Cost Management Jobs

Cost Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 716 748 904
Rank change year-on-year +32 +156 -61
Permanent jobs citing Cost Management 193 202 369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.21% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.22% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 105 128 176
10th Percentile £43,200 £42,399 £41,875
25th Percentile £52,500 £49,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,750 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -4.14% +2.31%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,625 £77,813
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,375 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £53,750
% change year-on-year +4.55% +2.33% -14.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Cost Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cost Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cost Management in the UK

Cost Management
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cost Management in the UK

Cost Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cost Management over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Cost Management in the UK

Cost Management
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 June 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
England +39 168 £63,750 +2.00% 118
UK excluding London +9 147 £57,500 +4.55% 85
Work from Home +25 72 £65,000 - 94
North of England +81 55 £62,500 - 20
London +93 40 £82,500 +13.79% 39
South East 0 39 £57,500 +7.48% 22
North West +15 22 £65,000 -13.33% 10
North East +9 20 £55,000 +29.41%
Midlands -18 18 £65,000 +20.37% 16
Scotland -63 15 £47,500 -13.64% 7
Yorkshire +73 13 £40,000 -17.95% 10
South West -38 12 £65,000 +18.18% 15
West Midlands -27 9 £47,500 -12.04% 15
East Midlands -12 7 £53,750 +95.45% 1
Northern Ireland - 4 £115,000 - 1
East of England -3 3 £45,000 -60.87% 7
Wales +9 1 - -

Cost Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (6.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.04%) CMS
3 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 5 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.55%) Primavera
2 2 (1.04%) C-CURE
2 2 (1.04%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 66 (34.20%) Azure
2 31 (16.06%) AWS
2 31 (16.06%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (10.36%) GCP
4 17 (8.81%) Entra ID
5 12 (6.22%) IaaS
6 11 (5.70%) PaaS
7 9 (4.66%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (4.15%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (2.59%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (2.59%) SaaS
10 4 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.55%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.55%) AWS CodeDeploy
11 3 (1.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 3 (1.55%) Azure Stack
11 3 (1.55%) Azure Storage
11 3 (1.55%) OpenShift
12 2 (1.04%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (1.04%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.81%) Wi-Fi
2 12 (6.22%) Firewall
2 12 (6.22%) LAN
3 11 (5.70%) VPN
4 9 (4.66%) Internet
5 8 (4.15%) DNS
5 8 (4.15%) MPLS
5 8 (4.15%) SD-WAN
5 8 (4.15%) WAN
6 6 (3.11%) Network Security
7 5 (2.59%) DHCP
7 5 (2.59%) SNMP
7 5 (2.59%) SSL
8 4 (2.07%) BGP
9 3 (1.55%) Cisco ISE
9 3 (1.55%) EIGRP
9 3 (1.55%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (1.55%) OSPF
10 2 (1.04%) Extranet
10 2 (1.04%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.84%) Metadata
2 17 (8.81%) Data Lake
3 8 (4.15%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.55%) Big Data
6 2 (1.04%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.04%) Power BI
7 1 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.52%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.52%) MS Access
7 1 (0.52%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.52%) Oracle OWB
7 1 (0.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (2.59%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.07%) Git
2 4 (2.07%) JUnit
3 3 (1.55%) Bitbucket
3 3 (1.55%) CircleCI
3 3 (1.55%) GitLab
3 3 (1.55%) Selenium
3 3 (1.55%) Subversion
3 3 (1.55%) TestNG
3 3 (1.55%) Travis CI
4 1 (0.52%) Gatling
4 1 (0.52%) JIRA
4 1 (0.52%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 84 (43.52%) Finance
2 58 (30.05%) Social Skills
3 45 (23.32%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (15.03%) Legal
5 21 (10.88%) Banking
5 21 (10.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (9.33%) Financial Institution
6 18 (9.33%) Marketing
7 17 (8.81%) Retail Banking
8 11 (5.70%) Retail
9 9 (4.66%) Manufacturing
10 8 (4.15%) Law
11 7 (3.63%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (3.11%) Telecoms
13 5 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (2.07%) Billing
15 3 (1.55%) Aviation
16 2 (1.04%) Automotive
16 2 (1.04%) Public Sector
17 1 (0.52%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 27 (13.99%) Architect
2 26 (13.47%) Senior
3 25 (12.95%) Project Manager
4 23 (11.92%) IT Manager
5 19 (9.84%) Lead
6 17 (8.81%) Data Architect
6 17 (8.81%) Senior Architect
6 17 (8.81%) Senior Data Architect
7 13 (6.74%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 12 (6.22%) Cloud Specialist
8 12 (6.22%) ICT Specialist
9 9 (4.66%) Analyst
10 8 (4.15%) Operations Manager
11 7 (3.63%) Azure Engineer
11 7 (3.63%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (3.63%) Digital Project Manager
11 7 (3.63%) Procurement Advisor
12 6 (3.11%) Business Manager
12 6 (3.11%) Delivery Manager
12 6 (3.11%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.59%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (2.59%) NETCONF
2 4 (2.07%) Azure Blueprints
3 3 (1.55%) ARM Templates
4 2 (1.04%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (0.52%) .NET
5 1 (0.52%) Node.js
5 1 (0.52%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.70%) Data Centre
2 10 (5.18%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.18%) Management Information System
3 8 (4.15%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (3.11%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.11%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.59%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.59%) PMI
5 5 (2.59%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.07%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (2.07%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.55%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.04%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.04%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.52%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.52%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.25%) Windows
2 13 (6.74%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.59%) Linux
4 2 (1.04%) zOS
5 1 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (23.83%) Agile
2 44 (22.80%) Project Management
3 40 (20.73%) Asset Management
3 40 (20.73%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (18.65%) Migration
5 35 (18.13%) Roadmaps
6 30 (15.54%) Budgeting
7 27 (13.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 26 (13.47%) Data Management
9 25 (12.95%) Cost Optimisation
9 25 (12.95%) ITIL
9 25 (12.95%) Performance Management
10 23 (11.92%) IT Asset Management
10 23 (11.92%) Stakeholder Management
11 22 (11.40%) Infrastructure as Code
11 22 (11.40%) Mentoring
12 21 (10.88%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (10.88%) Data Architecture
12 21 (10.88%) Data Strategy
13 20 (10.36%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (5.18%) SQL
2 9 (4.66%) PowerShell
3 7 (3.63%) Python
4 5 (2.59%) Bash
4 5 (2.59%) Java
5 2 (1.04%) C
5 2 (1.04%) C++
5 2 (1.04%) JCL
5 2 (1.04%) Perl
5 2 (1.04%) Ruby
6 1 (0.52%) Bicep
6 1 (0.52%) Go
6 1 (0.52%) Groovy
6 1 (0.52%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.52%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.52%) REXX
6 1 (0.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 25 (12.95%) Degree
2 24 (12.44%) Azure Certification
3 17 (8.81%) AWS Certification
4 12 (6.22%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (5.18%) PMI Certification
5 10 (5.18%) Security Cleared
6 5 (2.59%) ACCA
6 5 (2.59%) CIMA
6 5 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.59%) PMP
7 4 (2.07%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 3 (1.55%) SC Cleared
9 2 (1.04%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.52%) CISSP
10 1 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.52%) MRICS
10 1 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.18%) SLA
2 6 (3.11%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (3.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (3.11%) QA
3 5 (2.59%) GDPR
3 5 (2.59%) HIPAA
4 4 (2.07%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (1.55%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.04%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.52%) PMO
System Software
1 22 (11.40%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.63%) Docker
3 6 (3.11%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (2.07%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.55%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.55%) VirtualBox
7 2 (1.04%) NFS
7 2 (1.04%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 19 (9.84%) Terraform
2 12 (6.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (4.66%) Ansible
4 8 (4.15%) Kubernetes
5 5 (2.59%) Progress Chef
5 5 (2.59%) Puppet
6 3 (1.55%) Kibana
6 3 (1.55%) logstash
6 3 (1.55%) Nagios
6 3 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.55%) ZABBIX
7 2 (1.04%) Grafana
7 2 (1.04%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.52%) Istio
8 1 (0.52%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 59 (30.57%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.81%) VMware
3 14 (7.25%) ServiceNow
4 12 (6.22%) SAP
5 7 (3.63%) Cisco
5 7 (3.63%) Juniper
6 4 (2.07%) Aruba
6 4 (2.07%) Computacenter
6 4 (2.07%) Splunk
7 3 (1.55%) Ariba
7 3 (1.55%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.55%) New Relic
7 3 (1.55%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.55%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.04%) Brocade
8 2 (1.04%) CA
8 2 (1.04%) Dell
8 2 (1.04%) IBM
8 2 (1.04%) Oracle
8 2 (1.04%) Red Hat