Cost Optimisation Job Trends in the East of England

Cost Optimization
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Cost Optimisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 176 -
Rank change year-on-year +27 - -
Permanent jobs citing Cost Optimisation 6 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.14% 0.057% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.065% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £62,375 £85,500 -
25th Percentile £64,063 £90,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £105,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -34.52% - -
75th Percentile £74,063 £125,000 -
90th Percentile £76,125 £132,500 -
England median annual salary £70,079 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -12.40% +14.29% -12.50%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,083 3,064 2,113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 74.24% 87.22% 86.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,811 1,183 1,583
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £42,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,650 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Cost Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Cost Optimisation job vacancy trend in the East of England

Cost Optimisation
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Cost Optimisation

Cost Optimisation
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cost Optimisation in the East of England over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Cost Optimisation in the East of England

Cost Optimisation
Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 13 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
Cambridgeshire - 3 - - 2
Hertfordshire +10 2 £75,000 -28.57% 5
Essex - 1 £62,500 - 10
Cost Optimisation
England

Cost Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) IaaS
3 1 (16.67%) PaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Lead
1 2 (33.33%) Software Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DBA
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Enterprise Architect
2 1 (16.67%) SQL DBA
2 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (33.33%) Conflict Resolution
2 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (33.33%) Resource Allocation
2 2 (33.33%) Software Asset Management
2 2 (33.33%) Software Licensing
3 1 (16.67%) AI
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Build Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (16.67%) ETL
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (16.67%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bicep
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
1 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) DBS Check
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
2 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto