Cost Optimisation Jobs in Scotland

Cost Optimization
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 274 217 246
Rank change year-on-year -57 +29 -59
Permanent jobs citing Cost Optimisation 3 2 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.045% 0.043% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.048% 0.046% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £56,625 £54,000 £44,389
25th Percentile £64,688 £56,250 £48,549
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £62,500 £58,316
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% +7.18% -10.28%
75th Percentile £99,688 £68,750 £68,961
90th Percentile £108,875 £71,000 £73,647
UK median annual salary £65,000 £73,750 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.86% -7.81% +28.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,201 4,349 5,274
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.47% 94.22% 90.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2,420 2,184 2,787
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,375 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £54,145
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +6.20% +10.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,393 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Cost Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Optimisation in Scotland

Cost Optimisation
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cost Optimisation in Scotland.

Salary trend for Cost Optimisation in Scotland

Cost Optimisation
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cost Optimisation in Scotland over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cost Optimisation in Scotland

Cost Optimisation
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cost Optimisation within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 11 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
Glasgow - 3 £81,250 -
Cost Optimisation
UK

Cost Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) IaaS
1 1 (33.33%) Power Automate
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (33.33%) Law
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) DBA
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Python Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Python Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) SQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Business Case
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Community of Practice
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
1 1 (33.33%) Database Optimisation
1 1 (33.33%) ETL
1 1 (33.33%) FinOps
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) Release Management
1 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (33.33%) SDLC
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
1 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft