FinOps Contract Job Trends in South Wales

FinOps
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring FinOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing FinOps 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 0.25% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median daily rate £475 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 307 254 299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 75.80% 89.12% 81.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 175 218
10th Percentile £239 £186 £143
25th Percentile £304 £259 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% -5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £513 £550 £575
90th Percentile £650 £650 £650
Wales median daily rate £424 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -0.35% -5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 25 27
10th Percentile £12.21 £16.00 £11.51
25th Percentile £15.96 £20.12 £14.78
Median hourly rate £21.50 £22.50 £22.68
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% -0.79% +20.54%
75th Percentile £46.85 £41.25 £54.50
90th Percentile £76.00 £45.00 £86.72
Wales median hourly rate £19.19 £22.25 £22.50
% change year-on-year -13.75% -1.11% +19.59%

FinOps
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

FinOps job vacancy trend in South Wales

FinOps
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 10 March 2026. 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
Newport - 1 £475 - 4
FinOps
Wales

FinOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Spanner
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (100.00%) Billing
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) GCP Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google