FinOps Contracts in England

FinOps
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring FinOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited FinOps over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 456 527 596
Rank change year-on-year +71 +69 +153
Contract jobs citing FinOps 29 15 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.040% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.047% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 12 35
10th Percentile £432 £384 £400
25th Percentile £500 £472 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £625
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -10.00% -12.28%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £753
90th Percentile £693 £765 £935
UK median daily rate £600 £563 £625
% change year-on-year +6.67% -10.00% -13.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

FinOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for FinOps in England

FinOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for FinOps in England

FinOps
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FinOps in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for FinOps in England

FinOps
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FinOps within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +46 22 £557 -3.07% 40
North of England +21 3 £588 +46.88% 40
North West +19 3 £588 +46.88% 19
South East - 1 £700 - 49
East Midlands - 1 £475 - 14
Midlands - 1 £475 - 37
FinOps
UK

FinOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 6 (20.69%) Confluence
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 19 (65.52%) AWS
2 17 (58.62%) Azure
3 12 (41.38%) GCP
4 9 (31.03%) Serverless
5 8 (27.59%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (27.59%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (27.59%) IaaS
5 8 (27.59%) PaaS
5 8 (27.59%) SaaS
6 4 (13.79%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (10.34%) GitHub
8 2 (6.90%) Azure AKS
8 2 (6.90%) Entra ID
9 1 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (3.45%) dbt
9 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (3.45%) OCI
9 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
9 1 (3.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (27.59%) Firewall
1 8 (27.59%) VPN
2 1 (3.45%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (24.14%) Data Lake
2 3 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (6.90%) MongoDB
3 2 (6.90%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (3.45%) BigQuery
4 1 (3.45%) Looker
4 1 (3.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) JIRA
2 2 (6.90%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.45%) SonarQube
General
1 9 (31.03%) Finance
2 8 (27.59%) Marketing
3 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Banking
3 3 (10.34%) Billing
3 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.34%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Digital Health
4 1 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Legal
4 1 (3.45%) Military
4 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Architect
2 6 (20.69%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (17.24%) Project Manager
3 5 (17.24%) Technical Manager
3 5 (17.24%) Technical Project Manager
4 3 (10.34%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Lead
5 2 (6.90%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Consultant
6 1 (3.45%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (3.45%) GCP Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Senior
6 1 (3.45%) Technical Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) ARM Templates
2 3 (10.34%) Kafka
3 1 (3.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Cloud Native
1 4 (13.79%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (10.34%) Enterprise Cloud
3 2 (6.90%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) CMDB
4 1 (3.45%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (72.41%) Cost Optimisation
2 15 (51.72%) DevOps
3 11 (37.93%) Agile
3 11 (37.93%) Analytics
3 11 (37.93%) Migration
4 10 (34.48%) ETL
4 10 (34.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (31.03%) Zero Trust
6 8 (27.59%) RBAC
6 8 (27.59%) Scrum
7 7 (24.14%) Cost Management
7 7 (24.14%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (20.69%) CI/CD
8 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure Transformation
8 6 (20.69%) Project Delivery
8 6 (20.69%) Roadmaps
9 5 (17.24%) Data Engineering
10 4 (13.79%) Data Integration
10 4 (13.79%) Data Migration
10 4 (13.79%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (31.03%) Bicep
2 4 (13.79%) SQL
3 3 (10.34%) Go
3 3 (10.34%) Python
4 1 (3.45%) Java
4 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (31.03%) Azure Certification
2 6 (20.69%) SC Cleared
2 6 (20.69%) Security Cleared
3 3 (10.34%) Degree
4 2 (6.90%) AWS Certification
4 2 (6.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (3.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (27.59%) Docker
2 2 (6.90%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (41.38%) Kubernetes
1 12 (41.38%) Terraform
2 6 (20.69%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (3.45%) Kubeflow
3 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Google
2 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.90%) Databricks
3 2 (6.90%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.45%) IBM
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle
4 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow