FinOps Contracts in the UK excluding London

FinOps
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring FinOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited FinOps over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 334 398 426
Rank change year-on-year +64 +28 +79
Contract jobs citing FinOps 5 1 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.005% 0.088%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.043% 0.006% 0.098%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 16
10th Percentile £481 - £338
25th Percentile £509 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +46.88% -27.27% -38.89%
75th Percentile £653 £425 £697
90th Percentile £681 - £738
UK median daily rate £600 £563 £625
% change year-on-year +6.67% -10.00% -13.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,562 17,588 21,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.75% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,253 10,507 14,891
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 821 2,055 1,305
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.32 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £15.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.52 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

FinOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing FinOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for FinOps in the UK excluding London

FinOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing FinOps in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for FinOps in the UK excluding London

FinOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FinOps in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for FinOps in the UK excluding London

FinOps
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FinOps within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
North of England +25 3 £588 +46.88% 8
North West +16 3 £588 +46.88% 5
East Midlands - 1 £475 - 2
Midlands - 1 £475 - 7
South East - 1 £700 - 15
FinOps
UK

FinOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Billing
2 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Military
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Delivery Manager
2 1 (20.00%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (20.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Cost Management
3 1 (20.00%) Fintech
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Operations Management
3 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (20.00%) Google