Cost Optimisation Contract Job Trends in Southampton

Cost Optimization
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring Cost Optimisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cost Optimisation 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 1.33% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £554 - £650
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 121 101 120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 80.67% 80.16% 68.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 60 79
10th Percentile £170 £200 £213
25th Percentile £358 £423 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £616 £634
90th Percentile £688 £713 £660
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.70% +12.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 0 10
10th Percentile £12.21 - £13.13
25th Percentile £14.47 - £66.88
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +196.30%
75th Percentile £62.23 - -
90th Percentile £72.60 - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year -11.11% -21.53% +9.24%

Cost Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Cost Optimisation job vacancy trend in Southampton

Cost Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Cloudflare
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure API Management
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Refactoring
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (50.00%) API Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
1 1 (50.00%) Groovy
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft