Cost Optimisation Job Trends in the East Midlands

Cost Optimization
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Cost Optimisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 134 178
Rank change year-on-year -21 +44 -
Permanent jobs citing Cost Optimisation 9 2 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.20% 0.10% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.12% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £80,000 - -
25th Percentile £82,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 - -
75th Percentile £87,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £80,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% -7.69% -10.34%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,265 1,727 3,365
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 71.26% 90.47% 79.14%
Number of salaries quoted 2,003 910 2,491
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £30,625 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £43,500 £44,881
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.08% -10.24%
75th Percentile £63,750 £59,438 £56,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £68,750 £68,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

Cost Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Cost Optimisation job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Cost Optimisation
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Cost Optimisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Cost Optimisation

Cost Optimisation
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cost Optimisation within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 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
Leicestershire - 3 £85,000 - 2
Nottinghamshire - 2 - -
Derbyshire - 1 - -
Cost Optimisation
England

Cost Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 3 (33.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (33.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) GitHub
3 2 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (22.22%) IaaS
3 2 (22.22%) PaaS
4 1 (11.11%) AWS
4 1 (11.11%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Power BI
2 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
2 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git
1 3 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Jaeger
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Aerospace
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Billing
2 3 (33.33%) Electronics
2 3 (33.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Lead
2 3 (33.33%) IT Manager
2 3 (33.33%) Lead DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Technical Leader
4 1 (11.11%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Agile
2 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (55.56%) Cost Management
4 3 (33.33%) Auto-Scaling
4 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (33.33%) Change Management
4 3 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (33.33%) Data Management
4 3 (33.33%) Data Privacy
4 3 (33.33%) DevOps
4 3 (33.33%) Due Diligence
4 3 (33.33%) ERP
4 3 (33.33%) ITIL
4 3 (33.33%) Observability
4 3 (33.33%) Post-Merger Integration
4 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (33.33%) Process Improvement
4 3 (33.33%) Project Management
4 3 (33.33%) Six Sigma
4 3 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Bash
1 1 (11.11%) Go
1 1 (11.11%) Java
1 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
1 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
1 3 (33.33%) Master's Degree
1 3 (33.33%) MBA
1 3 (33.33%) PMI Certification
1 3 (33.33%) PMP
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Argo
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Kustomize
2 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle
1 3 (33.33%) QAD
1 3 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (11.11%) Google