Cost Optimisation Jobs in London

Cost Optimization
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 231 470 500
Rank change year-on-year +239 +30 +80
Permanent jobs citing Cost Optimisation 172 37 108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.36% 0.15% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% 0.17% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 81 26 40
10th Percentile £47,500 £62,500 £48,700
25th Percentile £50,000 £63,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -14.29% -21.25%
75th Percentile £87,500 £75,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £108,750 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% -9.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,216 21,652 31,243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.26% 90.32% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 6,929 15,871 22,511
10th Percentile £41,700 £37,500 £42,789
25th Percentile £55,500 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,055
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Cost Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Optimisation in London

Cost Optimisation
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Cost Optimisation in London

Cost Optimisation
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cost Optimisation in London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cost Optimisation in London

Cost Optimisation
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cost Optimisation within the London region over the 6 months to 30 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
South London - 31 £65,000 - 1
Central London - 19 £92,500 - 3
West London - 18 £64,500 - 14
East London - 10 - -
North London - 7 - -
Cost Optimisation
England

Cost Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (2.91%) Confluence
2 3 (1.74%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.16%) Apache
3 2 (1.16%) nginx
4 1 (0.58%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.58%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.58%) Magento
2 1 (0.58%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 130 (75.58%) AWS
2 72 (41.86%) Azure
3 67 (38.95%) Pulumi
4 33 (19.19%) GCP
5 19 (11.05%) AWS CloudFormation
5 19 (11.05%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (9.88%) Azure Monitor
6 17 (9.88%) Serverless
7 15 (8.72%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (6.40%) AWS KMS
9 5 (2.91%) PaaS
10 4 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (2.33%) GitHub
10 4 (2.33%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.74%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (1.74%) Azure AKS
11 3 (1.74%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (1.74%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (1.16%) Azure Functions
12 2 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 67 (38.95%) Broadband
2 21 (12.21%) LAN
2 21 (12.21%) TCP/IP
2 21 (12.21%) VPN
2 21 (12.21%) WAN
3 15 (8.72%) Network Security
4 13 (7.56%) DNS
4 13 (7.56%) Firewall
5 11 (6.40%) BGP
5 11 (6.40%) DHCP
5 11 (6.40%) MPLS
5 11 (6.40%) OSPF
6 4 (2.33%) SAN
7 2 (1.16%) NAS
7 2 (1.16%) SNMP
7 2 (1.16%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (38.95%) NoSQL
1 67 (38.95%) RDBMS
1 67 (38.95%) Relational Database
2 4 (2.33%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.74%) Big Data
3 3 (1.74%) Power BI
4 1 (0.58%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.58%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.58%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.58%) Looker
4 1 (0.58%) Parquet
4 1 (0.58%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.58%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 67 (38.95%) Jaeger
2 5 (2.91%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.74%) Git
3 3 (1.74%) GitLab
3 3 (1.74%) JIRA
General
1 68 (39.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 43 (25.00%) Finance
3 38 (22.09%) Social Skills
4 33 (19.19%) Banking
5 17 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (6.40%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.74%) Law
8 2 (1.16%) Front Office
8 2 (1.16%) Local Government
8 2 (1.16%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.58%) Automotive
9 1 (0.58%) Billing
9 1 (0.58%) Games
9 1 (0.58%) Legal
9 1 (0.58%) Marketing
9 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 85 (49.42%) Lead
2 78 (45.35%) Team Leader
3 22 (12.79%) Architect
4 19 (11.05%) Cloud Architect
5 16 (9.30%) AWS Architect
6 11 (6.40%) Network Engineer
6 11 (6.40%) Wintel Engineer
7 10 (5.81%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (5.23%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 9 (5.23%) 3rd Line Support
8 9 (5.23%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 9 (5.23%) Senior
8 9 (5.23%) Support Engineer
9 6 (3.49%) Azure Architect
10 5 (2.91%) 1st Line Support
10 5 (2.91%) IT Manager
10 5 (2.91%) Kubernetes Architect
10 5 (2.91%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (2.33%) Consultant
11 4 (2.33%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (46.51%) Elastic Stack
2 69 (40.12%) OpenTelemetry
3 13 (7.56%) Kafka
4 3 (1.74%) ARM Templates
4 3 (1.74%) YAML
5 2 (1.16%) PySpark
6 1 (0.58%) .NET
6 1 (0.58%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.14%) Management Information System
2 10 (5.81%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (4.07%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.58%) CMDB
6 1 (0.58%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.58%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.58%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.58%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.58%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 69 (40.12%) Linux
2 67 (38.95%) Unix
3 26 (15.12%) Windows
4 21 (12.21%) Windows Server
5 11 (6.40%) Windows Server 2012
5 11 (6.40%) Windows Server 2016
5 11 (6.40%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.58%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (69.77%) DevOps
2 116 (67.44%) High Availability
3 95 (55.23%) Resource Management
4 93 (54.07%) Containerisation
4 93 (54.07%) Infrastructure as Code
5 84 (48.84%) Mentoring
6 80 (46.51%) Product Management
7 79 (45.93%) Agile
8 72 (41.86%) Performance Optimisation
8 72 (41.86%) Task Automation
9 71 (41.28%) Roadmaps
10 68 (39.53%) Continuous Integration
11 67 (38.95%) Budget Control
11 67 (38.95%) GitOps
12 53 (30.81%) ITIL
13 43 (25.00%) CI/CD
14 37 (21.51%) Artificial Intelligence
15 36 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
16 33 (19.19%) Incident Management
17 32 (18.60%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 86 (50.00%) Python
2 82 (47.67%) Java
3 81 (47.09%) Bash
4 67 (38.95%) Go
4 67 (38.95%) JavaScript
5 17 (9.88%) SQL
6 16 (9.30%) C#
7 14 (8.14%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.74%) Bicep
9 1 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 86 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 23 (13.37%) Azure Certification
3 21 (12.21%) CCNA
3 21 (12.21%) Cisco Certification
4 20 (11.63%) Microsoft Certification
5 19 (11.05%) Security Cleared
6 18 (10.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 16 (9.30%) Degree
8 13 (7.56%) SC Cleared
9 12 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (6.40%) CCNP
11 10 (5.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 9 (5.23%) MCSE
12 9 (5.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
14 1 (0.58%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (13.37%) SLA
2 15 (8.72%) GDPR
3 13 (7.56%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.16%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.58%) PSD2
System Software
1 90 (52.33%) Docker
2 22 (12.79%) Active Directory
3 13 (7.56%) Hyper-V
3 13 (7.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 109 (63.37%) Terraform
2 93 (54.07%) Kubernetes
3 84 (48.84%) Prometheus
4 75 (43.60%) Ansible
5 67 (38.95%) Argo
5 67 (38.95%) Kustomize
6 15 (8.72%) Grafana
7 11 (6.40%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (6.40%) Nagios
7 11 (6.40%) NetBackup
7 11 (6.40%) SCCM
7 11 (6.40%) SCOM
8 2 (1.16%) HAProxy
8 2 (1.16%) Istio
8 2 (1.16%) linkerd
Vendors
1 87 (50.58%) Google
2 38 (22.09%) Microsoft
3 22 (12.79%) SolarWinds
4 16 (9.30%) ServiceNow
5 13 (7.56%) VMware
6 11 (6.40%) Veeam
7 6 (3.49%) Databricks
8 2 (1.16%) Citrix
8 2 (1.16%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.16%) F5
8 2 (1.16%) Splunk
9 1 (0.58%) Adobe
9 1 (0.58%) BMC
9 1 (0.58%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.58%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.58%) Remedy
9 1 (0.58%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.58%) SAP