Cost Optimisation Jobs in England

Cost Optimization
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Cost Optimisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cost Optimisation over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 733 764
Rank change year-on-year +384 +31 -62
Permanent jobs citing Cost Optimisation 360 101 144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.74% 0.12% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.14% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 116 69 68
10th Percentile £47,500 £43,366 £48,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.92% -7.14% -12.50%
75th Percentile £85,313 £71,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £82,500 £120,000
UK median annual salary £61,750 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% -7.14% -12.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,518 73,613 83,897
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.19% 84.97% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 22,437 53,908 49,787
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,000 £34,324
25th Percentile £41,750 £40,000 £46,067
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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 23 May 2025.

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 23 May 2025. 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 +236 173 £60,000 -11.11% 152
South East +112 41 £65,000 +13.04% 232
East of England +64 29 £85,000 +78.95% 122
North of England +42 12 £67,500 +61.58% 203
Midlands +62 11 £46,000 -31.85% 176
South West +113 9 £85,000 - 111
West Midlands +59 7 £46,000 -31.85% 97
North West +3 7 £62,500 +19.88% 87
East Midlands +35 4 - - 68
Yorkshire +58 3 £67,500 +68.75% 88
North East +48 2 - - 28
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 4 (1.11%) Confluence
1 4 (1.11%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.83%) Apache
2 3 (0.83%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.56%) nginx
4 1 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.56%) Magento
2 1 (0.28%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.28%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 295 (81.94%) AWS
2 215 (59.72%) Pulumi
3 92 (25.56%) Azure
4 37 (10.28%) GCP
5 26 (7.22%) Serverless
6 22 (6.11%) AWS CloudFormation
7 21 (5.83%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (4.72%) Azure Monitor
10 13 (3.61%) AWS KMS
11 8 (2.22%) Entra ID
11 8 (2.22%) PaaS
12 6 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (1.67%) Power Platform
13 5 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
14 4 (1.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 4 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
14 4 (1.11%) GitHub
14 4 (1.11%) Route 53
14 4 (1.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 215 (59.72%) Broadband
2 26 (7.22%) VPN
2 26 (7.22%) WAN
3 22 (6.11%) LAN
4 21 (5.83%) Network Security
5 20 (5.56%) Firewall
6 19 (5.28%) TCP/IP
7 13 (3.61%) DNS
8 11 (3.06%) BGP
8 11 (3.06%) DHCP
8 11 (3.06%) MPLS
8 11 (3.06%) OSPF
9 7 (1.94%) SD-WAN
10 4 (1.11%) HTTPS
10 4 (1.11%) SAN
10 4 (1.11%) VLAN
11 2 (0.56%) NAS
11 2 (0.56%) SNMP
11 2 (0.56%) Wireshark
12 1 (0.28%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 215 (59.72%) NoSQL
1 215 (59.72%) RDBMS
1 215 (59.72%) Relational Database
2 5 (1.39%) Big Data
2 5 (1.39%) Power BI
3 4 (1.11%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.28%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.28%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.28%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.28%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.28%) Looker
5 1 (0.28%) Parquet
5 1 (0.28%) Power Query
5 1 (0.28%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 215 (59.72%) Jaeger
2 4 (1.11%) Git
2 4 (1.11%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.83%) GitLab
4 2 (0.56%) JIRA
General
1 221 (61.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 49 (13.61%) Finance
2 49 (13.61%) Social Skills
3 31 (8.61%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (8.33%) Banking
5 10 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (1.39%) Law
7 4 (1.11%) Legal
7 4 (1.11%) Public Sector
8 2 (0.56%) Billing
8 2 (0.56%) Front Office
8 2 (0.56%) Local Government
8 2 (0.56%) Retail
9 1 (0.28%) Automotive
9 1 (0.28%) Aviation
9 1 (0.28%) Games
9 1 (0.28%) Marketing
9 1 (0.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 235 (65.28%) Lead
2 225 (62.50%) Team Leader
3 32 (8.89%) Architect
4 21 (5.83%) AWS Architect
4 21 (5.83%) Cloud Architect
5 19 (5.28%) Cloud Engineer
6 11 (3.06%) IT Manager
6 11 (3.06%) Senior
7 10 (2.78%) Network Engineer
7 10 (2.78%) Wintel Engineer
8 9 (2.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 9 (2.50%) 3rd Line Support
8 9 (2.50%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 9 (2.50%) Support Engineer
9 8 (2.22%) Azure Engineer
9 8 (2.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (2.22%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (1.94%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (1.67%) Azure Architect
11 6 (1.67%) Kubernetes Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 230 (63.89%) Elastic Stack
2 218 (60.56%) OpenTelemetry
3 17 (4.72%) Kafka
4 3 (0.83%) ARM Templates
4 3 (0.83%) YAML
5 2 (0.56%) .NET
5 2 (0.56%) PySpark
6 1 (0.28%) Akka
6 1 (0.28%) Blazor
6 1 (0.28%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 13 (3.61%) Cloud Native
3 10 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (1.94%) CMDB
5 6 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (0.83%) Data Centre
6 3 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (0.56%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.56%) IoT
7 2 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.28%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.28%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.28%) NHS
8 1 (0.28%) PMI
8 1 (0.28%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.28%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.28%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.28%) Replication
8 1 (0.28%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 221 (61.39%) Linux
2 216 (60.00%) Unix
3 30 (8.33%) Windows
4 26 (7.22%) Windows Server
5 10 (2.78%) Windows Server 2012
5 10 (2.78%) Windows Server 2016
5 10 (2.78%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.83%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (77.50%) DevOps
2 269 (74.72%) High Availability
3 250 (69.44%) Containerisation
3 250 (69.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 246 (68.33%) Resource Management
5 245 (68.06%) Mentoring
6 232 (64.44%) Product Management
7 230 (63.89%) Agile
8 227 (63.06%) Roadmaps
9 224 (62.22%) Performance Optimisation
10 221 (61.39%) Task Automation
11 216 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
12 215 (59.72%) Budget Control
12 215 (59.72%) GitOps
13 60 (16.67%) ITIL
14 55 (15.28%) CI/CD
15 47 (13.06%) Problem-Solving
16 33 (9.17%) Artificial Intelligence
16 33 (9.17%) Continuous Improvement
17 32 (8.89%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 240 (66.67%) Python
2 235 (65.28%) Java
3 229 (63.61%) Bash
4 215 (59.72%) Go
4 215 (59.72%) JavaScript
5 22 (6.11%) SQL
6 21 (5.83%) PowerShell
7 17 (4.72%) C#
8 3 (0.83%) Bicep
9 1 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 246 (68.33%) AWS Certification
2 30 (8.33%) Azure Certification
3 25 (6.94%) Security Cleared
4 24 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 24 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 23 (6.39%) Degree
6 20 (5.56%) CCNA
6 20 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
7 19 (5.28%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (4.44%) SC Cleared
9 10 (2.78%) CCNP
9 10 (2.78%) MCSE
10 9 (2.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 9 (2.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 5 (1.39%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (1.11%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.56%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.56%) PMP
13 2 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.28%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.39%) SLA
2 21 (5.83%) GDPR
3 17 (4.72%) HIPAA
4 7 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.11%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.83%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.28%) NIST
8 1 (0.28%) PSD2
System Software
1 243 (67.50%) Docker
2 27 (7.50%) Active Directory
3 13 (3.61%) Hyper-V
4 12 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 265 (73.61%) Terraform
2 248 (68.89%) Kubernetes
3 236 (65.56%) Prometheus
4 225 (62.50%) Ansible
5 215 (59.72%) Argo
5 215 (59.72%) Kustomize
6 18 (5.00%) Grafana
7 14 (3.89%) Microsoft Intune
8 10 (2.78%) Nagios
8 10 (2.78%) NetBackup
8 10 (2.78%) SCCM
8 10 (2.78%) SCOM
9 2 (0.56%) HAProxy
9 2 (0.56%) Istio
9 2 (0.56%) linkerd
Vendors
1 238 (66.11%) Google
2 48 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 22 (6.11%) SolarWinds
4 21 (5.83%) ServiceNow
5 12 (3.33%) VMware
6 11 (3.06%) Databricks
6 11 (3.06%) Veeam
7 4 (1.11%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.83%) Adobe
8 3 (0.83%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.83%) SAP
8 3 (0.83%) Splunk
9 2 (0.56%) Citrix
9 2 (0.56%) F5
10 1 (0.28%) BMC
10 1 (0.28%) Cisco
10 1 (0.28%) Facebook
10 1 (0.28%) Juniper
10 1 (0.28%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.28%) Remedy