Cost Optimisation Job Trends in Berkshire

Cost Optimization
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Cost Optimisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Cost Optimisation 26 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 1.29% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% - -
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - -
75th Percentile £65,938 - -
90th Percentile £67,625 - -
South East median annual salary £63,750 £57,500 £63,750
% change year-on-year +10.87% -9.80% +15.91%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Cost Optimisation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,664 1,600 1,731
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 82.83% 92.11% 89.32%
Number of salaries quoted 762 726 1,206
10th Percentile £28,750 £37,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -6.78%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,625 £93,125 £87,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +7.48% -2.73%

Cost Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cost Optimisation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Cost Optimisation job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Cost Optimisation
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Cost Optimisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Cost Optimisation

Cost Optimisation
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cost Optimisation within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 29 December 2025. 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
Maidenhead - 7 - -
Windsor - 7 - -
Slough - 6 - - 32
Bracknell - 4 £65,000 -
Cost Optimisation
South East

Cost Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 22 (84.62%) GCP
2 2 (7.69%) AWS
2 2 (7.69%) Azure
2 2 (7.69%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (76.92%) BigQuery
General
1 20 (76.92%) Law
1 20 (76.92%) Marketing
2 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Retail
3 2 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (88.46%) Architect
2 20 (76.92%) Cloud Architect
2 20 (76.92%) GCP Architect
2 20 (76.92%) Platform Architect
3 3 (11.54%) Business Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Product Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Technical Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Technical Product Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 20 (76.92%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (96.15%) Roadmaps
2 24 (92.31%) Continuous Improvement
3 22 (84.62%) Strategic Roadmap
4 20 (76.92%) Analytics
4 20 (76.92%) Architectural Design
4 20 (76.92%) Cloud Security
4 20 (76.92%) Cost Management
4 20 (76.92%) Data Science
4 20 (76.92%) Mentoring
4 20 (76.92%) Performance Optimisation
5 4 (15.38%) Analytical Thinking
5 4 (15.38%) Critical Thinking
5 4 (15.38%) Decision-Making
5 4 (15.38%) Strategic Thinking
6 2 (7.69%) CI/CD
6 2 (7.69%) Cost Reduction
6 2 (7.69%) FinOps
6 2 (7.69%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (7.69%) Product Roadmap
6 2 (7.69%) Product Vision
Programming Languages
1 20 (76.92%) Go
1 20 (76.92%) Java
1 20 (76.92%) Python
Systems Management
1 20 (76.92%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (84.62%) Google
2 2 (7.69%) Salesforce
2 2 (7.69%) SAP