Cost Optimisation Jobs in the UK excluding London

Cost Optimization
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 526 696 719
Rank change year-on-year +170 +23 -32
Permanent jobs citing Cost Optimisation 47 63 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.089% 0.052%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.11% 0.054%
Number of salaries quoted 38 41 24
10th Percentile £42,425 £40,988 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,450 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year - -6.12% +18.93%
75th Percentile £68,438 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £70,000 £94,375
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £73,750
% change year-on-year -7.69% -11.86% -7.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,295 59,625 57,307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.88% 84.00% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 18,237 41,241 29,486
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,200 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

Cost Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cost Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cost Optimisation in the UK excluding London

Cost Optimisation
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cost Optimisation in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Cost Optimisation in the UK excluding London

Cost Optimisation
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cost Optimisation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cost Optimisation in the UK excluding London

Cost Optimisation
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
South East +93 15 £65,000 +13.04% 52
North of England +63 10 £56,250 +34.65% 26
Midlands +54 10 £48,000 -28.89% 16
West Midlands +52 8 £48,000 -28.89% 10
North West +8 8 £51,250 +22.68% 8
Scotland +125 6 £46,000 -43.38% 6
South West +110 4 - - 10
Yorkshire +62 2 £67,500 +68.75% 16
East Midlands +41 2 - - 6
East of England +39 2 £105,000 +121.05% 3
Cost Optimisation
UK

Cost Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (8.51%) SharePoint
2 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Cloudability
1 1 (2.13%) NetSuite
1 1 (2.13%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 22 (46.81%) Azure
2 14 (29.79%) AWS
3 7 (14.89%) Entra ID
4 6 (12.77%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (10.64%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (10.64%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (10.64%) Serverless
6 4 (8.51%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (8.51%) Route 53
7 3 (6.38%) GCP
7 3 (6.38%) Power Platform
8 2 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (4.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (4.26%) IaaS
8 2 (4.26%) OpenShift
8 2 (4.26%) PaaS
8 2 (4.26%) SaaS
9 1 (2.13%) AWS IoT
Communications & Networking
1 9 (19.15%) Firewall
2 8 (17.02%) SD-WAN
2 8 (17.02%) VPN
2 8 (17.02%) WAN
3 5 (10.64%) Network Security
4 4 (8.51%) HTTPS
4 4 (8.51%) LAN
4 4 (8.51%) VLAN
5 2 (4.26%) BGP
5 2 (4.26%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (4.26%) DHCP
5 2 (4.26%) DNS
5 2 (4.26%) EIGRP
5 2 (4.26%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (4.26%) MPLS
5 2 (4.26%) OSPF
5 2 (4.26%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (2.13%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.38%) Power BI
2 2 (4.26%) Power Query
3 1 (2.13%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.13%) Big Data
3 1 (2.13%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.13%) Tableau
General
1 14 (29.79%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (27.66%) Social Skills
3 9 (19.15%) Finance
4 4 (8.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (8.51%) Marketing
5 3 (6.38%) Law
5 3 (6.38%) Legal
6 1 (2.13%) Aviation
6 1 (2.13%) Billing
6 1 (2.13%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (23.40%) Cloud Engineer
2 9 (19.15%) IT Manager
3 7 (14.89%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (14.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (12.77%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (12.77%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (10.64%) Architect
5 5 (10.64%) Consultant
6 3 (6.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Developer
6 3 (6.38%) Enterprise Architect
6 3 (6.38%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Senior
6 3 (6.38%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) DevOps Consultant
7 2 (4.26%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Power BI Developer
7 2 (4.26%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (4.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.38%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (2.13%) Akka
2 1 (2.13%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.13%) Kafka
2 1 (2.13%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.02%) CMDB
2 6 (12.77%) Cloud Native
3 5 (10.64%) Data Centre
4 4 (8.51%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (6.38%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.13%) Driving Licence
6 1 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.13%) IoT
6 1 (2.13%) Life Science
6 1 (2.13%) PMI
6 1 (2.13%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.13%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.13%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.02%) Windows
1 8 (17.02%) Windows Server
2 4 (8.51%) Linux
3 2 (4.26%) Unix
4 1 (2.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (38.30%) Cost Management
2 14 (29.79%) ITIL
2 14 (29.79%) Roadmaps
3 13 (27.66%) DevOps
3 13 (27.66%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (25.53%) Continuous Improvement
4 12 (25.53%) Disaster Recovery
5 11 (23.40%) Analytical Thinking
6 10 (21.28%) Computer Science
6 10 (21.28%) Containerisation
7 9 (19.15%) Asset Management
7 9 (19.15%) CI/CD
7 9 (19.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 9 (19.15%) IT Asset Management
7 9 (19.15%) Mentoring
7 9 (19.15%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (17.02%) Decision-Making
8 8 (17.02%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 8 (17.02%) Microservices
9 7 (14.89%) Critical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 10 (21.28%) PowerShell
2 6 (12.77%) Python
3 2 (4.26%) Bash
3 2 (4.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (4.26%) Java
3 2 (4.26%) SQL
4 1 (2.13%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 11 (23.40%) Degree
2 10 (21.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (19.15%) Azure Certification
4 8 (17.02%) Security Cleared
5 7 (14.89%) AWS Certification
6 5 (10.64%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (8.51%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (8.51%) SC Cleared
8 3 (6.38%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (6.38%) PMI Certification
8 3 (6.38%) PMP
9 1 (2.13%) ACCA
9 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (2.13%) CBAP
9 1 (2.13%) CCNA
9 1 (2.13%) CFA
9 1 (2.13%) CIMA
9 1 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (2.13%) MCITP
9 1 (2.13%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (10.64%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (10.64%) PCI DSS
3 4 (8.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 4 (8.51%) GDPR
4 2 (4.26%) SLA
5 1 (2.13%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (2.13%) HIPAA
5 1 (2.13%) NIST
5 1 (2.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (17.02%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.51%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (6.38%) Docker
4 2 (4.26%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (17.02%) Kubernetes
2 5 (10.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (8.51%) Prometheus
3 4 (8.51%) Terraform
4 1 (2.13%) Grafana
Vendors
1 13 (27.66%) Microsoft
2 9 (19.15%) ServiceNow
3 4 (8.51%) Databricks
3 4 (8.51%) SolarWinds
4 3 (6.38%) Dynatrace
4 3 (6.38%) Salesforce
5 2 (4.26%) Cisco
5 2 (4.26%) Fortinet
5 2 (4.26%) Google
5 2 (4.26%) Juniper
5 2 (4.26%) Nimble Storage
5 2 (4.26%) Palo Alto
5 2 (4.26%) SAP
5 2 (4.26%) Splunk
5 2 (4.26%) Veeam
5 2 (4.26%) Zscaler
6 1 (2.13%) Adobe
6 1 (2.13%) Facebook
6 1 (2.13%) Workday