Cost Optimisation Jobs in Birmingham

Cost Optimization
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Cost Optimisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cost Optimisation over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 135 132
Rank change year-on-year +37 -3 +47
Permanent jobs citing Cost Optimisation 5 10 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.38% 0.35% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.43% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 5 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £44,000 £43,366 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £47,450 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -36.73% -
75th Percentile £48,000 - £77,500
90th Percentile £58,200 £54,230 -
West Midlands median annual salary £46,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -31.85% +8.00% +47.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,259 2,321 1,806
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 95.52% 80.34% 96.27%
Number of salaries quoted 673 1,878 1,346
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £32,407
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,988 £42,656
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% +2.73%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,500 £85,000 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Cost Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Cost Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Cost Optimisation in Birmingham

Cost Optimisation
Salary Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cost Optimisation in Birmingham.

Salary trend for Cost Optimisation in Birmingham

Cost Optimisation
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cost Optimisation in Birmingham over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cost Optimisation in Birmingham

Cost Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 4 (80.00%) Entra ID
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 4 (80.00%) Route 53
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
1 4 (80.00%) HTTPS
1 4 (80.00%) SD-WAN
1 4 (80.00%) VLAN
1 4 (80.00%) VPN
1 4 (80.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) Power Query
General
1 4 (80.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Azure Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI Developer
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
1 4 (80.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 4 (80.00%) Cost Management
1 4 (80.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (80.00%) Identity Management
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 4 (80.00%) Load Balancing
1 4 (80.00%) Privileged Identity Management
1 4 (80.00%) Proactive Management
1 4 (80.00%) Problem Management
1 4 (80.00%) Security Operations
1 4 (80.00%) Threat Management
1 4 (80.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) AWS Certification
1 4 (80.00%) Azure Certification
1 4 (80.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (80.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks