Cost Control Jobs in the Midlands

Cost Control
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Cost Control skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cost Control over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 247 297 305
Rank change year-on-year +50 +8 +15
Permanent jobs citing Cost Control 15 25 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.22% 0.20% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.25% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 6 23 5
10th Percentile - £46,250 -
25th Percentile - £51,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +86.92% +7.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £111,250 £55,250 £125,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £64,050 £143,000
England median annual salary £54,793 £53,500 £58,500
% change year-on-year +2.42% -8.55% -6.40%

All Process and 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 6,225 10,156 8,630
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 91.57% 80.56% 96.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,443 7,358 4,443
10th Percentile £26,974 £26,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £38,276
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,200 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Cost Control
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Cost Control as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Cost Control in the Midlands

Cost Control
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cost Control in the Midlands.

Salary trend 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 28 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
West Midlands +57 13 £100,000 +86.92% 25
East Midlands +36 2 - - 19
Cost Control
England

Cost Control
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) SaaS
2 2 (13.33%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
2 2 (13.33%) IaaS
2 2 (13.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (13.33%) Firewall
2 2 (13.33%) LAN
2 2 (13.33%) Network Security
2 2 (13.33%) SD-WAN
2 2 (13.33%) VPN
2 2 (13.33%) WAN
General
1 13 (86.67%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (26.67%) Law
3 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Contracts Manager
1 4 (26.67%) Technology Director
2 3 (20.00%) Head of Engineering
3 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Head of Architecture
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Management Information System
2 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
1 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Artificial Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (40.00%) Incident Management
3 5 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 4 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (26.67%) Contract Management
4 4 (26.67%) Critical Thinking
4 4 (26.67%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (26.67%) Data Management
4 4 (26.67%) Data Visualisation
4 4 (26.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 4 (26.67%) Decision-Making
4 4 (26.67%) Information Governance
4 4 (26.67%) Proactive Monitoring
4 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (26.67%) Project Management
4 4 (26.67%) Service Delivery
4 4 (26.67%) Supplier Management
4 4 (26.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) DBS Check
1 4 (26.67%) MRICS
2 3 (20.00%) Degree
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) GDPR
2 3 (20.00%) PMBOK
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) NEC
1 4 (26.67%) SAP
1 4 (26.67%) YouTube
2 3 (20.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft