Cost Reduction Jobs in the South West

Cost Reduction
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 265 250 256
Rank change year-on-year -15 +6 -4
Permanent jobs citing Cost Reduction 24 21 53
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.26% 0.30% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.32% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 5 9 49
10th Percentile £50,250 £42,500 £31,880
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £72,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.14% +51.58% +5.56%
75th Percentile £80,000 £142,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £81,500 - £58,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -3.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,707 6,522 7,562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 84.15% 94.44% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 5,535 3,657 4,995
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,500 £30,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,200 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +5.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Cost Reduction
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Cost Reduction as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Cost Reduction in the South West

Cost Reduction
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cost Reduction in the South West.

Salary trend for Cost Reduction in the South West

Cost Reduction
Salary Histogram in the South West

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

Salary histogram for Cost Reduction in the South West

Cost Reduction
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cost Reduction within the South West 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
Dorset - 10 - - 1
Gloucestershire -23 6 £70,000 -2.78% 3
Bristol +6 5 - - 5
Somerset - 2 £55,000 - 2
Devon - 1 - - 4
Cost Reduction
England

Cost Reduction
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (33.33%) AWS
2 3 (12.50%) Azure
3 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) RS-485
2 1 (4.17%) IPv4
2 1 (4.17%) OSPF
2 1 (4.17%) VLAN
2 1 (4.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Data Vault
1 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (4.17%) Power BI
1 1 (4.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Git
1 2 (8.33%) JIRA
1 2 (8.33%) Subversion
General
1 12 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 6 (25.00%) Finance
3 5 (20.83%) Public Sector
4 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
5 2 (8.33%) Electronics
5 2 (8.33%) Marketing
5 2 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (8.33%) Retail
5 2 (8.33%) Telecoms
6 1 (4.17%) Legal
6 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) QA Engineer
1 10 (41.67%) Quality Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Architect
2 3 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Business Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Electronics Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Senior
3 2 (8.33%) Technical Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Category Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Electronics Design Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) IT Procurement Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Lead
4 1 (4.17%) Lead Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Principal Data Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Procurement Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Senior Electronics Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) NHS
2 2 (8.33%) CPLD
2 2 (8.33%) Fibre Optics
2 2 (8.33%) FPGA
2 2 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (8.33%) Verilog
2 2 (8.33%) VHDL
3 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (20.83%) Agile
2 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (12.50%) Data Science
3 3 (12.50%) DevOps
3 3 (12.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 3 (12.50%) Software Engineering
3 3 (12.50%) User Experience
4 2 (8.33%) Business Analysis
4 2 (8.33%) Configuration Management
4 2 (8.33%) Creative Problem-Solving
4 2 (8.33%) Customer Requirements
4 2 (8.33%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (8.33%) FPGA Design
4 2 (8.33%) Open Source
4 2 (8.33%) Programme Management
4 2 (8.33%) Re-Platforming
4 2 (8.33%) Schematic Capture
4 2 (8.33%) Scrum
4 2 (8.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.50%) Java
1 3 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (4.17%) Bash
2 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.17%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (41.67%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) ISO 14001
2 1 (4.17%) ISO 9001
2 1 (4.17%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Firmware
2 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Ansible
1 1 (4.17%) Functional Safety
1 1 (4.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (8.33%) SAP
2 1 (4.17%) IBM
2 1 (4.17%) Veeam
2 1 (4.17%) VMware