Cost Optimisation Contract Job Trends in Coventry

Cost Optimization
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Coventry requiring Cost Optimisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cost Optimisation 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 1.73% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £510 - -
25th Percentile £511 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 - -
75th Percentile £536 - -
90th Percentile £537 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £528 £525 -
% change year-on-year +0.48% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 164 86 184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 94.80% 89.58% 86.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 55 135
10th Percentile £263 £368 £350
25th Percentile £316 £413 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
75th Percentile £552 £581 £559
90th Percentile £638 £626 £648
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £19.19 - £31.06
25th Percentile £24.35 £15.50 £38.65
Median hourly rate £27.21 £17.00 £52.59
Median % change year-on-year +60.06% -67.68% +78.28%
75th Percentile - £18.50 £66.83
90th Percentile - - £74.60
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.00 £26.13 £27.50
% change year-on-year -11.96% -5.00% +55.28%

Cost Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

Cost Optimisation job vacancy trend in Coventry

Cost Optimisation
Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Cost Optimisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Cost Optimisation

Cost Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 2 (66.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (33.33%) CloudFront
3 1 (33.33%) Datadog
3 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) BGP
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) EIGRP
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) IPv4
1 2 (66.67%) IPv6
1 2 (66.67%) LAN
1 2 (66.67%) MPLS
1 2 (66.67%) OSPF
1 2 (66.67%) SD-WAN
1 2 (66.67%) VLAN
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
1 2 (66.67%) VXLAN
1 2 (66.67%) WAN
1 2 (66.67%) Wireless
1 2 (66.67%) WLAN
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (33.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Network Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Business Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) IT Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Load Balancing
2 2 (66.67%) Network Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Network Design
2 2 (66.67%) Network Management
2 2 (66.67%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (66.67%) Security Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Strategic Thinking
2 2 (66.67%) TOGAF
2 2 (66.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (66.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Certification
2 2 (66.67%) CCIE
2 2 (66.67%) CCIE Security
2 2 (66.67%) CCNP
2 2 (66.67%) CCSP
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (66.67%) CISSP
2 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (33.33%) JNCIE
3 1 (33.33%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) GDPR
2 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (66.67%) NIST
2 2 (66.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (66.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) F5
1 2 (66.67%) Fortinet
1 2 (66.67%) Meraki
1 2 (66.67%) Palo Alto
1 2 (66.67%) SolarWinds
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Forcepoint
2 1 (33.33%) Juniper