Cost Optimisation Contract Job Trends in Derbyshire

Cost Optimization
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Derbyshire requiring Cost Optimisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cost Optimisation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Derbyshire 0.68% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £409 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 122 115 114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire 83.56% 78.77% 80.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 48 75
10th Percentile £134 £235 £154
25th Percentile £178 £310 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £453 £425
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% +6.47% -5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £559 £588
90th Percentile £650 £629 £663
East Midlands median daily rate £420 £430 £475
% change year-on-year -2.33% -9.47% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 12 12
10th Percentile £15.77 - £15.50
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £17.30 £21.59 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.87% +7.95% +18.84%
75th Percentile £23.71 £24.18 £35.06
90th Percentile £25.15 £47.42 £54.00
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.95 £22.50 £21.52
% change year-on-year -20.24% +4.58% +27.84%

Cost Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

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

Cost Optimisation job vacancy trend in Derbyshire

Cost Optimisation
Daily Rate Trend in Derbyshire

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

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

Cost Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Derby - 1 - - 2
Cost Optimisation
East Midlands

Cost Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derbyshire 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) BCP
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft