Cost Optimisation Contract Job Trends in Nottingham

Cost Optimization
Nottinghamshire > Nottingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Nottingham requiring Cost Optimisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cost Optimisation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Nottingham 0.43% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £450 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Nottingham

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 Nottingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 170 117 112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottingham 73.91% 90.70% 82.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 67 71
10th Percentile £190 £270 £313
25th Percentile £383 £391 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% +3.16% -9.52%
75th Percentile £574 £528 £597
90th Percentile £654 £550 £673
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £415 £490 £463
% change year-on-year -15.31% +5.95% -11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 1 10
10th Percentile £12.95 - £13.50
25th Percentile £14.96 - £14.72
Median hourly rate £16.35 £16.11 £16.36
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -1.50% +38.60%
75th Percentile £16.46 - £18.56
90th Percentile £17.87 - £26.50
Nottinghamshire median hourly rate £16.35 £14.96 £16.36
% change year-on-year +9.29% -8.53% +38.60%

Cost Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottingham

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

Cost Optimisation job vacancy trend in Nottingham

Cost Optimisation
Daily Rate Trend in Nottingham

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

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

Cost Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottingham 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 Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks