Cost Optimisation Jobs in the UK excluding London

Cost Optimization
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 686 721 687
Rank change year-on-year +35 -34 -66
Permanent jobs citing Cost Optimisation 63 31 169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.089% 0.052% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.054% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 41 24 48
10th Percentile £40,988 £35,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,450 £51,250 £44,154
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £61,250 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% +18.93% -10.43%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £67,313
90th Percentile £70,000 £94,375 £77,500
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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,616 57,236 66,838
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.97% 95.60% 94.08%
Number of salaries quoted 41,251 29,494 41,057
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cost Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cost Optimisation in the UK excluding London

Cost Optimisation
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cost Optimisation in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Cost Optimisation in the UK excluding London

Cost Optimisation
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Cost Optimisation in the UK excluding London

Cost Optimisation
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cost Optimisation within the UK excluding London 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
South East +14 23 £57,500 +9.52% 7
Midlands +6 21 £67,500 +8.00% 6
West Midlands +18 16 £67,500 +8.00% 4
North of England +46 10 £41,774 -40.32% 11
Yorkshire +88 7 £40,000 -23.81% 4
East Midlands - 5 - - 2
Scotland -57 3 £81,250 +30.00% 1
East of England - 3 £47,500 - 1
North West +5 2 £41,774 -50.85% 5
Wales - 2 £65,000 -
South West -30 1 - -
North East - 1 £41,774 - 2
Cost Optimisation
UK

Cost Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (1.59%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 15 (23.81%) Azure
2 8 (12.70%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (7.94%) IaaS
4 3 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (3.17%) Entra ID
5 2 (3.17%) PaaS
5 2 (3.17%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.17%) SaaS
6 1 (1.59%) AWS
6 1 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.59%) Cloudflare
6 1 (1.59%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.59%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.94%) BGP
1 5 (7.94%) LAN
1 5 (7.94%) MPLS
1 5 (7.94%) Network Security
1 5 (7.94%) OSPF
1 5 (7.94%) VLAN
1 5 (7.94%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.76%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.17%) Big Data
2 2 (3.17%) Power BI
3 1 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.59%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.59%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.59%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.59%) Redis
3 1 (1.59%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 38 (60.32%) Finance
2 24 (38.10%) Social Skills
3 12 (19.05%) Legal
4 11 (17.46%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (11.11%) Retail
5 7 (11.11%) Telecoms
6 5 (7.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (6.35%) Manufacturing
7 4 (6.35%) Marketing
8 3 (4.76%) Aviation
9 1 (1.59%) Automotive
9 1 (1.59%) Law
9 1 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.59%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 18 (28.57%) IT Manager
2 8 (12.70%) Category Manager
2 8 (12.70%) Lead
3 6 (9.52%) Business Manager
4 5 (7.94%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
4 5 (7.94%) Infrastructure Manager
4 5 (7.94%) Mobile Engineer
5 4 (6.35%) Analyst
5 4 (6.35%) Senior
6 3 (4.76%) Head of Operations
6 3 (4.76%) Head of Service Operations
6 3 (4.76%) Procurement Advisor
7 2 (3.17%) CloudOps Manager
7 2 (3.17%) Data Architect
7 2 (3.17%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) Professional Services Manager
7 2 (3.17%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.17%) Supplier Management Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.17%) EDI
2 1 (1.59%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.59%) LDAP
2 1 (1.59%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.70%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (4.76%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.59%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.59%) Private Cloud
3 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.76%) Windows
1 3 (4.76%) Windows Server
2 2 (3.17%) Linux
3 1 (1.59%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (26.98%) Cost Management
2 16 (25.40%) Budgeting
3 14 (22.22%) Asset Management
3 14 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 14 (22.22%) IT Asset Management
4 10 (15.87%) Supplier Management
5 9 (14.29%) Contract Management
5 9 (14.29%) ITIL
5 9 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (12.70%) Budget Management
7 7 (11.11%) Mentoring
7 7 (11.11%) Visualisation
8 6 (9.52%) Agile
8 6 (9.52%) Business Case
8 6 (9.52%) Customer Experience
8 6 (9.52%) ERP
8 6 (9.52%) Process Improvement
8 6 (9.52%) Risk Management
8 6 (9.52%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (9.52%) PowerShell
2 5 (7.94%) SQL
3 3 (4.76%) Python
4 1 (1.59%) Bash
4 1 (1.59%) Bicep
4 1 (1.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (22.22%) Degree
2 2 (3.17%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.59%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.59%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (3.17%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.59%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.59%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (9.52%) Docker
2 4 (6.35%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (14.29%) Terraform
2 5 (7.94%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.76%) Ansible
4 1 (1.59%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (17.46%) Microsoft
1 11 (17.46%) ServiceNow
2 6 (9.52%) Cisco
3 5 (7.94%) Aruba
3 5 (7.94%) Ericsson
3 5 (7.94%) Juniper
3 5 (7.94%) Nokia
4 3 (4.76%) Ariba
4 3 (4.76%) BT
4 3 (4.76%) SAP
4 3 (4.76%) VMware
5 1 (1.59%) NetApp