Cost Management Jobs in the North West

Cost Management
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 226 272 290
Rank change year-on-year +46 +18 +12
Permanent jobs citing Cost Management 63 19 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.79% 0.19% 0.064%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.23% 0.067%
Number of salaries quoted 6 19 4
10th Percentile £73,250 £55,000 -
25th Percentile £79,000 £58,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.85% -3.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £91,250 £70,000 £81,875
90th Percentile £92,500 - £89,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £63,750
% change year-on-year +12.00% -1.96% -8.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,669 8,165 7,493
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.77% 82.81% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 4,125 6,197 3,919
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,500 £30,831
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Management in the North West

Cost Management
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Cost Management in the North West

Cost Management
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 Management within the North West region over the 6 months to 12 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
Cumbria - 48 - -
Manchester +65 13 £87,500 +34.62% 5
Cheshire +6 2 £80,000 +23.08% 1
Cost Management
England

Cost Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (3.17%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 25 (39.68%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (11.11%) AWS
2 3 (4.76%) Azure
2 3 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.59%) AWS KMS
4 1 (1.59%) GCP
4 1 (1.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.59%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (3.17%) GitLab
General
1 25 (39.68%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 4 (6.35%) Finance
4 3 (4.76%) Marketing
5 1 (1.59%) Law
5 1 (1.59%) Legal
5 1 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (39.68%) Lead
2 4 (6.35%) Analyst
3 3 (4.76%) Consultant
3 3 (4.76%) Cyber Threat Analyst
4 2 (3.17%) Architect
4 2 (3.17%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (3.17%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (3.17%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (1.59%) Applications Consultant
5 1 (1.59%) Cloud Network Engineer
5 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.59%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 1 (1.59%) Lead Network Engineer
5 1 (1.59%) Management Consultant
5 1 (1.59%) Microsoft 365 Architect
5 1 (1.59%) Network Engineer
5 1 (1.59%) Security Analyst
5 1 (1.59%) Security Consultant
5 1 (1.59%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.59%) Supply Chain Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.76%) Cyber Defence
1 3 (4.76%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (3.17%) Data Centre
2 2 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (3.17%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.59%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (42.86%) Coaching
1 27 (42.86%) Mentoring
2 26 (41.27%) Agile
2 26 (41.27%) Continuous Improvement
3 25 (39.68%) Stakeholder Management
4 24 (38.10%) Change Management
4 24 (38.10%) ERP
4 24 (38.10%) Lean Six Sigma
4 24 (38.10%) Line Management
4 24 (38.10%) Project Delivery
4 24 (38.10%) Six Sigma
5 4 (6.35%) Risk Management
5 4 (6.35%) Sprint Planning
5 4 (6.35%) Sprint Retrospective
5 4 (6.35%) Strategic Thinking
6 3 (4.76%) Asset Management
6 3 (4.76%) Data Migration
6 3 (4.76%) Migration
6 3 (4.76%) Service Management
6 3 (4.76%) Supply Chain Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.59%) C#
1 1 (1.59%) Go
1 1 (1.59%) Java
1 1 (1.59%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 48 (76.19%) BPSS Clearance
2 26 (41.27%) Degree
3 24 (38.10%) HNC
3 24 (38.10%) Six Sigma Black Belt
3 24 (38.10%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 2 (3.17%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.17%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.17%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (1.59%) CISSP
5 1 (1.59%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.59%) PhD
System Software
1 1 (1.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.35%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 24 (38.10%) SAP
3 1 (1.59%) Oracle
3 1 (1.59%) Planview
3 1 (1.59%) Qualys