Optimisation Engineer Jobs

Optimisation Engineer
UK

The median Optimisation Engineer salary in the UK is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 901 912 1240
Rank change year-on-year +11 +328 -272
Permanent jobs requiring an Optimisation Engineer 3 7 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% 0.008% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.003% 0.008% 0.014%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £74,000 - £80,500
25th Percentile £76,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - £85,000
75th Percentile - - £120,000
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 104,121 84,323 165,675
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.77% 91.19% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 73,469 54,972 85,174
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,603 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%

Optimisation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Optimisation Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Optimisation Engineer in the UK

Optimisation Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Optimisation Engineer in the UK

Optimisation Engineer
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Optimisation Engineer within the UK 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
England +27 3 £80,000 -
UK excluding London - 3 £80,000 -
East of England - 2 £80,000 -
Midlands - 1 £75,000 -
West Midlands - 1 £75,000 -

Optimisation Engineer Skill Set
Top 24 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Optimisation Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Optimisation Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Big Data
2 2 (66.67%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) Resource Management
2 2 (66.67%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Automotive
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Power BI
3 1 (33.33%) Database Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) PySpark
3 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Snowflake

Optimisation Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
1 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Big Data
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
General
1 1 (33.33%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (66.67%) Resource Management
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Database Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes