Cost Management Jobs in the Midlands

Cost Management
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 221 307 291
Rank change year-on-year +86 -16 +48
Permanent jobs citing Cost Management 35 18 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.49% 0.15% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.18% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 12 9 14
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,250 -
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £65,000 £55,750
Median % change year-on-year -29.23% +16.59% +23.89%
75th Percentile £67,688 £76,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,950 £110,000 £69,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +12.00% - -7.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,522 9,735 8,945
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 91.76% 81.99% 96.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,684 7,163 4,522
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £38,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,200 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £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 Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Management in the Midlands

Cost Management
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Cost Management in the Midlands

Cost Management
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cost Management in the Midlands over the 6 months to 10 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cost Management in the Midlands

Cost Management
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 Management within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 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
East Midlands +60 22 - - 4
West Midlands +60 13 £46,000 -3.16% 7
Cost Management
England

Cost Management
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 (5.71%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.86%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (31.43%) Azure
2 7 (20.00%) AWS
3 6 (17.14%) Entra ID
4 4 (11.43%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (11.43%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (11.43%) IaaS
4 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Purview
4 4 (11.43%) PaaS
4 4 (11.43%) Route 53
5 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (5.71%) Azure Functions
5 2 (5.71%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (5.71%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (5.71%) GitHub
5 2 (5.71%) Serverless
6 1 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.14%) Firewall
1 6 (17.14%) SD-WAN
1 6 (17.14%) VPN
1 6 (17.14%) WAN
2 4 (11.43%) HTTPS
2 4 (11.43%) VLAN
3 2 (5.71%) LAN
3 2 (5.71%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 20 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 16 (45.71%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (14.29%) Retail
5 3 (8.57%) Aviation
5 3 (8.57%) Manufacturing
6 2 (5.71%) Finance
6 2 (5.71%) Legal
Job Titles
1 15 (42.86%) Administrator
2 9 (25.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (17.14%) Azure Engineer
3 6 (17.14%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (17.14%) Cloud Engineer
3 6 (17.14%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) Project Manager
4 5 (14.29%) Senior
5 3 (8.57%) Associate Project Manager
5 3 (8.57%) ICT Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) ICT Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Senior Manager
5 3 (8.57%) Senior Project Manager
6 2 (5.71%) IT Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Supplier Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Technical Leader
6 2 (5.71%) Vendor Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.86%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.71%) Cyberattack
2 1 (2.86%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.14%) Windows
1 6 (17.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (45.71%) Asset Management
1 16 (45.71%) IT Asset Management
1 16 (45.71%) Software Asset Management
2 9 (25.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (25.71%) Infrastructure Management
2 9 (25.71%) Project Management
3 8 (22.86%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (17.14%) Cost Optimisation
4 6 (17.14%) Identity Management
4 6 (17.14%) ITIL
4 6 (17.14%) Proactive Management
4 6 (17.14%) Resource Allocation
5 5 (14.29%) Cloud Security
5 5 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
5 5 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 5 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
6 4 (11.43%) DevOps
6 4 (11.43%) Load Balancing
6 4 (11.43%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.71%) PowerShell
2 3 (8.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (31.43%) Azure Certification
2 7 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 7 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (11.43%) CompTIA Security+
4 3 (8.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (8.57%) MAPM
4 3 (8.57%) MRICS
4 3 (8.57%) Security Cleared
5 2 (5.71%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.86%) APMG
6 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.86%) CITP
6 1 (2.86%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.86%) PMP
6 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.86%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) PMBOK
System Software
1 6 (17.14%) Active Directory
2 4 (11.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (14.29%) Terraform
2 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.86%) Salesforce
2 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow