Cost Management Jobs in the West Midlands

Cost Management
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 183 238 257
Rank change year-on-year +55 +19 +8
Permanent jobs citing Cost Management 13 9 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.29% 0.12% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.15% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 12 1 12
10th Percentile £40,000 - -
25th Percentile £43,000 £46,250 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £47,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% -17.39% +43.75%
75th Percentile £67,688 £48,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,950 - £69,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £61,250
% change year-on-year +12.00% +2.04% -9.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,071 6,019 6,455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.18% 83.14% 96.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,681 4,532 3,272
10th Percentile £29,250 £26,250 £30,510
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 Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Management in the West Midlands

Cost Management
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Cost Management in the West Midlands

Cost Management
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cost Management in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Cost Management in the West Midlands

Cost Management
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 Management within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +38 7 £46,000 - 2
Herefordshire - 3 £40,000 -
Staffordshire - 2 £60,000 - 1
Warwickshire -19 1 - -
Cost Management
England

Cost Management
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 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) Azure
2 7 (53.85%) AWS
3 4 (30.77%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (30.77%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (30.77%) Entra ID
3 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Purview
3 4 (30.77%) Route 53
4 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Functions
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (15.38%) GitHub
4 2 (15.38%) IaaS
4 2 (15.38%) PaaS
4 2 (15.38%) Serverless
5 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) Firewall
1 4 (30.77%) HTTPS
1 4 (30.77%) SD-WAN
1 4 (30.77%) VLAN
1 4 (30.77%) VPN
1 4 (30.77%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 6 (46.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Retail
4 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) ICT Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) ICT Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Infrastructure Lead
4 2 (15.38%) IT Manager
4 2 (15.38%) Lead
4 2 (15.38%) Supplier Manager
4 2 (15.38%) Technical Leader
4 2 (15.38%) Vendor Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Business Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Business Systems Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Systems Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) ARM Templates
2 1 (7.69%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) CMDB
1 1 (7.69%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Windows
1 4 (30.77%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 7 (53.85%) Infrastructure Management
2 6 (46.15%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (46.15%) Proactive Management
3 5 (38.46%) Cloud Security
3 5 (38.46%) Collaborative Culture
3 5 (38.46%) Project Management
4 4 (30.77%) Business Strategy
4 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (30.77%) Cost Optimisation
4 4 (30.77%) Identity Management
4 4 (30.77%) ITIL
4 4 (30.77%) ITSM
4 4 (30.77%) Knowledge Management
4 4 (30.77%) Load Balancing
4 4 (30.77%) Privileged Identity Management
4 4 (30.77%) Problem Management
4 4 (30.77%) Service Management
4 4 (30.77%) Threat Management
4 4 (30.77%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) PowerShell
2 3 (23.08%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (69.23%) Azure Certification
2 7 (53.85%) AWS Certification
2 7 (53.85%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (30.77%) CompTIA Security+
4 3 (23.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
6 1 (7.69%) APMG
6 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (7.69%) CITP
6 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
6 1 (7.69%) PMI Certification
6 1 (7.69%) PMP
6 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
6 1 (7.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) PMBOK
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
1 4 (30.77%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Terraform
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Salesforce
2 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow