FinOps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for FinOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited FinOps over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 581 661 813
Rank change year-on-year +80 +152 -146
Contract jobs citing FinOps 17 58 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.039% 0.097% 0.041%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.045% 0.11% 0.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 34 19
10th Percentile £384 £400 £432
25th Percentile £472 £550 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £613 £725
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -15.52% +26.09%
75th Percentile £638 £754 £756
90th Percentile £765 £939 £950
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £544 £900
% change year-on-year -26.44% -39.58% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

FinOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

FinOps
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for FinOps in the UK

FinOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing FinOps.

Daily rate trend for FinOps in the UK

FinOps
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FinOps over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for FinOps in the UK

FinOps
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FinOps within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +88 15 £563 -10.00% 9
London +82 14 £575 -21.23% 6
Work from Home +118 7 £550 -12.00% 5
UK excluding London +47 1 £400 -26.44% 4
North of England +27 1 £400 -29.82% 1
North West +10 1 £400 -29.82% 1

FinOps
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:

Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 12 (70.59%) Azure
2 8 (47.06%) AWS
3 6 (35.29%) GCP
4 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (17.65%) Azure Functions
4 3 (17.65%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (17.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (17.65%) Entra ID
4 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
4 3 (17.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Power BI
2 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
1 1 (5.88%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 9 (52.94%) Finance
2 6 (35.29%) Telecoms
3 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Billing
4 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing
4 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Consultant
2 4 (23.53%) Senior
2 4 (23.53%) Senior Consultant
3 3 (17.65%) Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Technical Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Cloud Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) Contracts Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Supplier Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Delivery Director
5 1 (5.88%) Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Product Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Programme Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) Node.js
1 3 (17.65%) React
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Public Cloud
2 3 (17.65%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Cost Optimisation
2 6 (35.29%) Cost Management
2 6 (35.29%) DevOps
3 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
3 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (17.65%) Data Management
3 3 (17.65%) Microservices
3 3 (17.65%) MVC
3 3 (17.65%) Observability
3 3 (17.65%) RBAC
3 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (11.76%) Agile
4 2 (11.76%) Contract Management
4 2 (11.76%) Data Integration
4 2 (11.76%) Decision-Making
4 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (11.76%) Product Management
4 2 (11.76%) Resource Allocation
4 2 (11.76%) Supplier Management
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Azure Certification
2 2 (11.76%) AWS Certification
2 2 (11.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.88%) Degree
3 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) QA
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Facebook
2 2 (11.76%) Instagram
2 2 (11.76%) VMware