FinOps Contracts

FinOps
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 485 565 658
Rank change year-on-year +80 +93 +162
Contract jobs citing FinOps 35 17 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.039% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.045% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 12 36
10th Percentile £456 £384 £400
25th Percentile £500 £472 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £625
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -10.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £751
90th Percentile £700 £765 £931
UK excluding London median daily rate £588 £400 £550
% change year-on-year +46.88% -27.27% -38.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

FinOps
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing FinOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for FinOps in the UK

FinOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing FinOps.

Daily rate trend for FinOps in the UK

FinOps
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FinOps over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for FinOps in the UK

FinOps
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
England +71 29 £600 +6.67% 56
London +46 22 £557 -3.07% 33
Work from Home +46 12 £625 +13.64% 24
UK excluding London +67 5 £588 +46.88% 32
North of England +21 3 £588 +46.88% 8
North West +19 3 £588 +46.88% 5
East Midlands - 1 £475 - 2
Midlands - 1 £475 - 7
South East - 1 £700 - 15

FinOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (17.14%) Confluence
2 1 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 22 (62.86%) Azure
2 20 (57.14%) AWS
3 14 (40.00%) GCP
4 10 (28.57%) Serverless
5 9 (25.71%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (22.86%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (22.86%) IaaS
6 8 (22.86%) PaaS
6 8 (22.86%) SaaS
7 5 (14.29%) GitHub
8 4 (11.43%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (8.57%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (5.71%) Azure AI
10 2 (5.71%) Azure AKS
10 2 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (5.71%) Entra ID
10 2 (5.71%) Snowflake
11 1 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (2.86%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 8 (22.86%) Firewall
1 8 (22.86%) VPN
2 1 (2.86%) DNS
2 1 (2.86%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 3 (8.57%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (8.57%) NoSQL
3 2 (5.71%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.86%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (2.86%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.86%) Looker
4 1 (2.86%) MySQL
4 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.86%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (17.14%) JIRA
2 3 (8.57%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.86%) GitLab
3 1 (2.86%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (31.43%) Finance
2 8 (22.86%) Marketing
3 5 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Banking
4 3 (8.57%) Billing
4 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.86%) Digital Health
6 1 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Legal
6 1 (2.86%) Military
6 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (28.57%) Architect
2 7 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 5 (14.29%) Technical Manager
3 5 (14.29%) Technical Project Manager
4 4 (11.43%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Lead
4 4 (11.43%) Senior
5 3 (8.57%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Senior DevOps
5 3 (8.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Lead DevOps
6 2 (5.71%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Principal Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Architect
7 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Digital Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) ARM Templates
2 3 (8.57%) Kafka
3 2 (5.71%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Cloud Native
1 4 (11.43%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (8.57%) Enterprise Cloud
2 3 (8.57%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) CMDB
3 1 (2.86%) NHS
3 1 (2.86%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (71.43%) Cost Optimisation
2 19 (54.29%) DevOps
3 12 (34.29%) Analytics
3 12 (34.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (31.43%) Agile
4 11 (31.43%) Migration
5 10 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 10 (28.57%) ETL
6 9 (25.71%) Zero Trust
7 8 (22.86%) RBAC
7 8 (22.86%) Scrum
7 8 (22.86%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (20.00%) Cost Management
8 7 (20.00%) Data Engineering
9 6 (17.14%) Containerisation
9 6 (17.14%) Infrastructure Transformation
9 6 (17.14%) Project Delivery
9 6 (17.14%) Roadmaps
10 4 (11.43%) Budget Management
10 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.71%) Bicep
2 5 (14.29%) Python
3 4 (11.43%) Go
3 4 (11.43%) SQL
4 2 (5.71%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.86%) Bash
5 1 (2.86%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (25.71%) Azure Certification
2 6 (17.14%) SC Cleared
2 6 (17.14%) Security Cleared
3 3 (8.57%) Degree
4 2 (5.71%) AWS Certification
4 2 (5.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (2.86%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (31.43%) Docker
2 2 (5.71%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (45.71%) Kubernetes
1 16 (45.71%) Terraform
2 6 (17.14%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (5.71%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.86%) Argo
4 1 (2.86%) Consul
4 1 (2.86%) Grafana
4 1 (2.86%) Istio
4 1 (2.86%) Kubeflow
4 1 (2.86%) linkerd
Vendors
1 7 (20.00%) Google
2 5 (14.29%) Databricks
2 5 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.71%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.86%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.86%) IBM
4 1 (2.86%) New Relic
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle
4 1 (2.86%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.86%) SAP
4 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow