Cost Control Job Trends in the North West

Cost Control
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West 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 173 188 181
Rank change year-on-year +15 -7 +112
Permanent jobs citing Cost Control 8 19 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.13% 0.37% 0.026%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.41% 0.029%
Number of salaries quoted 3 5 1
10th Percentile £62,500 - -
25th Percentile £71,875 £36,250 £122,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £48,000 £135,000
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% -64.44% +125.00%
75th Percentile £94,375 £50,000 £147,500
90th Percentile £95,500 £52,876 -
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,141 4,689 3,469
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 83.40% 90.17% 89.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,474 2,328 2,662
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,548
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 North West

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

Cost Control job vacancy trend in the North West

Cost Control
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Cost Control.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Cost Control

Cost Control
Salary Histogram in the North West

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

Salary histogram for Cost Control in the North West

Cost Control
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cost Control within the North West 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
Lancashire +20 5 - - 1
Manchester +11 3 £90,000 +140.00% 11
Cost Control
England

Cost Control
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (12.50%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Power BI
2 2 (25.00%) BigQuery
2 2 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (25.00%) Semantic Layer
General
1 5 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
1 5 (62.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Project Officer
1 5 (62.50%) Project Support Officer
1 5 (62.50%) Senior
1 5 (62.50%) Senior Project Officer
1 5 (62.50%) Senior Project Support Officer
1 5 (62.50%) Support Officer
2 2 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Principal Data Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Budget Management
1 5 (62.50%) Budgeting and Forecasting
1 5 (62.50%) Document Management
1 5 (62.50%) Order Management
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Budget Control
2 4 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (50.00%) Change Management
2 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (50.00%) Financial Analysis
2 4 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 4 (50.00%) Project Governance
3 2 (25.00%) Batch Management
3 2 (25.00%) People Management
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (12.50%) Culture Change
4 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
4 1 (12.50%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Python
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) PMO
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Google
3 1 (12.50%) CrowdStrike