Cost Control Job Trends in the Midlands

Cost Control
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Cost Control skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 195 227 216
Rank change year-on-year +32 -11 +94
Permanent jobs citing Cost Control 20 14 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.26% 0.21% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.23% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 7 6 7
10th Percentile - - £49,250
25th Percentile £27,250 - £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,500 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +51.75% -5.00% +26.32%
75th Percentile £97,500 - -
90th Percentile £99,500 £58,500 -
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

Cost Control 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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,361 5,982 4,476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.66% 89.64% 88.86%
Number of salaries quoted 3,507 2,641 3,683
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,479 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Cost Control
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Cost Control job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Cost Control
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Cost Control.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Cost Control

Cost Control
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cost Control in the Midlands over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Cost Control in the Midlands

Cost Control
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cost Control within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 December 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
West Midlands +26 14 £95,000 +66.67% 7
East Midlands -8 6 £28,500 - 4
Cost Control
England

Cost Control
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) AWS
2 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.00%) GCP
2 1 (5.00%) GitHub
2 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Firewall
1 1 (5.00%) VPN
General
1 11 (55.00%) Finance
2 9 (45.00%) Manufacturing
2 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (25.00%) Marketing
4 4 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (15.00%) Advertising
5 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (15.00%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (5.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Network Manager
1 4 (20.00%) Network Operations Manager
1 4 (20.00%) Operations Manager
2 3 (15.00%) Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Data Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Manufacturing Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Support Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Technical Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Technical Support
2 3 (15.00%) Technical Support Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Head of IT
3 2 (10.00%) Project Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Project Planner
4 1 (5.00%) Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Head of Technology
4 1 (5.00%) Project Officer
4 1 (5.00%) Project Support Officer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Project Officer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Project Support Officer
4 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (15.00%) Driving Licence
3 2 (10.00%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (5.00%) Educational Technology
4 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 7 (35.00%) Risk Management
3 6 (30.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 5 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (20.00%) Agile
5 4 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 4 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
6 3 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (15.00%) ERP
6 3 (15.00%) Project Delivery
6 3 (15.00%) Resource Allocation
6 3 (15.00%) Waterfall
7 2 (10.00%) BCP
7 2 (10.00%) Business Continuity
7 2 (10.00%) Logistics
7 2 (10.00%) PRINCE2
7 2 (10.00%) Project Management
7 2 (10.00%) Service Delivery
7 2 (10.00%) Supply Chain Management
7 2 (10.00%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) Bicep
1 1 (5.00%) Go
1 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) City & Guilds
1 3 (15.00%) DBS Check
1 3 (15.00%) HNC
1 3 (15.00%) HND
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) PMI Certification
2 2 (10.00%) PMP
2 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (10.00%) GRC
3 1 (5.00%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Google