Cost Optimisation Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Cost Optimization
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring Cost Optimisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 - 37
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cost Optimisation 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 1.11% - 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% - 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £506 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - -
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South London median daily rate £525 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 81 109 142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 90.00% 93.16% 86.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 73 94
10th Percentile £417 £380 £231
25th Percentile £499 £463 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £529
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +1.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £600
90th Percentile £637 £625 £675
South London median daily rate £513 £528 £525
% change year-on-year -2.84% +0.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £17.25 £21.75
Median hourly rate - £19.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year - -17.02% -
75th Percentile - £21.75 £25.25
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £61.22 £19.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +213.94% -35.00% -31.99%

Cost Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Cost Optimisation job vacancy trend in Croydon

Cost Optimisation
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

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

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

Cost Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Control Tower
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform