Cost Optimisation Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Cost Optimization
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Cost Optimisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 - 50
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cost Optimisation 5 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 0.95% - 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% - 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £805 - £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £871 - £675
75th Percentile £937 - £688
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £500 £578 £675
% change year-on-year -13.42% -14.44% +22.73%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 437 246 482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 83.08% 89.78% 81.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 174 345
10th Percentile £204 £195 £250
25th Percentile £361 £276 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £563 £538 £625
90th Percentile £652 £586 £700
South East median daily rate £515 £500 £501
% change year-on-year +3.00% -0.20% -0.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 25 58
10th Percentile £25.63 £16.10 £11.71
25th Percentile £55.00 £24.18 £13.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £28.00 £28.37
Median % change year-on-year +132.14% -1.29% -36.97%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.39 £57.50
90th Percentile £71.99 £62.50 £76.86
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £27.05 £47.50
% change year-on-year +94.10% -43.06% -5.00%

Cost Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Cost Optimisation job vacancy trend in Surrey

Cost Optimisation
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

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

Cost Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cost Optimisation within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 24 May 2026. 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
Staines - 4 - -
Cost Optimisation
South East

Cost Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon ECS
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon EKS
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) GitHub
1 4 (80.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (20.00%) OneDrive
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) AWS DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) AWS Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Loki
2 2 (40.00%) GraphQL
2 2 (40.00%) Node.js
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (20.00%) OAuth
3 1 (20.00%) OAuth2
3 1 (20.00%) OpenID
3 1 (20.00%) SAML
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) Configuration Management
1 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) Incident Management
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (80.00%) Observability
1 4 (80.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 4 (80.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (40.00%) GitOps
2 2 (40.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (20.00%) E-Discovery
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Bash
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) Scala
2 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Ansible
1 4 (80.00%) Grafana
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (80.00%) Prometheus
1 4 (80.00%) Puppet
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Argo
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft