Cost Control Jobs in the West Midlands

Cost Control
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Cost Control skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cost Control over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 230 261
Rank change year-on-year +54 +31 -2
Permanent jobs citing Cost Control 24 20 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.54% 0.28% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.33% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 12 19 5
10th Percentile - £51,650 £45,376
25th Percentile £57,000 £51,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +49.53% +7.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £100,000 £55,250 £52,500
90th Percentile £113,500 £68,500 -
England median annual salary £54,793 £53,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.94% -10.42% -7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,072 6,020 6,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.16% 83.15% 96.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,682 4,530 3,268
10th Percentile £29,250 £26,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Cost Control
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Control in the West Midlands

Cost Control
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cost Control in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Cost Control in the West Midlands

Cost Control
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cost Control in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cost Control in the West Midlands

Cost Control
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cost Control within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Birmingham +45 9 £100,000 +29.03% 5
Cost Control
England

Cost Control
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 10 (41.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (58.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 14 (58.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 10 (41.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.50%) SaaS
2 1 (4.17%) Azure
2 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
General
1 23 (95.83%) Finance
2 10 (41.67%) Legal
3 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (16.67%) Law
3 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Development Manager
2 4 (16.67%) Contracts Manager
2 4 (16.67%) Technology Director
3 3 (12.50%) Head of Engineering
4 2 (8.33%) Head of Architecture
5 1 (4.17%) Lead
5 1 (4.17%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 10 (41.67%) Social Media
2 4 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 3 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 3 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (41.67%) Windows
1 10 (41.67%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) Contract Management
1 14 (58.33%) Project Management
2 10 (41.67%) Analytics
2 10 (41.67%) Budgeting
2 10 (41.67%) Business Case
2 10 (41.67%) Creative Thinking
2 10 (41.67%) Project Delivery
3 7 (29.17%) Artificial Intelligence
3 7 (29.17%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (20.83%) Roadmaps
5 4 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (16.67%) Data Management
5 4 (16.67%) Data Security
5 4 (16.67%) Incident Management
5 4 (16.67%) Information Governance
5 4 (16.67%) Service Delivery
5 4 (16.67%) Supplier Management
5 4 (16.67%) Validation
5 4 (16.67%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 14 (58.33%) DBS Check
2 4 (16.67%) MRICS
3 3 (12.50%) Degree
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) GDPR
2 3 (12.50%) PMBOK
Vendors
1 10 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.67%) NEC
2 4 (16.67%) SAP
2 4 (16.67%) YouTube
3 3 (12.50%) Salesforce