Hybrid/Remote Cost Management Job Trends

Cost Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Cost Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 391 433
Rank change year-on-year +81 +42 +206
Permanent jobs citing Cost Management 60 58 46
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.39% 0.34% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.36% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 36 24 34
10th Percentile £50,313 £35,750 £56,625
25th Percentile £61,250 £50,563 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £58,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.15% -9.62% +1.52%
75th Percentile £83,125 £68,750 £89,375
90th Percentile £90,000 £78,225 £92,625
UK median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% - -1.93%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,453 15,904 19,310
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 88.47% 92.97% 94.10%
Number of salaries quoted 8,559 9,534 15,518
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,450 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Cost Management
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cost Management and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Cost Management job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Cost Management
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Cost Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Cost Management

Cost Management
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Cost Management over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Cost Management salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Cost Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 (11.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (11.67%) SharePoint
2 3 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 49 (81.67%) Azure
2 27 (45.00%) Azure DevOps
2 27 (45.00%) Azure Monitor
3 23 (38.33%) Entra ID
4 17 (28.33%) AWS
4 17 (28.33%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (23.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 14 (23.33%) GitHub
6 12 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (18.33%) Azure AKS
7 11 (18.33%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (15.00%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (11.67%) OneDrive
9 7 (11.67%) Serverless
10 6 (10.00%) IaaS
10 6 (10.00%) PaaS
11 5 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (8.33%) Amazon S3
11 5 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.33%) DNS
1 8 (13.33%) VPN
2 7 (11.67%) DHCP
2 7 (11.67%) SD-WAN
2 7 (11.67%) TCP/IP
2 7 (11.67%) WAN
3 4 (6.67%) Firewall
3 4 (6.67%) Wireless
4 3 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.67%) Big Data
1 4 (6.67%) Data Lake
1 4 (6.67%) Power BI
2 3 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.67%) Metadata
4 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.00%) Git
2 3 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 28 (46.67%) Finance
2 21 (35.00%) Social Skills
3 14 (23.33%) Billing
4 5 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 21 (35.00%) Senior
2 13 (21.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 9 (15.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 6 (10.00%) Lead
5 5 (8.33%) Analyst
6 4 (6.67%) Accounts Assistant
6 4 (6.67%) Architect
6 4 (6.67%) Big Data Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Consultant
6 4 (6.67%) DataOps Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) DataOps Leader
6 4 (6.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 4 (6.67%) Infrastructure Support
6 4 (6.67%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
6 4 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (6.67%) Senior Consultant
6 4 (6.67%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
6 4 (6.67%) Senior Infrastructure Support Analyst
6 4 (6.67%) Senior Support Analyst
6 4 (6.67%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 7 (11.67%) iPad
2 7 (11.67%) iPhone
2 7 (11.67%) Mobile App
3 4 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 4 (6.67%) Video Conferencing
4 3 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.00%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (5.00%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.67%) CMDB
5 1 (1.67%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.67%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.67%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 17 (28.33%) Windows
2 10 (16.67%) Apple iOS
2 10 (16.67%) Linux
3 7 (11.67%) Windows 10
3 7 (11.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (53.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 28 (46.67%) DevOps
3 25 (41.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 19 (31.67%) FinOps
5 17 (28.33%) CI/CD
5 17 (28.33%) RBAC
6 16 (26.67%) Incident Response
6 16 (26.67%) ITIL
7 15 (25.00%) Roadmaps
8 14 (23.33%) Cloud Security
9 13 (21.67%) Agile
9 13 (21.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 13 (21.67%) User Experience
9 13 (21.67%) Zero Trust
10 12 (20.00%) Analytics
10 12 (20.00%) Coaching
11 11 (18.33%) Cost Optimisation
11 11 (18.33%) Deployment Automation
11 11 (18.33%) Identity Access Management
11 11 (18.33%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 23 (38.33%) PowerShell
2 21 (35.00%) Bash
2 21 (35.00%) Python
3 10 (16.67%) Bicep
4 2 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 11 (18.33%) Azure Certification
2 11 (18.33%) Security Cleared
3 10 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (3.33%) Degree
6 1 (1.67%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.33%) SLA
2 1 (1.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.67%) GAAP
2 1 (1.67%) GDPR
2 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (1.67%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (26.67%) Virtual Machines
2 11 (18.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 8 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (11.67%) Active Directory
5 5 (8.33%) Hyper-V
6 2 (3.33%) Docker
7 1 (1.67%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 33 (55.00%) Terraform
2 17 (28.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (20.00%) Kubernetes
4 11 (18.33%) Ansible
5 9 (15.00%) Grafana
6 3 (5.00%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (31.67%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.33%) VMware
3 5 (8.33%) Databricks
4 3 (5.00%) Apple
4 3 (5.00%) Okta
5 1 (1.67%) Autodesk
5 1 (1.67%) NEC
5 1 (1.67%) NetApp
5 1 (1.67%) Sage
5 1 (1.67%) ServiceNow