Cost Optimisation Jobs in the North West

Cost Optimization
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 270 291 295
Rank change year-on-year +21 +4 +13
Permanent jobs citing Cost Optimisation 11 2 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.14% 0.020% 0.038%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.024% 0.040%
Number of salaries quoted 8 2 3
10th Percentile £38,750 - -
25th Percentile £45,313 £40,988 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £41,774 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.68% -40.32% +64.71%
75th Percentile £61,875 £42,561 £86,250
90th Percentile £72,000 - £94,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £73,750
% change year-on-year -7.69% -11.86% -7.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,697 8,168 7,530
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.86% 82.81% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 4,045 6,196 3,942
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £30,831
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £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 Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Optimisation in the North West

Cost Optimisation
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Cost Optimisation in the North West

Cost Optimisation
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cost Optimisation in the North West over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cost Optimisation in the North West

Cost Optimisation
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 13 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
Manchester +62 6 £56,250 +34.65% 5
Lancashire -65 2 £39,500 -5.44% 4
Cheshire - 2 - - 1
Cumbria - 1 - -
Cost Optimisation
England

Cost Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (9.09%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) Pulumi
3 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
3 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) NoSQL
1 3 (27.27%) RDBMS
1 3 (27.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Jaeger
General
1 3 (27.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (18.18%) Law
2 2 (18.18%) Marketing
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Consultant
1 3 (27.27%) Lead
1 3 (27.27%) Team Leader
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) IT Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Site Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (27.27%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
1 2 (18.18%) CMDB
2 1 (9.09%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
1 3 (27.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Containerisation
1 6 (54.55%) DevOps
2 5 (45.45%) Roadmaps
3 4 (36.36%) High Availability
3 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
3 4 (36.36%) Task Automation
4 3 (27.27%) Agile
4 3 (27.27%) Budget Control
4 3 (27.27%) Continuous Delivery
4 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (27.27%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (27.27%) GitOps
4 3 (27.27%) Observability
4 3 (27.27%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (27.27%) Proactive Monitoring
4 3 (27.27%) Product Management
4 3 (27.27%) Resource Management
5 2 (18.18%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Bash
1 3 (27.27%) Go
1 3 (27.27%) Java
1 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
1 3 (27.27%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) AWS Certification
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (18.18%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) CCNA
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (9.09%) MCITP
3 1 (9.09%) MCSE
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
1 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Kubernetes
2 5 (45.45%) Prometheus
3 4 (36.36%) Terraform
4 3 (27.27%) Ansible
4 3 (27.27%) Argo
4 3 (27.27%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Google
2 2 (18.18%) Dynatrace
2 2 (18.18%) ServiceNow
3 1 (9.09%) Facebook
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft