Cost-Benefit Analysis
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Cost-Benefit Analysis skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cost-Benefit Analysis over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 806 768 1085
Rank change year-on-year -38 +317 -211
Permanent jobs citing Cost-Benefit Analysis 78 208 157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.078% 0.21% 0.096%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.092% 0.22% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 49 73 63
10th Percentile £43,000 £32,408 £41,400
25th Percentile £50,575 £42,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.08% +8.33% -1.64%
75th Percentile £67,500 £81,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £68,750 £113,750 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,067 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.13% -9.09% +12.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Cost-Benefit Analysis 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 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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% +10.53%

Cost-Benefit Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cost-Benefit Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cost-Benefit Analysis in the UK

Cost-Benefit Analysis
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cost-Benefit Analysis in the UK

Cost-Benefit Analysis
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cost-Benefit Analysis over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cost-Benefit Analysis in the UK

Cost-Benefit Analysis
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cost-Benefit Analysis within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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
England -38 76 £56,500 -13.08% 33
UK excluding London -70 52 £53,067 +6.13% 31
Work from Home -42 29 £56,500 -27.10% 18
London +46 23 £60,500 -21.94% 7
South East -14 19 £58,000 - 3
North of England +40 18 £52,500 -4.11% 16
Yorkshire +83 10 £56,500 +73.85% 5
North West +2 8 £52,500 -16.00% 10
South West -31 6 £50,000 -2.44% 2
East of England -5 5 £62,500 +32.98% 2
Midlands -21 4 £46,000 -8.00% 2
East Midlands -26 3 £46,000 -8.00% 2
West Midlands +7 1 - -

Cost-Benefit Analysis
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 3 (3.85%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.56%) CMS
2 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (14.10%) Spreadsheet
2 6 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (6.41%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (2.56%) iTrent
2 2 (2.56%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 17 (21.79%) SaaS
2 10 (12.82%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (6.41%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (3.85%) AWS
5 2 (2.56%) Asana
5 2 (2.56%) Azure
5 2 (2.56%) Basecamp
5 2 (2.56%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.56%) Google Workspace
5 2 (2.56%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.56%) Smartsheet
5 2 (2.56%) WhatsApp
6 1 (1.28%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.97%) Firewall
2 2 (2.56%) DNS
2 2 (2.56%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (2.56%) LAN
2 2 (2.56%) NAS
2 2 (2.56%) SAN
2 2 (2.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.26%) GIS
2 5 (6.41%) CockroachDB
3 2 (2.56%) Data Mining
3 2 (2.56%) MySQL
3 2 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.56%) Power BI
3 2 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (6.41%) Jaeger
1 5 (6.41%) Jenkins
1 5 (6.41%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 37 (47.44%) Finance
2 27 (34.62%) Social Skills
3 17 (21.79%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (15.38%) Legal
4 12 (15.38%) Retail
5 10 (12.82%) Law
6 8 (10.26%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (10.26%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (7.69%) Telecoms
8 5 (6.41%) Financial Institution
8 5 (6.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (3.85%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (3.85%) Public Sector
10 2 (2.56%) Back Office
10 2 (2.56%) Marketing
11 1 (1.28%) Advertising
11 1 (1.28%) Local Government
11 1 (1.28%) Military
Job Titles
1 20 (25.64%) Analyst
2 14 (17.95%) Project Manager
3 12 (15.38%) Business Analyst
3 12 (15.38%) Product Manager
4 8 (10.26%) Network Engineer
5 7 (8.97%) Senior
6 6 (7.69%) Architect
6 6 (7.69%) Data Analyst
6 6 (7.69%) Technical Architect
7 5 (6.41%) Business Manager
7 5 (6.41%) Consultant
7 5 (6.41%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
7 5 (6.41%) ERP Consultant
7 5 (6.41%) Payments Architect
7 5 (6.41%) Senior Analyst
7 5 (6.41%) Senior Business Analyst
8 4 (5.13%) Financial Analyst
8 4 (5.13%) Lead
8 4 (5.13%) Telecoms Manager
8 4 (5.13%) Telecoms Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (15.38%) Web Services
2 5 (6.41%) Kafka
2 5 (6.41%) Middleware
2 5 (6.41%) OpenTelemetry
2 5 (6.41%) Spring Boot
3 4 (5.13%) .NET
4 2 (2.56%) ASP.NET
4 2 (2.56%) CSS
4 2 (2.56%) HTML
4 2 (2.56%) LDAP
4 2 (2.56%) SAML
4 2 (2.56%) ServiceStack
5 1 (1.28%) JSON
5 1 (1.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 12 (15.38%) Algorithms
2 12 (15.38%) Data Structures
3 5 (6.41%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.85%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.85%) FMCG
5 2 (2.56%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.56%) Robotics
5 2 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.28%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.41%) Linux
2 2 (2.56%) Android
2 2 (2.56%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.56%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (38.46%) Project Management
3 27 (34.62%) Agile
4 21 (26.92%) Critical Thinking
5 20 (25.64%) Business Development
6 19 (24.36%) Business Case
6 19 (24.36%) Data Modelling
6 19 (24.36%) Decision-Making
6 19 (24.36%) Roadmaps
7 18 (23.08%) Business Analysis
7 18 (23.08%) Business Strategy
8 17 (21.79%) Project Delivery
9 16 (20.51%) Analytics
9 16 (20.51%) User Experience
10 15 (19.23%) Change Management
10 15 (19.23%) Customer-Centric Approach
10 15 (19.23%) Customer-Centricity
10 15 (19.23%) Visualisation
11 14 (17.95%) Customer Experience
11 14 (17.95%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 21 (26.92%) SQL
2 5 (6.41%) Java
3 3 (3.85%) Python
4 2 (2.56%) Bash
4 2 (2.56%) C#
4 2 (2.56%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.56%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.28%) R
5 1 (1.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (32.05%) Degree
2 10 (12.82%) Master's Degree
2 10 (12.82%) MBA
3 3 (3.85%) PMI Certification
3 3 (3.85%) PMP
3 3 (3.85%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.85%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.28%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.85%) SLA
2 2 (2.56%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.56%) QA
3 1 (1.28%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.28%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (6.41%) Docker
2 2 (2.56%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.56%) Hyper-V
2 2 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (6.41%) Ansible
1 5 (6.41%) Kiali
1 5 (6.41%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 6 (7.69%) Salesforce
2 5 (6.41%) AppDynamics
2 5 (6.41%) SAP
2 5 (6.41%) Splunk
3 4 (5.13%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.56%) Concur
4 2 (2.56%) Google
4 2 (2.56%) Oracle
4 2 (2.56%) VMware
5 1 (1.28%) DocuSign
5 1 (1.28%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.28%) Yardi