Cost Reduction Contracts

Cost Reduction
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Cost Reduction skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cost Reduction over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 476 582 609
Rank change year-on-year +106 +27 -24
Contract jobs citing Cost Reduction 108 115 242
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.21% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.23% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 41 130
10th Percentile £432 £146 £363
25th Percentile £525 £400 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +16.50% -6.36% +15.79%
75th Percentile £753 £638 £650
90th Percentile £815 £775 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £500 £459
% change year-on-year +15.00% +8.99% -8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 4
10th Percentile £30.70 - £13.13
25th Percentile £38.09 - £13.69
Median hourly rate £60.50 - £29.98
75th Percentile £60.75 - £48.90
90th Percentile - - £57.81
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.50 - £29.98
% change year-on-year - - +17.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Cost Reduction 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 12 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
England +97 102 £600 +1.69% 227
UK excluding London +34 61 £575 +15.00% 161
London +82 36 £666 +9.67% 64
Work from Home +123 35 £588 +14.08% 72
North of England +17 23 £555 -14.62% 33
Midlands - 21 £588 - 34
West Midlands - 20 £588 - 23
North West +16 15 £595 -0.83% 20
South West +3 7 £571 - 28
Yorkshire +11 5 £432 -42.40% 9
Scotland +40 4 - - 9
South East +9 3 £750 +45.63% 32
East of England +3 3 £560 +9.27% 19
North East +10 2 - - 5
East Midlands - 1 - - 11

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 (5.56%) nginx
2 4 (3.70%) Apache Solr
2 4 (3.70%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.85%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.93%) Confluence
4 1 (0.93%) ThingWorx
4 1 (0.93%) Traefik
Applications
1 5 (4.63%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.93%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.93%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (16.67%) AWS
2 11 (10.19%) GCP
3 10 (9.26%) Azure
4 5 (4.63%) SaaS
5 4 (3.70%) Apigee
5 4 (3.70%) Google Analytics
5 4 (3.70%) PaaS
6 3 (2.78%) Google Tag Manager
6 3 (2.78%) OCI
6 3 (2.78%) Serverless
7 2 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.85%) GitHub
7 2 (1.85%) IaaS
8 1 (0.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.93%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.93%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.93%) Datadog
8 1 (0.93%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.93%) Stackdriver
8 1 (0.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.56%) DNS
2 5 (4.63%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.70%) HTTPS
3 4 (3.70%) IPsec
4 3 (2.78%) Firewall
4 3 (2.78%) SSL
4 3 (2.78%) VPN
5 1 (0.93%) PBX
5 1 (0.93%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.70%) BigQuery
1 4 (3.70%) Couchbase
1 4 (3.70%) MySQL
1 4 (3.70%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.78%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.93%) Azkaban
3 1 (0.93%) Big Data
3 1 (0.93%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.93%) Metadata
3 1 (0.93%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.93%) Power BI
3 1 (0.93%) SAP HANA
3 1 (0.93%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (0.93%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (4.63%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.70%) Git
2 4 (3.70%) GitLab
3 3 (2.78%) gulp
3 3 (2.78%) Maven
4 1 (0.93%) JIRA
4 1 (0.93%) RStudio
4 1 (0.93%) SonarQube
General
1 43 (39.81%) Finance
2 31 (28.70%) Social Skills
3 30 (27.78%) Public Sector
4 17 (15.74%) Law
5 11 (10.19%) Legal
6 10 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (5.56%) Billing
7 6 (5.56%) Manufacturing
8 5 (4.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (3.70%) Local Government
10 3 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.78%) Military
10 3 (2.78%) Retail
10 3 (2.78%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.93%) Banking
11 1 (0.93%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.93%) Marketing
11 1 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 16 (14.81%) Architect
2 14 (12.96%) Senior
3 12 (11.11%) Analyst
3 12 (11.11%) IT Manager
4 11 (10.19%) Consultant
5 9 (8.33%) Vendor Manager
6 8 (7.41%) Commercial Manager
7 7 (6.48%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (6.48%) Lead
7 7 (6.48%) Technical Architect
8 6 (5.56%) Buyer
8 6 (5.56%) IT Buyer
9 5 (4.63%) Business Analyst
9 5 (4.63%) IT Consultant
9 5 (4.63%) Procurement Consultant
9 5 (4.63%) Project Manager
10 4 (3.70%) Hardware Engineer
10 4 (3.70%) Performance Analyst
10 4 (3.70%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (3.70%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.48%) Node.js
2 4 (3.70%) JSON
2 4 (3.70%) LEMP Stack
2 4 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (3.70%) YAML
3 3 (2.78%) .NET
3 3 (2.78%) OAuth
3 3 (2.78%) OpenID
3 3 (2.78%) RESTful
3 3 (2.78%) SAML
4 2 (1.85%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.93%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.93%) cloud-init
5 1 (0.93%) Kafka
5 1 (0.93%) Middleware
5 1 (0.93%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.89%) Data Centre
2 12 (11.11%) Management Information System
3 9 (8.33%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.70%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.70%) PKI
5 3 (2.78%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.85%) CCTV
6 2 (1.85%) Clustering
6 2 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.85%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.85%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.85%) Robotics
6 2 (1.85%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.93%) Blackberry
7 1 (0.93%) FMCG
7 1 (0.93%) IoT
7 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.93%) Life Science
7 1 (0.93%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.93%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.48%) Linux
2 6 (5.56%) Android
2 6 (5.56%) Apple iOS
2 6 (5.56%) Windows
3 5 (4.63%) CentOS
4 4 (3.70%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.78%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (21.30%) Agile
2 20 (18.52%) Roadmaps
3 16 (14.81%) Decision-Making
4 15 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
5 14 (12.96%) CI/CD
5 14 (12.96%) DevOps
5 14 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (12.04%) Configuration Management
7 11 (10.19%) Business Strategy
7 11 (10.19%) Migration
8 10 (9.26%) Project Management
8 10 (9.26%) SDLC
9 9 (8.33%) Analytics
9 9 (8.33%) Process Improvement
9 9 (8.33%) Product Roadmap
9 9 (8.33%) Programme Management
10 8 (7.41%) Collaborative Working
10 8 (7.41%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (7.41%) Line Management
10 8 (7.41%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (8.33%) Python
2 6 (5.56%) SQL
3 5 (4.63%) Java
3 5 (4.63%) JavaScript
4 4 (3.70%) Bash
4 4 (3.70%) PHP
4 4 (3.70%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.78%) R
6 2 (1.85%) Go
7 1 (0.93%) Bicep
7 1 (0.93%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 33 (30.56%) Security Cleared
2 25 (23.15%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.41%) Degree
3 8 (7.41%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.78%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 2 (1.85%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.93%) CCNP
6 1 (0.93%) CISSP
6 1 (0.93%) CRISC
6 1 (0.93%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.93%) MCSE
6 1 (0.93%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.93%) PMP
6 1 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.41%) QA
2 7 (6.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (5.56%) NIST
4 4 (3.70%) GDPR
4 4 (3.70%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.85%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (1.85%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.85%) PMO
6 1 (0.93%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.93%) GxP
6 1 (0.93%) NCSC
6 1 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (4.63%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.70%) Firmware
2 4 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.85%) Docker
3 2 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (12.04%) Ansible
2 10 (9.26%) Kubernetes
3 8 (7.41%) Terraform
4 3 (2.78%) Data Guard
5 2 (1.85%) Istio
5 2 (1.85%) Podman
5 2 (1.85%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.85%) vRealize
6 1 (0.93%) Consul
6 1 (0.93%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.93%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.93%) Grafana
6 1 (0.93%) Graphite
6 1 (0.93%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.93%) linkerd
6 1 (0.93%) Packer
6 1 (0.93%) Puppet
6 1 (0.93%) Rundeck
6 1 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.93%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (12.04%) Google
1 13 (12.04%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.70%) Oracle
3 3 (2.78%) CA
3 3 (2.78%) CyberArk
3 3 (2.78%) ServiceNow
3 3 (2.78%) Splunk
4 2 (1.85%) BiZZdesign
4 2 (1.85%) Databricks
4 2 (1.85%) Panasonic
4 2 (1.85%) SAP
4 2 (1.85%) VMware
5 1 (0.93%) Avaya
5 1 (0.93%) BEA
5 1 (0.93%) Cisco
5 1 (0.93%) Cognizant
5 1 (0.93%) Ericsson
5 1 (0.93%) Hyperion
5 1 (0.93%) Juniper
5 1 (0.93%) Teradata