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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 231 471 516
Rank change year-on-year +240 +45 +70
Permanent jobs citing Cost Optimisation 175 40 105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.36% 0.17% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% 0.19% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 87 29 37
10th Percentile £47,500 £62,000 £50,850
25th Percentile £50,000 £63,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -15.63% -20.00%
75th Percentile £86,875 £75,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £99,500 £105,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £71,250
% change year-on-year -7.69% -8.77% -10.94%

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 12,375 21,526 32,049
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.17% 90.97% 95.36%
Number of salaries quoted 7,226 15,906 23,132
10th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £43,257
25th Percentile £55,500 £51,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
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 19 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 19 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 - 33 £65,000 - 1
Central London +52 20 £92,500 -2.63% 6
West London - 18 £64,500 - 4
East London - 11 £85,000 - 1
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 4 (2.29%) Confluence
2 3 (1.71%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.14%) Apache
3 2 (1.14%) nginx
4 1 (0.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.57%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.57%) Magento
2 1 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 133 (76.00%) AWS
2 71 (40.57%) Azure
3 67 (38.29%) Pulumi
4 32 (18.29%) GCP
5 20 (11.43%) AWS CloudFormation
5 20 (11.43%) Serverless
6 19 (10.86%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (9.71%) AWS Lambda
7 17 (9.71%) Azure Monitor
8 13 (7.43%) AWS KMS
9 6 (3.43%) PaaS
10 5 (2.86%) Power Platform
11 4 (2.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (2.29%) GitHub
12 3 (1.71%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (1.71%) Azure AKS
12 3 (1.71%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (1.71%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (1.14%) Azure Functions
13 2 (1.14%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 67 (38.29%) Broadband
2 18 (10.29%) LAN
2 18 (10.29%) TCP/IP
2 18 (10.29%) WAN
3 17 (9.71%) Network Security
3 17 (9.71%) VPN
4 12 (6.86%) DNS
5 11 (6.29%) Firewall
6 10 (5.71%) DHCP
7 9 (5.14%) BGP
7 9 (5.14%) MPLS
7 9 (5.14%) OSPF
8 4 (2.29%) SAN
9 2 (1.14%) NAS
9 2 (1.14%) SNMP
9 2 (1.14%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (38.86%) NoSQL
2 67 (38.29%) RDBMS
2 67 (38.29%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.29%) Big Data
3 4 (2.29%) Data Lake
3 4 (2.29%) Power BI
4 1 (0.57%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.57%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.57%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.57%) Looker
4 1 (0.57%) Parquet
4 1 (0.57%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 67 (38.29%) Jaeger
2 4 (2.29%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.71%) Git
3 3 (1.71%) GitLab
4 2 (1.14%) JIRA
General
1 68 (38.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 39 (22.29%) Finance
2 39 (22.29%) Social Skills
3 28 (16.00%) Banking
4 15 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.14%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.71%) Law
6 3 (1.71%) Marketing
7 2 (1.14%) Front Office
7 2 (1.14%) Local Government
7 2 (1.14%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.57%) Automotive
8 1 (0.57%) Billing
8 1 (0.57%) Games
8 1 (0.57%) Legal
8 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.57%) Retail
8 1 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 83 (47.43%) Lead
2 76 (43.43%) Team Leader
3 27 (15.43%) Architect
4 21 (12.00%) Cloud Architect
5 19 (10.86%) AWS Architect
6 12 (6.86%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (5.71%) Wintel Engineer
8 9 (5.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 9 (5.14%) 3rd Line Support
8 9 (5.14%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 9 (5.14%) Network Engineer
8 9 (5.14%) Support Engineer
9 8 (4.57%) Senior
10 7 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (3.43%) Azure Architect
11 6 (3.43%) Kubernetes Architect
12 5 (2.86%) 1st Line Support
12 5 (2.86%) Consultant
12 5 (2.86%) Data Architect
12 5 (2.86%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (46.86%) Elastic Stack
2 70 (40.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 15 (8.57%) Kafka
4 3 (1.71%) ARM Templates
4 3 (1.71%) YAML
5 2 (1.14%) .NET
5 2 (1.14%) PySpark
6 1 (0.57%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.57%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.57%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.57%) Blazor
6 1 (0.57%) React
6 1 (0.57%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.71%) Management Information System
2 10 (5.71%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.14%) CMDB
4 2 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.57%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.57%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.57%) NHS
5 1 (0.57%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.57%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.57%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 70 (40.00%) Linux
2 67 (38.29%) Unix
3 22 (12.57%) Windows
4 18 (10.29%) Windows Server
5 10 (5.71%) Windows Server 2012
5 10 (5.71%) Windows Server 2016
5 10 (5.71%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (71.43%) DevOps
2 113 (64.57%) High Availability
3 99 (56.57%) Containerisation
4 97 (55.43%) Resource Management
5 95 (54.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 87 (49.71%) Mentoring
7 83 (47.43%) Product Management
8 78 (44.57%) Agile
9 73 (41.71%) Performance Optimisation
10 72 (41.14%) Roadmaps
10 72 (41.14%) Task Automation
11 68 (38.86%) Continuous Integration
12 67 (38.29%) Budget Control
12 67 (38.29%) GitOps
13 48 (27.43%) ITIL
14 46 (26.29%) CI/CD
15 31 (17.71%) Artificial Intelligence
15 31 (17.71%) Problem-Solving
16 28 (16.00%) Incident Management
17 27 (15.43%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 85 (48.57%) Python
2 84 (48.00%) Java
3 79 (45.14%) Bash
4 67 (38.29%) Go
4 67 (38.29%) JavaScript
5 19 (10.86%) SQL
6 17 (9.71%) C#
7 13 (7.43%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.14%) Bicep
9 1 (0.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 90 (51.43%) AWS Certification
2 23 (13.14%) Security Cleared
3 22 (12.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 22 (12.57%) Azure Certification
4 18 (10.29%) Degree
4 18 (10.29%) Microsoft Certification
5 17 (9.71%) CCNA
5 17 (9.71%) Cisco Certification
5 17 (9.71%) SC Cleared
6 15 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (5.14%) CCNP
7 9 (5.14%) MCSE
7 9 (5.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 8 (4.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.57%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.57%) RHCE
10 1 (0.57%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (11.43%) SLA
2 16 (9.14%) GDPR
3 15 (8.57%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.14%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.57%) PSD2
System Software
1 94 (53.71%) Docker
2 19 (10.86%) Active Directory
3 12 (6.86%) Hyper-V
3 12 (6.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 112 (64.00%) Terraform
2 99 (56.57%) Kubernetes
3 87 (49.71%) Prometheus
4 77 (44.00%) Ansible
5 67 (38.29%) Argo
5 67 (38.29%) Kustomize
6 17 (9.71%) Grafana
7 10 (5.71%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (5.71%) NetBackup
7 10 (5.71%) SCCM
7 10 (5.71%) SCOM
8 9 (5.14%) Nagios
9 2 (1.14%) HAProxy
9 2 (1.14%) Istio
9 2 (1.14%) linkerd
Vendors
1 88 (50.29%) Google
2 36 (20.57%) Microsoft
3 19 (10.86%) SolarWinds
4 15 (8.57%) ServiceNow
5 12 (6.86%) VMware
6 10 (5.71%) Veeam
7 7 (4.00%) Databricks
8 3 (1.71%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.14%) Citrix
9 2 (1.14%) F5
9 2 (1.14%) Splunk
10 1 (0.57%) Adobe
10 1 (0.57%) BMC
10 1 (0.57%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.57%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.57%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.57%) Remedy
10 1 (0.57%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.57%) SAP