FinOps Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

FinOps
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring FinOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 119 143
Rank change year-on-year -3 +24 +29
Contract jobs citing FinOps 6 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.30% 0.24% 0.078%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.27% 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - £621
25th Percentile £425 - £634
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - £663
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.72%
75th Percentile £600 - £684
90th Percentile - - £694
South East median daily rate £513 - £675
% change year-on-year - - +17.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,788 1,859 2,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 88.38% 88.27% 91.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,153 1,089 1,510
10th Percentile £263 £296 £214
25th Percentile £400 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £615
90th Percentile £650 £688 £695
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 58 105
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.14 £17.68
25th Percentile £17.15 £32.90 £25.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.12 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.97% +14.25% +138.10%
75th Percentile £55.00 £63.31 £64.50
90th Percentile £87.41 £71.24 £74.08
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -60.00% +4.76% +23.01%

FinOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

FinOps job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

FinOps
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing FinOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing FinOps

FinOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FinOps in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 10 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for FinOps in the Thames Valley

FinOps
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FinOps within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 10 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
Berkshire - 6 £513 - 2
FinOps
South East

FinOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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%) Backlog Refinement
4 1 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (16.67%) DataOps
4 1 (16.67%) Log Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Observability
4 1 (16.67%) Product Vision
4 1 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
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