Cost Optimisation Jobs in Central London

Cost Optimization
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 192 232
Rank change year-on-year +49 +40 +63
Permanent jobs citing Cost Optimisation 20 1 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 0.80% 0.027% 0.077%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.029% 0.082%
Number of salaries quoted 13 1 4
10th Percentile £47,500 - £79,625
25th Percentile £52,250 - £84,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £95,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +192.31%
75th Percentile £103,750 - £105,625
90th Percentile £121,000 - £115,750
London median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% -15.63% -20.00%

All Process and 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 2,410 3,466 4,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 96.48% 92.18% 94.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,637 2,677 4,047
10th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,555 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.30% -5.93% +7.14%

Cost Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Optimisation in Central London

Cost Optimisation
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Cost Optimisation in Central London

Cost Optimisation
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cost Optimisation in Central London over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

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 15 May 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
City of London +51 15 £92,500 -2.63% 5
West End of London - 2 - -
Camden - 2 - -
City of Westminster - 1 - -
Lambeth - 1 - -
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 - -
Cost Optimisation
London

Cost Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 11 (55.00%) AWS
2 7 (35.00%) Pulumi
3 6 (30.00%) Azure
4 3 (15.00%) GitHub
4 3 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (10.00%) PaaS
6 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
6 1 (5.00%) Serverless
6 1 (5.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (35.00%) Broadband
2 2 (10.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) NoSQL
1 7 (35.00%) RDBMS
1 7 (35.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.00%) Big Data
2 1 (5.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (35.00%) Jaeger
General
1 7 (35.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (10.00%) Front Office
2 2 (10.00%) Law
2 2 (10.00%) Local Government
2 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Games
3 1 (5.00%) Retail
3 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Lead
2 8 (40.00%) Team Leader
3 2 (10.00%) Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Site Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Transformation Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Contracts Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Data Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Team Leader
4 1 (5.00%) IT Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Senior
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Snowflake Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Technical Leader
4 1 (5.00%) Vendor Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (45.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 7 (35.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.00%) CMDB
2 1 (5.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 9 (45.00%) Linux
2 7 (35.00%) Unix
3 2 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (85.00%) DevOps
2 10 (50.00%) Agile
2 10 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 10 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 8 (40.00%) Roadmaps
4 7 (35.00%) Budget Control
4 7 (35.00%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (35.00%) GitOps
4 7 (35.00%) High Availability
4 7 (35.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 7 (35.00%) Product Management
4 7 (35.00%) Resource Management
4 7 (35.00%) Task Automation
5 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (15.00%) Decision-Making
5 3 (15.00%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (15.00%) Migration
5 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (15.00%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) Python
2 7 (35.00%) Bash
2 7 (35.00%) Go
2 7 (35.00%) Java
2 7 (35.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (10.00%) Bicep
3 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) DBS Check
3 1 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (35.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (60.00%) Terraform
2 10 (50.00%) Ansible
3 9 (45.00%) Kubernetes
3 9 (45.00%) Prometheus
4 7 (35.00%) Argo
4 7 (35.00%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Google
2 2 (10.00%) Citrix
2 2 (10.00%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.00%) Guidewire
3 1 (5.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow