Cost Management Job Trends in Dorset

Cost Management
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring Cost Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Cost Management 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Dorset 0.17% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
South West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -15.38% +8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Dorset

Cost Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Dorset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 459 189 653
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset 79.69% 88.32% 85.14%
Number of salaries quoted 300 108 516
10th Percentile £27,707 £34,550 £30,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £41,016 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,313 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £67,250 £67,500
South West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

Cost Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cost Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Dorset.

Cost Management job vacancy trend in Dorset

Cost Management
Salary Trend in Dorset

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Cost Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Cost Management

Cost Management
Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cost Management within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 18 March 2026. 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
Bournemouth - 1 - -
Cost Management
South West

Cost Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk