FinOps Contract Job Trends in Leeds

FinOps
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring FinOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 61 -
Rank change year-on-year -15 - -
Contract jobs citing FinOps 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.41% 0.15% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.18% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £397 - -
25th Percentile £414 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 - -
75th Percentile £474 - -
90th Percentile £490 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 645 565 902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 89.09% 85.74% 90.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 358 622
10th Percentile £301 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £406 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -5.71% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £480 £520
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 8
10th Percentile £25.10 £15.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £20.13 £18.88
Median hourly rate £26.00 £30.00 £21.01
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +42.81% -1.14%
75th Percentile £27.63 £38.75 £22.41
90th Percentile £28.30 £51.00 £35.23
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £27.50 £20.35
% change year-on-year -19.49% +35.12% -3.08%

FinOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

FinOps job vacancy trend in Leeds

FinOps
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing FinOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing FinOps

FinOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FinOps in Leeds over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for FinOps in Leeds

FinOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (66.67%) AWS KMS
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Macie
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (33.33%) Kong
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Lead
2 2 (66.67%) Lead DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Blue-Green Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Discovery
3 1 (33.33%) Database Security
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Network Load Balancing
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) RBAC
3 1 (33.33%) Secrets Management
3 1 (33.33%) SIEM
3 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
1 2 (66.67%) SOC 2
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (33.33%) Grafana
3 1 (33.33%) Kustomize
3 1 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk