Cost Optimisation Jobs in the South East

Cost Optimization
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 9 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 264 370 376
Rank change year-on-year +106 +6 +50
Permanent jobs citing Cost Optimisation 43 26 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.44% 0.14% 0.097%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.17% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 17 20 12
10th Percentile £52,000 - £35,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £90,000 £58,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,250 £60,000 £72,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -7.14% -7.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,924 15,154 12,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 91.69% 82.41% 94.34%
Number of salaries quoted 4,409 10,313 7,591
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,750 £30,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £85,000
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Optimisation in the South East

Cost Optimisation
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Cost Optimisation in the South East

Cost Optimisation
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cost Optimisation in the South East over the 6 months to 9 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Cost Optimisation in the South East

Cost Optimisation
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cost Optimisation within the South East region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
Surrey +70 19 £92,500 +68.18% 4
Hampshire +75 12 £60,000 +4.35% 1
Thames Valley +66 5 £65,000 -3.70% 36
Berkshire +37 5 £65,000 - 29
Kent - 4 £55,000 -
Middlesex - 3 - - 1
Cost Optimisation
England

Cost Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 27 (62.79%) AWS
2 25 (58.14%) Pulumi
3 5 (11.63%) Azure
4 4 (9.30%) Serverless
5 2 (4.65%) GCP
6 1 (2.33%) AWS IoT
6 1 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.33%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.33%) PaaS
6 1 (2.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (58.14%) Broadband
2 1 (2.33%) MQTT
2 1 (2.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (58.14%) NoSQL
1 25 (58.14%) RDBMS
1 25 (58.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (58.14%) Jaeger
General
1 25 (58.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 11 (25.58%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (18.60%) Finance
4 7 (16.28%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 25 (58.14%) Lead
1 25 (58.14%) Team Leader
2 6 (13.95%) Architect
2 6 (13.95%) IT Manager
3 4 (9.30%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (4.65%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (4.65%) Platform Manager
4 2 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.33%) Analyst
5 1 (2.33%) Author
5 1 (2.33%) AWS Architect
5 1 (2.33%) AWS Developer
5 1 (2.33%) Business Analyst
5 1 (2.33%) Business Manager
5 1 (2.33%) Developer
5 1 (2.33%) Financial Analyst
5 1 (2.33%) Head of IT
5 1 (2.33%) Head of Operations
5 1 (2.33%) SAP Architect
5 1 (2.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (58.14%) Elastic Stack
1 25 (58.14%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (2.33%) Kafka
2 1 (2.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) CMDB
2 2 (4.65%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.33%) Augmented Reality
3 1 (2.33%) IoT
3 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.33%) PMI
3 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 27 (62.79%) Linux
2 25 (58.14%) Unix
3 1 (2.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (72.09%) Roadmaps
2 28 (65.12%) Containerisation
2 28 (65.12%) DevOps
3 27 (62.79%) Agile
3 27 (62.79%) High Availability
3 27 (62.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (60.47%) Mentoring
5 25 (58.14%) Budget Control
5 25 (58.14%) Continuous Integration
5 25 (58.14%) GitOps
5 25 (58.14%) Performance Optimisation
5 25 (58.14%) Product Management
5 25 (58.14%) Resource Management
5 25 (58.14%) Task Automation
6 11 (25.58%) Decision-Making
7 9 (20.93%) Analytical Thinking
8 7 (16.28%) ITIL
8 7 (16.28%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (13.95%) Asset Management
9 6 (13.95%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 26 (60.47%) Java
2 25 (58.14%) Bash
2 25 (58.14%) Go
2 25 (58.14%) JavaScript
2 25 (58.14%) Python
3 1 (2.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 27 (62.79%) AWS Certification
2 4 (9.30%) Degree
2 4 (9.30%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.33%) ACCA
4 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.33%) CBAP
4 1 (2.33%) CFA
4 1 (2.33%) CIMA
4 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.33%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.33%) PMP
4 1 (2.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.33%) GDPR
2 1 (2.33%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.33%) NIST
2 1 (2.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (2.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 26 (60.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (60.47%) Kubernetes
1 26 (60.47%) Prometheus
1 26 (60.47%) Terraform
2 25 (58.14%) Ansible
2 25 (58.14%) Argo
2 25 (58.14%) Kustomize
3 1 (2.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 26 (60.47%) Google
2 6 (13.95%) ServiceNow
3 4 (9.30%) Salesforce
4 3 (6.98%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.98%) SAP
5 1 (2.33%) Workday