Cost Optimisation Contracts in Yorkshire

Cost Optimization
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 89 99 124
Rank change year-on-year +10 +25 +17
Contract jobs citing Cost Optimisation 3 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.29% 0.059% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.069% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £239 - £478
25th Percentile £321 - £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £625 £488
Median % change year-on-year -26.00% +28.21% -
75th Percentile £467 - £494
90th Percentile £468 - £498
England median daily rate £525 £570 £500
% change year-on-year -7.89% +14.00% -9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 940 1,459 2,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.43% 86.38% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 875 1,388
10th Percentile £246 £265 £296
25th Percentile £363 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £550 £577 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 64 61
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.30 -
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.15 £9.80
Median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%
75th Percentile £27.10 £22.00 £20.19
90th Percentile £80.10 £53.75 £56.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Cost Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Optimisation in Yorkshire

Cost Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cost Optimisation in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Cost Optimisation in Yorkshire

Cost Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Optimisation in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Optimisation in Yorkshire

Cost Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South Yorkshire - 2 £464 - 4
West Yorkshire +15 1 £185 -70.40% 5
Cost Optimisation
England

Cost Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 2 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure AKS
1 2 (66.67%) CloudBees
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
1 2 (66.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Build Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Architectural Design
1 2 (66.67%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (66.67%) Change Management
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Design Patterns
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (66.67%) OO
1 2 (66.67%) Problem Management
1 2 (66.67%) Product Backlog
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Static Application Security Testing
1 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Order Management
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) Kotlin
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
2 1 (33.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Apple
2 1 (33.33%) MobileIron