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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 504 535 585
Rank change year-on-year +31 +50 +237
Contract jobs citing FinOps 63 32 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.082% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.095% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 18 55
10th Percentile £393 £432 £445
25th Percentile £450 £522 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £590 £648
Median % change year-on-year -15.25% -8.95% +7.55%
75th Percentile £650 £623 £738
90th Percentile £688 £738 £760
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £595 £637
% change year-on-year -17.31% -6.52% +10.70%

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 29,972 33,531 47,751
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.41% 85.45% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,760 21,562 32,735
10th Percentile £300 £310 £320
25th Percentile £404 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £734 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,662 1,890 1,565
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.15 £18.57
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.90% -4.71% +62.40%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.59 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £41.25 £40.00
% change year-on-year -44.24% +3.13% +86.05%

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 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for FinOps in the UK

FinOps
Top 12 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 2 August 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 +60 57 £520 -11.86% 62
London +38 40 £625 +13.64% 33
UK excluding London +2 18 £492 -17.31% 37
Work from Home +14 13 £500 -9.09% 42
North of England +1 10 £390 -2.50% 10
Yorkshire - 8 £375 - 5
South East +24 4 £492 - 12
North West -2 2 £588 +46.88% 4
Scotland - 2 £500 - 5
South West +24 1 £550 -6.78% 2
East Midlands -4 1 £475 -22.45% 1
Midlands -12 1 £475 -28.97% 4

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 7 (11.11%) Confluence
2 1 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 6 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Cloudability
1 2 (3.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 33 (52.38%) AWS
1 33 (52.38%) Azure
2 18 (28.57%) GCP
2 18 (28.57%) Serverless
3 14 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
4 13 (20.63%) GitHub
5 10 (15.87%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (15.87%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (14.29%) IaaS
6 9 (14.29%) PaaS
6 9 (14.29%) SaaS
7 8 (12.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (9.52%) Power Platform
9 5 (7.94%) AWS KMS
9 5 (7.94%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 4 (6.35%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (6.35%) Datadog
10 4 (6.35%) Snowflake
10 4 (6.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (20.63%) Firewall
2 11 (17.46%) VPN
3 3 (4.76%) DNS
3 3 (4.76%) Network Security
4 2 (3.17%) SSL
4 2 (3.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.11%) Data Lake
2 6 (9.52%) NoSQL
2 6 (9.52%) Power BI
3 5 (7.94%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (7.94%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (4.76%) Big Data
5 2 (3.17%) Data Mining
5 2 (3.17%) DynamoDB
5 2 (3.17%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.17%) Power Query
5 2 (3.17%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.17%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.59%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.59%) MySQL
6 1 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (15.87%) JIRA
2 9 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 4 (6.35%) GitLab
4 2 (3.17%) Git
4 2 (3.17%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (33.33%) Finance
2 16 (25.40%) Social Skills
3 9 (14.29%) Marketing
4 7 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (11.11%) Banking
5 4 (6.35%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.76%) Billing
6 3 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.59%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.59%) Legal
8 1 (1.59%) Military
Job Titles
1 23 (36.51%) Architect
2 10 (15.87%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (12.70%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (11.11%) Azure Architect
4 7 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
5 6 (9.52%) Analyst
5 6 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (7.94%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (7.94%) Project Manager
6 5 (7.94%) Technical Manager
6 5 (7.94%) Technical Project Manager
7 4 (6.35%) Data Architect
7 4 (6.35%) Lead
7 4 (6.35%) Senior
8 3 (4.76%) Enterprise Architect
8 3 (4.76%) GCP Architect
8 3 (4.76%) GCP Data Architect
8 3 (4.76%) Lead DevOps
8 3 (4.76%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.94%) ARM Templates
1 5 (7.94%) Kafka
2 3 (4.76%) YAML
3 2 (3.17%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (3.17%) Spring
3 2 (3.17%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.59%) JSON
4 1 (1.59%) React
4 1 (1.59%) REST
4 1 (1.59%) SAP Basis
4 1 (1.59%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.87%) Public Cloud
2 7 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 6 (9.52%) Enterprise Cloud
4 5 (7.94%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (6.35%) Data Centre
6 3 (4.76%) Mainframe
7 2 (3.17%) CMDB
7 2 (3.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (3.17%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.59%) NHS
8 1 (1.59%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.35%) Linux
2 2 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (3.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (55.56%) Cost Optimisation
2 25 (39.68%) DevOps
3 22 (34.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (26.98%) CI/CD
5 16 (25.40%) Agile
6 15 (23.81%) ETL
7 14 (22.22%) Analytics
7 14 (22.22%) Migration
7 14 (22.22%) RBAC
8 13 (20.63%) Containerisation
9 12 (19.05%) Zero Trust
10 11 (17.46%) Cost Management
11 10 (15.87%) Budgeting
11 10 (15.87%) Roadmaps
11 10 (15.87%) Stakeholder Management
12 9 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
12 9 (14.29%) Data Engineering
12 9 (14.29%) Observability
13 8 (12.70%) Scrum
14 7 (11.11%) Infrastructure Transformation
Programming Languages
1 14 (22.22%) Python
2 10 (15.87%) Bicep
3 9 (14.29%) SQL
4 4 (6.35%) Bash
4 4 (6.35%) Shell Script
5 3 (4.76%) Go
5 3 (4.76%) Java
6 2 (3.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (3.17%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (17.46%) Azure Certification
2 10 (15.87%) SC Cleared
2 10 (15.87%) Security Cleared
3 8 (12.70%) AWS Certification
4 5 (7.94%) Degree
5 4 (6.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (4.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.59%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.76%) GDPR
1 3 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (4.76%) NIST
1 3 (4.76%) SOC 2
2 2 (3.17%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (3.17%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.59%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (20.63%) Docker
2 4 (6.35%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (44.44%) Terraform
2 21 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 7 (11.11%) Prometheus
3 7 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (6.35%) Grafana
5 3 (4.76%) Ansible
6 2 (3.17%) Kustomize
6 2 (3.17%) Puppet
7 1 (1.59%) Argo
7 1 (1.59%) Consul
7 1 (1.59%) Istio
7 1 (1.59%) Kubeflow
7 1 (1.59%) linkerd
Vendors
1 14 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.11%) Google
3 3 (4.76%) Dynatrace
3 3 (4.76%) Oracle
3 3 (4.76%) SAP
3 3 (4.76%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.17%) Citrix
4 2 (3.17%) IBM
4 2 (3.17%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.17%) Splunk
5 1 (1.59%) Databricks
5 1 (1.59%) New Relic
5 1 (1.59%) Red Hat