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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 389 419
Rank change year-on-year +58 +30 +83
Contract jobs citing FinOps 9 2 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.070% 0.010% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.077% 0.012% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 22
10th Percentile £478 £383 £400
25th Percentile £500 £395 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £431 £560
Median % change year-on-year +27.54% -22.99% -23.71%
75th Percentile £638 £458 £738
90th Percentile £675 £464 £760
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £625
% change year-on-year - -12.00% -10.71%

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 11,721 17,088 20,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.59% 84.28% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,292 10,221 14,248
10th Percentile £234 £250 £258
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £651 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 856 2,065 1,263
10th Percentile £14.08 £12.35 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.49 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.69
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

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 20 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 20 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 +19 5 £588 +46.88% 14
North West +17 3 £588 +46.88% 9
Yorkshire - 2 - - 4
Scotland - 2 £500 - 6
East Midlands - 1 £475 - 3
Midlands - 1 £475 - 9
South East - 1 £700 - 22
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 5 (55.56%) GitHub
1 5 (55.56%) GitHub Actions
2 4 (44.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) AWS KMS
3 3 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
4 2 (22.22%) AWS CodeBuild
4 2 (22.22%) AWS CodeCommit
4 2 (22.22%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon Macie
5 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (11.11%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (11.11%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) Network Security
1 1 (11.11%) SSL
1 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
1 1 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) GitLab
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Billing
3 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Military
3 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Architect
1 3 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Lead
2 2 (22.22%) Lead DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Architect
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Solution Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Digital Delivery Manager
3 1 (11.11%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (11.11%) REST
1 1 (11.11%) SOAP
1 1 (11.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
1 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
1 5 (55.56%) Cost Optimisation
1 5 (55.56%) DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (44.44%) Secrets Management
3 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 3 (33.33%) SIEM
4 2 (22.22%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 2 (22.22%) DevSecOps
4 2 (22.22%) Patch Management
4 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Strategic Roadmap
5 1 (11.11%) Cost Management
5 1 (11.11%) Incident Response
5 1 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (11.11%) Observability
5 1 (11.11%) RBAC
5 1 (11.11%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) Shell Script
3 1 (11.11%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) GDPR
1 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (22.22%) NIST
1 2 (22.22%) SOC 2
2 1 (11.11%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Terraform
2 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (22.22%) Ansible
3 2 (22.22%) Prometheus
4 1 (11.11%) Grafana
4 1 (11.11%) Kustomize
4 1 (11.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle
1 2 (22.22%) Salesforce
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Splunk