Cost Optimisation Contract Job Trends in Durham

Cost Optimization
North East > Durham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Durham requiring Cost Optimisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cost Optimisation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Durham 1.14% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £506 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - -
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median daily rate £588 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Durham

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 Durham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 78 19 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Durham 88.64% 63.33% 68.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 12 16
10th Percentile £229 £368 -
25th Percentile £325 £419 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £481 £438
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% +9.38%
75th Percentile £525 £546 £552
90th Percentile £580 £640 £616
North East median daily rate £450 £475 £460
% change year-on-year -5.26% +3.26% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 4
10th Percentile £12.71 - -
25th Percentile £19.13 - £11.44
Median hourly rate £35.00 £17.30 £13.22
Median % change year-on-year +102.31% +30.86% -
75th Percentile £51.13 - £18.69
90th Percentile £56.98 - £25.34
North East median hourly rate £51.75 £17.30 £46.18
% change year-on-year +199.13% -62.54% +130.90%

Cost Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Durham

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

Cost Optimisation job vacancy trend in Durham

Cost Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in Durham

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 Durham region over the 6 months to 2 September 2026. 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
Peterlee - 1 £513 -
Cost Optimisation
North East

Cost Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Durham 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
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft