Cost Management Jobs in the UK excluding London

Cost Management
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Cost Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cost Management over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 629 640 709
Rank change year-on-year +11 +69 -69
Permanent jobs citing Cost Management 147 114 164
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.20% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.21% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 90 80 69
10th Percentile £42,000 £33,853 £39,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -16.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,500 £78,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% -6.77% +2.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Cost Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 61,033 55,511 69,479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.47% 95.56% 94.27%
Number of salaries quoted 42,006 28,806 41,464
10th Percentile £27,336 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Cost Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cost Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cost Management in the UK excluding London

Cost Management
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cost Management in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Cost Management in the UK excluding London

Cost Management
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cost Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cost Management in the UK excluding London

Cost Management
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cost Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
North of England +94 54 £62,500 +4.17% 18
South East +3 38 £57,500 +7.48% 22
North West +23 21 £65,000 -3.70% 10
North East +13 20 £55,000 +29.41%
Midlands -12 18 £65,000 +20.37% 22
Scotland -56 15 £47,500 -20.83% 9
South West -36 14 £62,500 +13.64% 21
Yorkshire +89 13 £40,000 -17.95% 8
West Midlands -5 9 £47,500 -12.84% 19
East Midlands -9 7 £53,750 +95.45% 3
Northern Ireland - 4 £115,000 - 1
East of England -5 3 £45,000 -60.87% 7
Wales +3 1 - - 1
Cost Management
UK

Cost Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 12 (8.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.36%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (3.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.04%) Primavera
2 2 (1.36%) C-CURE
2 2 (1.36%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 37 (25.17%) Azure
2 30 (20.41%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (10.20%) Entra ID
4 11 (7.48%) IaaS
5 10 (6.80%) PaaS
6 5 (3.40%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (2.04%) AWS
7 3 (2.04%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (2.04%) Azure Stack
7 3 (2.04%) Azure Storage
7 3 (2.04%) SaaS
8 1 (0.68%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.68%) GCP
8 1 (0.68%) GitHub
8 1 (0.68%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.52%) Wi-Fi
2 9 (6.12%) LAN
3 8 (5.44%) Firewall
3 8 (5.44%) VPN
4 7 (4.76%) Internet
5 5 (3.40%) DHCP
5 5 (3.40%) DNS
5 5 (3.40%) MPLS
5 5 (3.40%) SD-WAN
5 5 (3.40%) SNMP
5 5 (3.40%) SSL
5 5 (3.40%) WAN
6 3 (2.04%) Network Security
7 2 (1.36%) Extranet
7 2 (1.36%) Intranet
8 1 (0.68%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.44%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.68%) Big Data
2 1 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.68%) MS Access
2 1 (0.68%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.68%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Jenkins
General
1 54 (36.73%) Finance
2 46 (31.29%) Social Skills
3 26 (17.69%) Legal
4 21 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (10.88%) Marketing
6 10 (6.80%) Retail
7 9 (6.12%) Manufacturing
8 6 (4.08%) Law
8 6 (4.08%) Telecoms
9 5 (3.40%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (2.04%) Aviation
11 3 (2.04%) Billing
11 3 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.36%) Automotive
13 1 (0.68%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.68%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.68%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 22 (14.97%) IT Manager
1 22 (14.97%) Project Manager
2 16 (10.88%) Lead
3 13 (8.84%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 12 (8.16%) Cloud Specialist
4 12 (8.16%) ICT Specialist
5 8 (5.44%) Azure Engineer
5 8 (5.44%) Operations Manager
6 7 (4.76%) Digital Project Manager
6 7 (4.76%) Procurement Advisor
7 6 (4.08%) Analyst
7 6 (4.08%) Business Manager
7 6 (4.08%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (4.08%) Team Leader
8 5 (3.40%) Data Centre Manager
8 5 (3.40%) Data Centre Operations Manager
8 5 (3.40%) Data Manager
8 5 (3.40%) Delivery Manager
8 5 (3.40%) Operations Director
9 4 (2.72%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.40%) NETCONF
2 3 (2.04%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (0.68%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.12%) Management Information System
2 8 (5.44%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.44%) Data Centre
3 6 (4.08%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.40%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (2.72%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.72%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.72%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.72%) PMI
6 3 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.04%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.04%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.36%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.36%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.68%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 14 (9.52%) Windows
2 13 (8.84%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.68%) Linux
3 1 (0.68%) Unix
3 1 (0.68%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (25.17%) Project Management
2 31 (21.09%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (19.73%) Roadmaps
4 26 (17.69%) Budgeting
5 25 (17.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 24 (16.33%) ITIL
7 23 (15.65%) Agile
8 22 (14.97%) Asset Management
8 22 (14.97%) IT Asset Management
9 21 (14.29%) Performance Management
10 20 (13.61%) Line Management
11 19 (12.93%) Cost Optimisation
11 19 (12.93%) Service Management
12 18 (12.24%) Migration
12 18 (12.24%) Risk Management
13 17 (11.56%) Stakeholder Management
14 16 (10.88%) Continuous Improvement
15 14 (9.52%) Contract Management
15 14 (9.52%) High Availability
15 14 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 9 (6.12%) SQL
2 5 (3.40%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.36%) Python
4 1 (0.68%) Bash
4 1 (0.68%) Bicep
4 1 (0.68%) Java
4 1 (0.68%) JCL
4 1 (0.68%) Julia
4 1 (0.68%) Kotlin
4 1 (0.68%) Perl
4 1 (0.68%) REXX
4 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (14.29%) Degree
2 12 (8.16%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (5.44%) Azure Certification
3 8 (5.44%) PMI Certification
4 4 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.72%) PMP
4 4 (2.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 4 (2.72%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.36%) ACCA
5 2 (1.36%) CIMA
5 2 (1.36%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.68%) CISSP
6 1 (0.68%) MRICS
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.80%) SLA
2 5 (3.40%) GDPR
2 5 (3.40%) HIPAA
3 4 (2.72%) QA
4 3 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.36%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.68%) Data Quality
System Software
1 19 (12.93%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.72%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.68%) Docker
4 1 (0.68%) NFS
4 1 (0.68%) Time Sharing Option
4 1 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (8.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (6.80%) Terraform
3 3 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.68%) Ansible
4 1 (0.68%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.68%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 40 (27.21%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.84%) VMware
3 12 (8.16%) ServiceNow
4 10 (6.80%) SAP
5 4 (2.72%) Aruba
5 4 (2.72%) Cisco
5 4 (2.72%) Computacenter
5 4 (2.72%) Juniper
6 3 (2.04%) Ariba
7 1 (0.68%) Broadcom
7 1 (0.68%) Brocade
7 1 (0.68%) CA
7 1 (0.68%) Databricks
7 1 (0.68%) Dell
7 1 (0.68%) IBM
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle
7 1 (0.68%) Splunk
7 1 (0.68%) Zoho