Cost Optimisation Contracts in London

Cost Optimization
England > London

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 350 448 534
Rank change year-on-year +98 +86 -77
Contract jobs citing Cost Optimisation 43 45 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.25% 0.18% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.19% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 21 29
10th Percentile £368 £403 £513
25th Percentile £500 £475 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £713
90th Percentile £628 £725 £771
England median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £90.00 -
England median hourly rate - £90.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,473 23,264 35,752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.29% 90.93% 92.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,093 16,856 26,215
10th Percentile £340 £375 £394
25th Percentile £449 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 265 402
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.49 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +9.86% +8.07%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £68.08 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

Cost Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Cost Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Cost Optimisation in London

Cost Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cost Optimisation in London.

Daily rate trend for Cost Optimisation in London

Cost Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Optimisation in London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Optimisation in London

Cost Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cost Optimisation within the London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Central London +36 3 £525 - 1
Cost Optimisation
England

Cost Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 5 (11.63%) Confluence
2 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.33%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (6.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.33%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 29 (67.44%) Azure
2 18 (41.86%) AWS
3 15 (34.88%) GCP
4 7 (16.28%) IaaS
4 7 (16.28%) PaaS
4 7 (16.28%) SaaS
5 6 (13.95%) Nutanix
6 5 (11.63%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (11.63%) Rubrik
7 3 (6.98%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (4.65%) Entra ID
8 2 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (2.33%) Cloud Run
9 1 (2.33%) Cloudflare
9 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
9 1 (2.33%) Salesforce Einstein
9 1 (2.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (18.60%) Firewall
2 6 (13.95%) DHCP
2 6 (13.95%) DNS
2 6 (13.95%) TCP/IP
2 6 (13.95%) VLAN
3 5 (11.63%) Kerberos
3 5 (11.63%) NAS
3 5 (11.63%) SAN
4 3 (6.98%) WAN
5 2 (4.65%) 4G
5 2 (4.65%) 5G
5 2 (4.65%) Internet
5 2 (4.65%) LAN
5 2 (4.65%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (2.33%) BGP
6 1 (2.33%) OSPF
6 1 (2.33%) SD-WAN
6 1 (2.33%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (2.33%) VoIP
6 1 (2.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.33%) BigQuery
1 1 (2.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (2.33%) Power BI
1 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (13.95%) Jenkins
1 6 (13.95%) JIRA
2 5 (11.63%) Git
2 5 (11.63%) TeamCity
3 1 (2.33%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 16 (37.21%) Social Skills
2 14 (32.56%) Finance
3 8 (18.60%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (18.60%) Telecoms
4 3 (6.98%) Manufacturing
4 3 (6.98%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (4.65%) Banking
5 2 (4.65%) Dutch Language
6 1 (2.33%) Billing
6 1 (2.33%) Front Office
6 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (18.60%) Cloud Engineer
2 6 (13.95%) Consultant
3 5 (11.63%) Analyst
3 5 (11.63%) Architect
3 5 (11.63%) Senior
4 4 (9.30%) Senior Consultant
4 4 (9.30%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (6.98%) FMCG Manager
5 3 (6.98%) Lead
5 3 (6.98%) SAP Manager
6 2 (4.65%) Administrator
6 2 (4.65%) Business Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (4.65%) Cloud Consultant
6 2 (4.65%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.65%) Data Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) ICT Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) Operations Analyst
7 1 (2.33%) Desktop Support
7 1 (2.33%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.63%) LDAP
2 2 (4.65%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.28%) Replication
2 5 (11.63%) Clustering
2 5 (11.63%) Public Cloud
3 4 (9.30%) Management Information System
4 3 (6.98%) Cloud Native
4 3 (6.98%) FMCG
5 2 (4.65%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.33%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (16.28%) Linux
2 6 (13.95%) Windows
3 5 (11.63%) Oracle Linux
3 5 (11.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (11.63%) Solaris
3 5 (11.63%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (27.91%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (25.58%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (23.26%) Agile
3 10 (23.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (20.93%) DevOps
5 8 (18.60%) DevSecOps
5 8 (18.60%) FinOps
5 8 (18.60%) Root Cause Analysis
6 7 (16.28%) Analytics
6 7 (16.28%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (16.28%) High Availability
7 6 (13.95%) Artificial Intelligence
7 6 (13.95%) Data Security
7 6 (13.95%) Deployment Automation
7 6 (13.95%) Project Management
7 6 (13.95%) Vulnerability Management
8 5 (11.63%) Containerisation
8 5 (11.63%) Decision-Making
8 5 (11.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (11.63%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (18.60%) PowerShell
2 6 (13.95%) Bash
3 5 (11.63%) Python
4 2 (4.65%) SQL
5 1 (2.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 9 (20.93%) Azure Certification
2 5 (11.63%) Degree
3 3 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (6.98%) PMI Certification
3 3 (6.98%) PMP
3 3 (6.98%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.98%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.65%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.65%) CCNA
4 2 (4.65%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (4.65%) CISM
4 2 (4.65%) CISSP
5 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (2.33%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.95%) GDPR
2 5 (11.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (6.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (4.65%) QA
4 2 (4.65%) SLA
5 1 (2.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (2.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 16 (37.21%) Docker
2 9 (20.93%) Active Directory
3 8 (18.60%) Hyper-V
4 6 (13.95%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (4.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (41.86%) Terraform
2 17 (39.53%) Kubernetes
3 5 (11.63%) Ansible
3 5 (11.63%) EMC NetWorker
3 5 (11.63%) Netcool
3 5 (11.63%) Tivoli
3 5 (11.63%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 1 (2.33%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (2.33%) Matomo
Vendors
1 22 (51.16%) Microsoft
2 14 (32.56%) VMware
3 7 (16.28%) Cisco
4 5 (11.63%) CyberArk
4 5 (11.63%) Dell
4 5 (11.63%) EMC
4 5 (11.63%) HP
4 5 (11.63%) IBM
4 5 (11.63%) Isilon
4 5 (11.63%) Oracle
4 5 (11.63%) Qualys
4 5 (11.63%) Serena
4 5 (11.63%) ServiceNow
4 5 (11.63%) Splunk
5 3 (6.98%) Google
5 3 (6.98%) SAP
6 1 (2.33%) Avaya
6 1 (2.33%) Meraki
6 1 (2.33%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.33%) Salesforce