Cost Optimisation Job Trends in Edinburgh

Cost Optimization
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Cost Optimisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 91 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Permanent jobs citing Cost Optimisation 3 6 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.34% 0.46% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.52% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66,091 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £80,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.40% - -
75th Percentile £74,066 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary £66,289 £80,000 -
% change year-on-year -17.14% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 799 1,165 953
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 90.49% 89.96% 94.17%
Number of salaries quoted 354 482 765
10th Percentile £25,704 £35,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £29,500 £46,407 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £59,430 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.69% -4.91% +4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £76,385
90th Percentile £89,625 £89,875 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £38,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -30.91% +5.77% -5.45%

Cost Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Cost Optimisation job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Cost Optimisation
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Cost Optimisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Cost Optimisation

Cost Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Datadog
1 1 (33.33%) dbt
1 1 (33.33%) PaaS
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (33.33%) JMeter
1 1 (33.33%) Locust
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Asset Management
2 2 (66.67%) Coaching
2 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (66.67%) Creative Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Release Management
2 2 (66.67%) Use Case
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) OWASP
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) QA
1 1 (33.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Ansible
3 1 (33.33%) Grafana
3 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes