Cost Transparency Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Cost Transparency
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Cost Transparency skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 547 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Cost Transparency 4 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.007% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.009% - -
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £75,688 - -
25th Percentile £77,656 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 - -
75th Percentile £98,438 - -
90th Percentile £120,375 - -
UK median annual salary £97,500 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Cost Transparency 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 42,432 23,647 54,040
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 73.64% 91.33% 84.80%
Number of salaries quoted 25,847 13,558 39,498
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.26%
75th Percentile £67,500 £69,688 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%

Cost Transparency
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cost Transparency relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Cost Transparency job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Cost Transparency
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Cost Transparency.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Cost Transparency

Cost Transparency
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cost Transparency in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Cost Transparency in the UK excluding London

Cost Transparency
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 Transparency within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 April 2026. 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
East of England - 3 £82,500 -
East Midlands - 1 £130,000 -
Midlands - 1 £130,000 -
Cost Transparency
UK

Cost Transparency
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (25.00%) PaaS
1 1 (25.00%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Law
2 2 (50.00%) Legal
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Contracts Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Operations Director
1 1 (25.00%) Procurement Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Programme Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Service Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Team Leader
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) AI
1 2 (50.00%) Budgeting
1 2 (50.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
1 2 (50.00%) Change Management
1 2 (50.00%) Cost Control
1 2 (50.00%) Cost Management
1 2 (50.00%) FinOps
1 2 (50.00%) Observability
1 2 (50.00%) Project Management
1 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (25.00%) Intelligent Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Operational Stability
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DBS Check
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) New Relic