Cost Optimisation Job Trends in South London

Cost Optimization
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South London requiring Cost Optimisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 83 -
Rank change year-on-year +39 - -
Permanent jobs citing Cost Optimisation 2 3 0
As % of all permanent jobs in South London 0.41% 0.50% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.51% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 3 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £60,000 -
London median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +30.77% -31.58%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South London

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 South London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 409 583 386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 84.50% 97.82% 95.31%
Number of salaries quoted 167 185 300
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,300 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,000 £42,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £52,656 £57,750
Median % change year-on-year -19.29% -8.82% +5.00%
75th Percentile £58,000 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £78,500 £85,000 £83,750
London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

Cost Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cost Optimisation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in South London.

Cost Optimisation job vacancy trend in South London

Cost Optimisation
Salary Trend in South London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Cost Optimisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Cost Optimisation

Cost Optimisation
Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Bromley - 2 - - 7
Cost Optimisation
London

Cost Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (50.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jaeger
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Budget Control
1 1 (50.00%) Budgeting
1 1 (50.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Fintech
1 1 (50.00%) GitOps
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) People Management
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Product Management
1 1 (50.00%) Project Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Remediation Plan
1 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Go
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) FINRA
1 1 (50.00%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Argo
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Kustomize
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google