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 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 562 628 826
Rank change year-on-year +66 +198 -138
Contract jobs citing FinOps 17 66 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.040% 0.12% 0.042%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.046% 0.13% 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 42 21
10th Percentile £391 £402 £450
25th Percentile £475 £550 £568
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £700
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -10.71% +21.74%
75th Percentile £625 £755 £756
90th Percentile £755 £873 £950
UK excluding London median daily rate £431 £560 £734
% change year-on-year -22.99% -23.71% -

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 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

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 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for FinOps in the UK

FinOps
Top 7 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 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +68 16 £550 -12.00% 10
London +82 14 £575 -15.13% 6
Work from Home +100 7 £550 -12.00% 7
UK excluding London +28 2 £431 -22.99% 6
North of England +22 1 £400 -27.27% 2
North West +8 1 £400 -27.27% 1
South West +6 1 £463 -17.41% 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 9 (52.94%) AWS
3 7 (41.18%) 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 2 (11.76%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 9 (52.94%) Finance
2 6 (35.29%) Telecoms
3 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
5 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing
5 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.88%) Billing
6 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%) Cloud Consultant
3 3 (17.65%) Technical Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Contracts Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Delivery Director
5 1 (5.88%) Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Product Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Programme Director
5 1 (5.88%) Service Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Supplier Manager
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
3 5 (29.41%) DevOps
4 3 (17.65%) Agile
4 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
4 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (17.65%) Data Management
4 3 (17.65%) Microservices
4 3 (17.65%) MVC
4 3 (17.65%) Observability
4 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (17.65%) RBAC
5 2 (11.76%) Budget Management
5 2 (11.76%) Data Integration
5 2 (11.76%) Decision-Making
5 2 (11.76%) ITIL
5 2 (11.76%) Product Management
5 2 (11.76%) Resource Allocation
5 2 (11.76%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) AWS Certification
1 2 (11.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 2 (11.76%) Azure Certification
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) QA
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Facebook
2 2 (11.76%) Instagram
2 2 (11.76%) VMware
3 1 (5.88%) Google