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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 722 770 877
Rank change year-on-year +48 +107 -47
Permanent jobs citing Cost Management 182 203 362
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.20% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.21% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 101 124 188
10th Percentile £42,000 £36,072 £41,688
25th Percentile £52,500 £49,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,000 £65,750
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -5.70% +1.15%
75th Percentile £70,000 £78,125 £78,750
90th Percentile £106,250 £95,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +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 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
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 £96,550
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 9 May 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 9 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 +89 157 £62,500 - 121
UK excluding London +33 144 £57,500 +4.55% 84
Work from Home +50 71 £65,000 +2.77% 29
North of England +96 51 £63,750 +6.25% 27
South East 0 38 £57,500 +7.48% 21
London +77 33 £82,500 +17.86% 41
North West +28 19 £65,000 -3.70% 15
North East +14 19 £48,250 +13.53% 3
Midlands -16 18 £65,000 +16.59% 12
Scotland -68 15 £47,500 -5.00% 6
South West -28 14 £62,500 +8.70% 11
Yorkshire +100 13 £40,000 -17.95% 9
West Midlands -2 9 £47,500 -17.39% 9
East Midlands -10 7 £53,750 +95.45% 3
Northern Ireland - 4 £115,000 -
East of England +20 3 £45,000 -60.87% 11
Wales +4 1 - - 2

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 (6.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.10%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (3.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.65%) Primavera
2 2 (1.10%) C-CURE
2 2 (1.10%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 64 (35.16%) Azure
2 31 (17.03%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (16.48%) AWS
4 18 (9.89%) GCP
5 16 (8.79%) Entra ID
6 12 (6.59%) IaaS
7 11 (6.04%) PaaS
8 8 (4.40%) Cloud Computing
9 7 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (2.75%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (2.20%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (1.65%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.65%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (1.65%) AWS CodeDeploy
12 3 (1.65%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 3 (1.65%) Azure Stack
12 3 (1.65%) Azure Storage
12 3 (1.65%) OpenShift
13 2 (1.10%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.24%) Wi-Fi
2 11 (6.04%) Firewall
2 11 (6.04%) VPN
3 10 (5.49%) Internet
3 10 (5.49%) LAN
4 8 (4.40%) DNS
4 8 (4.40%) MPLS
4 8 (4.40%) SD-WAN
4 8 (4.40%) WAN
5 6 (3.30%) Network Security
6 5 (2.75%) DHCP
6 5 (2.75%) SNMP
6 5 (2.75%) SSL
7 3 (1.65%) BGP
7 3 (1.65%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (1.65%) EIGRP
7 3 (1.65%) HTTP
7 3 (1.65%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (1.65%) OSPF
7 3 (1.65%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.79%) Metadata
2 14 (7.69%) Data Lake
3 8 (4.40%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (2.75%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.20%) Big Data
6 3 (1.65%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.10%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.10%) Power BI
8 1 (0.55%) MS Access
8 1 (0.55%) Oracle OWB
8 1 (0.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (2.75%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.20%) Git
2 4 (2.20%) JUnit
3 3 (1.65%) Bitbucket
3 3 (1.65%) CircleCI
3 3 (1.65%) GitLab
3 3 (1.65%) Selenium
3 3 (1.65%) Subversion
3 3 (1.65%) TestNG
3 3 (1.65%) Travis CI
4 1 (0.55%) Gatling
4 1 (0.55%) JIRA
4 1 (0.55%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 77 (42.31%) Finance
2 56 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 41 (22.53%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (15.93%) Legal
5 17 (9.34%) Banking
5 17 (9.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (8.24%) Marketing
7 14 (7.69%) Financial Institution
7 14 (7.69%) Retail Banking
8 10 (5.49%) Retail
9 9 (4.95%) Manufacturing
10 6 (3.30%) Law
10 6 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (3.30%) Telecoms
11 5 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.65%) Aviation
12 3 (1.65%) Billing
13 2 (1.10%) Automotive
13 2 (1.10%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.55%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 25 (13.74%) Architect
2 22 (12.09%) Project Manager
3 21 (11.54%) IT Manager
4 19 (10.44%) Senior
5 18 (9.89%) Lead
6 14 (7.69%) Data Architect
6 14 (7.69%) Senior Architect
6 14 (7.69%) Senior Data Architect
7 13 (7.14%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 12 (6.59%) Cloud Specialist
8 12 (6.59%) ICT Specialist
9 9 (4.95%) Analyst
9 9 (4.95%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (4.40%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (4.40%) Operations Manager
11 7 (3.85%) Digital Project Manager
11 7 (3.85%) Procurement Advisor
12 6 (3.30%) Business Manager
12 6 (3.30%) Delivery Manager
12 6 (3.30%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.30%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (2.75%) NETCONF
3 4 (2.20%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (0.55%) .NET
4 1 (0.55%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.55%) Node.js
4 1 (0.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.04%) Cloud Native
1 11 (6.04%) Data Centre
2 10 (5.49%) Management Information System
3 8 (4.40%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (3.30%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.75%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.75%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.75%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.20%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.20%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.65%) PMI
7 3 (1.65%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.10%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.10%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.55%) Clustering
9 1 (0.55%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.69%) Windows
2 13 (7.14%) Windows Server
3 6 (3.30%) Linux
4 2 (1.10%) zOS
5 1 (0.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (23.08%) Project Management
2 41 (22.53%) Agile
3 40 (21.98%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (19.23%) Asset Management
5 33 (18.13%) Migration
6 29 (15.93%) Budgeting
6 29 (15.93%) Roadmaps
7 26 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 25 (13.74%) ITIL
8 25 (13.74%) Performance Management
9 21 (11.54%) Cost Optimisation
9 21 (11.54%) Data Management
9 21 (11.54%) Infrastructure as Code
9 21 (11.54%) IT Asset Management
9 21 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
10 20 (10.99%) Continuous Improvement
10 20 (10.99%) Line Management
10 20 (10.99%) Service Management
11 19 (10.44%) Mentoring
12 18 (9.89%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 10 (5.49%) SQL
2 8 (4.40%) PowerShell
3 7 (3.85%) Python
4 6 (3.30%) Java
5 4 (2.20%) Bash
6 3 (1.65%) Perl
7 2 (1.10%) C
7 2 (1.10%) C++
7 2 (1.10%) JCL
7 2 (1.10%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.10%) Ruby
8 1 (0.55%) Go
8 1 (0.55%) Groovy
8 1 (0.55%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.55%) Julia
8 1 (0.55%) REXX
8 1 (0.55%) Scala
8 1 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (13.74%) Degree
2 22 (12.09%) Azure Certification
3 14 (7.69%) AWS Certification
4 12 (6.59%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (5.49%) Security Cleared
6 5 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.75%) PMI Certification
7 4 (2.20%) ACCA
7 4 (2.20%) CIMA
8 3 (1.65%) SC Cleared
9 2 (1.10%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.10%) PMP
9 2 (1.10%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.55%) CISSP
10 1 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.55%) MRICS
10 1 (0.55%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.49%) SLA
2 6 (3.30%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.75%) GDPR
3 5 (2.75%) HIPAA
4 4 (2.20%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.20%) QA
5 3 (1.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (1.65%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.55%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.55%) PMO
System Software
1 20 (10.99%) Active Directory
2 9 (4.95%) Docker
3 7 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.75%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.65%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.65%) VirtualBox
7 2 (1.10%) NFS
7 2 (1.10%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 16 (8.79%) Terraform
2 12 (6.59%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (5.49%) Kubernetes
4 6 (3.30%) Ansible
5 5 (2.75%) Progress Chef
5 5 (2.75%) Puppet
6 3 (1.65%) Grafana
6 3 (1.65%) Kibana
6 3 (1.65%) logstash
6 3 (1.65%) Nagios
6 3 (1.65%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.65%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.55%) Istio
7 1 (0.55%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 55 (30.22%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.79%) VMware
3 12 (6.59%) SAP
3 12 (6.59%) ServiceNow
4 5 (2.75%) Cisco
4 5 (2.75%) Juniper
5 4 (2.20%) Computacenter
5 4 (2.20%) Splunk
6 3 (1.65%) Ariba
6 3 (1.65%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.65%) New Relic
6 3 (1.65%) Palo Alto
6 3 (1.65%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.10%) Broadcom
7 2 (1.10%) Brocade
7 2 (1.10%) CA
7 2 (1.10%) Dell
7 2 (1.10%) IBM
7 2 (1.10%) Oracle
7 2 (1.10%) Red Hat