Cost Optimisation Jobs with Work from Home Options

Cost Optimization
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 554 601 726
Rank change year-on-year +47 +125 -175
Permanent jobs citing Cost Optimisation 35 50 144
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.10% 0.12% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.13% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 24 41 77
10th Percentile £40,988 £41,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,875 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -12.16% +18.40%
75th Percentile £71,250 £85,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £100,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% -12.50% +28.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,879 38,524 69,675
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.94% 96.06% 97.07%
Number of salaries quoted 23,365 26,722 41,465
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Cost Optimisation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cost Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cost Optimisation trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cost Optimisation
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cost Optimisation.

Cost Optimisation salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cost Optimisation
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cost Optimisation over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Cost Optimisation salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cost Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (2.86%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 18 (51.43%) AWS
2 8 (22.86%) Azure
3 4 (11.43%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (5.71%) Azure Storage
5 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.86%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.86%) GCP
5 1 (2.86%) GitHub
5 1 (2.86%) IaaS
5 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.86%) PaaS
5 1 (2.86%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.57%) BGP
1 3 (8.57%) Cisco ISE
1 3 (8.57%) EIGRP
1 3 (8.57%) Firewall
1 3 (8.57%) Intrusion Detection
1 3 (8.57%) LAN
1 3 (8.57%) MPLS
1 3 (8.57%) Network Security
1 3 (8.57%) OSPF
1 3 (8.57%) SD-WAN
1 3 (8.57%) VPN
1 3 (8.57%) WAN
1 3 (8.57%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.86%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Bitbucket
1 1 (2.86%) GitLab
1 1 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 10 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 8 (22.86%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (17.14%) Finance
3 6 (17.14%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (11.43%) Legal
5 3 (8.57%) Aviation
5 3 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (8.57%) Marketing
6 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.86%) Retail
6 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (51.43%) Analyst
2 14 (40.00%) Service Analyst
3 10 (28.57%) Procurement Analyst
4 7 (20.00%) Service Management Analyst
5 4 (11.43%) Senior
6 3 (8.57%) Head of Operations
6 3 (8.57%) Head of Service Operations
6 3 (8.57%) Network Manager
6 3 (8.57%) Procurement Advisor
7 2 (5.71%) Data Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Lead
7 2 (5.71%) Senior Data Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Cloud Specialist
8 1 (2.86%) DevOps Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Head of Mobile
8 1 (2.86%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 1 (2.86%) IT Manager
8 1 (2.86%) IT Services Manager
8 1 (2.86%) Platform Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) .NET
2 1 (2.86%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (8.57%) Data Centre
1 3 (8.57%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.86%) Driving Licence
2 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Windows
1 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
1 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (48.57%) FinOps
2 10 (28.57%) Contract Management
3 7 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 6 (17.14%) Agile
4 6 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (17.14%) Cost Management
4 6 (17.14%) Customer Experience
4 6 (17.14%) Procure-to-Pay
5 4 (11.43%) Due Diligence
5 4 (11.43%) ITIL
5 4 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (11.43%) Project Management
5 4 (11.43%) Roadmaps
5 4 (11.43%) Service Delivery
6 3 (8.57%) Business Continuity
6 3 (8.57%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (8.57%) E-Procurement
6 3 (8.57%) Quality Management
6 3 (8.57%) Service Management
6 3 (8.57%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.43%) Python
2 3 (8.57%) PowerShell
3 2 (5.71%) C#
3 2 (5.71%) SQL
4 1 (2.86%) Bash
4 1 (2.86%) Go
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) Degree
2 3 (8.57%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (11.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (11.43%) PCI DSS
3 3 (8.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (2.86%) NIST
4 1 (2.86%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.86%) Ansible
1 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (8.57%) Ariba
1 3 (8.57%) BT
1 3 (8.57%) Cisco
1 3 (8.57%) Fortinet
1 3 (8.57%) Juniper
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft
1 3 (8.57%) Palo Alto
1 3 (8.57%) SAP
1 3 (8.57%) SolarWinds
2 1 (2.86%) Atlassian