Cost Reduction Job Trends in the East of England

Cost Reduction
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Cost Reduction skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 158 128
Rank change year-on-year +13 -30 +58
Permanent jobs citing Cost Reduction 14 24 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.34% 0.67% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.77% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 14 17 2
10th Percentile £26,250 - -
25th Percentile £43,750 £26,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £37,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +160.00% -55.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £98,750 £43,750 -
90th Percentile £100,850 £57,500 -
England median annual salary £72,500 £58,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year +23.40% +2.17% +4.55%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,121 3,107 1,900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 75.57% 86.72% 88.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,817 1,233 1,375
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £42,500 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Cost Reduction
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Cost Reduction job vacancy trend in the East of England

Cost Reduction
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

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

Cost Reduction
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cost Reduction in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Cost Reduction in the East of England

Cost Reduction
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 Reduction within the East of England region over the 6 months to 1 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 +10 7 £97,500 +254.55% 3
Suffolk - 4 £97,500 -
Essex - 3 £27,500 -
Cost Reduction
England

Cost Reduction
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (28.57%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (71.43%) AWS
3 4 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (28.57%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) Firewall
1 4 (28.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
General
1 10 (71.43%) Finance
1 10 (71.43%) Publishing
1 10 (71.43%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) Architect
1 10 (71.43%) Enterprise Architect
2 8 (57.14%) ERP Architect
2 8 (57.14%) SAP Architect
2 8 (57.14%) SAP Enterprise Architect
3 6 (42.86%) AWS Architect
4 4 (28.57%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 4 (28.57%) 2nd Line Support
4 4 (28.57%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 4 (28.57%) IT Engineer
4 4 (28.57%) IT Support
4 4 (28.57%) IT Support Engineer
4 4 (28.57%) Support Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Windows
1 4 (28.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Agile
1 10 (71.43%) Architectural Design
1 10 (71.43%) Data Governance
1 10 (71.43%) Enterprise Architecture
1 10 (71.43%) ERP
1 10 (71.43%) Project Delivery
1 10 (71.43%) Roadmaps
1 10 (71.43%) Stakeholder Management
1 10 (71.43%) Technology Roadmap
1 10 (71.43%) TOGAF
2 4 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (28.57%) Service Delivery
3 2 (14.29%) Migration
Qualifications
1 10 (71.43%) AWS Certification
1 10 (71.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 10 (71.43%) Degree
1 10 (71.43%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Active Directory
1 4 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) SAP
1 10 (71.43%) Workday
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) VMware