Cost Management Jobs in the South West

Cost Management
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South 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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 168 281 251
Rank change year-on-year +113 -30 +57
Permanent jobs citing Cost Management 8 14 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.22% 0.15% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.18% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1 14 14
10th Percentile - £52,500 -
25th Percentile - £56,563 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile - £70,313 £67,500
90th Percentile - £73,750 £68,375
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
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,339 7,756 6,404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 93.40% 83.53% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,914 5,570 3,595
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,813 £37,500 £39,100
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £51,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.14% -2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £81,150
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Management in the South West

Cost Management
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Cost Management in the South West

Cost Management
Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 13 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
Bristol +66 8 £55,000 -15.38% 3
Cost Management
England

Cost Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) BGP
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
1 2 (25.00%) DHCP
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
1 2 (25.00%) EIGRP
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 2 (25.00%) LAN
1 2 (25.00%) MPLS
1 2 (25.00%) Network Security
1 2 (25.00%) OSPF
1 2 (25.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (25.00%) VPN
1 2 (25.00%) WAN
1 2 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) GitLab
General
1 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Network Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Systems Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Project Controller
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Unix
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
1 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Mentoring
1 5 (62.50%) Project Management
2 4 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 4 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 4 (50.00%) Commercial Awareness
2 4 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 4 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
2 4 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) Coaching
3 3 (37.50%) Culture Change
3 3 (37.50%) Customer Experience
3 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) GitOps
3 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (37.50%) Software Delivery
4 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Bash
2 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
1 2 (25.00%) PMI Certification
1 2 (25.00%) PMP
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 4 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (25.00%) GDPR
2 2 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Argo
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco
2 2 (25.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (25.00%) Juniper
2 2 (25.00%) Nimble Storage
2 2 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (25.00%) Splunk
2 2 (25.00%) Veeam
2 2 (25.00%) Zscaler
3 1 (12.50%) SAP