FinOps Contract Job Trends in the South West

FinOps
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring FinOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 122 142
Rank change year-on-year -11 +20 +33
Contract jobs citing FinOps 1 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.043% 0.24% 0.067%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.051% 0.27% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - £515 -
25th Percentile - - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £650
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% -9.23% +8.33%
75th Percentile - - £675
90th Percentile - £596 -
England median daily rate £538 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -10.42% +9.09% -4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,942 1,825 2,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.89% 86.74% 87.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,141 1,123 1,736
10th Percentile £263 £281 £300
25th Percentile £413 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £731 £725
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 128 268
10th Percentile £15.25 £18.57 £20.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £47.88 £45.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £75.00 £83.40
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 South West

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

FinOps job vacancy trend in the South West

FinOps
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

FinOps
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 16 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
Somerset - 1 £550 -
FinOps
England

FinOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Network Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BCP
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) MODAF
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) UX Research
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware