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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 375 428
Rank change year-on-year +64 +53 +185
Permanent jobs citing Cost Management 65 57 45
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.43% 0.34% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.37% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 40 23 33
10th Percentile £51,563 £34,250 £56,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £49,125 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% +7.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £68,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £79,150 £93,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% - -

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 13,320 15,533 19,676
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 87.81% 93.33% 93.69%
Number of salaries quoted 8,449 9,203 15,873
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,669 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +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 7 January 2026.

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 8 (12.31%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (12.31%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.62%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.62%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.54%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 54 (83.08%) Azure
2 30 (46.15%) Azure DevOps
2 30 (46.15%) Azure Monitor
3 27 (41.54%) Entra ID
4 18 (27.69%) AWS
4 18 (27.69%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (23.08%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (21.54%) Azure AKS
6 14 (21.54%) GitHub
7 13 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 12 (18.46%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (13.85%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (12.31%) IaaS
10 8 (12.31%) OneDrive
10 8 (12.31%) PaaS
11 7 (10.77%) Serverless
12 6 (9.23%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (9.23%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (9.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (9.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (13.85%) DNS
1 9 (13.85%) VPN
2 8 (12.31%) DHCP
2 8 (12.31%) SD-WAN
2 8 (12.31%) TCP/IP
2 8 (12.31%) WAN
3 7 (10.77%) Firewall
4 4 (6.15%) Wireless
5 3 (4.62%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.69%) Big Data
1 5 (7.69%) Power BI
2 4 (6.15%) Data Lake
3 3 (4.62%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (4.62%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (4.62%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.54%) Metadata
4 1 (1.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.62%) Git
2 3 (4.62%) JIRA
General
1 29 (44.62%) Finance
2 22 (33.85%) Social Skills
3 18 (27.69%) Billing
4 5 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.62%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.54%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 22 (33.85%) Senior
2 16 (24.62%) Cloud Engineer
3 9 (13.85%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 6 (9.23%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (9.23%) Lead
5 5 (7.69%) Analyst
5 5 (7.69%) Big Data Engineer
5 5 (7.69%) DataOps Engineer
5 5 (7.69%) DataOps Leader
5 5 (7.69%) Lead Big Data Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Architect
6 4 (6.15%) Consultant
6 4 (6.15%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 4 (6.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (6.15%) Senior Consultant
6 4 (6.15%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
6 4 (6.15%) Senior Infrastructure Support Analyst
6 4 (6.15%) Senior Support Analyst
6 4 (6.15%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 7 (10.77%) iPad
2 7 (10.77%) iPhone
2 7 (10.77%) Mobile App
3 4 (6.15%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (6.15%) Onboarding
3 4 (6.15%) Security Posture
3 4 (6.15%) Video Conferencing
4 3 (4.62%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.62%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.54%) CMDB
5 1 (1.54%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.54%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.54%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.54%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 18 (27.69%) Windows
2 11 (16.92%) Apple iOS
3 10 (15.38%) Linux
4 8 (12.31%) Windows 10
4 8 (12.31%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (55.38%) Infrastructure as Code
2 31 (47.69%) DevOps
3 25 (38.46%) Continuous Improvement
4 22 (33.85%) CI/CD
5 19 (29.23%) FinOps
6 18 (27.69%) Incident Response
7 17 (26.15%) RBAC
8 16 (24.62%) ITIL
9 15 (23.08%) Roadmaps
10 14 (21.54%) Cloud Security
11 13 (20.00%) Agile
11 13 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 13 (20.00%) User Experience
11 13 (20.00%) Zero Trust
12 12 (18.46%) Analytics
12 12 (18.46%) Coaching
12 12 (18.46%) Cost Optimisation
12 12 (18.46%) Identity Access Management
12 12 (18.46%) Root Cause Analysis
13 11 (16.92%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 24 (36.92%) PowerShell
2 22 (33.85%) Bash
2 22 (33.85%) Python
3 10 (15.38%) Bicep
4 2 (3.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (18.46%) AWS Certification
2 11 (16.92%) Security Cleared
3 10 (15.38%) Azure Certification
3 10 (15.38%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (3.08%) Degree
6 1 (1.54%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.85%) SLA
2 1 (1.54%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.54%) GAAP
2 1 (1.54%) GDPR
2 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (1.54%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (24.62%) Virtual Machines
2 11 (16.92%) Virtual Desktop
3 9 (13.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (12.31%) Active Directory
5 5 (7.69%) Hyper-V
6 2 (3.08%) Docker
7 1 (1.54%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 36 (55.38%) Terraform
2 18 (27.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (18.46%) Kubernetes
4 11 (16.92%) Ansible
5 9 (13.85%) Grafana
6 3 (4.62%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (4.62%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.54%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 9 (13.85%) VMware
3 6 (9.23%) Databricks
4 3 (4.62%) Apple
4 3 (4.62%) Okta
5 1 (1.54%) Autodesk
5 1 (1.54%) NEC
5 1 (1.54%) NetApp
5 1 (1.54%) Sage
5 1 (1.54%) ServiceNow