Cost Reduction Jobs

Cost Reduction
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Cost Reduction skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cost Reduction over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 521 647 725
Rank change year-on-year +126 +78 -84
Permanent jobs citing Cost Reduction 439 310 603
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.33% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.34% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 221 151 268
10th Percentile £35,462 £32,000 £41,775
25th Percentile £43,000 £43,125 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £107,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,650 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.64% +10.00% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Cost Reduction 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 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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% +9.38%

Cost Reduction
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Reduction in the UK

Cost Reduction
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cost Reduction in the UK

Cost Reduction
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cost Reduction over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Cost Reduction in the UK

Cost Reduction
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cost Reduction within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +133 397 £55,000 -7.17% 234
UK excluding London +82 318 £54,650 -0.64% 167
Work from Home +76 131 £57,000 -0.87% 81
London +116 105 £65,000 - 64
Midlands +56 96 £50,000 -13.04% 38
North of England +69 76 £73,543 +14.86% 39
South East +14 71 £50,000 - 29
North West +30 57 £73,543 +0.06% 22
East Midlands +28 49 £39,000 -71.11% 11
West Midlands +9 47 £54,650 +1.67% 27
East of England -2 23 £72,500 -3.33% 20
South West -22 23 £60,000 +7.14% 25
Scotland -68 21 £57,500 +64.29% 10
Yorkshire +64 16 £73,805 +37.95% 11
Wales +13 5 £60,000 +26.32% 5
North East -9 3 £45,000 - 7
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 2

Cost Reduction
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 19 (4.33%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.59%) SAS
3 4 (0.91%) Office Communications Server
4 1 (0.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 55 (12.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (7.29%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (3.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (2.05%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.91%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (0.68%) SAP EWM
4 2 (0.46%) SAP SCM
5 1 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.23%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.23%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.23%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.23%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 71 (16.17%) Azure
2 70 (15.95%) Power Platform
3 60 (13.67%) AWS
4 30 (6.83%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (3.87%) Entra ID
6 13 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (2.73%) Cloud Computing
8 9 (2.05%) Power Automate
8 9 (2.05%) PowerApps
9 7 (1.59%) IBM Cloud
10 6 (1.37%) SaaS
10 6 (1.37%) WhatsApp
11 5 (1.14%) IaaS
11 5 (1.14%) PaaS
12 4 (0.91%) Azure AKS
13 3 (0.68%) Amazon EMR
13 3 (0.68%) GCP
14 2 (0.46%) Apigee
14 2 (0.46%) Datadog
14 2 (0.46%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 32 (7.29%) Firewall
2 16 (3.64%) VPN
3 15 (3.42%) LAN
4 12 (2.73%) WAN
5 10 (2.28%) Wireless
6 8 (1.82%) Network Security
7 6 (1.37%) SAN
7 6 (1.37%) VLAN
8 5 (1.14%) DHCP
8 5 (1.14%) DNS
8 5 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.91%) Cisco IOS
9 4 (0.91%) Internet
9 4 (0.91%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.68%) WLAN
11 2 (0.46%) RS-485
12 1 (0.23%) IPv4
12 1 (0.23%) MPLS
12 1 (0.23%) NAS
12 1 (0.23%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (15.49%) Power BI
2 51 (11.62%) Tableau
3 36 (8.20%) Data Vault
3 36 (8.20%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (2.05%) Amazon QuickSight
5 6 (1.37%) Data Mining
6 4 (0.91%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.91%) RDBMS
6 4 (0.91%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (0.68%) PowerPivot
7 3 (0.68%) QlikView
8 2 (0.46%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.46%) GIS
8 2 (0.46%) MySQL
8 2 (0.46%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.23%) Big Data
9 1 (0.23%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (2.51%) JIRA
2 3 (0.68%) Jenkins
2 3 (0.68%) Selenium
2 3 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
2 3 (0.68%) TeamCity
3 2 (0.46%) Git
3 2 (0.46%) Subversion
4 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 127 (28.93%) Finance
2 116 (26.42%) Social Skills
3 87 (19.82%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (13.90%) Public Sector
5 53 (12.07%) Legal
6 42 (9.57%) Presentation Skills
7 41 (9.34%) Retail
8 37 (8.43%) Influencing Skills
9 36 (8.20%) Marketing
10 26 (5.92%) Manufacturing
11 25 (5.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 23 (5.24%) Telecoms
13 21 (4.78%) Brand Awareness
14 11 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (1.82%) Local Government
16 7 (1.59%) Publishing
17 4 (0.91%) Banking
18 3 (0.68%) Electronics
18 3 (0.68%) Law
19 2 (0.46%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 67 (15.26%) Architect
2 66 (15.03%) Lead
3 45 (10.25%) Senior
4 41 (9.34%) Project Manager
5 37 (8.43%) Principal Architect
6 36 (8.20%) Data Architect
6 36 (8.20%) Principal Data Architect
7 31 (7.06%) Consultant
8 30 (6.83%) IT Manager
9 26 (5.92%) Analyst
10 19 (4.33%) Buyer
10 19 (4.33%) Category Manager
11 18 (4.10%) Procurement Manager
12 17 (3.87%) Administrator
13 16 (3.64%) Digital Project Manager
13 16 (3.64%) Lead Project Manager
14 15 (3.42%) IT Procurement Manager
15 14 (3.19%) Customer Experience Manager
15 14 (3.19%) Management Consultant
16 13 (2.96%) IT Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.14%) .NET
2 4 (0.91%) JSON
2 4 (0.91%) OAuth
2 4 (0.91%) RESTful
2 4 (0.91%) SAML
2 4 (0.91%) Web Services
2 4 (0.91%) XML
3 3 (0.68%) Django
4 2 (0.46%) EDI
5 1 (0.23%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.23%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.23%) CSS
5 1 (0.23%) HTML
5 1 (0.23%) Kafka
5 1 (0.23%) SPFx
5 1 (0.23%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 40 (9.11%) Management Information System
2 34 (7.74%) Onboarding
3 24 (5.47%) Product Ownership
3 24 (5.47%) Self-Motivation
4 19 (4.33%) Driving Licence
5 18 (4.10%) Data Centre
6 16 (3.64%) Analytical Mindset
7 13 (2.96%) NHS
8 11 (2.51%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (2.28%) Replication
10 9 (2.05%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.82%) Blockchain
11 8 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (1.82%) PKI
12 6 (1.37%) AS400
12 6 (1.37%) Augmented Reality
12 6 (1.37%) Industrial Internet of Things
12 6 (1.37%) PMI
12 6 (1.37%) SCADA
12 6 (1.37%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 34 (7.74%) Windows
2 19 (4.33%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.14%) Linux
4 4 (0.91%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (25.97%) Project Management
2 100 (22.78%) Problem-Solving
3 82 (18.68%) Analytics
4 77 (17.54%) Continuous Improvement
5 75 (17.08%) Agile
6 62 (14.12%) DevOps
7 60 (13.67%) Business Intelligence
8 58 (13.21%) Stakeholder Management
9 57 (12.98%) Business Development
10 54 (12.30%) Data Analysis
10 54 (12.30%) Data Architecture
11 53 (12.07%) User Experience
12 52 (11.85%) Data Science
12 52 (11.85%) Project Delivery
13 44 (10.02%) Coaching
13 44 (10.02%) Data Analytics
13 44 (10.02%) Mentoring
14 42 (9.57%) Change Management
14 42 (9.57%) ITIL
14 42 (9.57%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 22 (5.01%) SQL
2 17 (3.87%) Python
3 15 (3.42%) C
4 12 (2.73%) PowerShell
5 10 (2.28%) RPG
6 8 (1.82%) R
7 6 (1.37%) Java
8 5 (1.14%) MATLAB
9 3 (0.68%) Bash
9 3 (0.68%) VBA
10 2 (0.46%) C#
10 2 (0.46%) Go
11 1 (0.23%) C++
11 1 (0.23%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.23%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.23%) VB
Qualifications
1 84 (19.13%) Degree
2 15 (3.42%) SC Cleared
2 15 (3.42%) Security Cleared
3 10 (2.28%) DBS Check
4 6 (1.37%) PMI Certification
5 5 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (0.91%) Azure Certification
6 4 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (0.91%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.68%) CCNP
7 3 (0.68%) MCSE
7 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.46%) HNC
8 2 (0.46%) MBA
9 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.23%) CCNA
9 1 (0.23%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.23%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.61%) SLA
2 19 (4.33%) Data Quality
3 15 (3.42%) QA
4 13 (2.96%) ISO 9001
5 12 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (2.51%) ISO 14000
7 7 (1.59%) GDPR
8 6 (1.37%) Accessibility
8 6 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.23%) COSHH
10 1 (0.23%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 23 (5.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (5.01%) Active Directory
2 22 (5.01%) Hyper-V
3 13 (2.96%) Firmware
4 10 (2.28%) Docker
4 10 (2.28%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (2.96%) Terraform
2 10 (2.28%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.28%) SCOM
3 8 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (1.59%) Ansible
5 6 (1.37%) FortiGate
6 4 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.91%) SCCM
6 4 (0.91%) SmoothWall
7 2 (0.46%) Autotask
7 2 (0.46%) Grafana
7 2 (0.46%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.46%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.23%) Functional Safety
8 1 (0.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 86 (19.59%) Microsoft
2 29 (6.61%) VMware
3 18 (4.10%) IBM
4 17 (3.87%) SAP
5 16 (3.64%) Apple
5 16 (3.64%) Veeam
6 10 (2.28%) Cisco
6 10 (2.28%) Dell
6 10 (2.28%) NetApp
7 9 (2.05%) ServiceNow
7 9 (2.05%) SonicWALL
8 7 (1.59%) Oracle
8 7 (1.59%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.14%) Meraki
10 4 (0.91%) Ariba
10 4 (0.91%) Fortinet
10 4 (0.91%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.68%) Google
11 3 (0.68%) MicroStrategy
11 3 (0.68%) OneTrust