Cost Management Jobs in Scotland

Cost Management
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 273 198
Rank change year-on-year +121 -75 +45
Permanent jobs citing Cost Management 14 15 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.46% 0.22% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.24% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2 11 6
10th Percentile £68,500 £42,000 £40,785
25th Percentile £70,000 £44,125 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +63.16% -13.64% +22.22%
75th Percentile £82,500 £61,250 £70,000
90th Percentile - - £77,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £63,750
% change year-on-year +25.00% -5.88% -4.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,794 6,223 4,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.12% 91.17% 94.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,309 2,465 2,077
10th Percentile £30,400 £28,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

Cost Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Management in Scotland

Cost Management
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Cost Management in Scotland

Cost Management
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cost Management within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 31 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
Edinburgh +36 13 £80,000 +39.13% 2
Glasgow +151 1 £75,000 +63.93%
Cost Management
UK

Cost Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (7.14%) Power BI
1 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) GitLab
General
1 6 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Billing
4 1 (7.14%) General Ledger
4 1 (7.14%) Law
4 1 (7.14%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Consultant
2 3 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Business Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Finance Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Security Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Applications Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Cyber Threat Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) IT Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Security Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Security Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Web Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (7.14%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
1 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
1 1 (7.14%) Private Cloud
1 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) DevOps
1 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (21.43%) Agile
2 3 (21.43%) Budgeting
2 3 (21.43%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 3 (21.43%) Coaching
2 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (21.43%) Cost Reduction
2 3 (21.43%) Culture Change
2 3 (21.43%) Customer Experience
2 3 (21.43%) Financial Modelling
2 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
2 3 (21.43%) Product Backlog
2 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (14.29%) Business Strategy
3 2 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (14.29%) Incident Response
3 2 (14.29%) Planning and Forecasting
3 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) ACCA
1 2 (14.29%) CFA
1 2 (14.29%) CIMA
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.14%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
1 3 (21.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Google
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle
1 1 (7.14%) Qualys