FinOps Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

FinOps
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 292 338 457
Rank change year-on-year +46 +119 +155
Contract jobs citing FinOps 12 7 20
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.046% 0.077%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.052% 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 15
10th Percentile £450 £410 £400
25th Percentile £500 £463 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -12.00% -14.53%
75th Percentile £694 £575 £900
90th Percentile £703 £635 £950
UK median daily rate £600 £563 £625
% change year-on-year +6.67% -10.00% -13.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

FinOps
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing FinOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

FinOps trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

FinOps
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing FinOps.

FinOps daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

FinOps
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

FinOps daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

FinOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 9 (75.00%) Azure
2 6 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (16.67%) Azure AI
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (16.67%) GCP
3 2 (16.67%) Serverless
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (8.33%) Datadog
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
4 1 (8.33%) Pulumi
4 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) DNS
1 1 (8.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) MySQL
1 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Billing
3 2 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Digital Health
4 1 (8.33%) Legal
4 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Architect
3 3 (25.00%) Lead
3 3 (25.00%) Senior
3 3 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Data Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Data Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (8.33%) IT Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (8.33%) NHS
1 1 (8.33%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Cost Optimisation
1 8 (66.67%) DevOps
2 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 3 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (25.00%) Identity Management
3 3 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 3 (25.00%) Matrix Organization
3 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (16.67%) Agile
4 2 (16.67%) Change Management
4 2 (16.67%) Data Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) Data Science
4 2 (16.67%) ETL
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (16.67%) ITIL
4 2 (16.67%) SDLC
4 2 (16.67%) Software Deployment
4 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Go
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Bash
3 1 (8.33%) Bicep
3 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (8.33%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
1 5 (41.67%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (8.33%) Argo
3 1 (8.33%) Consul
3 1 (8.33%) Grafana
3 1 (8.33%) Istio
3 1 (8.33%) linkerd
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (8.33%) Dynatrace
2 1 (8.33%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) New Relic
2 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (8.33%) SAP