Cost Reduction Jobs in Scotland

Cost Reduction
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Cost Reduction skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cost Reduction over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 267 196 190
Rank change year-on-year -71 -6 -8
Permanent jobs citing Cost Reduction 15 26 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.22% 0.55% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.59% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 12 7 8
10th Percentile - - £34,723
25th Percentile £47,500 £32,500 £39,618
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £35,000 £48,025
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -27.12% -10.21%
75th Percentile £63,388 £37,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £69,800 £45,500 £59,000
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.64% +4.76% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Cost Reduction 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 6,238 4,437 5,207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.87% 94.24% 91.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,418 2,226 2,788
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,369 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,125 £41,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,577 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% +9.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

Cost Reduction
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Reduction in Scotland

Cost Reduction
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Cost Reduction in Scotland

Cost Reduction
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cost Reduction in Scotland over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Cost Reduction in Scotland

Cost Reduction
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 Reduction within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Edinburgh +48 12 £57,500 +4.55% 4
Glasgow -107 3 £87,500 +150.00% 5
Cost Reduction
UK

Cost Reduction
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 3 (20.00%) AWS
1 3 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) dbt
2 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.67%) Azure AKS
3 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.67%) IaaS
3 1 (6.67%) PaaS
3 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Data Vault
1 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (13.33%) Power BI
1 2 (13.33%) Tableau
2 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
2 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
General
1 4 (26.67%) Organisational Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Retail
3 2 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Data Centre Manager
1 5 (33.33%) Data Centre Operations Manager
1 5 (33.33%) Data Manager
1 5 (33.33%) Operations Manager
2 4 (26.67%) Architect
2 4 (26.67%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Data Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Designer
3 2 (13.33%) Lead
3 2 (13.33%) Lead Designer
3 2 (13.33%) Lead Service Designer
3 2 (13.33%) Principal Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Principal Data Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Service Designer
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Security Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Security Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) JSON
1 1 (6.67%) OAuth
1 1 (6.67%) RESTful
1 1 (6.67%) SAML
1 1 (6.67%) Web Services
1 1 (6.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.67%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Business Development
2 5 (33.33%) Cost Management
2 5 (33.33%) Data Centre Operations
2 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
2 5 (33.33%) ITIL
2 5 (33.33%) People Management
2 5 (33.33%) Service Management
3 4 (26.67%) Change Management
3 4 (26.67%) CRM
3 4 (26.67%) Service Delivery
3 4 (26.67%) Time Management
4 3 (20.00%) Data Science
4 3 (20.00%) DevOps
4 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (20.00%) User Experience
5 2 (13.33%) Analytics
5 2 (13.33%) Data Analytics
5 2 (13.33%) Data Architecture
5 2 (13.33%) Kimball Methodology
5 2 (13.33%) Mentoring
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Salesforce