Cost Management Jobs in the UK excluding London

Cost Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 426 604 639
Rank change year-on-year +178 +35 +54
Permanent jobs citing Cost Management 160 144 115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.20% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.24% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 46 88 79
10th Percentile £44,000 £41,775 £32,314
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £46,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £81,250 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,750 £78,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -4.00% -6.02%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,419 59,619 57,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.92% 83.98% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 18,159 41,251 29,495
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,716 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,100 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Cost Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cost Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cost Management in the UK excluding London

Cost Management
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cost Management in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Cost Management in the UK excluding London

Cost Management
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cost Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cost Management in the UK excluding London

Cost Management
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cost Management within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +78 67 £80,000 +25.49% 14
North West +46 63 £83,750 +28.85% 9
Midlands +87 35 £46,000 -29.23% 9
East Midlands +57 22 - - 3
South East +80 21 £75,000 +30.43% 37
Scotland +114 17 £77,500 +63.16% 9
West Midlands +65 13 £46,000 -3.16% 5
South West +100 8 £55,000 -12.00% 8
East of England +50 7 £70,000 +55.56% 4
Yorkshire +60 3 £65,000 +62.50% 4
Wales +43 3 £63,250 - 1
Isle of Man - 2 £42,250 -
North East +28 1 - - 1
Cost Management
UK

Cost Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (5.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.13%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.25%) Confluence
3 2 (1.25%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.25%) OpenStack
Applications
1 27 (16.88%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (3.13%) Dynamics GP
2 2 (1.25%) Primavera
3 1 (0.63%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 40 (25.00%) Azure
2 27 (16.88%) AWS
3 14 (8.75%) Power Platform
4 12 (7.50%) Entra ID
5 9 (5.63%) Azure Logic Apps
6 8 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
6 8 (5.00%) GitHub
7 7 (4.38%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (4.38%) PowerApps
8 6 (3.75%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (3.75%) GCP
8 6 (3.75%) Serverless
9 5 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (3.13%) IaaS
9 5 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (3.13%) PaaS
10 4 (2.50%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 24 (15.00%) Firewall
2 15 (9.38%) VPN
3 10 (6.25%) DNS
4 8 (5.00%) SD-WAN
4 8 (5.00%) WAN
5 4 (2.50%) HTTPS
5 4 (2.50%) LAN
5 4 (2.50%) Network Security
5 4 (2.50%) VLAN
6 3 (1.88%) DHCP
7 2 (1.25%) BGP
7 2 (1.25%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (1.25%) EIGRP
7 2 (1.25%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (1.25%) MPLS
7 2 (1.25%) OSPF
7 2 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.63%) MQTT
8 1 (0.63%) NAS
8 1 (0.63%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.38%) Power BI
3 2 (1.25%) Tableau
4 1 (0.63%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (0.63%) MySQL
4 1 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 7 (4.38%) GitLab
2 1 (0.63%) JIRA
General
1 61 (38.13%) Analytical Skills
2 39 (24.38%) Social Skills
3 26 (16.25%) Finance
4 11 (6.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (5.63%) Marketing
6 7 (4.38%) Legal
7 5 (3.13%) Retail
8 4 (2.50%) Law
9 3 (1.88%) Aviation
9 3 (1.88%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.25%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.63%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.63%) Billing
11 1 (0.63%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (18.13%) Lead
2 25 (15.63%) Cloud Engineer
3 18 (11.25%) Analyst
4 17 (10.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 15 (9.38%) Administrator
5 15 (9.38%) Azure Engineer
5 15 (9.38%) Senior
6 14 (8.75%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (8.13%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (5.63%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (5.63%) Project Manager
9 8 (5.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 6 (3.75%) Consultant
10 6 (3.75%) Cyber Threat Analyst
11 5 (3.13%) Commercial Analyst
11 5 (3.13%) Financial Analyst
11 5 (3.13%) Project Analyst
12 4 (2.50%) Business Manager
12 4 (2.50%) Senior Manager
13 3 (1.88%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.75%) YAML
2 3 (1.88%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.25%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.63%) EDI
4 1 (0.63%) Kafka
4 1 (0.63%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.25%) Cyber Threat
2 9 (5.63%) Management Information System
3 8 (5.00%) Data Centre
4 6 (3.75%) Cyber Defence
4 6 (3.75%) Cyberattack
5 4 (2.50%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.25%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.25%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.63%) CMDB
7 1 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.63%) IoT
7 1 (0.63%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.63%) Replication
7 1 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.63%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 17 (10.63%) Windows
2 16 (10.00%) Windows Server
3 5 (3.13%) Linux
4 2 (1.25%) Unix
5 1 (0.63%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (30.00%) Mentoring
2 40 (25.00%) Agile
2 40 (25.00%) Coaching
3 39 (24.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 32 (20.00%) Project Delivery
5 28 (17.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 27 (16.88%) Line Management
6 27 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (16.25%) Change Management
7 26 (16.25%) ERP
8 24 (15.00%) Lean Six Sigma
8 24 (15.00%) Six Sigma
9 23 (14.38%) DevOps
9 23 (14.38%) Project Management
10 22 (13.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 21 (13.13%) Risk Management
12 20 (12.50%) Asset Management
12 20 (12.50%) Cloud Security
12 20 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
13 18 (11.25%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 18 (11.25%) PowerShell
2 14 (8.75%) Python
3 7 (4.38%) Bicep
4 6 (3.75%) SQL
5 5 (3.13%) Bash
6 3 (1.88%) Java
7 2 (1.25%) C#
7 2 (1.25%) Go
7 2 (1.25%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 49 (30.63%) BPSS Clearance
2 39 (24.38%) Degree
3 24 (15.00%) HNC
3 24 (15.00%) Six Sigma Black Belt
3 24 (15.00%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 15 (9.38%) Azure Certification
5 11 (6.88%) AWS Certification
6 10 (6.25%) Security Cleared
7 8 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (3.75%) DV Cleared
9 4 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (2.50%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (2.50%) MRICS
10 3 (1.88%) MAPM
10 3 (1.88%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.88%) PMP
10 3 (1.88%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (1.25%) ACCA
11 2 (1.25%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (3.75%) PMBOK
2 4 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 4 (2.50%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.88%) GDPR
3 3 (1.88%) SLA
4 1 (0.63%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.63%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (6.88%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.75%) Docker
4 3 (1.88%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.25%) vSphere
6 1 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (9.38%) Terraform
2 13 (8.13%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.88%) Ansible
4 3 (1.88%) Argo
5 1 (0.63%) Grafana
5 1 (0.63%) Nessus
5 1 (0.63%) OpenVAS
5 1 (0.63%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.63%) QRadar
5 1 (0.63%) WSUS
Vendors
1 59 (36.88%) Microsoft
2 25 (15.63%) SAP
3 6 (3.75%) Atlassian
3 6 (3.75%) Databricks
3 6 (3.75%) SolarWinds
4 4 (2.50%) Oracle
5 3 (1.88%) Cisco
5 3 (1.88%) Google
5 3 (1.88%) Qualys
5 3 (1.88%) Splunk
6 2 (1.25%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.25%) Juniper
6 2 (1.25%) Nimble Storage
6 2 (1.25%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.25%) Planview
6 2 (1.25%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.25%) Veeam
6 2 (1.25%) Zscaler
7 1 (0.63%) Instagram
7 1 (0.63%) Salesforce