Cost Optimisation Jobs in Scotland

Cost Optimization
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 149 276 225
Rank change year-on-year +127 -51 +15
Permanent jobs citing Cost Optimisation 6 3 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.20% 0.045% 0.043%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.048% 0.045%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile - £56,625 £54,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £64,688 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £81,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -43.38% +30.00% +7.18%
75th Percentile £60,938 £99,688 £68,750
90th Percentile £73,875 £108,875 £71,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% -10.34% -9.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,758 6,204 4,398
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.89% 92.46% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,356 2,420 2,209
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,375 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,471 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £63,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,958 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Cost Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Optimisation in Scotland

Cost Optimisation
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Cost Optimisation in Scotland

Cost Optimisation
Salary Histogram in Scotland

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

Salary histogram for Cost Optimisation in Scotland

Cost Optimisation
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cost Optimisation within the Scotland 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
Glasgow +185 5 £46,000 -43.38% 3
Edinburgh - 1 - -
Cost Optimisation
UK

Cost Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
1 1 (16.67%) Tableau
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Billing
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Law
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) IT Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) IT Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) ARM Templates
1 1 (16.67%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) CMDB
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Life Science
2 1 (16.67%) Private Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (33.33%) Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Cost Management
2 2 (33.33%) IT Asset Management
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) Microservices
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (16.67%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 1 (16.67%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (16.67%) IT Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bicep
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) Dynatrace
2 1 (16.67%) Google