Cost Optimisation Job Trends in West Wales
Cost Optimization
Wales > West Wales
The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Wales requiring Cost Optimisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 17 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 80 | - | - |
| Rank change year-on-year | - | - | - |
| Permanent jobs citing Cost Optimisation | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| As % of all permanent jobs in West Wales | 0.30% | - | - |
| As % of the Processes & Methodologies category | 0.42% | - | - |
| Number of salaries quoted | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | - | - | - |
| Wales median annual salary | £120,000 | £56,000 | - |
| % change year-on-year | +114.29% | - | - |
All Process & Methodology Skills
West 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 West Wales.
| 6 months to 17 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills | 477 | 32 | 116 |
| As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Wales | 70.88% | 86.49% | 78.91% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 313 | 15 | 77 |
| 10th Percentile | £30,100 | £31,250 | £28,300 |
| 25th Percentile | £38,000 | £36,367 | £33,500 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £47,500 | £42,848 | £42,500 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +10.86% | +0.82% | -7.02% |
| 75th Percentile | £60,000 | £51,881 | £55,000 |
| 90th Percentile | £73,750 | £55,993 | £68,000 |
| Wales median annual salary | £50,413 | £49,500 | £45,000 |
| % change year-on-year | +1.84% | +10.00% | -2.62% |
Cost Optimisation Job Locations in West 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 West Wales region over the 6 months to 17 October 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swansea | - | 1 | - | - | |
| Carmarthenshire | - | 1 | - | - | |
| Cost Optimisation Wales |
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Cost Optimisation Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Wales by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Processes & Methodologies
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Change Management | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | CI/CD | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | Deployment Automation | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | Design Patterns | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | DevOps | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | E-Commerce | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | Incident Response | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | Infrastructure as Code | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | Migration | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | Observability | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | Order Management | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | Software Engineering | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | Systems Engineering | 100.0% | 2 |