Cost Reduction Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Cost Reduction
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Cost Reduction skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 47 49
Rank change year-on-year -27 +2 +20
Contract jobs citing Cost Reduction 3 7 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.44% 1.37% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 1.58% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 1
10th Percentile £344 £419 -
25th Percentile £348 £513 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £535 £625
Median % change year-on-year -32.24% -14.40% -
75th Percentile £503 £565 £638
90th Percentile £584 £585 -
North West median daily rate £430 £525 £615
% change year-on-year -18.10% -14.63% +22.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 617 444 376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 89.68% 86.72% 90.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 272 236
10th Percentile £268 £325 £313
25th Percentile £358 £382 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £477 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.66% -4.70% +11.11%
75th Percentile £525 £566 £575
90th Percentile £688 £649 £611
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 20 27
10th Percentile £12.82 £16.00 £15.60
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.05 £17.38
Median hourly rate £18.87 £35.00 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year -46.09% +48.24% +46.92%
75th Percentile £40.00 £43.75 £35.39
90th Percentile £67.25 £47.13 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £35.27
% change year-on-year -37.63% +14.35% +35.10%

Cost Reduction
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cost Reduction relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Cost Reduction job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Cost Reduction
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Cost Reduction.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Cost Reduction

Cost Reduction
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Reduction in Cheshire over the 6 months to 27 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Reduction in Cheshire

Cost Reduction
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Cost Reduction.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Cost Reduction

Cost Reduction
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 27 October 2025. 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
Knutsford -15 2 £351 -33.69%
Macclesfield - 1 £625 -
Cost Reduction
North West

Cost Reduction
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Business Data Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Monitoring Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Security Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Security Monitoring Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Security Specialist
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Information Security
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) ERP
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) SAP