Cost Optimisation Jobs in the West Midlands

Cost Optimization
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 230 270 272
Rank change year-on-year +40 +2 -44
Permanent jobs citing Cost Optimisation 17 8 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.23% 0.12% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.12% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 12 6 3
10th Percentile £43,774 £51,250 -
25th Percentile £47,450 £51,563 £22,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £61,250 £24,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% +155.21% -52.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,438 £34,875
90th Percentile £76,625 £126,875 £40,200
England median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% -6.25% +28.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,016 6,455 6,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.09% 96.85% 95.45%
Number of salaries quoted 4,532 3,272 4,743
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,510 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,700 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Optimisation in the West Midlands

Cost Optimisation
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cost Optimisation in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Cost Optimisation in the West Midlands

Cost Optimisation
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cost Optimisation in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Cost Optimisation in the West Midlands

Cost Optimisation
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cost Optimisation within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 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
Birmingham +2 11 £47,450 -
Staffordshire - 5 £67,500 -
Coventry +32 1 £75,000 +42.86% 1
Cost Optimisation
England

Cost Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 7 (41.18%) Azure
2 5 (29.41%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (11.76%) AWS
3 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.88%) GCP
4 1 (5.88%) IaaS
4 1 (5.88%) PaaS
4 1 (5.88%) SaaS
4 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) BGP
1 5 (29.41%) LAN
1 5 (29.41%) MPLS
1 5 (29.41%) Network Security
1 5 (29.41%) OSPF
1 5 (29.41%) VLAN
1 5 (29.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Power BI
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (5.88%) Big Data
2 1 (5.88%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (5.88%) DynamoDB
General
1 9 (52.94%) Finance
2 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
3 5 (29.41%) Retail
3 5 (29.41%) Telecoms
4 3 (17.65%) Legal
5 2 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (5.88%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
1 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure Manager
1 5 (29.41%) Mobile Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Lead
3 1 (5.88%) Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Data Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Data Centre Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Data Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Optimisation Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Senior
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) EDI
2 1 (5.88%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.88%) LDAP
2 1 (5.88%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.76%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.88%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (29.41%) Budget Management
2 5 (29.41%) Budgeting
2 5 (29.41%) Contract Negotiation
2 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure Automation
2 5 (29.41%) ITIL
2 5 (29.41%) Line Management
2 5 (29.41%) Process Improvement
2 5 (29.41%) Project Delivery
2 5 (29.41%) Risk Management
2 5 (29.41%) Root Cause Analysis
2 5 (29.41%) Strategic Management
3 4 (23.53%) Contract Management
3 4 (23.53%) Supplier Management
4 2 (11.76%) Analytics
4 2 (11.76%) Co-Creation
4 2 (11.76%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (11.76%) Performance Measurement
4 2 (11.76%) PQQ
4 2 (11.76%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) Python
2 1 (5.88%) Bicep
2 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) DBS Check
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Terraform
2 5 (29.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Cisco
2 5 (29.41%) Aruba
2 5 (29.41%) Ericsson
2 5 (29.41%) Juniper
2 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 5 (29.41%) Nokia
3 1 (5.88%) NetApp
3 1 (5.88%) SAP
3 1 (5.88%) VMware