Cost Optimisation Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Cost Optimization
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 366 560 627
Rank change year-on-year +194 +67 +74
Permanent jobs citing Cost Optimisation 61 36 45
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.37% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.12% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 57 25 35
10th Percentile - £40,988 £41,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £60,000 £52,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £100,000
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
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,406 30,912 40,454
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.78% 91.49% 96.12%
Number of salaries quoted 9,748 23,470 28,078
10th Percentile £29,750 £33,767 £37,500
25th Percentile £44,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

Cost Optimisation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Cost Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cost Optimisation trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Cost Optimisation
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Cost Optimisation.

Cost Optimisation salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cost Optimisation
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Cost Optimisation over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Cost Optimisation salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cost Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.64%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 35 (57.38%) AWS
2 26 (42.62%) Azure
3 18 (29.51%) Serverless
4 16 (26.23%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (21.31%) AWS CloudFormation
5 13 (21.31%) AWS KMS
6 8 (13.11%) GCP
7 6 (9.84%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (9.84%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (8.20%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (6.56%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (6.56%) Entra ID
9 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (6.56%) PaaS
9 4 (6.56%) Route 53
10 3 (4.92%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (4.92%) OpenShift
11 2 (3.28%) Amazon S3
11 2 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (3.28%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 15 (24.59%) Network Security
2 6 (9.84%) Firewall
2 6 (9.84%) SD-WAN
2 6 (9.84%) VPN
2 6 (9.84%) WAN
3 4 (6.56%) HTTPS
3 4 (6.56%) VLAN
4 2 (3.28%) BGP
4 2 (3.28%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (3.28%) EIGRP
4 2 (3.28%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (3.28%) LAN
4 2 (3.28%) MPLS
4 2 (3.28%) OSPF
4 2 (3.28%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.64%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.28%) Power BI
2 1 (1.64%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (1.64%) Big Data
2 1 (1.64%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.64%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.64%) Looker
2 1 (1.64%) Parquet
2 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Git
1 1 (1.64%) GitLab
1 1 (1.64%) Jenkins
General
1 30 (49.18%) Social Skills
2 12 (19.67%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (16.39%) Finance
4 7 (11.48%) Marketing
5 6 (9.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.92%) Law
7 2 (3.28%) Retail
8 1 (1.64%) Banking
8 1 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.64%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 23 (37.70%) Architect
2 14 (22.95%) AWS Architect
2 14 (22.95%) Cloud Architect
3 11 (18.03%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (11.48%) Consultant
5 5 (8.20%) 1st Line Support
5 5 (8.20%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (8.20%) Data Architect
6 4 (6.56%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) IT Manager
6 4 (6.56%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.92%) Azure Architect
7 3 (4.92%) Azure Data Architect
7 3 (4.92%) DevOps Consultant
7 3 (4.92%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (4.92%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (22.95%) Kafka
2 13 (21.31%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (9.84%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (3.28%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 14 (22.95%) Management Information System
2 9 (14.75%) Cloud Native
3 6 (9.84%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (6.56%) CMDB
5 2 (3.28%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (3.28%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.64%) IoT
6 1 (1.64%) Life Science
6 1 (1.64%) NHS
6 1 (1.64%) PMI
6 1 (1.64%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.56%) Windows
1 4 (6.56%) Windows Server
2 3 (4.92%) Linux
3 1 (1.64%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (55.74%) DevOps
2 25 (40.98%) Containerisation
3 24 (39.34%) Continuous Improvement
4 23 (37.70%) CI/CD
4 23 (37.70%) Deployment Automation
5 22 (36.07%) Microservices
6 20 (32.79%) High Availability
6 20 (32.79%) Resource Management
7 19 (31.15%) Mentoring
8 18 (29.51%) Architectural Design
8 18 (29.51%) Zero Trust
9 17 (27.87%) Incident Response
9 17 (27.87%) Infrastructure as Code
10 16 (26.23%) Computer Science
11 15 (24.59%) Cloud Security
11 15 (24.59%) Performance Tuning
11 15 (24.59%) Software Engineering
11 15 (24.59%) Technical Leadership
12 14 (22.95%) Event-Driven
12 14 (22.95%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 14 (22.95%) Java
2 7 (11.48%) SQL
3 6 (9.84%) PowerShell
4 5 (8.20%) C#
4 5 (8.20%) Python
5 1 (1.64%) Bash
5 1 (1.64%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 25 (40.98%) Security Cleared
2 23 (37.70%) AWS Certification
3 19 (31.15%) SC Cleared
4 18 (29.51%) Degree
5 17 (27.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 16 (26.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (9.84%) Azure Certification
8 4 (6.56%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (6.56%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (4.92%) RHCE
10 1 (1.64%) ACCA
10 1 (1.64%) CBAP
10 1 (1.64%) CFA
10 1 (1.64%) CIMA
10 1 (1.64%) DBS Check
10 1 (1.64%) Master's Degree
10 1 (1.64%) PMI Certification
10 1 (1.64%) PMP
10 1 (1.64%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (22.95%) GDPR
1 14 (22.95%) HIPAA
2 3 (4.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.28%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (3.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (3.28%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.64%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.64%) SLA
4 1 (1.64%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (26.23%) Docker
2 4 (6.56%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (40.98%) Kubernetes
2 24 (39.34%) Terraform
3 20 (32.79%) Prometheus
4 14 (22.95%) Grafana
5 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.64%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (19.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.84%) Dynatrace
2 6 (9.84%) Google
3 4 (6.56%) Databricks
3 4 (6.56%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.92%) Red Hat
4 3 (4.92%) SAP
5 2 (3.28%) Cisco
5 2 (3.28%) Fortinet
5 2 (3.28%) Juniper
5 2 (3.28%) Palo Alto
5 2 (3.28%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.28%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.64%) HubSpot