Cost Optimisation Jobs in the North of England

Cost Optimization
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Cost Optimisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cost Optimisation over the 6 months to 24 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 373 422 413
Rank change year-on-year +49 -9 -56
Permanent jobs citing Cost Optimisation 13 5 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.072% 0.030% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.088% 0.031% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 11 5 18
10th Percentile £37,500 £53,750 -
25th Percentile £39,244 £57,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,774 £70,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -40.32% +47.37% +5.56%
75th Percentile £60,625 £72,500 £63,438
90th Percentile £70,000 £89,000 £81,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% -12.50% +28.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Cost Optimisation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,776 16,161 17,200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 82.30% 96.74% 94.06%
Number of salaries quoted 11,327 7,834 10,674
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £38,386
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Cost Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Cost Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Cost Optimisation in the North of England

Cost Optimisation
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cost Optimisation in the North of England.

Salary trend for Cost Optimisation in the North of England

Cost Optimisation
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cost Optimisation in the North of England over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cost Optimisation in the North of England

Cost Optimisation
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cost Optimisation within the North of England region over the 6 months to 24 May 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Yorkshire +85 7 £40,000 -23.81% 5
North West +1 5 £50,000 -28.57% 5
North East - 1 £41,774 - 2
Cost Optimisation
England

Cost Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (15.38%) GCP
2 2 (15.38%) GitHub
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.69%) IaaS
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.69%) PaaS
3 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Bitbucket
1 2 (15.38%) GitLab
1 2 (15.38%) JIRA
General
1 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (23.08%) Finance
1 3 (23.08%) Legal
1 3 (23.08%) Manufacturing
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 2 (15.38%) Retail
3 1 (7.69%) Law
3 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Data Architect
2 2 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Performance Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Strategy Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Strategy Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.69%) PMI
3 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
1 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
1 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Mentoring
1 5 (38.46%) Roadmaps
1 5 (38.46%) Visualisation
2 4 (30.77%) Cost Management
3 3 (23.08%) Agile
3 3 (23.08%) Asset Management
3 3 (23.08%) Budget Management
3 3 (23.08%) Budgeting
3 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
3 3 (23.08%) Coaching
3 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making
3 3 (23.08%) DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) Economics
3 3 (23.08%) FinOps
3 3 (23.08%) Inventory Control
3 3 (23.08%) Inventory Management
3 3 (23.08%) IT Asset Management
3 3 (23.08%) Performance Analysis
3 3 (23.08%) Software Asset Management
3 3 (23.08%) Software Licensing
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) PowerShell
2 3 (23.08%) Python
3 2 (15.38%) Go
3 2 (15.38%) SQL
4 1 (7.69%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.69%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (15.38%) NIST
2 2 (15.38%) PCI DSS
3 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (7.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Ansible
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Atlassian
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft