Cost Optimisation Contracts in England

Cost Optimization
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Cost Optimisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cost Optimisation over the 6 months leading up to 28 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 494 574 685
Rank change year-on-year +80 +111 -68
Contract jobs citing Cost Optimisation 54 59 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.12% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.14% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 30 57
10th Percentile £375 £424 £470
25th Percentile £494 £475 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £631 £725 £713
90th Percentile £699 £752 £760
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £90.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £90.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Cost Optimisation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,960 42,423 64,744
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.56% 89.84% 90.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,713 29,682 46,147
10th Percentile £304 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £444 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,333 1,542 1,717
10th Percentile £12.79 £11.87 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.06 £16.25 £15.90
Median hourly rate £38.12 £37.50 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.65% +46.03% +14.13%
75th Percentile £61.60 £64.91 £50.85
90th Percentile £73.65 £75.84 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £36.25 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.45% +39.42% +14.89%

Cost Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Optimisation in England

Cost Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Cost Optimisation in England

Cost Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Optimisation in England over the 6 months to 28 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Optimisation in England

Cost Optimisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Cost Optimisation in England

Cost Optimisation
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 Optimisation within the England region over the 6 months to 28 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 +70 38 £550 -8.33% 19
North of England +36 10 £563 -32.55% 3
North West - 7 £675 - 2
Yorkshire +18 3 £450 - 1
South East +15 2 £663 +20.45% 2
Midlands +15 1 £613 - 8
East of England 0 1 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 £613 - 3
Cost Optimisation
UK

Cost Optimisation
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 (11.11%) Confluence
2 3 (5.56%) Apache
2 3 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Chatbot
1 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Cloudability
1 3 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.85%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 29 (53.70%) Azure
2 25 (46.30%) AWS
3 16 (29.63%) GCP
4 6 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (9.26%) IaaS
5 5 (9.26%) PaaS
5 5 (9.26%) SaaS
6 4 (7.41%) Nutanix
6 4 (7.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (5.56%) Amazon S3
7 3 (5.56%) Rubrik
7 3 (5.56%) Snowflake
8 2 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (3.70%) Entra ID
8 2 (3.70%) GitHub
8 2 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (3.70%) Salesforce Einstein
9 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.85%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.11%) DNS
1 6 (11.11%) Firewall
2 4 (7.41%) DHCP
2 4 (7.41%) TCP/IP
2 4 (7.41%) VLAN
3 3 (5.56%) Kerberos
3 3 (5.56%) NAS
3 3 (5.56%) SAN
3 3 (5.56%) WAN
4 2 (3.70%) 4G
4 2 (3.70%) 5G
4 2 (3.70%) Asterisk PBX
4 2 (3.70%) Internet
4 2 (3.70%) LAN
4 2 (3.70%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (3.70%) Softphone
4 2 (3.70%) VoIP
5 1 (1.85%) Network Security
5 1 (1.85%) VPN
5 1 (1.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (5.56%) MySQL
2 1 (1.85%) Power BI
2 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (12.96%) JIRA
2 6 (11.11%) Git
3 4 (7.41%) Jenkins
4 3 (5.56%) TeamCity
5 2 (3.70%) Bitbucket
5 2 (3.70%) GitLab
6 1 (1.85%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 20 (37.04%) Finance
2 19 (35.19%) Social Skills
3 9 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (16.67%) Telecoms
4 5 (9.26%) Manufacturing
5 3 (5.56%) Banking
6 2 (3.70%) Billing
6 2 (3.70%) Dutch Language
6 2 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.70%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.85%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 8 (14.81%) Cloud Engineer
2 7 (12.96%) Analyst
2 7 (12.96%) Architect
2 7 (12.96%) Consultant
2 7 (12.96%) Senior
3 5 (9.26%) Lead
4 4 (7.41%) Senior Consultant
4 4 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (5.56%) Cloud Consultant
5 3 (5.56%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) Enterprise Architect
5 3 (5.56%) FMCG Manager
5 3 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) SAP Manager
6 2 (3.70%) Data Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) Head of Engineering
6 2 (3.70%) ICT Analyst
6 2 (3.70%) Migration Specialist
6 2 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.56%) LDAP
2 2 (3.70%) SailPoint
2 2 (3.70%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.11%) Public Cloud
2 5 (9.26%) Replication
3 4 (7.41%) Management Information System
3 4 (7.41%) Product Ownership
4 3 (5.56%) Clustering
4 3 (5.56%) FMCG
5 2 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.70%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.85%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.85%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.26%) Linux
2 4 (7.41%) Windows
3 3 (5.56%) Oracle Linux
3 3 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (5.56%) Solaris
3 3 (5.56%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (22.22%) Agile
1 12 (22.22%) FinOps
1 12 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (16.67%) DevOps
3 9 (16.67%) Migration
4 8 (14.81%) Analytics
4 8 (14.81%) Computer Science
4 8 (14.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (12.96%) Artificial Intelligence
5 7 (12.96%) Project Management
6 6 (11.11%) CI/CD
6 6 (11.11%) Data Management
6 6 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
6 6 (11.11%) Roadmaps
6 6 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (9.26%) Budget Management
7 5 (9.26%) Customer Service
7 5 (9.26%) Platform Engineering
7 5 (9.26%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 8 (14.81%) PowerShell
1 8 (14.81%) Python
2 7 (12.96%) Bash
3 4 (7.41%) SQL
4 2 (3.70%) Go
Qualifications
1 9 (16.67%) Degree
2 6 (11.11%) Azure Certification
3 4 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (7.41%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.41%) Security Cleared
4 3 (5.56%) AWS Certification
4 3 (5.56%) CCNA
4 3 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (5.56%) PMI Certification
4 3 (5.56%) PMP
5 2 (3.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (3.70%) CISM
5 2 (3.70%) CISSP
6 1 (1.85%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.26%) GDPR
2 3 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (3.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (3.70%) NIST
3 2 (3.70%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.70%) QA
3 2 (3.70%) SLA
4 1 (1.85%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (20.37%) Docker
2 7 (12.96%) Active Directory
2 7 (12.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (7.41%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (22.22%) Terraform
2 11 (20.37%) Kubernetes
3 5 (9.26%) Ansible
4 3 (5.56%) EMC NetWorker
4 3 (5.56%) Netcool
4 3 (5.56%) Tivoli
4 3 (5.56%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 2 (3.70%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (1.85%) Matomo
Vendors
1 17 (31.48%) Microsoft
2 11 (20.37%) VMware
3 6 (11.11%) Cisco
4 5 (9.26%) Google
5 4 (7.41%) ServiceNow
6 3 (5.56%) CyberArk
6 3 (5.56%) Dell
6 3 (5.56%) EMC
6 3 (5.56%) HP
6 3 (5.56%) IBM
6 3 (5.56%) Informatica
6 3 (5.56%) Isilon
6 3 (5.56%) Oracle
6 3 (5.56%) Qualys
6 3 (5.56%) SAP
6 3 (5.56%) Serena
6 3 (5.56%) Splunk
7 2 (3.70%) Avaya
7 2 (3.70%) Salesforce
7 2 (3.70%) Workday