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 29 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 446 518 535
Rank change year-on-year +72 +17 +213
Contract jobs citing FinOps 56 25 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.073% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.085% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 19 55
10th Percentile £388 £440 £409
25th Percentile £452 £531 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £590 £648
Median % change year-on-year -9.32% -8.95% +7.55%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £738
90th Percentile £684 £745 £760
UK median daily rate £520 £590 £625
% change year-on-year -11.86% -5.60% +1.63%

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 24,940 29,460 41,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.74% 85.77% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,991 19,293 28,886
10th Percentile £300 £313 £325
25th Percentile £405 £416 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.48% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £756 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.37% -0.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,369 1,832 1,451
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.69 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.64 £18.66
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +63.46%
75th Percentile £51.25 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.03 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -5.88% +60.38%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 +36 39 £638 +13.33% 28
North of England +5 10 £390 -2.50% 13
Yorkshire - 8 £375 - 5
South East - 4 £492 - 11
North West -4 2 £588 +46.88% 7
South West +33 1 £550 +4.27% 3
East Midlands -5 1 £475 -22.45% 1
Midlands -6 1 £475 -28.97% 4
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 7 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 6 (10.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Cloudability
1 2 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 31 (55.36%) Azure
2 28 (50.00%) AWS
3 16 (28.57%) GCP
3 16 (28.57%) Serverless
4 13 (23.21%) AWS CloudFormation
5 10 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (16.07%) IaaS
6 9 (16.07%) PaaS
6 9 (16.07%) SaaS
7 7 (12.50%) GitHub
8 6 (10.71%) Power Platform
9 5 (8.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (8.93%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 4 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (5.36%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 3 (5.36%) AWS KMS
11 3 (5.36%) Entra ID
11 3 (5.36%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (23.21%) Firewall
2 11 (19.64%) VPN
3 3 (5.36%) DNS
4 2 (3.57%) Network Security
4 2 (3.57%) SSL
4 2 (3.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.50%) Data Lake
2 6 (10.71%) Power BI
3 5 (8.93%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (8.93%) NoSQL
4 3 (5.36%) Big Data
5 2 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (3.57%) Data Mining
5 2 (3.57%) DynamoDB
5 2 (3.57%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.57%) Power Query
5 2 (3.57%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.57%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.79%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 10 (17.86%) JIRA
2 6 (10.71%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.57%) Git
3 2 (3.57%) GitLab
3 2 (3.57%) SonarQube
General
1 18 (32.14%) Finance
2 14 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 9 (16.07%) Marketing
4 7 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (12.50%) Banking
5 3 (5.36%) Billing
5 3 (5.36%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (5.36%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.79%) Legal
7 1 (1.79%) Military
Job Titles
1 21 (37.50%) Architect
2 7 (12.50%) Azure Architect
2 7 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
2 7 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (10.71%) Analyst
4 5 (8.93%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (8.93%) Project Manager
4 5 (8.93%) Technical Manager
4 5 (8.93%) Technical Project Manager
5 4 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (7.14%) Lead
6 3 (5.36%) Data Architect
6 3 (5.36%) GCP Architect
6 3 (5.36%) GCP Data Architect
6 3 (5.36%) Lead DevOps
6 3 (5.36%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Senior
6 3 (5.36%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (3.57%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.93%) ARM Templates
2 4 (7.14%) Kafka
3 2 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (3.57%) Spring
3 2 (3.57%) Spring Boot
3 2 (3.57%) YAML
4 1 (1.79%) JSON
4 1 (1.79%) React
4 1 (1.79%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.07%) Public Cloud
2 7 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 6 (10.71%) Enterprise Cloud
4 5 (8.93%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (7.14%) Data Centre
6 3 (5.36%) Mainframe
7 2 (3.57%) CMDB
7 2 (3.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (3.57%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.79%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (57.14%) Cost Optimisation
2 22 (39.29%) DevOps
3 16 (28.57%) Agile
3 16 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (26.79%) ETL
5 14 (25.00%) Analytics
5 14 (25.00%) Migration
5 14 (25.00%) RBAC
6 12 (21.43%) Zero Trust
7 11 (19.64%) CI/CD
8 10 (17.86%) Budgeting
8 10 (17.86%) Containerisation
8 10 (17.86%) Cost Management
8 10 (17.86%) Roadmaps
9 9 (16.07%) Artificial Intelligence
9 9 (16.07%) Data Engineering
9 9 (16.07%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (14.29%) Scrum
11 7 (12.50%) Infrastructure Transformation
11 7 (12.50%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 12 (21.43%) Python
2 10 (17.86%) Bicep
3 9 (16.07%) SQL
4 3 (5.36%) Bash
4 3 (5.36%) Java
4 3 (5.36%) Shell Script
5 2 (3.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (3.57%) Go
5 2 (3.57%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (19.64%) Azure Certification
2 8 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 8 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 6 (10.71%) AWS Certification
4 5 (8.93%) Degree
5 4 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.79%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.36%) GDPR
1 3 (5.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (5.36%) NIST
1 3 (5.36%) SOC 2
2 2 (3.57%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (3.57%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.79%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (21.43%) Docker
2 3 (5.36%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (39.29%) Terraform
2 17 (30.36%) Kubernetes
3 7 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (8.93%) Prometheus
5 3 (5.36%) Ansible
6 2 (3.57%) Grafana
6 2 (3.57%) Kustomize
6 2 (3.57%) Puppet
7 1 (1.79%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 14 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.71%) Google
3 3 (5.36%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.57%) Citrix
4 2 (3.57%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.57%) IBM
4 2 (3.57%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.57%) SAP
4 2 (3.57%) Splunk
5 1 (1.79%) Databricks
5 1 (1.79%) Oracle