Cost Management Jobs

Cost Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 459 720 756
Rank change year-on-year +261 +36 +126
Permanent jobs citing Cost Management 262 194 206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.19% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.22% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 80 107 129
10th Percentile £44,000 £43,800 £41,250
25th Percentile £54,688 £52,500 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -4.00% -6.02%
75th Percentile £87,188 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,625 £102,500 £95,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +21.74% +4.55% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,902 86,889 92,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.67% 84.13% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,611 60,763 54,796
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.15% -9.09% +4.76%

Cost Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cost Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cost Management in the UK

Cost Management
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cost Management in the UK

Cost Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cost Management over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cost Management in the UK

Cost Management
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 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
England +222 242 £75,000 +20.00% 329
UK excluding London +194 149 £70,000 +21.74% 324
London +184 109 £75,000 -9.09% 59
North of England +60 63 £83,750 +34.00% 64
North West +46 59 £87,500 +34.62% 28
Work from Home +80 34 £56,250 -13.46% 126
Midlands +100 32 £46,000 -29.23% 56
South East +68 19 £75,000 +30.43% 109
East Midlands +58 19 - - 19
Scotland +117 14 £77,500 +63.16% 23
West Midlands +62 13 £46,000 -3.16% 33
East of England +55 11 £70,000 +55.56% 44
South West +96 5 £55,000 -12.00% 32
Wales +50 4 £63,250 - 8
Yorkshire +50 3 £65,000 +62.50% 25
North East +28 1 - - 11
Isle of Man - 1 £34,500 -

Cost Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 12 (4.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.15%) Confluence
2 3 (1.15%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.38%) CMS
3 1 (0.38%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.38%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.38%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 27 (10.31%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (4.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (2.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (4.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.91%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (0.76%) Cloudability
3 2 (0.76%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 101 (38.55%) Azure
2 68 (25.95%) AWS
3 48 (18.32%) GCP
4 26 (9.92%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (8.78%) Power Platform
6 17 (6.49%) Dynamics 365
7 15 (5.73%) Azure Logic Apps
8 13 (4.96%) Entra ID
9 10 (3.82%) Azure Key Vault
9 10 (3.82%) GitHub
9 10 (3.82%) PowerApps
10 8 (3.05%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (3.05%) Serverless
11 7 (2.67%) PaaS
12 6 (2.29%) IaaS
13 4 (1.53%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (1.53%) Azure Functions
13 4 (1.53%) Azure Sentinel
13 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (1.53%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 24 (9.16%) Firewall
2 14 (5.34%) VPN
3 8 (3.05%) DNS
4 6 (2.29%) Network Security
4 6 (2.29%) SD-WAN
4 6 (2.29%) WAN
5 4 (1.53%) HTTPS
5 4 (1.53%) VLAN
6 2 (0.76%) LAN
7 1 (0.38%) DHCP
7 1 (0.38%) MQTT
7 1 (0.38%) NAS
7 1 (0.38%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.40%) Data Lake
2 21 (8.02%) Metadata
3 13 (4.96%) Power BI
3 13 (4.96%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.91%) Tableau
5 2 (0.76%) Amazon QuickSight
5 2 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.38%) Big Data
6 1 (0.38%) MySQL
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 9 (3.44%) GitLab
2 2 (0.76%) JIRA
3 1 (0.38%) Git
3 1 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 107 (40.84%) Finance
2 85 (32.44%) Analytical Skills
3 50 (19.08%) Social Skills
4 48 (18.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (8.78%) Banking
6 21 (8.02%) Financial Institution
6 21 (8.02%) Retail Banking
7 19 (7.25%) Law
8 13 (4.96%) Back Office
9 12 (4.58%) Marketing
10 11 (4.20%) Legal
11 6 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (2.29%) Retail
12 3 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.76%) Aviation
13 2 (0.76%) Billing
13 2 (0.76%) Front Office
13 2 (0.76%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.38%) General Ledger
14 1 (0.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 42 (16.03%) Lead
2 26 (9.92%) Cloud Engineer
3 25 (9.54%) Architect
4 24 (9.16%) Analyst
4 24 (9.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 24 (9.16%) Project Manager
5 21 (8.02%) Azure Engineer
5 21 (8.02%) Data Architect
6 19 (7.25%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 19 (7.25%) DevOps Engineer
6 19 (7.25%) Platform Engineer
7 18 (6.87%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 16 (6.11%) Senior
9 15 (5.73%) Administrator
9 15 (5.73%) Data Engineer
10 14 (5.34%) IT Manager
10 14 (5.34%) Lead Data Engineer
11 13 (4.96%) Development Manager
12 11 (4.20%) Applications Development Manager
12 11 (4.20%) Applications Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.49%) ARM Templates
2 13 (4.96%) .NET
2 13 (4.96%) .NET Framework
3 6 (2.29%) YAML
4 1 (0.38%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.38%) EDI
4 1 (0.38%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.38%) Kafka
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.87%) Cyberattack
2 11 (4.20%) Management Information System
3 5 (1.91%) Data Centre
3 5 (1.91%) Public Cloud
4 3 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (0.76%) Cloud Native
5 2 (0.76%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (0.76%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (0.76%) Private Cloud
5 2 (0.76%) Product Ownership
5 2 (0.76%) Social Media
6 1 (0.38%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.38%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.38%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.38%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.38%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.38%) IoT
6 1 (0.38%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.38%) PMI
6 1 (0.38%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 21 (8.02%) Windows
2 19 (7.25%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.53%) Linux
3 4 (1.53%) VMS
4 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (36.64%) Agile
2 69 (26.34%) Mentoring
3 59 (22.52%) Stakeholder Management
4 57 (21.76%) Coaching
4 57 (21.76%) Project Management
5 50 (19.08%) DevOps
6 49 (18.70%) Continuous Improvement
6 49 (18.70%) Problem-Solving
7 48 (18.32%) Project Delivery
8 42 (16.03%) Infrastructure as Code
9 40 (15.27%) Asset Management
9 40 (15.27%) Risk Management
10 38 (14.50%) CI/CD
11 36 (13.74%) Data Management
12 33 (12.60%) Budgeting
13 32 (12.21%) Analytics
13 32 (12.21%) Resource Management
14 31 (11.83%) Culture Change
15 30 (11.45%) Business Development
15 30 (11.45%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (9.92%) Python
2 16 (6.11%) Java
2 16 (6.11%) PowerShell
3 14 (5.34%) Scala
4 8 (3.05%) Bicep
5 7 (2.67%) SQL
6 5 (1.91%) R
7 3 (1.15%) Bash
8 1 (0.38%) Go
Qualifications
1 61 (23.28%) Degree
2 48 (18.32%) BPSS Clearance
3 41 (15.65%) Azure Certification
4 33 (12.60%) AWS Certification
5 24 (9.16%) HNC
5 24 (9.16%) Six Sigma Black Belt
5 24 (9.16%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 22 (8.40%) Security Cleared
7 18 (6.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (6.87%) DV Cleared
8 16 (6.11%) Master's Degree
9 8 (3.05%) ACCA
9 8 (3.05%) CIMA
9 8 (3.05%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (2.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.53%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (1.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.15%) CCSP
12 3 (1.15%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.87%) PMBOK
2 7 (2.67%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.15%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.76%) GDPR
4 2 (0.76%) PMO
4 2 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.38%) IFRS
5 1 (0.38%) NEBOSH
5 1 (0.38%) SLA
5 1 (0.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (7.63%) Docker
2 12 (4.58%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (3.44%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.38%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 39 (14.89%) Terraform
2 33 (12.60%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.53%) Ansible
3 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.15%) Argo
5 2 (0.76%) Grafana
5 2 (0.76%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.38%) Nessus
6 1 (0.38%) OpenVAS
6 1 (0.38%) QRadar
6 1 (0.38%) WSUS
Vendors
1 94 (35.88%) Microsoft
2 25 (9.54%) SAP
3 24 (9.16%) Google
4 13 (4.96%) Siebel
5 7 (2.67%) Databricks
6 6 (2.29%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.91%) VMware
8 3 (1.15%) Duck Creek
8 3 (1.15%) Qualys
9 2 (0.76%) Citrix
9 2 (0.76%) Instagram
9 2 (0.76%) Oracle
9 2 (0.76%) SolarWinds
9 2 (0.76%) Twitter
10 1 (0.38%) Cisco
10 1 (0.38%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.38%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.38%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.38%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.38%) Splunk