Cost Optimisation Contract Job Trends in Wakefield

Cost Optimization
West Yorkshire > Wakefield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wakefield requiring Cost Optimisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cost Optimisation 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Wakefield 11.11% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £488 - £625
% change year-on-year - - +31.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wakefield

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 Wakefield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14 24 95
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wakefield 77.78% 92.31% 98.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 25
10th Percentile £132 £121 £125
25th Percentile £193 £145 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £365 £350
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% +4.29% +66.67%
75th Percentile £488 £449 £400
90th Percentile £543 £552 £513
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £516
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.86% -1.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £11.80
25th Percentile - - £13.71
Median hourly rate - - £16.58
Median % change year-on-year - - +62.57%
75th Percentile - - £17.85
90th Percentile - - £24.03
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £32.50 £20.71
% change year-on-year -31.88% +56.97% -1.80%

Cost Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wakefield 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 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Budgeting
1 2 (100.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 2 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 2 (100.00%) FinOps
1 2 (100.00%) Migration