Cost Optimisation Contracts in Telford

Cost Optimization
Shropshire > Telford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Telford requiring Cost Optimisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cost Optimisation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cost Optimisation 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Telford 2.78% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.86% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £537 - -
25th Percentile £538 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 - -
75th Percentile £539 - -
90th Percentile £540 - -
Shropshire median daily rate £539 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Telford

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 Telford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 105 73 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford 97.22% 62.39% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 45 119
10th Percentile £315 £341 £412
25th Percentile £448 £358 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £400 £540
Median % change year-on-year +23.50% -25.93% +8.00%
75th Percentile £537 £500 £545
90th Percentile £541 £520 £595
Shropshire median daily rate £484 £378 £538
% change year-on-year +28.04% -29.74% +6.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - £10.42 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -81.05% -
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - £11.85 -
Shropshire median hourly rate £12.18 £10.42 £55.00
% change year-on-year +16.89% -81.05% +214.29%

Cost Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

Job postings citing Cost Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Telford.

Job vacancy trend for Cost Optimisation in Telford

Cost Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Telford by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Cost Reduction
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Process Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Opsview
3 1 (33.33%) Grafana
3 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) PagerDuty