Cost Reduction Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Cost Reduction
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Cost Reduction skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 44 53
Rank change year-on-year -43 +9 -
Contract jobs citing Cost Reduction 5 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.65% 0.30% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.32% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £331 - -
25th Percentile £338 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £355 - £700
75th Percentile £375 - -
90th Percentile £382 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £365 - £550
% change year-on-year - - -26.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

Cost Reduction 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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 733 308 423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.69% 91.94% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 178 260
10th Percentile £316 £213 £375
25th Percentile £400 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £515 £539
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% -4.41% +2.62%
75th Percentile £538 £595 £625
90th Percentile £638 £675 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £477 £500
% change year-on-year +1.05% -4.60% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 6
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £19.25
25th Percentile £14.71 £14.35 £20.31
Median hourly rate £20.08 £18.10 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -19.58% +52.54%
75th Percentile £25.15 £20.38 £29.38
90th Percentile - £21.05 £40.63
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £22.50 £21.31
% change year-on-year +11.78% +5.58% +1.48%

Cost Reduction
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cost Reduction relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Cost Reduction job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Cost Reduction
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Cost Reduction.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Cost Reduction

Cost Reduction
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Cost Reduction.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Cost Reduction

Cost Reduction
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cost Reduction within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 18 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
Sheffield -43 5 £355 - 1
Cost Reduction
Yorkshire

Cost Reduction
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Power Platform
1 4 (80.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Data Mining
1 4 (80.00%) Power BI
1 4 (80.00%) Relational Database
General
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
1 5 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (80.00%) Banking
3 2 (40.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Analyst
2 4 (80.00%) Senior
2 4 (80.00%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (40.00%) Data Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) IT Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) Report Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Reporting Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 5 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 5 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Budgeting
1 5 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 5 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 5 (100.00%) Cost Transparency
1 5 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 5 (100.00%) Financial Modelling
1 5 (100.00%) FinOps
1 5 (100.00%) Portfolio Management
1 5 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
2 4 (80.00%) Analytics
2 4 (80.00%) Data Analytics
2 4 (80.00%) ITIL
2 4 (80.00%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft