Cost Optimisation Job Trends in Chesterfield

Cost Optimization
Derbyshire > Chesterfield

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Chesterfield requiring Cost Optimisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Cost Optimisation 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Chesterfield 1.61% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.23% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 - -
Derbyshire median annual salary £69,000 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Chesterfield

Cost Optimisation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Chesterfield.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31 27 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chesterfield 50.00% 79.41% 71.43%
Number of salaries quoted 20 22 27
10th Percentile £20,000 - £22,800
25th Percentile £28,688 £33,000 £29,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £40,000 £41,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -3.61% +6.41%
75th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £47,500
90th Percentile £50,400 £45,775 £55,400
Derbyshire median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £43,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +4.65% -4.44%

Cost Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Chesterfield

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

Cost Optimisation job vacancy trend in Chesterfield

Cost Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chesterfield 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) NEC Housing
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Application Support Team Leader
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Support
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Support Team Leader
1 1 (100.00%) Team Leader
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) MuleSoft
1 1 (100.00%) NEC
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce