Percentile £68.12 - £52.18
UK median hourly rate £60.50 - £35.50
% change year-on-year - - +39.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,112 20,583 27,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.30% 89.45% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,220 14,187 18,951
10th Percentile £250 £258 £235
25th Percentile £381 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,064 1,254 1,350
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.74 £61.52
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Cost Reduction
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cost Reduction as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cost Reduction in the UK excluding London

Cost Reduction
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cost Reduction in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Cost Reduction in the UK excluding London

Cost Reduction
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Reduction in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Reduction in the UK excluding London

Cost Reduction
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cost Reduction in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Cost Reduction in the UK excluding London

Cost Reduction
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cost Reduction in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cost Reduction in the UK excluding London

Cost Reduction
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
North of England +35 28 £560 -13.85% 36
Midlands +43 21 £575 +155.56% 35
West Midlands +42 20 £575 +155.56% 26
North West +24 19 £618 +2.92% 22
Yorkshire +14 6 £416 -44.53% 7
South West +7 6 £350 - 23
East of England +4 5 £560 +9.27% 23
Scotland +36 4 - - 10
South East +25 4 £663 +29.90% 36
North East +12 2 - - 7
East Midlands - 1 - - 9
Cost Reduction
UK

Cost Reduction
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (8.96%) nginx
2 4 (5.97%) Apache Solr
3 3 (4.48%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.99%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.99%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (5.97%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.99%) SAP BPC
1 2 (2.99%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (11.94%) AWS
2 7 (10.45%) GCP
3 3 (4.48%) Apigee
3 3 (4.48%) Azure
4 2 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (2.99%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (2.99%) Google Analytics
4 2 (2.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.49%) AWS KMS
5 1 (1.49%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (1.49%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.49%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.49%) GitHub
5 1 (1.49%) Google Tag Manager
5 1 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.49%) PaaS
5 1 (1.49%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.49%) SaaS
5 1 (1.49%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.45%) DNS
2 6 (8.96%) TCP/IP
3 4 (5.97%) HTTPS
3 4 (5.97%) IPsec
4 3 (4.48%) SSL
5 1 (1.49%) PBX
5 1 (1.49%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.97%) Couchbase
1 4 (5.97%) MySQL
1 4 (5.97%) NoSQL
2 3 (4.48%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (2.99%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (2.99%) Big Data
3 2 (2.99%) Hadoop
3 2 (2.99%) SAP HANA
3 2 (2.99%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.49%) Azkaban
4 1 (1.49%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.49%) Metadata
4 1 (1.49%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.49%) Power BI
4 1 (1.49%) SAP BW
4 1 (1.49%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (7.46%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.48%) gulp
2 3 (4.48%) Maven
3 2 (2.99%) Git
3 2 (2.99%) GitLab
4 1 (1.49%) RStudio
General
1 26 (38.81%) Finance
2 19 (28.36%) Public Sector
3 18 (26.87%) Social Skills
4 13 (19.40%) Law
5 7 (10.45%) Manufacturing
6 5 (7.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (5.97%) Legal
8 3 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (4.48%) Billing
8 3 (4.48%) Military
9 2 (2.99%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (2.99%) Retail
10 1 (1.49%) Banking
10 1 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.49%) Marketing
10 1 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (14.93%) Consultant
1 10 (14.93%) IT Manager
2 9 (13.43%) Vendor Manager
3 8 (11.94%) Analyst
3 8 (11.94%) Commercial Manager
4 6 (8.96%) Buyer
4 6 (8.96%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (8.96%) IT Buyer
4 6 (8.96%) Senior
5 5 (7.46%) IT Consultant
5 5 (7.46%) Procurement Consultant
6 4 (5.97%) Designer
6 4 (5.97%) Hardware Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Lead
6 4 (5.97%) Security Consultant
7 3 (4.48%) Business Analyst
7 3 (4.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Project Manager
8 2 (2.99%) Principal Consultant
8 2 (2.99%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.97%) JSON
1 4 (5.97%) LEMP Stack
1 4 (5.97%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (5.97%) YAML
2 3 (4.48%) .NET
2 3 (4.48%) Node.js
2 3 (4.48%) OAuth
2 3 (4.48%) OpenID
2 3 (4.48%) RESTful
2 3 (4.48%) SAML
3 2 (2.99%) cloud-init
4 1 (1.49%) Kafka
4 1 (1.49%) Middleware
4 1 (1.49%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.90%) Data Centre
2 12 (17.91%) Management Information System
3 5 (7.46%) PKI
4 4 (5.97%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.48%) Clustering
5 3 (4.48%) Mobile App
5 3 (4.48%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.99%) Life Science
6 2 (2.99%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.99%) Operational Technology
6 2 (2.99%) Robotics
7 1 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.49%) Blackberry
7 1 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.49%) FMCG
7 1 (1.49%) IoT
7 1 (1.49%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.49%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.49%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.96%) CentOS
1 6 (8.96%) Linux
2 3 (4.48%) Android
2 3 (4.48%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.49%) Windows
4 1 (1.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (19.40%) Configuration Management
2 11 (16.42%) Decision-Making
2 11 (16.42%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (14.93%) Agile
3 10 (14.93%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (11.94%) Analytics
4 8 (11.94%) Information Security
4 8 (11.94%) Process Improvement
4 8 (11.94%) Roadmaps
4 8 (11.94%) SDLC
5 7 (10.45%) CI/CD
5 7 (10.45%) DevOps
5 7 (10.45%) Migration
6 6 (8.96%) Project Management
7 5 (7.46%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (7.46%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (7.46%) Data Management
7 5 (7.46%) Microservices
8 4 (5.97%) Line Management
8 4 (5.97%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.45%) Python
2 4 (5.97%) PHP
3 3 (4.48%) Bash
3 3 (4.48%) Java
3 3 (4.48%) JavaScript
3 3 (4.48%) SQL
4 2 (2.99%) Go
4 2 (2.99%) R
4 2 (2.99%) Ruby
5 1 (1.49%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (20.90%) Security Cleared
2 11 (16.42%) SC Cleared
3 10 (14.93%) Degree
4 4 (5.97%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.49%) CCNP
6 1 (1.49%) CISSP
6 1 (1.49%) CRISC
6 1 (1.49%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.49%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.49%) MCSE
6 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.94%) QA
2 7 (10.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (10.45%) NIST
3 4 (5.97%) GDPR
3 4 (5.97%) HIPAA
4 3 (4.48%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (4.48%) PCI DSS
5 2 (2.99%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (2.99%) GxP
5 2 (2.99%) NCSC
5 2 (2.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.49%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.49%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (5.97%) Firmware
2 3 (4.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.99%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.99%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (13.43%) Ansible
2 6 (8.96%) Kubernetes
2 6 (8.96%) Terraform
3 2 (2.99%) Consul
3 2 (2.99%) Docker Swarm
3 2 (2.99%) Graphite
3 2 (2.99%) HAProxy
3 2 (2.99%) Istio
3 2 (2.99%) linkerd
3 2 (2.99%) Packer
3 2 (2.99%) Podman
3 2 (2.99%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.99%) Puppet
3 2 (2.99%) ZABBIX
4 1 (1.49%) CA Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.49%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (1.49%) SCCM
4 1 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (13.43%) Google
2 8 (11.94%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.97%) SAP
4 3 (4.48%) CA
4 3 (4.48%) Databricks
4 3 (4.48%) VMware
5 2 (2.99%) Hyperion
5 2 (2.99%) PagerDuty
5 2 (2.99%) Splunk
5 2 (2.99%) Teradata
6 1 (1.49%) Avaya
6 1 (1.49%) BEA
6 1 (1.49%) Cisco
6 1 (1.49%) Cognizant
6 1 (1.49%) Ericsson
6 1 (1.49%) Juniper
6 1 (1.49%) Nokia
6 1 (1.49%) Oracle
6 1 (1.49%) Ribbon
6 1 (1.49%) ServiceNow