Cost Management Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Cost Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 431 514 536
Rank change year-on-year +83 +22 +205
Permanent jobs citing Cost Management 34 72 91
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.18% 0.21% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.23% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 22 28 65
10th Percentile £44,000 £46,600 £42,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £50,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% - -2.26%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,313 £85,000
90th Percentile £91,375 £95,105 £96,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £63,750
% change year-on-year +25.00% -5.88% -4.14%

All Process and 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 17,919 31,196 37,366
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.96% 90.34% 96.03%
Number of salaries quoted 9,481 23,493 26,259
10th Percentile £26,968 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,250 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

Cost Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Cost Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cost Management trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Cost Management
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Cost Management.

Cost Management salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cost Management
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Cost Management over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Cost Management salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cost Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (2.94%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (17.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (14.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (29.41%) Azure
2 9 (26.47%) AWS
3 4 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (11.76%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (11.76%) Entra ID
3 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Purview
3 4 (11.76%) Route 53
4 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (5.88%) GCP
4 2 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (5.88%) Serverless
4 2 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.94%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.94%) Datadog
5 1 (2.94%) IaaS
5 1 (2.94%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) Firewall
1 4 (11.76%) HTTPS
1 4 (11.76%) SD-WAN
1 4 (11.76%) VLAN
1 4 (11.76%) VPN
1 4 (11.76%) WAN
2 1 (2.94%) DNS
2 1 (2.94%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (2.94%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (2.94%) GitLab
General
1 17 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (47.06%) Finance
3 9 (26.47%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (17.65%) Legal
5 5 (14.71%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (8.82%) Retail
8 2 (5.88%) Back Office
8 2 (5.88%) Law
9 1 (2.94%) Aviation
9 1 (2.94%) Banking
9 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (2.94%) Front Office
9 1 (2.94%) Manufacturing
9 1 (2.94%) Marketing
9 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (29.41%) Analyst
2 6 (17.65%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) IT Manager
4 4 (11.76%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Financial Analyst
4 4 (11.76%) Project Manager
5 2 (5.88%) Application Development Manager
5 2 (5.88%) Applications Development Manager
5 2 (5.88%) Applications Manager
5 2 (5.88%) Assistant Project Manager
5 2 (5.88%) Client Relationship Manager
5 2 (5.88%) Development Manager
5 2 (5.88%) IT Relationships Manager
5 2 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Relationships Manager
5 2 (5.88%) Supplier Manager
5 2 (5.88%) Vendor Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.88%) .NET
1 2 (5.88%) .NET Framework
2 1 (2.94%) AWS CDK
2 1 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.94%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.88%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (5.88%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.94%) IoT
3 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.65%) Windows
2 4 (11.76%) Windows Server
3 2 (5.88%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (38.24%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (29.41%) Performance Management
2 10 (29.41%) Project Management
3 9 (26.47%) Decision-Making
4 8 (23.53%) Risk Management
5 7 (20.59%) Cost Optimisation
5 7 (20.59%) Financial Analysis
6 6 (17.65%) Collaborative Culture
6 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (17.65%) Logistics
6 6 (17.65%) Proactive Management
6 6 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (14.71%) Analytics
7 5 (14.71%) DevOps
7 5 (14.71%) Identity Management
7 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure Management
7 5 (14.71%) Load Balancing
7 5 (14.71%) Planning and Forecasting
7 5 (14.71%) Service Delivery
7 5 (14.71%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.76%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.94%) Bicep
2 1 (2.94%) Java
2 1 (2.94%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (17.65%) AWS Certification
2 5 (14.71%) ACCA
2 5 (14.71%) Azure Certification
2 5 (14.71%) CIMA
3 4 (11.76%) CompTIA Security+
3 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (8.82%) Degree
5 2 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.94%) MAPM
6 1 (2.94%) MRICS
6 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) Accessibility
1 3 (8.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.94%) GDPR
2 1 (2.94%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.94%) SLA
2 1 (2.94%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (14.71%) Active Directory
2 4 (11.76%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (8.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (5.88%) Grafana
2 2 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.88%) Prometheus
2 2 (5.88%) Terraform
3 1 (2.94%) Ansible
3 1 (2.94%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (26.47%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.88%) Siebel
3 1 (2.94%) Citrix
3 1 (2.94%) Google
3 1 (2.94%) SolarWinds