Cost Optimization
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 776 827 736
Rank change year-on-year +51 -91 +105
Permanent jobs citing Cost Optimisation 108 148 574
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.15% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.16% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 72 69 146
10th Percentile £43,366 £48,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -12.50% +28.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £100,000 £106,875
90th Percentile £82,500 £120,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £61,250 £51,500
% change year-on-year -6.12% +18.93% -10.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Cost Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Optimisation in the UK

Cost Optimisation
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cost Optimisation in the UK

Cost Optimisation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cost Optimisation over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cost Optimisation in the UK

Cost Optimisation
Top 15 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 20 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
England +45 101 £65,000 -8.77% 48
UK excluding London +24 64 £57,500 -6.12% 26
London +44 40 £67,500 -15.63% 21
Work from Home +71 34 £67,500 +3.85% 19
South East +22 24 £57,500 +9.52% 7
Midlands +5 21 £67,500 +8.00% 4
West Midlands +20 16 £67,500 +8.00% 2
North of England +43 12 £41,774 -40.32% 14
Yorkshire +88 7 £40,000 -23.81% 4
East Midlands - 5 - - 2
North West -1 4 £52,137 -25.52% 7
Scotland -63 3 £81,250 +30.00%
East of England - 3 £47,500 -
South West -23 1 - -
North East - 1 £41,774 - 3

Cost Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (3.70%) SAS
2 1 (0.93%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (3.70%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 29 (26.85%) AWS
2 24 (22.22%) Azure
3 7 (6.48%) IaaS
3 7 (6.48%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (4.63%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (4.63%) PaaS
6 4 (3.70%) SaaS
7 3 (2.78%) GCP
7 3 (2.78%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.85%) Azure Storage
8 2 (1.85%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.93%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.93%) GitHub
9 1 (0.93%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.93%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.41%) BGP
1 8 (7.41%) LAN
1 8 (7.41%) MPLS
1 8 (7.41%) Network Security
1 8 (7.41%) OSPF
1 8 (7.41%) WAN
2 5 (4.63%) VLAN
3 3 (2.78%) Cisco ISE
3 3 (2.78%) EIGRP
3 3 (2.78%) Firewall
3 3 (2.78%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (2.78%) SD-WAN
3 3 (2.78%) VPN
3 3 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.93%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.56%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.63%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (4.63%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.78%) Power BI
4 2 (1.85%) Big Data
4 2 (1.85%) Data Mart
5 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.93%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.93%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.93%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket
1 1 (0.93%) GitLab
1 1 (0.93%) JIRA
General
1 49 (45.37%) Finance
2 32 (29.63%) Social Skills
3 26 (24.07%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (12.04%) Influencing Skills
5 12 (11.11%) Legal
5 12 (11.11%) Manufacturing
6 8 (7.41%) Retail
7 7 (6.48%) Telecoms
8 6 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (3.70%) Marketing
10 3 (2.78%) Aviation
10 3 (2.78%) Law
11 1 (0.93%) Automotive
11 1 (0.93%) Banking
11 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.93%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.93%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 26 (24.07%) Analyst
2 21 (19.44%) IT Manager
3 14 (12.96%) Service Analyst
4 10 (9.26%) Procurement Analyst
5 9 (8.33%) Architect
5 9 (8.33%) Category Manager
5 9 (8.33%) Lead
5 9 (8.33%) Senior
6 7 (6.48%) Service Management Analyst
7 6 (5.56%) Business Manager
8 5 (4.63%) AWS Architect
8 5 (4.63%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
8 5 (4.63%) Infrastructure Manager
8 5 (4.63%) Mobile Engineer
8 5 (4.63%) Supply Chain Analyst
9 4 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
10 3 (2.78%) Data Engineer
10 3 (2.78%) Head of Operations
10 3 (2.78%) Head of Service Operations
10 3 (2.78%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.78%) .NET
2 2 (1.85%) EDI
3 1 (0.93%) .NET Core
3 1 (0.93%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.93%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.93%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.93%) LDAP
3 1 (0.93%) PySpark
3 1 (0.93%) React
3 1 (0.93%) SAML
3 1 (0.93%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.96%) Data Centre
2 10 (9.26%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.63%) Clustering
3 5 (4.63%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.78%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.78%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.85%) PMI
5 2 (1.85%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.93%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.93%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.56%) Windows
2 5 (4.63%) Linux
3 1 (0.93%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (23.15%) FinOps
2 24 (22.22%) Cost Management
3 19 (17.59%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (16.67%) Budgeting
5 17 (15.74%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (14.81%) Asset Management
6 16 (14.81%) Contract Management
6 16 (14.81%) IT Asset Management
6 16 (14.81%) Roadmaps
7 14 (12.96%) Process Improvement
8 13 (12.04%) ERP
9 11 (10.19%) Decision-Making
9 11 (10.19%) ITIL
9 11 (10.19%) Mentoring
9 11 (10.19%) Project Management
10 10 (9.26%) Economics
10 10 (9.26%) Supplier Management
11 9 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
12 8 (7.41%) Risk Management
12 8 (7.41%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 14 (12.96%) SQL
2 8 (7.41%) Python
3 5 (4.63%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.78%) C#
4 3 (2.78%) Go
5 2 (1.85%) VBA
6 1 (0.93%) Bash
6 1 (0.93%) Bicep
6 1 (0.93%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (18.52%) Degree
2 4 (3.70%) Numerate Degree
2 4 (3.70%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.85%) DBS Check
3 2 (1.85%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.93%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (0.93%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.48%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (5.56%) PCI DSS
3 5 (4.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.93%) NIST
4 1 (0.93%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (6.48%) Docker
2 2 (1.85%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (10.19%) Terraform
2 9 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.63%) Failover Clustering
3 5 (4.63%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (2.78%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (12.04%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 9 (8.33%) Cisco
4 8 (7.41%) Juniper
5 5 (4.63%) Aruba
5 5 (4.63%) Ericsson
5 5 (4.63%) Nokia
6 3 (2.78%) Ariba
6 3 (2.78%) BT
6 3 (2.78%) Fortinet
6 3 (2.78%) IBM
6 3 (2.78%) Oracle
6 3 (2.78%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.78%) SAP
6 3 (2.78%) SolarWinds
6 3 (2.78%) VMware
7 2 (1.85%) Citrix
7 2 (1.85%) Symantec
8 1 (0.93%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.93%) NetApp