Cost Control Job Trends

Cost Control
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Cost Control skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 542 590 670
Rank change year-on-year +48 +80 -96
Permanent jobs citing Cost Control 111 109 51
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.20% 0.092%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.22% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 54 30 34
10th Percentile £34,750 £36,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,000 £45,625 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £88,625 £59,375 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £74,375 £89,041
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,250 £54,897 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.47% -8.51% +26.32%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Cost Control 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,596 48,532 50,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.00% 90.69% 89.94%
Number of salaries quoted 28,664 23,590 38,164
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%

Cost Control
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cost Control relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Cost Control job vacancy trend in the UK

Cost Control
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cost Control.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cost Control

Cost Control
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cost Control over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Cost Control in the UK

Cost Control
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cost Control within the UK over the 6 months to 14 January 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
England +59 101 £60,000 +5.26% 49
UK excluding London +44 75 £56,250 +2.47% 36
Work from Home +75 34 £72,000 +26.32% 19
London +60 26 £60,000 -21.31% 19
South East +39 23 £55,000 -3.51% 14
North of England -5 20 £90,000 +80.00% 7
Midlands +25 19 £95,000 +66.67% 4
West Midlands +21 14 £95,000 +66.67% 3
Yorkshire -15 10 - - 1
North West +9 9 £90,000 +87.50% 6
South West +14 8 £52,000 +38.67% 4
East of England +22 6 £70,000 +27.27% 7
East Midlands -4 5 - - 1
Scotland +6 1 £52,500 -
North East - 1 £42,000 -

Cost Control
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (6.31%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.90%) FileNet
2 1 (0.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 29 (26.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (9.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (7.21%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (1.80%) Primavera
3 1 (0.90%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 13 (11.71%) Azure
2 11 (9.91%) SaaS
3 9 (8.11%) GCP
3 9 (8.11%) Power Platform
4 8 (7.21%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (6.31%) AWS
6 3 (2.70%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.80%) GitHub
7 2 (1.80%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.80%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.90%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.90%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.90%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.90%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.90%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.90%) CloudFront
8 1 (0.90%) Mimecast
8 1 (0.90%) Serverless
8 1 (0.90%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.21%) Internet
2 7 (6.31%) Broadband
3 4 (3.60%) SAN
4 2 (1.80%) WPA
5 1 (0.90%) Firewall
5 1 (0.90%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.11%) Power BI
2 8 (7.21%) Semantic Layer
3 7 (6.31%) BigQuery
3 7 (6.31%) Data Lake
4 6 (5.41%) MariaDB
4 6 (5.41%) MySQL
5 1 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (1.80%) JIRA
2 1 (0.90%) Jenkins
General
1 68 (61.26%) Finance
2 28 (25.23%) Social Skills
3 21 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (12.61%) Organisational Skills
5 13 (11.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (11.71%) Legal
5 13 (11.71%) Marketing
6 10 (9.01%) Advertising
6 10 (9.01%) Telecoms
7 8 (7.21%) Manufacturing
8 6 (5.41%) Automotive
9 3 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.80%) Banking
10 2 (1.80%) Military
10 2 (1.80%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.90%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.90%) Law
11 1 (0.90%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (11.71%) Senior
2 10 (9.01%) Accountant
2 10 (9.01%) Management Accountant
2 10 (9.01%) Support Engineer
2 10 (9.01%) Technical Engineer
2 10 (9.01%) Technical Support
2 10 (9.01%) Technical Support Engineer
3 9 (8.11%) Project Officer
3 9 (8.11%) Project Support Officer
3 9 (8.11%) Senior Project Officer
3 9 (8.11%) Senior Project Support Officer
3 9 (8.11%) Support Officer
4 8 (7.21%) Finance Manager
4 8 (7.21%) IT Manager
5 7 (6.31%) Data Engineer
5 7 (6.31%) Operations Manager
5 7 (6.31%) Principal Data Engineer
5 7 (6.31%) Principal Engineer
6 6 (5.41%) Lead
6 6 (5.41%) Procurement Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.41%) Lightning Web Components
2 2 (1.80%) EDI
3 1 (0.90%) .NET
3 1 (0.90%) HTML
3 1 (0.90%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.41%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (8.11%) Data Centre
3 8 (7.21%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.50%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (4.50%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.60%) Enterprise Storage
6 3 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.70%) PMI
7 2 (1.80%) Educational Technology
7 2 (1.80%) NHS
7 2 (1.80%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.90%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.41%) Windows
1 6 (5.41%) Windows Server
2 4 (3.60%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (35.14%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 37 (33.33%) Budgeting
3 34 (30.63%) Continuous Improvement
4 27 (24.32%) Financial Analysis
4 27 (24.32%) Process Improvement
5 24 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (18.02%) Agile
7 17 (15.32%) Budget Management
8 15 (13.51%) Stakeholder Management
9 14 (12.61%) ITIL
10 12 (10.81%) Change Management
10 12 (10.81%) PRINCE2
10 12 (10.81%) Risk Management
11 11 (9.91%) AI
11 11 (9.91%) Mentoring
12 10 (9.01%) Budget Control
12 10 (9.01%) Business Continuity
12 10 (9.01%) Document Management
12 10 (9.01%) Fintech
12 10 (9.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 13 (11.71%) SQL
2 9 (8.11%) Python
3 6 (5.41%) PHP
4 2 (1.80%) Bicep
5 1 (0.90%) C
5 1 (0.90%) C++
5 1 (0.90%) Go
5 1 (0.90%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 19 (17.12%) ACCA
1 19 (17.12%) CIMA
1 19 (17.12%) Degree
2 8 (7.21%) PMI Certification
3 5 (4.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (4.50%) PMP
4 4 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.60%) HNC
4 4 (3.60%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.70%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.80%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.90%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.90%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.90%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.90%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (14.41%) PMO
2 10 (9.01%) SLA
3 5 (4.50%) GRC
4 4 (3.60%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.70%) GDPR
6 2 (1.80%) P3O
7 1 (0.90%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 19770
7 1 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.90%) NIST
7 1 (0.90%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.90%) QA
7 1 (0.90%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (4.50%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.60%) Hyper-V
2 4 (3.60%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.60%) vSphere
3 1 (0.90%) Docker
3 1 (0.90%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (3.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (1.80%) Terraform
3 1 (0.90%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (16.22%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.21%) Google
3 6 (5.41%) Salesforce
4 5 (4.50%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (3.60%) Dell
5 4 (3.60%) Fortinet
5 4 (3.60%) Palo Alto
5 4 (3.60%) Veeam
5 4 (3.60%) VMware
6 3 (2.70%) Openreach
7 1 (0.90%) Adaptive Insights
7 1 (0.90%) Anaplan
7 1 (0.90%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.90%) Oracle
7 1 (0.90%) Planview
7 1 (0.90%) SAP
7 1 (0.90%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.90%) Snow