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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 449 674 763
Rank change year-on-year +225 +89 +74
Permanent jobs citing Cost Management 248 157 173
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.51% 0.18% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.21% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 75 88 112
10th Percentile £44,900 £43,875 £41,455
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £48,605
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -1.96% -8.93%
75th Percentile £82,500 £70,313 £78,125
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,375 £99,625
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -4.00% -6.02%

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 45,979 73,257 86,134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.14% 85.46% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 23,654 53,821 51,155
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,324
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £76,250 £73,410 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £101,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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 14 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 14 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 +187 106 £60,000 -27.27% 90
North of England +68 67 £80,000 +25.49% 15
North West +49 63 £83,750 +28.85% 8
Midlands +78 35 £46,000 -29.23% 8
East Midlands +48 22 - - 2
South East +84 21 £75,000 +30.43% 35
West Midlands +58 13 £46,000 -3.16% 5
South West +101 8 £55,000 -12.00% 8
East of England +51 8 £70,000 +55.56% 5
Yorkshire +65 3 £65,000 +62.50% 6
North East +26 1 - - 1
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 11 (4.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.61%) Confluence
3 3 (1.21%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.81%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 27 (10.89%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (5.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (2.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (3.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.02%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (0.81%) Primavera
4 1 (0.40%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 97 (39.11%) Azure
2 67 (27.02%) AWS
3 48 (19.35%) GCP
4 22 (8.87%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (6.85%) Power Platform
6 14 (5.65%) Dynamics 365
7 13 (5.24%) Entra ID
8 11 (4.44%) Azure Logic Apps
9 9 (3.63%) Azure Key Vault
9 9 (3.63%) GitHub
9 9 (3.63%) PowerApps
10 8 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (3.23%) Serverless
11 6 (2.42%) PaaS
12 5 (2.02%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (2.02%) IaaS
13 4 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (1.61%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (1.61%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 25 (10.08%) Firewall
2 15 (6.05%) VPN
3 9 (3.63%) DNS
4 8 (3.23%) Network Security
4 8 (3.23%) SD-WAN
4 8 (3.23%) WAN
5 4 (1.61%) HTTPS
5 4 (1.61%) LAN
5 4 (1.61%) VLAN
6 2 (0.81%) BGP
6 2 (0.81%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (0.81%) DHCP
6 2 (0.81%) EIGRP
6 2 (0.81%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (0.81%) MPLS
6 2 (0.81%) OSPF
6 2 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.40%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (9.68%) Data Lake
2 23 (9.27%) Metadata
3 9 (3.63%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.23%) Power BI
5 1 (0.40%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.40%) Big Data
5 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (3.63%) GitLab
2 4 (1.61%) JIRA
3 1 (0.40%) Git
3 1 (0.40%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 97 (39.11%) Finance
2 84 (33.87%) Analytical Skills
3 52 (20.97%) Social Skills
4 47 (18.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 25 (10.08%) Banking
6 23 (9.27%) Financial Institution
6 23 (9.27%) Retail Banking
7 18 (7.26%) Law
8 9 (3.63%) Back Office
8 9 (3.63%) Legal
8 9 (3.63%) Marketing
9 7 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.02%) Retail
11 3 (1.21%) Aviation
11 3 (1.21%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.81%) Local Government
12 2 (0.81%) Police
12 2 (0.81%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 43 (17.34%) Lead
2 29 (11.69%) Architect
3 26 (10.48%) Project Manager
4 24 (9.68%) Cloud Engineer
5 23 (9.27%) Data Architect
6 21 (8.47%) Analyst
6 21 (8.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 19 (7.66%) Azure Engineer
7 19 (7.66%) Platform Engineer
7 19 (7.66%) Senior
8 16 (6.45%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 15 (6.05%) Administrator
9 15 (6.05%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 15 (6.05%) Data Engineer
9 15 (6.05%) DevOps Engineer
9 15 (6.05%) IT Manager
10 14 (5.65%) Lead Data Engineer
11 9 (3.63%) Development Manager
11 9 (3.63%) Financial Analyst
12 8 (3.23%) Portfolio Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.85%) ARM Templates
2 9 (3.63%) .NET
2 9 (3.63%) .NET Framework
3 6 (2.42%) YAML
4 2 (0.81%) XML
5 1 (0.40%) Azure Blueprints
5 1 (0.40%) EDI
5 1 (0.40%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.40%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.26%) Cyberattack
2 9 (3.63%) Management Information System
3 8 (3.23%) Data Centre
4 7 (2.82%) Cyber Threat
5 6 (2.42%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.21%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.81%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.81%) PMI
7 2 (0.81%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.40%) CMDB
8 1 (0.40%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.40%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.40%) IoT
8 1 (0.40%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.40%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.40%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.66%) Windows
2 17 (6.85%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.02%) Linux
4 3 (1.21%) VMS
5 2 (0.81%) Unix
6 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (36.69%) Agile
2 61 (24.60%) Mentoring
3 57 (22.98%) Project Management
4 54 (21.77%) Stakeholder Management
5 51 (20.56%) Coaching
6 49 (19.76%) Project Delivery
7 47 (18.95%) Problem-Solving
8 44 (17.74%) Continuous Improvement
8 44 (17.74%) Risk Management
9 43 (17.34%) Asset Management
10 41 (16.53%) DevOps
11 37 (14.92%) Infrastructure as Code
12 36 (14.52%) CI/CD
13 34 (13.71%) Data Management
14 32 (12.90%) Migration
15 31 (12.50%) Roadmaps
16 30 (12.10%) Analytics
17 29 (11.69%) Business Development
17 29 (11.69%) Change Management
18 28 (11.29%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 26 (10.48%) Python
2 18 (7.26%) Java
2 18 (7.26%) PowerShell
3 14 (5.65%) Scala
4 9 (3.63%) Bicep
5 8 (3.23%) SQL
6 5 (2.02%) Bash
7 3 (1.21%) Go
7 3 (1.21%) R
8 1 (0.40%) C#
8 1 (0.40%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 59 (23.79%) Degree
2 49 (19.76%) BPSS Clearance
3 42 (16.94%) Azure Certification
4 37 (14.92%) AWS Certification
5 24 (9.68%) HNC
5 24 (9.68%) Security Cleared
5 24 (9.68%) Six Sigma Black Belt
5 24 (9.68%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 20 (8.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (7.26%) DV Cleared
8 16 (6.45%) Master's Degree
9 7 (2.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (2.42%) ACCA
10 6 (2.42%) CIMA
11 5 (2.02%) PMI Certification
12 4 (1.61%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (1.21%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (1.21%) CCSK
13 3 (1.21%) MRICS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.26%) PMBOK
2 7 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 4 (1.61%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.61%) GDPR
3 4 (1.61%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.81%) SLA
5 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.40%) IFRS
5 1 (0.40%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (8.06%) Docker
2 11 (4.44%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.44%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.21%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.81%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.81%) vSphere
5 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 34 (13.71%) Terraform
2 30 (12.10%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.61%) Ansible
3 4 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.21%) Argo
5 2 (0.81%) Grafana
5 2 (0.81%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.40%) WSUS
Vendors
1 90 (36.29%) Microsoft
2 25 (10.08%) SAP
3 23 (9.27%) Google
4 9 (3.63%) Siebel
5 7 (2.82%) Databricks
6 6 (2.42%) Atlassian
7 5 (2.02%) SolarWinds
8 4 (1.61%) Duck Creek
8 4 (1.61%) VMware
9 3 (1.21%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.81%) Cisco
10 2 (0.81%) Citrix
10 2 (0.81%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.81%) Juniper
10 2 (0.81%) Nimble Storage
10 2 (0.81%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.81%) Splunk
10 2 (0.81%) Veeam
10 2 (0.81%) Zscaler
11 1 (0.40%) Qualys