Cost Optimisation Job Trends in Wales

Cost Optimization
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Cost Optimisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 - 92
Rank change year-on-year - - +36
Permanent jobs citing Cost Optimisation 2 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.23% - 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% - 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £55,209 - -
25th Percentile £57,023 - £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,039 - £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.25%
75th Percentile £70,050 - £87,500
90th Percentile £72,460 - -
UK median annual salary £70,079 £74,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.93% +6.43% -6.15%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 733 853 922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 83.20% 69.01% 95.64%
Number of salaries quoted 548 491 732
10th Percentile £25,087 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,311 £47,000 £46,210
Median % change year-on-year +2.79% +1.71% -7.58%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,838 £61,445
90th Percentile £73,845 £74,144 £72,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -

Cost Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Cost Optimisation job vacancy trend in Wales

Cost Optimisation
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Cost Optimisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Cost Optimisation

Cost Optimisation
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cost Optimisation in Wales over the 6 months to 25 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Cost Optimisation in Wales

Cost Optimisation
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cost Optimisation within the Wales region over the 6 months to 25 October 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 Wales - 2 £63,039 - 4
Cost Optimisation
UK

Cost Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Datadog
1 1 (50.00%) dbt
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) JMeter
1 1 (50.00%) Locust
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) CMDB
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) FinOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) OWASP
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) QA
1 1 (50.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow