FinOps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for FinOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited FinOps over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 843 912 1108
Rank change year-on-year +69 +196 -211
Permanent jobs citing FinOps 59 60 121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.060% 0.059% 0.077%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.070% 0.062% 0.081%
Number of salaries quoted 50 27 32
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £58,664 £69,375 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £87,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% +9.38% +28.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £95,000 £95,313
90th Percentile £78,475 £113,500 £107,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,249 £50,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +20.50% -28.57% +12.00%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
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 £96,550
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing FinOps.

Salary trend for FinOps in the UK

FinOps
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing FinOps over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for FinOps in the UK

FinOps
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FinOps within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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 +96 55 £67,500 -21.74% 8
London +108 33 £67,500 -25.00% 7
Work from Home +86 26 £67,500 -25.00% 3
UK excluding London +10 26 £60,249 +20.50% 2
North of England +53 15 £60,249 +20.50%
North West +22 10 £67,500 -37.21%
East Midlands - 5 £67,500 -
Midlands - 5 £67,500 -
Yorkshire +89 4 £60,249 +20.50%
Scotland -62 4 £60,249 - 1
South East +1 1 £42,500 -37.04%
North East -12 1 £41,774 -
South West -22 1 £50,000 - 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.08%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (5.08%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 41 (69.49%) AWS
2 28 (47.46%) GCP
3 23 (38.98%) Azure
4 14 (23.73%) AWS CloudFormation
5 13 (22.03%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (20.34%) GitHub
7 7 (11.86%) Serverless
8 6 (10.17%) PaaS
9 5 (8.47%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (8.47%) Power Platform
10 2 (3.39%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (3.39%) AWS KMS
11 1 (1.69%) Azure AKS
11 1 (1.69%) Azure Functions
11 1 (1.69%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.08%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (20.34%) SQL Server
2 6 (10.17%) Delta Lake
2 6 (10.17%) Metadata
3 5 (8.47%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (8.47%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (8.47%) Power BI
4 4 (6.78%) Big Data
5 3 (5.08%) BigQuery
6 2 (3.39%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Git
General
1 11 (18.64%) Finance
1 11 (18.64%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.17%) Banking
3 4 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.08%) Law
4 3 (5.08%) Retail
5 2 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.69%) General Ledger
6 1 (1.69%) Legal
6 1 (1.69%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 23 (38.98%) Architect
2 20 (33.90%) Analyst
3 14 (23.73%) Service Analyst
4 12 (20.34%) Cloud Architect
4 12 (20.34%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 12 (20.34%) Solutions Architect
5 10 (16.95%) Procurement Analyst
6 7 (11.86%) Senior
6 7 (11.86%) Service Management Analyst
7 6 (10.17%) Data Architect
7 6 (10.17%) Senior Architect
7 6 (10.17%) Senior Data Architect
8 5 (8.47%) AWS Architect
9 3 (5.08%) Platform Engineer
10 2 (3.39%) AWS DevOps
10 2 (3.39%) DevOps Manager
11 1 (1.69%) Azure Engineer
11 1 (1.69%) Cloud Engineer
11 1 (1.69%) Python Engineer
11 1 (1.69%) Software Licensing Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.34%) IoT
1 12 (20.34%) Public Cloud
2 6 (10.17%) Reinsurance
3 5 (8.47%) Clustering
3 5 (8.47%) Data Centre
3 5 (8.47%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (5.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.69%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.64%) Linux
2 5 (8.47%) Windows
3 1 (1.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (42.37%) Cost Optimisation
2 22 (37.29%) Agile
3 20 (33.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (32.20%) Visualisation
5 18 (30.51%) Migration
6 17 (28.81%) Architectural Patterns
7 15 (25.42%) DevOps
8 14 (23.73%) Analytics
9 12 (20.34%) Data Strategy
10 9 (15.25%) Data Science
10 9 (15.25%) ETL
11 8 (13.56%) Data Management
12 7 (11.86%) CI/CD
12 7 (11.86%) Contract Management
12 7 (11.86%) Technology Strategy
13 6 (10.17%) Data Engineering
13 6 (10.17%) Data Pipeline
13 6 (10.17%) Design Patterns
13 6 (10.17%) DevSecOps
13 6 (10.17%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 10 (16.95%) Python
2 9 (15.25%) SQL
3 3 (5.08%) Go
4 1 (1.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (10.17%) OCP
1 6 (10.17%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (3.39%) AWS Certification
2 2 (3.39%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.69%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.69%) Degree
3 1 (1.69%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 19 (32.20%) Terraform
2 5 (8.47%) Failover Clustering
2 5 (8.47%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.47%) Microsoft Clustering
3 3 (5.08%) Ansible
3 3 (5.08%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (20.34%) Google
2 7 (11.86%) Oracle
3 6 (10.17%) Databricks
3 6 (10.17%) Informatica
4 3 (5.08%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.69%) IBM
5 1 (1.69%) SAP
5 1 (1.69%) VMware