Cost Optimisation Jobs in the UK excluding London

Cost Optimization
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 712 689 726
Rank change year-on-year -23 +37 -67
Permanent jobs citing Cost Optimisation 68 39 148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.085% 0.071% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.074% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 46 35 50
10th Percentile £40,988 £51,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,463 £51,875 £41,774
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +21.36% -13.45%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £72,822
90th Percentile £70,625 £82,000 £79,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% -9.68% +19.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 64,702 52,760 72,012
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 80.77% 95.48% 94.30%
Number of salaries quoted 43,767 28,367 41,386
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +8.81%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

Cost Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cost Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cost Optimisation in the UK excluding London

Cost Optimisation
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cost Optimisation in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Cost Optimisation in the UK excluding London

Cost Optimisation
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cost Optimisation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Cost Optimisation in the UK excluding London

Cost Optimisation
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
South East -13 27 £57,500 - 3
Midlands -29 21 £67,500 +8.00% 5
West Midlands -7 16 £67,500 +8.00% 1
North of England +16 14 £44,637 -36.23% 13
Yorkshire +69 7 £43,750 -41.67% 5
North West -22 6 £50,000 -28.57% 6
East Midlands - 5 - - 4
East of England - 3 £47,500 - 3
Scotland -67 2 £81,250 +30.00%
South West -41 1 - - 1
North East - 1 £41,774 - 2
Cost Optimisation
UK

Cost Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (2.94%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 15 (22.06%) Azure
2 6 (8.82%) IaaS
2 6 (8.82%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (4.41%) AWS
3 3 (4.41%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (4.41%) GCP
4 2 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (2.94%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.94%) GitHub
4 2 (2.94%) PaaS
4 2 (2.94%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.94%) SaaS
5 1 (1.47%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.47%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.35%) BGP
1 5 (7.35%) LAN
1 5 (7.35%) MPLS
1 5 (7.35%) Network Security
1 5 (7.35%) OSPF
1 5 (7.35%) VLAN
1 5 (7.35%) WAN
2 2 (2.94%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.94%) Power BI
2 1 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.47%) Big Data
2 1 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.47%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Bitbucket
1 2 (2.94%) GitLab
1 2 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 41 (60.29%) Finance
2 23 (33.82%) Social Skills
3 12 (17.65%) Legal
4 11 (16.18%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (10.29%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (10.29%) Telecoms
6 6 (8.82%) Retail
7 4 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (5.88%) Manufacturing
8 3 (4.41%) Aviation
8 3 (4.41%) Marketing
9 2 (2.94%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.47%) Automotive
10 1 (1.47%) Law
10 1 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.47%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 21 (30.88%) IT Manager
2 8 (11.76%) Category Manager
2 8 (11.76%) Lead
3 6 (8.82%) Business Manager
4 5 (7.35%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
4 5 (7.35%) Infrastructure Manager
4 5 (7.35%) Mobile Engineer
5 4 (5.88%) Analyst
5 4 (5.88%) Senior
6 3 (4.41%) Head of Operations
6 3 (4.41%) Head of Service Operations
6 3 (4.41%) Operations Manager
6 3 (4.41%) Procurement Advisor
7 2 (2.94%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (2.94%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (2.94%) Cloud Specialist
7 2 (2.94%) CloudOps Manager
7 2 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (2.94%) Professional Services Manager
7 2 (2.94%) Supplier Management Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.94%) ARM Templates
1 2 (2.94%) EDI
1 2 (2.94%) SAML
2 1 (1.47%) LDAP
2 1 (1.47%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.82%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.41%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (4.41%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.41%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.47%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.47%) PMI
4 1 (1.47%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.47%) VMS
1 1 (1.47%) Windows
1 1 (1.47%) Windows Server
1 1 (1.47%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (1.47%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (1.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (30.88%) Cost Management
2 19 (27.94%) Budgeting
3 17 (25.00%) Asset Management
3 17 (25.00%) IT Asset Management
4 12 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (14.71%) Supplier Management
6 9 (13.24%) Contract Management
6 9 (13.24%) ITIL
6 9 (13.24%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (11.76%) Budget Management
7 8 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (10.29%) Mentoring
8 7 (10.29%) Risk Management
9 6 (8.82%) Agile
9 6 (8.82%) Business Case
9 6 (8.82%) Contract Negotiation
9 6 (8.82%) ERP
9 6 (8.82%) Infrastructure Automation
9 6 (8.82%) Process Improvement
9 6 (8.82%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.29%) PowerShell
2 5 (7.35%) Python
3 4 (5.88%) SQL
4 2 (2.94%) Go
5 1 (1.47%) Bash
5 1 (1.47%) Bicep
5 1 (1.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (22.06%) Degree
2 2 (2.94%) Azure Certification
2 2 (2.94%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.47%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.47%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.35%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (5.88%) PCI DSS
3 3 (4.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (2.94%) NIST
5 1 (1.47%) IFRS
5 1 (1.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (10.29%) Docker
2 2 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (16.18%) Terraform
2 7 (10.29%) Kubernetes
3 5 (7.35%) Ansible
4 1 (1.47%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 14 (20.59%) ServiceNow
2 12 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.82%) Cisco
4 5 (7.35%) Aruba
4 5 (7.35%) Ericsson
4 5 (7.35%) Juniper
4 5 (7.35%) Nokia
5 3 (4.41%) Ariba
5 3 (4.41%) BT
5 3 (4.41%) SAP
6 2 (2.94%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.47%) Google
7 1 (1.47%) NetApp
7 1 (1.47%) VMware