Cost Reduction Job Trends in Durham

Cost Reduction
North East > Durham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Durham requiring Cost Reduction skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 - 52
Rank change year-on-year - - -4
Permanent jobs citing Cost Reduction 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Durham 0.22% - 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% - 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45,000 - £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 - £45,000
75th Percentile £55,000 - £47,500
90th Percentile - - -
North East median annual salary £50,000 - £45,000

All Process & Methodology Skills
Durham

Cost Reduction 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 Durham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 314 151 378
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Durham 68.41% 89.88% 84.94%
Number of salaries quoted 126 49 268
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £28,188 £32,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £35,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -22.22% +5.88%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £59,063
90th Percentile £72,658 £74,258 £70,000
North East median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -0.44%

Cost Reduction
Job Vacancy Trend in Durham

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

Cost Reduction job vacancy trend in Durham

Cost Reduction
Salary Trend in Durham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Durham citing Cost Reduction.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Durham citing Cost Reduction

Cost Reduction
Job Locations in Durham

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cost Reduction within the Durham region over the 6 months to 27 May 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
Peterlee - 1 £50,000 - 1
Cost Reduction
North East

Cost Reduction
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Durham 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Customer-Centricity
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft