FinOps Contract Job Trends in the City of London

FinOps
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring FinOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 115 125
Rank change year-on-year -5 +10 +50
Contract jobs citing FinOps 6 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.30% 0.17% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.18% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £408 £535
25th Percentile £511 £458 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £557 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -7.11% -31.43%
75th Percentile £534 £656 £650
90th Percentile - £705 £665
Central London median daily rate £523 £557 £600
% change year-on-year -6.25% -7.11% -31.43%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

FinOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,799 1,653 2,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.71% 91.58% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,246 1,037 1,498
10th Percentile £357 £363 £350
25th Percentile £436 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +1.19% -5.29%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 10 13
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £26.25 £18.93
Median hourly rate £28.00 £35.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.13% +42.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £47.50 £47.50 £41.84
90th Percentile £59.72 £112.00 £49.55
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -20.54%

FinOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing FinOps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

FinOps job vacancy trend in the City of London

FinOps
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing FinOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing FinOps

FinOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
2 2 (33.33%) SaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (16.67%) IaaS
3 1 (16.67%) PaaS
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Military
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Category Manager
1 4 (66.67%) Information Security Manager
1 4 (66.67%) Security Manager
2 3 (50.00%) IT Manager
2 3 (50.00%) IT Security Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Programme Director
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Cost Optimisation
1 5 (83.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (66.67%) Information Security
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Operations
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Cost Management
4 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
4 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Log Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (16.67%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Ariba
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft