FinOps Contract Job Trends in the South East

FinOps
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring FinOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 179 163 197
Rank change year-on-year -16 +34 +43
Contract jobs citing FinOps 6 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.14% 0.14% 0.081%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.16% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile - - £623
25th Percentile £425 - £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - £675
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.45%
75th Percentile £600 - £694
90th Percentile - - £698
England median daily rate £538 £600 £540
% change year-on-year -10.42% +11.11% -8.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,723 3,180 4,398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.46% 88.48% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,447 1,981 2,819
10th Percentile £225 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £518
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% -1.45% +1.57%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £615
90th Percentile £684 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 349 119 237
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.84 £19.13
25th Percentile £17.00 £26.13 £27.50
Median hourly rate £22.50 £47.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.38% -14.10% +37.50%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.00 £66.44
90th Percentile £75.50 £74.89 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +25.00%

FinOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

FinOps job vacancy trend in the South East

FinOps
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing FinOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing FinOps

FinOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FinOps in the South East over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for FinOps in the South East

FinOps
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FinOps within the South East region over the 6 months to 31 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
Thames Valley -14 6 £513 - 34
Berkshire - 6 £513 - 20
FinOps
England

FinOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (66.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
1 4 (66.67%) AWS CloudTrail
1 4 (66.67%) AWS Control Tower
1 4 (66.67%) AWS KMS
1 4 (66.67%) Entra ID
1 4 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Delta Lake
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
1 4 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Architect
1 4 (66.67%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Lead Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Lead Cloud Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) DataOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Product Owner
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Roadmaps
2 4 (66.67%) ITIL
2 4 (66.67%) Migration
2 4 (66.67%) Network Segmentation
2 4 (66.67%) RBAC
2 4 (66.67%) Runbook
2 4 (66.67%) Threat Detection
2 4 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Requirements Workshops
3 2 (33.33%) Validation
3 2 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (16.67%) DataOps
4 1 (16.67%) Product Vision
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bash
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) AWS Certification
1 4 (66.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (66.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Citrix
1 4 (66.67%) CloudEndure
2 2 (33.33%) Databricks