Cost Optimisation Jobs in the Midlands

Cost Optimization
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 243 305 308
Rank change year-on-year +62 +3 +53
Permanent jobs citing Cost Optimisation 11 21 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.16% 0.17% 0.100%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.21% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 5 11 7
10th Percentile - £43,366 £51,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £47,450 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.85% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £48,000 £68,750 £126,875
90th Percentile £58,200 - £185,000
England median annual salary £60,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.92% -7.14% -12.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,254 9,902 8,701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 91.73% 81.38% 96.47%
Number of salaries quoted 2,409 7,211 4,406
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £33,000 £35,000 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,374 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Optimisation in the Midlands

Cost Optimisation
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Cost Optimisation in the Midlands

Cost Optimisation
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cost Optimisation in the Midlands over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cost Optimisation in the Midlands

Cost Optimisation
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cost Optimisation within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +59 7 £46,000 -31.85% 97
East Midlands +35 4 - - 68
Cost Optimisation
England

Cost Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) AWS
2 7 (63.64%) Azure
3 6 (54.55%) Entra ID
4 4 (36.36%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (36.36%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Purview
4 4 (36.36%) Pulumi
4 4 (36.36%) Route 53
5 2 (18.18%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (18.18%) IaaS
5 2 (18.18%) PaaS
6 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) Firewall
1 6 (54.55%) SD-WAN
1 6 (54.55%) VPN
1 6 (54.55%) WAN
2 4 (36.36%) Broadband
2 4 (36.36%) HTTPS
2 4 (36.36%) VLAN
3 2 (18.18%) LAN
3 2 (18.18%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) NoSQL
1 4 (36.36%) RDBMS
1 4 (36.36%) Relational Database
2 1 (9.09%) Power BI
2 1 (9.09%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Jaeger
General
1 8 (72.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (18.18%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Azure Engineer
1 6 (54.55%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (54.55%) Cloud Engineer
1 6 (54.55%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Lead
2 4 (36.36%) Team Leader
3 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (36.36%) OpenTelemetry
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Windows
1 6 (54.55%) Windows Server
2 4 (36.36%) Linux
2 4 (36.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Performance Optimisation
2 6 (54.55%) Cost Management
2 6 (54.55%) DevOps
2 6 (54.55%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (54.55%) High Availability
2 6 (54.55%) Identity Management
2 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure Management
2 6 (54.55%) Mentoring
3 5 (45.45%) Agile
4 4 (36.36%) Budget Control
4 4 (36.36%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (36.36%) GitOps
4 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (36.36%) Load Balancing
4 4 (36.36%) Problem Management
4 4 (36.36%) Product Management
4 4 (36.36%) Resource Management
4 4 (36.36%) Security Operations
4 4 (36.36%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) PowerShell
2 4 (36.36%) Bash
2 4 (36.36%) Go
2 4 (36.36%) Java
2 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
2 4 (36.36%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) AWS Certification
2 6 (54.55%) Azure Certification
3 4 (36.36%) CompTIA Security+
3 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Active Directory
2 4 (36.36%) Docker
2 4 (36.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Ansible
1 4 (36.36%) Argo
1 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
1 4 (36.36%) Kustomize
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (36.36%) Prometheus
1 4 (36.36%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 4 (36.36%) Google
3 1 (9.09%) Databricks