FinOps Contracts in the North of England

FinOps
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 180 197
Rank change year-on-year +13 +17 -
Contract jobs citing FinOps 6 1 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.16% 0.021% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.025% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 9
10th Percentile £420 - £468
25th Percentile £471 £375 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £400 £570
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -29.82% -
75th Percentile £591 £425 £600
90th Percentile £619 - £657
England median daily rate £535 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -6.96% -8.00% +3.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,363 3,928 4,945
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.66% 83.97% 89.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,168 2,367 3,349
10th Percentile £268 £299 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.97% -1.40% -
75th Percentile £556 £580 £600
90th Percentile £650 £663 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 358 209
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.45 £12.55 £17.00
Median hourly rate £24.56 £22.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.64% -12.00% +24.19%
75th Percentile £46.89 £45.88 £43.48
90th Percentile £73.38 £66.61 £53.68
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £41.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% -8.14% +59.62%

FinOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for FinOps in the North of England

FinOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for FinOps in the North of England

FinOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FinOps in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for FinOps in the North of England

FinOps
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 16 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
Yorkshire - 4 £445 - 18
North West +12 2 £588 +46.88% 21
FinOps
England

FinOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
2 3 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (50.00%) AWS KMS
2 3 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (50.00%) GitHub
2 3 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (50.00%) Serverless
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon Macie
3 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudTrail
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Direct Connect
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
3 2 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (16.67%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) Network Security
1 2 (33.33%) SSL
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 2 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (33.33%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) GitLab
3 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Lead
2 3 (50.00%) Lead DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Lead Cloud Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (33.33%) Auto-Scaling
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Observability
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) RBAC
3 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 2 (33.33%) Secrets Management
3 2 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) GDPR
1 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (50.00%) NIST
1 3 (50.00%) SOC 2
2 2 (33.33%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Prometheus
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 3 (50.00%) Ansible
2 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (33.33%) Grafana
3 2 (33.33%) Kustomize
3 2 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Salesforce
1 2 (33.33%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) Dynatrace