Cost Reduction Jobs in the North of England

Cost Reduction
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 321 388
Rank change year-on-year -1 +67 -22
Permanent jobs citing Cost Reduction 17 69 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.15% 0.39% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.47% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 8 45 27
10th Percentile £30,800 £50,000 £27,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £57,000 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £73,543 £64,029
Median % change year-on-year -52.41% +14.86% +28.06%
75th Percentile £66,000 £75,772 £77,500
90th Percentile - - £77,900
England median annual salary £58,500 £55,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year +6.36% -5.98% +11.43%

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,048 14,622 16,474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 95.01% 83.38% 96.84%
Number of salaries quoted 5,724 11,233 7,867
10th Percentile £25,313 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £37,000 £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 £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Cost Reduction
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Reduction in the North of England

Cost Reduction
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Cost Reduction in the North of England

Cost Reduction
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cost Reduction in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cost Reduction in the North of England

Cost Reduction
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 Reduction within the North of England region over the 6 months to 16 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 -33 13 £32,500 -55.81% 18
Yorkshire +58 4 £64,000 -13.28% 12
Cost Reduction
England

Cost Reduction
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:

Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) Azure
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (17.65%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
1 1 (5.88%) SD-WAN
General
1 6 (35.29%) Law
2 5 (29.41%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Legal
3 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Banking
4 2 (11.76%) Finance
4 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Manager
2 3 (17.65%) Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
2 3 (17.65%) Data Scientist
2 3 (17.65%) Senior
2 3 (17.65%) Senior Data Scientist
3 2 (11.76%) Administrator
3 2 (11.76%) Business Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Industrial Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) IT Administrator
3 2 (11.76%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Operations Business Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Applications Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Asset Management Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) IT Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Junior
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365 Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Procurement Administrator
4 1 (5.88%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) PyTorch
1 3 (17.65%) scikit-learn
1 3 (17.65%) TensorFlow
2 2 (11.76%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (11.76%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (11.76%) Industry 4.0
2 2 (11.76%) Operational Technology
3 1 (5.88%) BYOD
3 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (29.41%) Budget Management
2 5 (29.41%) ITIL
3 4 (23.53%) Process Improvement
4 3 (17.65%) Agile
4 3 (17.65%) Analytics
4 3 (17.65%) Asset Management
4 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (17.65%) Data Governance
4 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Management
4 3 (17.65%) IT Asset Management
4 3 (17.65%) Machine Learning
4 3 (17.65%) Natural Language Processing
4 3 (17.65%) Predictive Modelling
4 3 (17.65%) Project Delivery
4 3 (17.65%) Resource Management
4 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (17.65%) Storytelling
4 3 (17.65%) Time Series Forecasting
4 3 (17.65%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) Python
2 3 (17.65%) SQL
3 2 (11.76%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) CBAP
3 1 (5.88%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) Actionable Recommendations
1 3 (17.65%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (17.65%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) FortiGate
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Cisco
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) VMware