Cost Reduction Contracts

Cost Reduction
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 479 580 594
Rank change year-on-year +101 +14 -29
Contract jobs citing Cost Reduction 109 115 248
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.20% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.23% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 42 134
10th Percentile £426 £147 £361
25th Percentile £525 £403 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £753 £638 £647
90th Percentile £815 £773 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £500 £425
% change year-on-year +15.00% +17.65% -17.07%
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 - £25.75
75th Percentile £60.75 - £43.05
90th Percentile £68.12 - £49.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.50 - £16.00
% change year-on-year - - -37.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,749 50,370 79,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 89.70% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,629 34,859 55,702
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £486
% change year-on-year - +2.87% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,511 1,675 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% +44.08% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%

Cost Reduction
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Reduction in the UK

Cost Reduction
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cost Reduction in the UK

Cost Reduction
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Reduction over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Reduction in the UK

Cost Reduction
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Cost Reduction in the UK

Cost Reduction
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cost Reduction over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cost Reduction in the UK

Cost Reduction
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 29 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
England +109 102 £600 +6.67% 224
UK excluding London +63 64 £575 +15.00% 171
Work from Home +130 36 £588 +11.90% 76
London +81 35 £675 +20.00% 53
North of England +32 25 £575 -11.54% 38
Midlands - 21 £575 - 37
West Midlands - 20 £575 - 27
North West +25 17 £628 +4.58% 22
South West +10 6 £350 - 27
Yorkshire +12 5 £432 -42.40% 10
Scotland +25 4 - - 11
East of England +7 4 £560 +9.27% 20
South East -1 4 £663 +29.90% 31
North East +11 2 - - 7
East Midlands - 1 - - 10

Cost Reduction
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (5.50%) nginx
2 5 (4.59%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.67%) Apache Solr
4 2 (1.83%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.83%) Traefik
5 1 (0.92%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 5 (4.59%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (2.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.92%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (16.51%) AWS
2 11 (10.09%) GCP
3 9 (8.26%) Azure
4 5 (4.59%) SaaS
5 4 (3.67%) Apigee
5 4 (3.67%) Google Analytics
5 4 (3.67%) PaaS
6 3 (2.75%) OCI
6 3 (2.75%) Serverless
7 2 (1.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (1.83%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.83%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.83%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.83%) GitHub
7 2 (1.83%) Google Tag Manager
7 2 (1.83%) IaaS
7 2 (1.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.92%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.92%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.92%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.42%) DNS
2 6 (5.50%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.67%) HTTPS
3 4 (3.67%) IPsec
4 3 (2.75%) Firewall
4 3 (2.75%) SSL
4 3 (2.75%) VPN
5 1 (0.92%) PBX
5 1 (0.92%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.67%) Couchbase
1 4 (3.67%) MySQL
1 4 (3.67%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.75%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (2.75%) BigQuery
3 2 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (1.83%) Big Data
3 2 (1.83%) Hadoop
3 2 (1.83%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (0.92%) Azkaban
4 1 (0.92%) Metadata
4 1 (0.92%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.92%) Power BI
4 1 (0.92%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.92%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (4.59%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.75%) Git
2 3 (2.75%) GitLab
2 3 (2.75%) gulp
2 3 (2.75%) Maven
3 1 (0.92%) RStudio
General
1 41 (37.61%) Finance
2 31 (28.44%) Social Skills
3 30 (27.52%) Public Sector
4 17 (15.60%) Law
5 11 (10.09%) Legal
6 9 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (5.50%) Billing
7 6 (5.50%) Manufacturing
8 5 (4.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (3.67%) Local Government
10 3 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.75%) Military
10 3 (2.75%) Retail
10 3 (2.75%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.92%) Banking
11 1 (0.92%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.92%) Marketing
11 1 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (13.76%) Architect
2 14 (12.84%) Analyst
3 12 (11.01%) IT Manager
3 12 (11.01%) Senior
4 10 (9.17%) Consultant
5 9 (8.26%) Vendor Manager
6 8 (7.34%) Commercial Manager
6 8 (7.34%) Lead
7 7 (6.42%) Business Analyst
7 7 (6.42%) Technical Architect
8 6 (5.50%) Buyer
8 6 (5.50%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (5.50%) IT Buyer
9 5 (4.59%) IT Consultant
9 5 (4.59%) Procurement Consultant
9 5 (4.59%) Project Manager
10 4 (3.67%) Designer
10 4 (3.67%) Enterprise Architect
10 4 (3.67%) Hardware Engineer
10 4 (3.67%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.42%) Node.js
2 4 (3.67%) JSON
2 4 (3.67%) LEMP Stack
2 4 (3.67%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (3.67%) YAML
3 3 (2.75%) .NET
3 3 (2.75%) OAuth
3 3 (2.75%) OpenID
3 3 (2.75%) RESTful
3 3 (2.75%) SAML
4 2 (1.83%) cloud-init
4 2 (1.83%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.92%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.92%) Kafka
5 1 (0.92%) Middleware
5 1 (0.92%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.76%) Data Centre
2 12 (11.01%) Management Information System
3 8 (7.34%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.59%) PKI
5 4 (3.67%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.75%) Clustering
6 3 (2.75%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.83%) CCTV
7 2 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.83%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.83%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.83%) Robotics
7 2 (1.83%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.92%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.92%) IoT
8 1 (0.92%) Life Science
8 1 (0.92%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.92%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.50%) Android
1 6 (5.50%) Apple iOS
1 6 (5.50%) CentOS
1 6 (5.50%) Linux
2 5 (4.59%) Windows
3 4 (3.67%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.75%) VMS
5 2 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (19.27%) Agile
1 21 (19.27%) Roadmaps
2 16 (14.68%) Stakeholder Management
3 14 (12.84%) Configuration Management
3 14 (12.84%) Decision-Making
3 14 (12.84%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (11.01%) Business Strategy
4 12 (11.01%) CI/CD
4 12 (11.01%) DevOps
4 12 (11.01%) Project Management
5 10 (9.17%) Analytics
5 10 (9.17%) Migration
5 10 (9.17%) Programme Management
6 9 (8.26%) Process Improvement
6 9 (8.26%) Product Roadmap
6 9 (8.26%) SDLC
7 8 (7.34%) Business Case
7 8 (7.34%) Collaborative Working
7 8 (7.34%) Strategic Thinking
8 7 (6.42%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 8 (7.34%) Python
2 5 (4.59%) Java
2 5 (4.59%) JavaScript
2 5 (4.59%) SQL
3 4 (3.67%) Bash
3 4 (3.67%) PHP
3 4 (3.67%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.75%) Go
5 2 (1.83%) R
5 2 (1.83%) Ruby
6 1 (0.92%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 33 (30.28%) Security Cleared
2 25 (22.94%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.26%) Degree
4 8 (7.34%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 2 (1.83%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.92%) CCNP
7 1 (0.92%) CISSP
7 1 (0.92%) CRISC
7 1 (0.92%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.92%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.92%) MCSE
7 1 (0.92%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.92%) PMP
7 1 (0.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.34%) QA
2 7 (6.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (5.50%) NIST
4 4 (3.67%) GDPR
4 4 (3.67%) HIPAA
5 3 (2.75%) PMO
6 2 (1.83%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.83%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (1.83%) NCSC
6 2 (1.83%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.92%) GxP
7 1 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (3.67%) Active Directory
1 4 (3.67%) Firmware
1 4 (3.67%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.83%) Docker
4 1 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (10.09%) Ansible
2 9 (8.26%) Kubernetes
3 7 (6.42%) Terraform
4 3 (2.75%) Data Guard
4 3 (2.75%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.83%) Consul
5 2 (1.83%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (1.83%) Graphite
5 2 (1.83%) HAProxy
5 2 (1.83%) Istio
5 2 (1.83%) linkerd
5 2 (1.83%) Packer
5 2 (1.83%) Podman
5 2 (1.83%) Puppet
5 2 (1.83%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.92%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.92%) Grafana
6 1 (0.92%) Rundeck
6 1 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.92%) vRealize
Vendors
1 15 (13.76%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.01%) Google
3 4 (3.67%) Oracle
4 3 (2.75%) CA
4 3 (2.75%) Databricks
4 3 (2.75%) SAP
4 3 (2.75%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.75%) Splunk
4 3 (2.75%) VMware
5 2 (1.83%) BiZZdesign
5 2 (1.83%) CyberArk
5 2 (1.83%) PagerDuty
5 2 (1.83%) Panasonic
5 2 (1.83%) Teradata
6 1 (0.92%) BEA
6 1 (0.92%) Ericsson
6 1 (0.92%) Hyperion
6 1 (0.92%) Juniper
6 1 (0.92%) Nokia
6 1 (0.92%) TOWER Software