Cost Optimisation Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Cost Optimization
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Cost Optimisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Cost Optimisation 8 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.62% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £74,375 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,150 - -
75th Percentile £85,925 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median annual salary £72,500 £105,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -30.95% +121.05% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 938 452 1,219
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 72.94% 96.17% 79.41%
Number of salaries quoted 612 294 916
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,198 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,063 £36,480
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,450 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.24% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £71,863
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £83,125
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

Cost Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Cost Optimisation job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Cost Optimisation
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Cost Optimisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Cost Optimisation

Cost Optimisation
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cost Optimisation within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 24 April 2026. 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
Cambridge - 8 £80,150 -
Cost Optimisation
East of England

Cost Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (12.50%) GitHub
1 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (12.50%) PaaS
1 1 (12.50%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
General
1 7 (87.50%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Analyst
1 7 (87.50%) Software Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Site Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Team Leader
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Asset Management
1 7 (87.50%) Collaborative Working
1 7 (87.50%) Conflict Resolution
1 7 (87.50%) Decision-Making
1 7 (87.50%) Problem-Solving
1 7 (87.50%) Resource Allocation
1 7 (87.50%) Software Asset Management
1 7 (87.50%) Software Licensing
2 1 (12.50%) AIOps
2 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
2 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
2 1 (12.50%) Cost Transparency
2 1 (12.50%) FinOps
2 1 (12.50%) Intelligent Automation
2 1 (12.50%) Observability
2 1 (12.50%) Runbook
2 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (12.50%) Software Delivery
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (12.50%) Thought Leadership
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Grafana
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) New Relic