Cost Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Cost Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cost Management over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 715 789 877
Rank change year-on-year +74 +88 -66
Permanent jobs citing Cost Management 179 204 344
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.19% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.20% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 102 121 191
10th Percentile £42,000 £33,853 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,420 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £91,250 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,750 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +6.82% +4.76% -16.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Cost Management 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 84,460 100,219 147,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.03% 95.64% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,759 58,822 83,132
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £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 Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Management in the UK

Cost Management
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cost Management in the UK

Cost Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cost Management over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Cost Management in the UK

Cost Management
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 Management within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 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 +103 154 £62,500 - 114
UK excluding London +24 144 £58,750 +6.82% 80
Work from Home +56 71 £65,000 +18.18% 37
North of England +86 50 £65,000 +4.00% 21
South East +27 38 £57,500 +7.48% 16
London +109 30 £92,500 +32.14% 42
North West +21 19 £65,000 -10.34% 9
Midlands +3 19 £65,000 +13.04% 15
North East +17 18 £41,500 -2.35% 3
Scotland -67 15 £47,500 +46.17% 5
South West -29 14 £62,500 +13.64% 13
Yorkshire +107 13 £40,000 -38.46% 10
West Midlands +15 10 £71,250 +23.91% 9
East Midlands -11 7 £53,750 +95.45% 6
Northern Ireland - 4 £115,000 - 1
East of England +25 3 £45,000 -60.87% 9
Wales - 1 - - 4

Cost Management
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 12 (6.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.12%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (3.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.68%) Primavera
2 2 (1.12%) C-CURE
2 2 (1.12%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 62 (34.64%) Azure
2 31 (17.32%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (16.76%) AWS
4 17 (9.50%) GCP
5 16 (8.94%) Entra ID
6 13 (7.26%) IaaS
7 12 (6.70%) PaaS
8 8 (4.47%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (4.47%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (2.79%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (2.79%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (2.23%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.23%) AWS CodeDeploy
10 4 (2.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 3 (1.68%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (1.68%) Azure Stack
11 3 (1.68%) Azure Storage
11 3 (1.68%) OpenShift
12 2 (1.12%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.82%) Wi-Fi
2 11 (6.15%) Firewall
2 11 (6.15%) VPN
3 10 (5.59%) Internet
4 9 (5.03%) DNS
4 9 (5.03%) LAN
5 8 (4.47%) MPLS
5 8 (4.47%) SD-WAN
5 8 (4.47%) WAN
6 6 (3.35%) Network Security
7 5 (2.79%) DHCP
7 5 (2.79%) SNMP
7 5 (2.79%) SSL
8 3 (1.68%) BGP
8 3 (1.68%) Cisco ISE
8 3 (1.68%) EIGRP
8 3 (1.68%) HTTP
8 3 (1.68%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (1.68%) OSPF
8 3 (1.68%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.82%) Metadata
2 12 (6.70%) Data Lake
3 8 (4.47%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (2.79%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.23%) Big Data
6 3 (1.68%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.12%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.12%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.56%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.56%) MS Access
8 1 (0.56%) Oracle OWB
8 1 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (3.35%) Jenkins
2 5 (2.79%) Git
2 5 (2.79%) JUnit
3 3 (1.68%) Bitbucket
3 3 (1.68%) CircleCI
3 3 (1.68%) GitLab
3 3 (1.68%) Selenium
3 3 (1.68%) Subversion
3 3 (1.68%) TestNG
3 3 (1.68%) Travis CI
4 2 (1.12%) Gatling
4 2 (1.12%) LoadRunner
4 2 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.56%) JIRA
5 1 (0.56%) SonarQube
General
1 74 (41.34%) Finance
2 55 (30.73%) Social Skills
3 38 (21.23%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (16.20%) Legal
5 15 (8.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (7.82%) Banking
6 14 (7.82%) Marketing
7 12 (6.70%) Financial Institution
7 12 (6.70%) Retail Banking
8 10 (5.59%) Retail
9 9 (5.03%) Manufacturing
10 7 (3.91%) Law
11 6 (3.35%) Telecoms
12 5 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (1.68%) Aviation
14 3 (1.68%) Billing
15 2 (1.12%) Automotive
15 2 (1.12%) Public Sector
16 1 (0.56%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 23 (12.85%) Architect
2 21 (11.73%) Project Manager
3 20 (11.17%) IT Manager
4 19 (10.61%) Lead
5 18 (10.06%) Senior
6 13 (7.26%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 12 (6.70%) Cloud Specialist
7 12 (6.70%) Data Architect
7 12 (6.70%) ICT Specialist
7 12 (6.70%) Senior Architect
7 12 (6.70%) Senior Data Architect
8 9 (5.03%) Azure Engineer
9 8 (4.47%) Analyst
9 8 (4.47%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (4.47%) Operations Manager
10 7 (3.91%) Delivery Manager
10 7 (3.91%) Digital Project Manager
10 7 (3.91%) Procurement Advisor
11 6 (3.35%) Business Manager
11 6 (3.35%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.35%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (2.79%) Azure Blueprints
2 5 (2.79%) NETCONF
3 2 (1.12%) .NET
3 2 (1.12%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.12%) RESTful
4 1 (0.56%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.56%) AWS SAM
4 1 (0.56%) Laravel
4 1 (0.56%) Node.js
4 1 (0.56%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (0.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.15%) Cloud Native
1 11 (6.15%) Data Centre
2 10 (5.59%) Management Information System
3 8 (4.47%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (3.35%) Algorithms
4 6 (3.35%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.79%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.79%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.23%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.23%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.68%) PMI
7 3 (1.68%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.12%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.12%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.56%) Clustering
9 1 (0.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.82%) Windows
2 13 (7.26%) Windows Server
3 6 (3.35%) Linux
4 2 (1.12%) zOS
5 1 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (23.46%) Project Management
2 41 (22.91%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (22.35%) Agile
4 33 (18.44%) Migration
5 32 (17.88%) Asset Management
6 28 (15.64%) Roadmaps
7 27 (15.08%) ITIL
8 26 (14.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 25 (13.97%) Budgeting
9 25 (13.97%) Performance Management
10 21 (11.73%) Infrastructure as Code
10 21 (11.73%) Mentoring
10 21 (11.73%) Service Management
11 20 (11.17%) Cost Optimisation
11 20 (11.17%) IT Asset Management
11 20 (11.17%) Line Management
12 19 (10.61%) Data Management
12 19 (10.61%) DevOps
12 19 (10.61%) Stakeholder Management
13 18 (10.06%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 12 (6.70%) SQL
2 9 (5.03%) PowerShell
2 9 (5.03%) Python
3 7 (3.91%) Java
4 5 (2.79%) Bash
5 3 (1.68%) Perl
6 2 (1.12%) C
6 2 (1.12%) C++
6 2 (1.12%) Go
6 2 (1.12%) Groovy
6 2 (1.12%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.12%) JCL
6 2 (1.12%) Kotlin
6 2 (1.12%) Ruby
6 2 (1.12%) Scala
7 1 (0.56%) Bicep
7 1 (0.56%) Julia
7 1 (0.56%) PHP
7 1 (0.56%) REXX
7 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (13.97%) Degree
2 20 (11.17%) Azure Certification
3 13 (7.26%) AWS Certification
4 12 (6.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (5.03%) Security Cleared
6 5 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.23%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.12%) ACCA
8 2 (1.12%) CIMA
8 2 (1.12%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.12%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.56%) CISSP
9 1 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.56%) MRICS
9 1 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.56%) PMP
9 1 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.15%) SLA
2 6 (3.35%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (3.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.79%) GDPR
3 5 (2.79%) HIPAA
4 4 (2.23%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.23%) QA
5 3 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (1.68%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.56%) PMO
System Software
1 20 (11.17%) Active Directory
2 9 (5.03%) Docker
3 7 (3.91%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.79%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.68%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.68%) VirtualBox
7 2 (1.12%) NFS
7 2 (1.12%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 17 (9.50%) Terraform
2 12 (6.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (6.15%) Kubernetes
4 6 (3.35%) Ansible
5 5 (2.79%) Progress Chef
5 5 (2.79%) Puppet
6 3 (1.68%) Grafana
6 3 (1.68%) Kibana
6 3 (1.68%) logstash
6 3 (1.68%) Nagios
6 3 (1.68%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.68%) ZABBIX
7 2 (1.12%) Istio
8 1 (0.56%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 54 (30.17%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.94%) VMware
3 12 (6.70%) SAP
3 12 (6.70%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.23%) Cisco
4 4 (2.23%) Computacenter
4 4 (2.23%) Juniper
4 4 (2.23%) Splunk
5 3 (1.68%) Ariba
5 3 (1.68%) Fortinet
5 3 (1.68%) New Relic
5 3 (1.68%) Palo Alto
5 3 (1.68%) SolarWinds
6 2 (1.12%) Broadcom
6 2 (1.12%) CA
6 2 (1.12%) Dell
6 2 (1.12%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.12%) IBM
6 2 (1.12%) Oracle
6 2 (1.12%) Red Hat