Cost Reduction Jobs in England

Cost Reduction
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Cost Reduction skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cost Reduction over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 565 470 652
Rank change year-on-year -95 +182 +35
Permanent jobs citing Cost Reduction 125 396 291
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.26% 0.46% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.54% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 52 207 145
10th Percentile £28,625 £35,277 £32,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £55,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.36% -5.98% +11.43%
75th Percentile £65,250 £73,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £74,875 £82,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,979 73,257 86,134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.14% 85.46% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 23,654 53,821 51,155
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,324
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,410 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £101,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Cost Reduction
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Reduction in England

Cost Reduction
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Cost Reduction in England

Cost Reduction
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cost Reduction in England over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cost Reduction in England

Cost Reduction
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 Reduction within the England region over the 6 months to 14 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 +48 42 £62,500 -3.85% 141
Midlands -10 22 £61,250 +22.50% 14
East of England +43 19 £33,250 -49.62% 7
North of England -2 17 £35,000 -52.41% 39
West Midlands +23 16 £62,500 +14.36% 9
South West +96 13 £57,500 - 14
North West -35 13 £32,500 -55.81% 17
South East +39 12 £59,500 +19.00% 38
East Midlands -7 6 £42,500 +8.97% 4
Yorkshire +65 4 £64,000 -13.28% 13
Cost Reduction
UK

Cost Reduction
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 5 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (4.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.80%) Apache
2 1 (0.80%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.80%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (5.60%) Maya
2 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.60%) AutoCAD
3 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (8.00%) Oracle Applications
1 10 (8.00%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (5.60%) SAP IBP
2 7 (5.60%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 41 (32.80%) Azure
2 31 (24.80%) AWS
3 22 (17.60%) GCP
4 18 (14.40%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (4.00%) OneDrive
5 5 (4.00%) Serverless
5 5 (4.00%) Snowflake
6 4 (3.20%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (3.20%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.20%) SaaS
7 2 (1.60%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (1.60%) dbt
8 1 (0.80%) GitHub
8 1 (0.80%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.80%) IaaS
8 1 (0.80%) MinIO
8 1 (0.80%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.80%) PaaS
8 1 (0.80%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.80%) Unified Communications
2 4 (3.20%) IPv4
2 4 (3.20%) VoIP
3 3 (2.40%) Firewall
3 3 (2.40%) Network Security
4 2 (1.60%) OSPF
4 2 (1.60%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.60%) VLAN
4 2 (1.60%) VPN
5 1 (0.80%) H.323
5 1 (0.80%) ISDN
5 1 (0.80%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.80%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.80%) Softphone
5 1 (0.80%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.60%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (5.60%) SAP BW
2 4 (3.20%) Big Data
2 4 (3.20%) Power BI
3 2 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.60%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.80%) GIS
4 1 (0.80%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.80%) MySQL
4 1 (0.80%) Redis
4 1 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.80%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (2.40%) Git
General
1 32 (25.60%) Law
2 31 (24.80%) Social Skills
3 30 (24.00%) Finance
4 27 (21.60%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (12.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (12.80%) Organisational Skills
5 16 (12.80%) Telecoms
6 14 (11.20%) Banking
7 13 (10.40%) Retail
8 12 (9.60%) Manufacturing
9 8 (6.40%) Games
9 8 (6.40%) Legal
10 7 (5.60%) Automotive
10 7 (5.60%) Public Sector
11 5 (4.00%) Marketing
12 4 (3.20%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.80%) Electronics
13 1 (0.80%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 29 (23.20%) Lead
2 16 (12.80%) Architect
2 16 (12.80%) Senior
3 14 (11.20%) Data Engineer
3 14 (11.20%) Lead Data Engineer
3 14 (11.20%) Platform Engineer
3 14 (11.20%) Support Engineer
4 10 (8.00%) Applications Support
5 9 (7.20%) Analyst
6 8 (6.40%) Applications Engineer
6 8 (6.40%) Applications Support Engineer
6 8 (6.40%) Infrastructure Manager
6 8 (6.40%) SAP Architect
7 7 (5.60%) Business Analyst
7 7 (5.60%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
7 7 (5.60%) IT Architect
7 7 (5.60%) IT Engineer
7 7 (5.60%) SAP Functional Architect
7 7 (5.60%) Senior Architect
8 6 (4.80%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (13.60%) Middleware
2 14 (11.20%) ARM Templates
3 10 (8.00%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (4.00%) PyTorch
4 5 (4.00%) scikit-learn
4 5 (4.00%) TensorFlow
5 4 (3.20%) .NET
6 2 (1.60%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.60%) Google JAX
6 2 (1.60%) JAX
6 2 (1.60%) NumPy
6 2 (1.60%) Vue
7 1 (0.80%) Angular 2
7 1 (0.80%) Kafka
7 1 (0.80%) LAPP Stack
7 1 (0.80%) Next.js
7 1 (0.80%) Node.js
7 1 (0.80%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.80%) Ray
7 1 (0.80%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.20%) PMI
2 8 (6.40%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (5.60%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (5.60%) Enterprise Cloud
3 7 (5.60%) Reinsurance
4 5 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (4.00%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.20%) Operational Technology
5 4 (3.20%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.40%) CMDB
6 3 (2.40%) Credit Risk
6 3 (2.40%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.60%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.60%) Industry 4.0
7 2 (1.60%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.80%) BYOD
8 1 (0.80%) Cyber Warfare
8 1 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.80%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.80%) Windows
2 5 (4.00%) Linux
2 5 (4.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.80%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (31.20%) Roadmaps
2 32 (25.60%) Analytics
3 29 (23.20%) Artificial Intelligence
3 29 (23.20%) Stakeholder Management
4 28 (22.40%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (20.80%) Agile
6 24 (19.20%) Data Science
7 22 (17.60%) Computer Science
8 20 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 18 (14.40%) Cost Management
10 17 (13.60%) Asset Management
10 17 (13.60%) Project Delivery
10 17 (13.60%) Strategic Roadmap
11 16 (12.80%) Cybersecurity
12 15 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (12.00%) Decision-Making
13 14 (11.20%) Containerisation
13 14 (11.20%) Network Virtualisation
13 14 (11.20%) Platform Engineering
14 13 (10.40%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 29 (23.20%) Python
2 20 (16.00%) SQL
3 16 (12.80%) Java
4 14 (11.20%) Scala
5 5 (4.00%) Bash
5 5 (4.00%) PowerShell
6 4 (3.20%) R
7 3 (2.40%) C#
8 2 (1.60%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.80%) Go
9 1 (0.80%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 35 (28.00%) Degree
2 17 (13.60%) Computer Science Degree
2 17 (13.60%) Master's Degree
3 9 (7.20%) PMI Certification
4 5 (4.00%) CBAP
4 5 (4.00%) DBS Check
5 4 (3.20%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.20%) CISSP
5 4 (3.20%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.20%) Security Cleared
6 3 (2.40%) APMG
6 3 (2.40%) CCIE
6 3 (2.40%) CCNP
6 3 (2.40%) CCSE
6 3 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.40%) CISM
7 2 (1.60%) PhD
8 1 (0.80%) ACCA
8 1 (0.80%) CIMA
8 1 (0.80%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.20%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (4.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 5 (4.00%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.40%) GDPR
4 2 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 19770
System Software
1 15 (12.00%) Docker
2 6 (4.80%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.80%) KVM
4 1 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.80%) Xen
Systems Management
1 17 (13.60%) Kubernetes
2 16 (12.80%) Terraform
3 5 (4.00%) Ansible
3 5 (4.00%) Puppet
4 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.80%) CFEngine
5 1 (0.80%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.80%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (0.80%) Cisco UCCX
5 1 (0.80%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.80%) Grafana
5 1 (0.80%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.80%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (13.60%) Cisco
2 14 (11.20%) Google
3 12 (9.60%) Microsoft
3 12 (9.60%) ServiceNow
4 11 (8.80%) Oracle
5 9 (7.20%) SAP
6 7 (5.60%) Ariba
7 4 (3.20%) Genesys
7 4 (3.20%) VMware
8 3 (2.40%) Arista
8 3 (2.40%) CheckPoint
8 3 (2.40%) F5
8 3 (2.40%) Facebook
8 3 (2.40%) Fortinet
8 3 (2.40%) Palo Alto
8 3 (2.40%) YouTube
9 2 (1.60%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.80%) Informatica
10 1 (0.80%) Intel
10 1 (0.80%) JDA