Cost Optimisation Jobs in England

Cost Optimization
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Cost Optimisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cost Optimisation over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 737 764 698
Rank change year-on-year +27 -66 +105
Permanent jobs citing Cost Optimisation 99 145 521
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.17% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.18% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 67 73 129
10th Percentile £43,366 £48,350 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -9.68% +24.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £95,000 £104,250
90th Percentile £79,500 £120,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £78,750
% change year-on-year -7.14% -11.11% +21.15%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Cost Optimisation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 74,781 82,738 134,313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 84.16% 95.57% 95.95%
Number of salaries quoted 54,521 49,312 73,714
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,329 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Cost Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Optimisation in England

Cost Optimisation
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Cost Optimisation in England

Cost Optimisation
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cost Optimisation in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cost Optimisation in England

Cost Optimisation
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cost Optimisation within the England region over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
London +75 37 £67,500 -14.29% 16
South East +13 24 £57,500 +9.52% 6
Midlands +6 21 £67,500 +8.00% 4
West Midlands +16 16 £67,500 +8.00% 2
North of England +53 13 £41,774 -40.32% 13
Yorkshire +84 7 £40,000 -37.25% 6
North West +5 5 £50,000 -28.57% 4
East Midlands - 5 - - 2
East of England - 3 £47,500 - 3
South West -27 1 - -
North East - 1 £41,774 - 3
Cost Optimisation
UK

Cost Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (4.04%) SAS
2 2 (2.02%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (4.04%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 27 (27.27%) AWS
2 19 (19.19%) Azure
3 6 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (5.05%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (5.05%) IaaS
5 4 (4.04%) GCP
5 4 (4.04%) PaaS
6 3 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (3.03%) SaaS
7 2 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.02%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.02%) GitHub
7 2 (2.02%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.01%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.01%) Azure Storage
8 1 (1.01%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.05%) BGP
1 5 (5.05%) LAN
1 5 (5.05%) MPLS
1 5 (5.05%) Network Security
1 5 (5.05%) OSPF
1 5 (5.05%) VLAN
1 5 (5.05%) WAN
2 2 (2.02%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.05%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (5.05%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (5.05%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.02%) Data Mart
2 2 (2.02%) Power BI
3 1 (1.01%) Big Data
3 1 (1.01%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.01%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (2.02%) Bitbucket
1 2 (2.02%) GitLab
1 2 (2.02%) JIRA
General
1 47 (47.47%) Finance
2 26 (26.26%) Social Skills
3 21 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (13.13%) Influencing Skills
5 12 (12.12%) Legal
5 12 (12.12%) Manufacturing
6 7 (7.07%) Retail
6 7 (7.07%) Telecoms
7 4 (4.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.03%) Aviation
8 3 (3.03%) Marketing
9 2 (2.02%) Law
9 2 (2.02%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.01%) Automotive
10 1 (1.01%) Banking
10 1 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.01%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 26 (26.26%) Analyst
2 19 (19.19%) IT Manager
3 14 (14.14%) Service Analyst
4 10 (10.10%) Procurement Analyst
5 8 (8.08%) Architect
5 8 (8.08%) Category Manager
5 8 (8.08%) Lead
6 7 (7.07%) Senior
6 7 (7.07%) Service Management Analyst
7 6 (6.06%) Business Manager
8 5 (5.05%) AWS Architect
8 5 (5.05%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
8 5 (5.05%) Infrastructure Manager
8 5 (5.05%) Mobile Engineer
8 5 (5.05%) Supply Chain Analyst
9 4 (4.04%) DevOps Engineer
10 3 (3.03%) Head of Operations
10 3 (3.03%) Head of Service Operations
10 3 (3.03%) Procurement Advisor
10 3 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.02%) .NET
1 2 (2.02%) EDI
1 2 (2.02%) SAML
2 1 (1.01%) .NET Core
2 1 (1.01%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.01%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.01%) ASP.NET
2 1 (1.01%) LDAP
2 1 (1.01%) PySpark
2 1 (1.01%) React
2 1 (1.01%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 9 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 5 (5.05%) Clustering
3 5 (5.05%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.03%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.02%) PMI
6 1 (1.01%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.01%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.01%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.06%) Windows
2 5 (5.05%) Linux
3 1 (1.01%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.01%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.01%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (24.24%) FinOps
2 21 (21.21%) Cost Management
3 18 (18.18%) Budgeting
4 16 (16.16%) Asset Management
4 16 (16.16%) Contract Management
4 16 (16.16%) IT Asset Management
5 15 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (14.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (13.13%) ERP
7 13 (13.13%) Roadmaps
8 12 (12.12%) Process Improvement
9 11 (11.11%) Decision-Making
10 10 (10.10%) Economics
10 10 (10.10%) Project Management
10 10 (10.10%) Supplier Management
11 9 (9.09%) ITIL
11 9 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
12 8 (8.08%) Mentoring
12 8 (8.08%) Risk Management
12 8 (8.08%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 11 (11.11%) SQL
2 7 (7.07%) Python
3 5 (5.05%) PowerShell
4 4 (4.04%) Go
5 2 (2.02%) C#
5 2 (2.02%) VBA
6 1 (1.01%) Bash
6 1 (1.01%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 19 (19.19%) Degree
2 4 (4.04%) Numerate Degree
3 2 (2.02%) DBS Check
3 2 (2.02%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.01%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (1.01%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.01%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.05%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (4.04%) PCI DSS
3 3 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (2.02%) NIST
5 1 (1.01%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (8.08%) Docker
2 2 (2.02%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (12.12%) Terraform
2 10 (10.10%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.05%) Failover Clustering
3 5 (5.05%) Microsoft Clustering
4 4 (4.04%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (12.12%) ServiceNow
2 11 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.06%) Cisco
4 5 (5.05%) Aruba
4 5 (5.05%) Ericsson
4 5 (5.05%) Juniper
4 5 (5.05%) Nokia
5 3 (3.03%) Ariba
5 3 (3.03%) BT
5 3 (3.03%) IBM
5 3 (3.03%) Oracle
5 3 (3.03%) SAP
5 3 (3.03%) VMware
6 2 (2.02%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.02%) Citrix
6 2 (2.02%) Symantec
7 1 (1.01%) Broadcom
7 1 (1.01%) Google
7 1 (1.01%) NetApp
7 1 (1.01%) Snow