FinOps Contract Job Trends in the North West

FinOps
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring FinOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing FinOps 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.080% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.091% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £430 - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 - -
75th Percentile £663 - -
90th Percentile £715 - -
England median daily rate £538 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -10.42% +9.09% -4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,203 1,863 2,328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.44% 86.37% 89.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,438 1,054 1,583
10th Percentile £213 £266 £290
25th Percentile £358 £390 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £574 £575 £600
90th Percentile £652 £651 £687
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 108 154
10th Percentile £16.73 £16.00 £15.75
25th Percentile £20.91 £21.20 £17.81
Median hourly rate £32.00 £32.01 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.03% -9.83% +37.54%
75th Percentile £51.76 £51.91 £46.18
90th Percentile £69.78 £68.65 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

FinOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

FinOps job vacancy trend in the North West

FinOps
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing FinOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing FinOps

FinOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FinOps in the North West over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for FinOps in the North West

FinOps
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
Manchester - 2 £563 - 2
FinOps
England

FinOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Kong
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
1 1 (50.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) BigQuery Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (50.00%) GCP Architect
1 1 (50.00%) GCP Data Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Cloud Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
1 1 (50.00%) Cost Control
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (50.00%) Google