Cost Optimisation Jobs in the North of England

Cost Optimization
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 335 374 425
Rank change year-on-year +39 +51 -13
Permanent jobs citing Cost Optimisation 14 13 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.12% 0.070% 0.049%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.086% 0.051%
Number of salaries quoted 8 11 8
10th Percentile £56,250 £37,500 £53,000
25th Percentile £61,875 £39,244 £56,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £41,774 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +61.58% -40.32% +47.37%
75th Percentile £68,750 £60,625 £78,750
90th Percentile £72,875 £70,000 £87,750
England median annual salary £60,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.92% -7.14% -9.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,078 15,074 15,835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 94.14% 81.62% 96.71%
Number of salaries quoted 5,542 11,471 7,791
10th Percentile £25,087 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £61,967 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,250 £81,250
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Optimisation in the North of England

Cost Optimisation
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cost Optimisation in the North of England.

Salary trend for Cost Optimisation in the North of England

Cost Optimisation
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cost Optimisation in the North of England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cost Optimisation in the North of England

Cost Optimisation
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 31 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
North West +4 7 £62,500 +25.00% 16
Yorkshire +53 4 £67,500 +68.75% 16
North East +52 3 - - 3
Cost Optimisation
England

Cost Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) AWS
2 5 (35.71%) Azure
3 4 (28.57%) Pulumi
4 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) NoSQL
1 4 (28.57%) RDBMS
1 4 (28.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Jaeger
General
1 6 (42.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Billing
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Law
2 2 (14.29%) Retail
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Data Manager
1 4 (28.57%) Engineering Manager
1 4 (28.57%) Lead
1 4 (28.57%) Team Leader
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Consultant
2 2 (14.29%) IT Manager
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) IT Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Site Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) CMDB
1 2 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
1 4 (28.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Mentoring
2 8 (57.14%) Roadmaps
3 6 (42.86%) Agile
4 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
4 5 (35.71%) Coaching
4 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
4 5 (35.71%) DevOps
4 5 (35.71%) High Availability
4 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (35.71%) Task Automation
5 4 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (28.57%) Data Engineering
5 4 (28.57%) Data Governance
5 4 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (28.57%) GitOps
5 4 (28.57%) People Management
5 4 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
5 4 (28.57%) Product Management
5 4 (28.57%) Resource Management
5 4 (28.57%) SQL Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) Python
2 4 (28.57%) Bash
2 4 (28.57%) Go
2 4 (28.57%) Java
2 4 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 4 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.14%) CCNA
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (7.14%) MCITP
2 1 (7.14%) MCSE
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
2 1 (7.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Kubernetes
1 5 (35.71%) Prometheus
1 5 (35.71%) Terraform
2 4 (28.57%) Ansible
2 4 (28.57%) Argo
2 4 (28.57%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Databricks
1 4 (28.57%) Google
2 2 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.14%) Dynatrace
3 1 (7.14%) Facebook
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft