Cost Optimisation Jobs in England

Cost Optimization
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Cost Optimisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cost Optimisation over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 735 786 702
Rank change year-on-year +51 -84 +101
Permanent jobs citing Cost Optimisation 96 144 454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.16% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.17% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 67 63 130
10th Percentile £43,366 £49,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £54,375 £50,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -6.25% +28.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £100,000 £106,875
90th Percentile £76,000 £120,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £73,750 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.86% -7.81% +28.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Cost Optimisation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,307 86,321 126,985
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.46% 95.63% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 53,944 51,052 72,863
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,308 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,075
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,332 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Cost Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Cost Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cost Optimisation in England

Cost Optimisation
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cost Optimisation in England.

Salary trend for Cost Optimisation in England

Cost Optimisation
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cost Optimisation in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cost Optimisation in England

Cost Optimisation
Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
London +35 38 £67,500 -15.63% 19
South East +9 23 £57,500 +9.52% 7
Midlands +2 21 £67,500 +8.00% 4
West Midlands +19 16 £67,500 +8.00% 3
North of England +61 10 £41,774 -40.32% 10
Yorkshire +96 7 £40,000 -23.81% 4
East Midlands - 5 - - 1
East of England - 3 £47,500 - 1
North West +14 2 £41,774 -50.85% 4
South West -22 1 - -
North East - 1 £41,774 - 2
Cost Optimisation
UK

Cost Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.13%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (3.13%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 24 (25.00%) AWS
2 19 (19.79%) Azure
3 7 (7.29%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (6.25%) IaaS
5 5 (5.21%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (4.17%) PaaS
6 4 (4.17%) SaaS
7 3 (3.13%) Azure Storage
7 3 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.08%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.08%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.04%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.04%) GCP
9 1 (1.04%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.21%) BGP
1 5 (5.21%) LAN
1 5 (5.21%) MPLS
1 5 (5.21%) Network Security
1 5 (5.21%) OSPF
1 5 (5.21%) VLAN
1 5 (5.21%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.21%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (5.21%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (5.21%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.08%) Power BI
3 1 (1.04%) Big Data
3 1 (1.04%) Data Mart
3 1 (1.04%) Relational Database
General
1 45 (46.88%) Finance
2 29 (30.21%) Social Skills
3 22 (22.92%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (12.50%) Legal
5 11 (11.46%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (9.38%) Manufacturing
7 7 (7.29%) Retail
7 7 (7.29%) Telecoms
8 4 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (3.13%) Aviation
9 3 (3.13%) Marketing
10 1 (1.04%) Automotive
10 1 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.04%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 24 (25.00%) Analyst
2 20 (20.83%) IT Manager
3 14 (14.58%) Service Analyst
4 10 (10.42%) Procurement Analyst
5 9 (9.38%) Category Manager
6 8 (8.33%) Architect
6 8 (8.33%) Lead
7 7 (7.29%) Senior
7 7 (7.29%) Service Management Analyst
8 6 (6.25%) Business Manager
9 5 (5.21%) AWS Architect
9 5 (5.21%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
9 5 (5.21%) Infrastructure Manager
9 5 (5.21%) Mobile Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) Data Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) Senior Data Engineer
11 3 (3.13%) DevOps Engineer
11 3 (3.13%) Head of Service Operations
11 3 (3.13%) Procurement Advisor
11 3 (3.13%) Supply Chain Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.13%) .NET
2 2 (2.08%) EDI
3 1 (1.04%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.04%) LDAP
3 1 (1.04%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.46%) Data Centre
2 9 (9.38%) Onboarding
3 5 (5.21%) Clustering
3 5 (5.21%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.13%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.04%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.04%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.25%) Windows
2 5 (5.21%) Linux
3 1 (1.04%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.04%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (1.04%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (25.00%) FinOps
2 18 (18.75%) Cost Management
3 17 (17.71%) Budgeting
4 16 (16.67%) Contract Management
5 15 (15.63%) Asset Management
5 15 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (15.63%) IT Asset Management
6 12 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (11.46%) ERP
8 10 (10.42%) Process Improvement
8 10 (10.42%) Supplier Management
9 9 (9.38%) Decision-Making
9 9 (9.38%) ITIL
9 9 (9.38%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (8.33%) Budget Management
10 8 (8.33%) Economics
10 8 (8.33%) Project Management
10 8 (8.33%) Roadmaps
11 7 (7.29%) Software Engineering
12 6 (6.25%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.42%) SQL
2 7 (7.29%) Python
3 3 (3.13%) C#
3 3 (3.13%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.08%) Go
5 1 (1.04%) Bash
5 1 (1.04%) Bicep
5 1 (1.04%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (17.71%) Degree
2 3 (3.13%) Numerate Degree
3 2 (2.08%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.04%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (1.04%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.04%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (2.08%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.04%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (5.21%) Docker
2 2 (2.08%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (10.42%) Terraform
2 7 (7.29%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.21%) Failover Clustering
3 5 (5.21%) Microsoft Clustering
4 2 (2.08%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.46%) ServiceNow
3 6 (6.25%) Cisco
4 5 (5.21%) Aruba
4 5 (5.21%) Ericsson
4 5 (5.21%) Juniper
4 5 (5.21%) Nokia
5 3 (3.13%) Ariba
5 3 (3.13%) BT
5 3 (3.13%) IBM
5 3 (3.13%) Oracle
5 3 (3.13%) SAP
5 3 (3.13%) VMware
6 2 (2.08%) Citrix
6 2 (2.08%) Symantec
7 1 (1.04%) Broadcom
7 1 (1.04%) NetApp
7 1 (1.04%) Snow