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 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 239 196
Rank change year-on-year +87 -43 +57
Permanent jobs citing Cost Management 12 16 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.36% 0.26% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.29% 0.24%
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 £68,750
90th Percentile - - £77,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -7.69% -2.41%

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 2,869 5,427 3,771
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 87.20% 88.47% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,350 2,347 1,998
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,299 £31,871
25th Percentile £32,951 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.63% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £63,000 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £82,548
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%

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 20 July 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 +22 9 £80,000 +39.13% 1
Glasgow +115 3 £75,000 +63.93% 1
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (8.33%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Ant
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
1 1 (8.33%) IntelliJ
1 1 (8.33%) Jasmine
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (8.33%) Karma Test Runner
1 1 (8.33%) Maven
1 1 (8.33%) Protractor
1 1 (8.33%) Selenium
1 1 (8.33%) WebDriver
1 1 (8.33%) webpack
General
1 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (16.67%) Law
4 1 (8.33%) Aviation
4 1 (8.33%) General Ledger
4 1 (8.33%) Legal
4 1 (8.33%) Marketing
4 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Analyst
1 3 (25.00%) Consultant
1 3 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Security Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Applications Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Business Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) IT Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Java Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Risk Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Security Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Security Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Web Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (8.33%) Bootstrap
1 1 (8.33%) CSS
1 1 (8.33%) Hibernate
1 1 (8.33%) HTML
1 1 (8.33%) HTML5
1 1 (8.33%) J2EE
1 1 (8.33%) JMS
1 1 (8.33%) jQuery
1 1 (8.33%) JSON
1 1 (8.33%) Node.js
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (8.33%) REST
1 1 (8.33%) Spring
1 1 (8.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Algorithms
1 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
1 1 (8.33%) Driving Licence
1 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Agile
1 4 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (33.33%) Mentoring
1 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (25.00%) Coaching
2 3 (25.00%) Cost Reduction
2 3 (25.00%) Culture Change
2 3 (25.00%) Customer Experience
2 3 (25.00%) DevOps
2 3 (25.00%) Product Backlog
2 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (16.67%) Incident Response
3 2 (16.67%) Information Security
3 2 (16.67%) Operational Stability
3 2 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (8.33%) Programme Management
4 1 (8.33%) Project Management
4 1 (8.33%) Quality Management
4 1 (8.33%) Risk Management
4 1 (8.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Java
1 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (8.33%) R
1 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) CISSP
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (8.33%) PMO
1 1 (8.33%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle
1 1 (8.33%) Qualys