FinOps Contracts in London

FinOps
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 331 377 460
Rank change year-on-year +46 +83 +111
Contract jobs citing FinOps 22 14 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.18% 0.079% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.089% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 11 17
10th Percentile £395 £463 £570
25th Percentile £478 £500 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £557 £575 £730
Median % change year-on-year -3.07% -21.23% +4.29%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £913
90th Percentile - £775 £950
England median daily rate £600 £563 £625
% change year-on-year +6.67% -10.00% -12.28%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

FinOps
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for FinOps in London

FinOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for FinOps in London

FinOps
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for FinOps in London

FinOps
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FinOps within the London 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
Central London +3 2 £479 -26.36% 1
South London - 1 £650 -
FinOps
England

FinOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (27.27%) Confluence
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 19 (86.36%) AWS
2 15 (68.18%) Azure
3 11 (50.00%) GCP
4 9 (40.91%) Serverless
5 8 (36.36%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (36.36%) IaaS
5 8 (36.36%) PaaS
5 8 (36.36%) SaaS
6 4 (18.18%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (9.09%) Azure AKS
7 2 (9.09%) Entra ID
7 2 (9.09%) GitHub
8 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (4.55%) dbt
8 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (4.55%) OCI
8 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
8 1 (4.55%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (36.36%) Firewall
1 8 (36.36%) VPN
2 1 (4.55%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (31.82%) Data Lake
2 2 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 2 (9.09%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (4.55%) BigQuery
3 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.55%) Looker
3 1 (4.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) JIRA
2 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.55%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (36.36%) Marketing
2 5 (22.73%) Finance
3 3 (13.64%) Banking
4 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Billing
5 1 (4.55%) Digital Health
5 1 (4.55%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Architect
1 5 (22.73%) Project Manager
1 5 (22.73%) Technical Manager
1 5 (22.73%) Technical Project Manager
2 3 (13.64%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Consultant
4 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Lead
4 1 (4.55%) Senior
4 1 (4.55%) Technical Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) ARM Templates
2 3 (13.64%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (13.64%) Cloud Native
2 3 (13.64%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) CMDB
3 1 (4.55%) NHS
3 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (77.27%) Cost Optimisation
2 11 (50.00%) DevOps
2 11 (50.00%) Migration
3 10 (45.45%) Agile
3 10 (45.45%) Analytics
3 10 (45.45%) ETL
4 9 (40.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (40.91%) Zero Trust
5 8 (36.36%) RBAC
6 7 (31.82%) Scrum
6 7 (31.82%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (27.27%) Cost Management
7 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure Transformation
7 6 (27.27%) Project Delivery
8 5 (22.73%) Data Engineering
9 4 (18.18%) Data Integration
9 4 (18.18%) Data Migration
9 4 (18.18%) Project Management
10 3 (13.64%) CI/CD
10 3 (13.64%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) Bicep
2 4 (18.18%) SQL
3 3 (13.64%) Go
4 2 (9.09%) Python
5 1 (4.55%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) Azure Certification
2 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
2 5 (22.73%) Security Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) AWS Certification
3 2 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (4.55%) Degree
4 1 (4.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (36.36%) Docker
2 2 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 11 (50.00%) Terraform
2 6 (27.27%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (4.55%) Kubeflow
3 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Google
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) Databricks
2 1 (4.55%) Dynatrace
2 1 (4.55%) IBM
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle
2 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow