Cost Management Jobs in England

Cost Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Cost Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cost Management over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 445 682 740
Rank change year-on-year +237 +58 +145
Permanent jobs citing Cost Management 243 168 165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.49% 0.19% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.22% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 76 92 108
10th Percentile £45,125 £45,125 £42,685
25th Percentile £54,688 £52,500 £47,420
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £63,750 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +2.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £90,000 £70,313 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,125 £102,500 £97,375
UK median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £63,750
% change year-on-year +25.00% -5.88% -4.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,342 75,409 81,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.97% 83.96% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 23,102 54,812 48,959
10th Percentile £29,250 £29,000 £34,452
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

Cost Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Management in England

Cost Management
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Cost Management in England

Cost Management
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cost Management in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cost Management in England

Cost Management
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cost Management within the England region over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. 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
London +173 109 £75,000 -9.09% 81
North of England +46 63 £83,750 +34.00% 15
North West +39 59 £87,500 +34.62% 9
Midlands +80 33 £46,000 -29.23% 14
South East +58 19 £75,000 +30.43% 21
East Midlands +55 19 - - 2
West Midlands +61 14 £46,000 -3.16% 12
East of England +58 11 £70,000 +55.56% 6
South West +105 5 £55,000 -15.38% 9
Yorkshire +46 3 £65,000 +62.50% 2
North East +31 1 - - 4
Cost Management
UK

Cost Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (4.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.82%) Confluence
2 2 (0.82%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.41%) CMS
3 1 (0.41%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.41%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 26 (10.70%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (4.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (2.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (5.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.06%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (0.82%) Primavera
4 1 (0.41%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 98 (40.33%) Azure
2 60 (24.69%) AWS
3 45 (18.52%) GCP
4 27 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (8.64%) Power Platform
6 16 (6.58%) Azure Logic Apps
6 16 (6.58%) Dynamics 365
7 13 (5.35%) Entra ID
8 11 (4.53%) Azure Key Vault
8 11 (4.53%) GitHub
9 10 (4.12%) PowerApps
10 9 (3.70%) Serverless
11 8 (3.29%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (3.29%) PaaS
12 7 (2.88%) IaaS
13 5 (2.06%) Azure Functions
14 4 (1.65%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (1.65%) Azure Sentinel
14 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Purview
14 4 (1.65%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 23 (9.47%) Firewall
2 13 (5.35%) VPN
3 7 (2.88%) DNS
4 6 (2.47%) Network Security
4 6 (2.47%) SD-WAN
4 6 (2.47%) WAN
5 4 (1.65%) HTTPS
5 4 (1.65%) VLAN
6 2 (0.82%) LAN
7 1 (0.41%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (9.05%) Data Lake
2 21 (8.64%) Metadata
3 12 (4.94%) SQL Server
4 11 (4.53%) Power BI
5 3 (1.23%) Tableau
6 2 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.41%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.41%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 8 (3.29%) GitLab
2 2 (0.82%) JIRA
3 1 (0.41%) Git
3 1 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 98 (40.33%) Finance
2 77 (31.69%) Analytical Skills
3 48 (19.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 43 (17.70%) Social Skills
5 23 (9.47%) Banking
6 21 (8.64%) Financial Institution
6 21 (8.64%) Retail Banking
7 18 (7.41%) Law
8 13 (5.35%) Back Office
9 11 (4.53%) Marketing
10 8 (3.29%) Legal
11 6 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (2.47%) Retail
12 3 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.82%) Aviation
13 2 (0.82%) Front Office
13 2 (0.82%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.41%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.41%) Billing
14 1 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 43 (17.70%) Lead
2 25 (10.29%) Architect
2 25 (10.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 24 (9.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 22 (9.05%) Project Manager
5 21 (8.64%) Azure Engineer
5 21 (8.64%) Data Architect
6 19 (7.82%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 18 (7.41%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 18 (7.41%) Platform Engineer
8 17 (7.00%) Analyst
9 16 (6.58%) DevOps Engineer
10 15 (6.17%) Administrator
10 15 (6.17%) Data Engineer
10 15 (6.17%) Senior
11 14 (5.76%) IT Manager
11 14 (5.76%) Lead Data Engineer
12 13 (5.35%) Development Manager
13 11 (4.53%) Applications Development Manager
13 11 (4.53%) Applications Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.00%) ARM Templates
2 13 (5.35%) .NET
2 13 (5.35%) .NET Framework
3 6 (2.47%) YAML
4 1 (0.41%) EDI
4 1 (0.41%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.41%) Kafka
4 1 (0.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.41%) Cyberattack
2 8 (3.29%) Management Information System
3 4 (1.65%) Public Cloud
4 3 (1.23%) Data Centre
4 3 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (0.82%) Cloud Native
5 2 (0.82%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.41%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.41%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.41%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.41%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.41%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.41%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.41%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.41%) IoT
6 1 (0.41%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.41%) PMI
6 1 (0.41%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.41%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.23%) Windows
2 18 (7.41%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.23%) Linux
3 3 (1.23%) VMS
4 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (38.27%) Agile
2 64 (26.34%) Mentoring
3 56 (23.05%) Stakeholder Management
4 54 (22.22%) Project Management
5 53 (21.81%) Coaching
6 47 (19.34%) Project Delivery
7 46 (18.93%) DevOps
8 45 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
9 41 (16.87%) Problem-Solving
10 40 (16.46%) Asset Management
10 40 (16.46%) Infrastructure as Code
11 39 (16.05%) Risk Management
12 37 (15.23%) CI/CD
13 36 (14.81%) Data Management
14 31 (12.76%) Resource Management
15 30 (12.35%) Change Management
16 29 (11.93%) Analytics
16 29 (11.93%) Migration
17 28 (11.52%) Business Development
17 28 (11.52%) Culture Change
Programming Languages
1 24 (9.88%) Python
2 16 (6.58%) Java
3 15 (6.17%) PowerShell
4 14 (5.76%) Scala
5 8 (3.29%) Bicep
6 7 (2.88%) SQL
7 5 (2.06%) R
8 3 (1.23%) Bash
9 1 (0.41%) Go
Qualifications
1 59 (24.28%) Degree
2 48 (19.75%) BPSS Clearance
3 39 (16.05%) Azure Certification
4 33 (13.58%) AWS Certification
5 24 (9.88%) HNC
5 24 (9.88%) Six Sigma Black Belt
5 24 (9.88%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 22 (9.05%) Security Cleared
7 18 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (7.41%) DV Cleared
8 16 (6.58%) Master's Degree
9 7 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (2.47%) ACCA
10 6 (2.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (2.47%) CIMA
11 4 (1.65%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (1.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.23%) CCSK
12 3 (1.23%) CCSP
12 3 (1.23%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.41%) PMBOK
2 5 (2.06%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.23%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.82%) GDPR
4 2 (0.82%) PMO
5 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.41%) IFRS
5 1 (0.41%) NEBOSH
5 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (7.41%) Docker
2 11 (4.53%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (3.29%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (14.81%) Terraform
2 29 (11.93%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.23%) Ansible
4 3 (1.23%) Argo
5 2 (0.82%) Grafana
5 2 (0.82%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.41%) WSUS
Vendors
1 91 (37.45%) Microsoft
2 25 (10.29%) SAP
3 22 (9.05%) Google
4 13 (5.35%) Siebel
5 7 (2.88%) Databricks
6 6 (2.47%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.65%) VMware
8 3 (1.23%) Duck Creek
9 2 (0.82%) Citrix
10 1 (0.41%) Instagram
10 1 (0.41%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.41%) Qualys
10 1 (0.41%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.41%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.41%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.41%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.41%) Twitter