Cost Optimisation Job Trends in Central London

Cost Optimization
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Cost Optimisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 182 165
Rank change year-on-year +53 -17 +107
Permanent jobs citing Cost Optimisation 12 6 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 0.50% 0.19% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.20% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 11 2 5
10th Percentile £72,500 £101,375 £48,500
25th Percentile £82,500 £103,438 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £125,000 £108,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.94% +81.25% -40.00%
75th Percentile £140,000 £115,938 £79,000
90th Percentile - £119,125 £88,600
London median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +30.77% -31.58%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,125 3,076 2,907
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 88.17% 95.74% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,581 1,860 2,575
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £74,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.68% -0.33% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £115,000
London median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -

Cost Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Cost Optimisation job vacancy trend in Central London

Cost Optimisation
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Cost Optimisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Cost Optimisation

Cost Optimisation
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cost Optimisation in Central London over the 6 months to 5 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Cost Optimisation in Central London

Cost Optimisation
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cost Optimisation within the Central London region over the 6 months to 5 January 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
City of London +41 12 £125,000 +14.94% 29
Cost Optimisation
London

Cost Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon Kinesis
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (16.67%) dbt
3 2 (16.67%) Fivetran
3 2 (16.67%) Serverless
3 2 (16.67%) Snowflake
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (8.33%) Datadog
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) Oracle Database
1 6 (50.00%) Oracle Exadata
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (16.67%) Metadata
3 1 (8.33%) Power BI
3 1 (8.33%) Tableau
General
1 7 (58.33%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Investment Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Architect
2 6 (50.00%) Database Architect
2 6 (50.00%) Oracle Architect
3 2 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Architect
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Data Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Data Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Threat Intelligence Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Next.js
1 1 (8.33%) Node.js
1 1 (8.33%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 8 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 7 (58.33%) Computer Science
3 6 (50.00%) Budgeting
3 6 (50.00%) Contract Negotiation
3 6 (50.00%) DataOps
3 6 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (33.33%) AI
4 4 (33.33%) Analytics
4 4 (33.33%) DevOps
5 3 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
5 3 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (25.00%) Machine Learning
5 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 2 (16.67%) Observability
6 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Bash
1 2 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (58.33%) Degree
2 6 (50.00%) OCP
2 6 (50.00%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Certification
3 2 (16.67%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (8.33%) QA
1 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Data Guard
1 6 (50.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 6 (50.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 4 (33.33%) Terraform
3 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
4 1 (8.33%) Argo
4 1 (8.33%) Grafana
4 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Delphix
1 6 (50.00%) Oracle