Cost Optimisation Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Cost Optimization
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Cost Optimisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 64 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Contract jobs citing Cost Optimisation 5 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.79% 0.43% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.50% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile £117 £370 -
25th Percentile £161 £400 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £343 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.89% - -
75th Percentile £569 £463 -
90th Percentile £693 £470 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £343 £450 -
% change year-on-year -23.89% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 566 601 994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 89.27% 85.73% 90.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 371 394 687
10th Percentile £290 £350 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% +5.11%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 18 13
10th Percentile £25.05 £12.15 £12.00
25th Percentile £25.13 £14.03 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.50 £22.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.91% +15.79% -10.59%
75th Percentile £26.13 £37.50 £21.31
90th Percentile £26.35 £44.00 £23.26
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £23.75 £18.50
% change year-on-year -6.78% +28.38% -1.07%

Cost Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Cost Optimisation job vacancy trend in Leeds

Cost Optimisation
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Cost Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Optimisation in Leeds over the 6 months to 1 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Optimisation in Leeds

Cost Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) AWS KMS
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Macie
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
1 1 (20.00%) SSL
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
1 2 (40.00%) Lead DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Build Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (20.00%) IT Relationships Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Relationships Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Sourcing Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Supplier Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Supplier Relationship Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (20.00%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (40.00%) FinOps
1 2 (40.00%) Supplier Management
2 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) Cost Reduction
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Observability
2 1 (20.00%) Order Management
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Secrets Management
2 1 (20.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (20.00%) Supplier Relationship Management
2 1 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (40.00%) NIST
1 2 (40.00%) SOC 2
2 1 (20.00%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Kustomize
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Apple
1 1 (20.00%) MobileIron
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk