Cost Management Jobs in the South East

Cost Management
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 296 354 365
Rank change year-on-year +58 +11 +73
Permanent jobs citing Cost Management 19 39 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.20% 0.22% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.27% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 11 25 31
10th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £33,853
25th Percentile £72,500 £55,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% +7.48% -19.55%
75th Percentile £88,125 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £112,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £63,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year +17.65% +2.00% -10.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,915 14,700 13,131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 92.05% 83.43% 94.43%
Number of salaries quoted 4,320 10,114 7,701
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,750 £30,625
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,906 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,750 £85,000
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Management in the South East

Cost Management
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Cost Management in the South East

Cost Management
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cost Management in the South East over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cost Management in the South East

Cost Management
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cost Management within the South East 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
Thames Valley +60 7 £87,500 +29.63% 8
Surrey +43 6 £75,000 +25.00% 1
Berkshire +35 6 £87,500 -16.67% 2
Hampshire +63 3 £90,000 +56.52% 7
Kent - 2 £55,000 - 2
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 2
East Sussex - 1 - -
Cost Management
England

Cost Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) Azure
2 6 (31.58%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (31.58%) Azure Key Vault
2 6 (31.58%) Azure Monitor
2 6 (31.58%) Entra ID
2 6 (31.58%) GitHub
3 5 (26.32%) Power Platform
4 4 (21.05%) Serverless
5 2 (10.53%) AWS
5 2 (10.53%) GCP
6 1 (5.26%) AWS IoT
6 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 6 (31.58%) DNS
1 6 (31.58%) Firewall
1 6 (31.58%) VPN
2 1 (5.26%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) Power BI
General
1 9 (47.37%) Finance
2 6 (31.58%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (26.32%) Marketing
4 3 (15.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Cloud Engineer
1 6 (31.58%) Senior
1 6 (31.58%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Analyst
2 5 (26.32%) Commercial Analyst
2 5 (26.32%) Financial Analyst
2 5 (26.32%) Project Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) Project Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Platform Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Architect
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Architect
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Business Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Cloud Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Developer
5 1 (5.26%) IoT Developer
5 1 (5.26%) IT Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) YAML
2 1 (5.26%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Cyberattack
2 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.26%) IoT
3 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Budgeting
1 9 (47.37%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (42.11%) CI/CD
2 8 (42.11%) High Availability
3 7 (36.84%) Analytics
3 7 (36.84%) DevOps
3 7 (36.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (31.58%) Community of Practice
4 6 (31.58%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (31.58%) Incident Management
4 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure Automation
4 6 (31.58%) Log Analytics
4 6 (31.58%) Platform Engineering
4 6 (31.58%) Task Automation
5 5 (26.32%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (26.32%) Cost Optimisation
5 5 (26.32%) Financial Analysis
5 5 (26.32%) Financial Modelling
5 5 (26.32%) Logistics
5 5 (26.32%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) Bicep
1 6 (31.58%) PowerShell
1 6 (31.58%) Python
1 6 (31.58%) SQL
2 1 (5.26%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (36.84%) Degree
2 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
3 3 (15.79%) DV Cleared
4 2 (10.53%) AWS Certification
4 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) PMBOK
2 1 (5.26%) GDPR
2 1 (5.26%) HIPAA
2 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (31.58%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Grafana
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (42.11%) Microsoft
2 6 (31.58%) Atlassian
2 6 (31.58%) Databricks
3 1 (5.26%) Google
3 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow