Cost Optimisation Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Cost Optimization
Cheshire > Knutsford

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

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cost Optimisation 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 0.70% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £315 - -
25th Percentile £322 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £339 - -
75th Percentile £351 - -
90th Percentile £355 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £339 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 274 162 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 96.48% 95.29% 97.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 133 59
10th Percentile £311 £326 £444
25th Percentile £358 £360 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £422 £422 £560
Median % change year-on-year +0.06% -24.64% +14.29%
75th Percentile £489 £538 £593
90th Percentile £537 £630 £606
Cheshire median daily rate £445 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -6.32% -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £18.87 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -46.09% +34.62% +61.79%

Cost Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Datadog
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) CircleCI
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Change Control
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform