Cost Optimisation Jobs

Cost Optimization
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 384 804 810
Rank change year-on-year +420 +6 -82
Permanent jobs citing Cost Optimisation 362 106 154
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.66% 0.10% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.12% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 116 70 77
10th Percentile £47,500 £43,128 £48,550
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,750 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -7.14% -11.11%
75th Percentile £83,438 £71,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £82,500 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% +21.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,242 86,144 93,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.71% 84.33% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 25,211 60,433 55,406
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%

Cost Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Optimisation in the UK

Cost Optimisation
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cost Optimisation in the UK

Cost Optimisation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cost Optimisation over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cost Optimisation in the UK

Cost Optimisation
Top 15 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 28 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
England +379 358 £60,500 -6.92% 167
Work from Home +318 263 £60,000 -11.11% 107
London +247 174 £60,000 -11.11% 92
UK excluding London +231 102 £65,000 +13.04% 86
South East +107 41 £65,000 +13.04% 10
East of England +68 28 £65,000 +36.84% 4
North of England +40 12 £67,500 +61.58% 27
Midlands +50 11 £46,000 -31.85% 17
South West +124 7 £85,000 - 15
West Midlands +55 7 £46,000 -31.85% 13
North West +3 7 £62,500 +25.00% 13
East Midlands +38 4 - - 4
Scotland +124 3 £75,000 -7.69% 8
Yorkshire +58 3 £67,500 +68.75% 11
North East +49 2 - - 3

Cost Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (1.38%) Confluence
1 5 (1.38%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.83%) Apache
2 3 (0.83%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.55%) nginx
4 1 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.55%) Cloudability
1 2 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.55%) Magento
2 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.28%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 296 (81.77%) AWS
2 215 (59.39%) Pulumi
3 94 (25.97%) Azure
4 39 (10.77%) GCP
5 25 (6.91%) Serverless
6 22 (6.08%) AWS CloudFormation
7 21 (5.80%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (5.25%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (4.97%) Azure Monitor
10 12 (3.31%) AWS KMS
11 8 (2.21%) Entra ID
12 7 (1.93%) PaaS
12 7 (1.93%) Power Platform
13 6 (1.66%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (1.38%) GitHub
14 5 (1.38%) Microsoft 365
15 4 (1.10%) Azure Sentinel
15 4 (1.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 4 (1.10%) Route 53
15 4 (1.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 215 (59.39%) Broadband
2 26 (7.18%) VPN
2 26 (7.18%) WAN
3 22 (6.08%) LAN
4 20 (5.52%) Firewall
4 20 (5.52%) TCP/IP
5 19 (5.25%) Network Security
6 13 (3.59%) DNS
7 11 (3.04%) BGP
7 11 (3.04%) DHCP
7 11 (3.04%) MPLS
7 11 (3.04%) OSPF
8 6 (1.66%) SD-WAN
9 4 (1.10%) HTTPS
9 4 (1.10%) SAN
9 4 (1.10%) VLAN
10 2 (0.55%) NAS
10 2 (0.55%) SNMP
10 2 (0.55%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.28%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (59.67%) Relational Database
2 215 (59.39%) NoSQL
2 215 (59.39%) RDBMS
3 6 (1.66%) Power BI
4 5 (1.38%) Big Data
5 4 (1.10%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.55%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.55%) Tableau
7 1 (0.28%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.28%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.28%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.28%) Looker
7 1 (0.28%) Parquet
7 1 (0.28%) Power Query
7 1 (0.28%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 215 (59.39%) Jaeger
2 5 (1.38%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.10%) Git
4 3 (0.83%) GitLab
4 3 (0.83%) JIRA
General
1 221 (61.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 52 (14.36%) Finance
3 48 (13.26%) Social Skills
4 32 (8.84%) Banking
5 30 (8.29%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (1.66%) Law
8 4 (1.10%) Legal
8 4 (1.10%) Public Sector
9 3 (0.83%) Billing
9 3 (0.83%) Retail
10 2 (0.55%) Front Office
10 2 (0.55%) Local Government
11 1 (0.28%) Automotive
11 1 (0.28%) Aviation
11 1 (0.28%) Games
11 1 (0.28%) Marketing
11 1 (0.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 235 (64.92%) Lead
2 225 (62.15%) Team Leader
3 31 (8.56%) Architect
4 21 (5.80%) Cloud Architect
5 20 (5.52%) AWS Architect
6 19 (5.25%) Cloud Engineer
7 12 (3.31%) IT Manager
7 12 (3.31%) Senior
8 11 (3.04%) Network Engineer
8 11 (3.04%) Wintel Engineer
9 9 (2.49%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 9 (2.49%) 3rd Line Support
9 9 (2.49%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 9 (2.49%) Support Engineer
10 8 (2.21%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (2.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (2.21%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (1.93%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (1.93%) Consultant
12 6 (1.66%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 229 (63.26%) Elastic Stack
2 218 (60.22%) OpenTelemetry
3 16 (4.42%) Kafka
4 4 (1.10%) ARM Templates
5 3 (0.83%) YAML
6 2 (0.55%) .NET
6 2 (0.55%) PySpark
7 1 (0.28%) Akka
7 1 (0.28%) Blazor
7 1 (0.28%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (4.97%) Management Information System
2 12 (3.31%) Cloud Native
3 11 (3.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (1.93%) CMDB
5 6 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (0.55%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.55%) IoT
7 2 (0.55%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.55%) Private Cloud
7 2 (0.55%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.28%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.28%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.28%) Life Science
8 1 (0.28%) NHS
8 1 (0.28%) PMI
8 1 (0.28%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.28%) Replication
8 1 (0.28%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 219 (60.50%) Linux
2 215 (59.39%) Unix
3 31 (8.56%) Windows
4 26 (7.18%) Windows Server
5 11 (3.04%) Windows Server 2012
5 11 (3.04%) Windows Server 2016
5 11 (3.04%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (1.10%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (77.62%) DevOps
2 270 (74.59%) High Availability
3 251 (69.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 250 (69.06%) Containerisation
5 246 (67.96%) Resource Management
6 244 (67.40%) Mentoring
7 231 (63.81%) Agile
8 230 (63.54%) Product Management
9 227 (62.71%) Roadmaps
10 224 (61.88%) Performance Optimisation
11 221 (61.05%) Task Automation
12 217 (59.94%) Continuous Integration
13 215 (59.39%) Budget Control
13 215 (59.39%) GitOps
14 62 (17.13%) ITIL
15 56 (15.47%) CI/CD
16 47 (12.98%) Problem-Solving
17 37 (10.22%) Artificial Intelligence
18 35 (9.67%) Root Cause Analysis
19 34 (9.39%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 241 (66.57%) Python
2 234 (64.64%) Java
3 229 (63.26%) Bash
4 215 (59.39%) Go
4 215 (59.39%) JavaScript
5 22 (6.08%) PowerShell
5 22 (6.08%) SQL
6 17 (4.70%) C#
7 5 (1.38%) Bicep
8 1 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 244 (67.40%) AWS Certification
2 33 (9.12%) Azure Certification
3 24 (6.63%) Microsoft Certification
4 23 (6.35%) Degree
4 23 (6.35%) Security Cleared
5 22 (6.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 21 (5.80%) CCNA
6 21 (5.80%) Cisco Certification
7 18 (4.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (4.14%) SC Cleared
9 11 (3.04%) CCNP
10 10 (2.76%) MCSE
11 9 (2.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 9 (2.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 5 (1.38%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (1.10%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
15 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
15 1 (0.28%) MCITP
15 1 (0.28%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.35%) SLA
2 20 (5.52%) GDPR
3 16 (4.42%) HIPAA
4 6 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.10%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.28%) NIST
6 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.28%) PSD2
System Software
1 243 (67.13%) Docker
2 27 (7.46%) Active Directory
3 13 (3.59%) Hyper-V
3 13 (3.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 265 (73.20%) Terraform
2 248 (68.51%) Kubernetes
3 235 (64.92%) Prometheus
4 225 (62.15%) Ansible
5 215 (59.39%) Argo
5 215 (59.39%) Kustomize
6 17 (4.70%) Grafana
7 16 (4.42%) Microsoft Intune
8 11 (3.04%) Nagios
8 11 (3.04%) NetBackup
8 11 (3.04%) SCCM
8 11 (3.04%) SCOM
9 2 (0.55%) HAProxy
9 2 (0.55%) Istio
9 2 (0.55%) linkerd
Vendors
1 239 (66.02%) Google
2 50 (13.81%) Microsoft
3 23 (6.35%) ServiceNow
4 22 (6.08%) SolarWinds
5 13 (3.59%) VMware
6 11 (3.04%) Veeam
7 10 (2.76%) Databricks
8 4 (1.10%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.83%) Adobe
9 3 (0.83%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.83%) SAP
10 2 (0.55%) Citrix
10 2 (0.55%) F5
10 2 (0.55%) Splunk
11 1 (0.28%) BMC
11 1 (0.28%) Facebook
11 1 (0.28%) Guidewire
11 1 (0.28%) HubSpot
11 1 (0.28%) Remedy
11 1 (0.28%) Workday