FinOps Job Trends in England

FinOps
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring FinOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 656 617
Rank change year-on-year +140 -39 +345
Permanent jobs citing FinOps 96 24 43
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.18% 0.048% 0.095%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.053% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 63 17 35
10th Percentile £53,900 £49,500 -
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £42,439
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £75,000 £65,066
Median % change year-on-year -6.56% +15.27% -34.93%
75th Percentile £81,500 £97,500 £83,069
90th Percentile £97,500 £106,400 £94,500
UK median annual salary £70,079 £72,500 £65,066
% change year-on-year -3.34% +11.43% -27.71%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

FinOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42,784 44,895 41,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.28% 90.18% 91.26%
Number of salaries quoted 25,500 22,481 31,965
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

FinOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing FinOps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

FinOps job vacancy trend in England

FinOps
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing FinOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing FinOps

FinOps
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing FinOps in England over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for FinOps in England

FinOps
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FinOps within the England region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands +64 38 £60,000 +9.09% 5
West Midlands +66 37 £60,000 +9.09% 5
London +76 31 £81,500 -9.70% 24
North of England +25 17 £70,079 +64.89% 11
North West +37 13 £70,039 +64.80% 7
South East - 7 £70,000 - 8
North East - 4 £75,000 - 1
South West +14 1 £50,000 -13.04%
East of England - 1 £75,000 -
East Midlands - 1 £70,000 -
FinOps
UK

FinOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.04%) Confluence
Applications
1 19 (19.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 19 (19.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 82 (85.42%) Azure
2 44 (45.83%) AWS
3 14 (14.58%) PaaS
3 14 (14.58%) SaaS
4 12 (12.50%) GCP
5 9 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (9.38%) GitHub
5 9 (9.38%) Power Platform
6 7 (7.29%) IaaS
7 6 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (5.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (5.21%) Datadog
8 5 (5.21%) dbt
8 5 (5.21%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (5.21%) Serverless
9 3 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (3.13%) Amazon S3
9 3 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (2.08%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.08%) VPN
2 1 (1.04%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.38%) Power BI
2 4 (4.17%) Big Data
3 3 (3.13%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (3.13%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.04%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (4.17%) Cucumber
1 4 (4.17%) JMeter
1 4 (4.17%) Locust
2 3 (3.13%) Artifactory
2 3 (3.13%) GitLab
2 3 (3.13%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.04%) Git
3 1 (1.04%) JIRA
General
1 29 (30.21%) Social Skills
2 22 (22.92%) Finance
3 18 (18.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (6.25%) Marketing
5 5 (5.21%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.17%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.13%) Electronics
7 3 (3.13%) Law
7 3 (3.13%) Legal
7 3 (3.13%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.08%) Retail
9 1 (1.04%) Billing
9 1 (1.04%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.04%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 17 (17.71%) Analyst
2 14 (14.58%) Lead
3 13 (13.54%) Senior
4 6 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (5.21%) Consultant
5 5 (5.21%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (5.21%) Senior DevOps
6 4 (4.17%) Architect
6 4 (4.17%) Big Data Engineer
6 4 (4.17%) DataOps Engineer
6 4 (4.17%) DataOps Leader
6 4 (4.17%) Enterprise Architect
6 4 (4.17%) Lead Big Data Engineer
6 4 (4.17%) Test Leader
7 3 (3.13%) AWS Consultant
7 3 (3.13%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 3 (3.13%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (3.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 3 (3.13%) Services Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.17%) ARM Templates
1 4 (4.17%) Gherkin
1 4 (4.17%) Middleware
2 1 (1.04%) .NET
2 1 (1.04%) .NET Core
2 1 (1.04%) Blazor
2 1 (1.04%) React
Miscellaneous
1 18 (18.75%) Onboarding
2 17 (17.71%) Public Cloud
3 7 (7.29%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.17%) Augmented Reality
5 3 (3.13%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.08%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.08%) Social Media
7 1 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Licensing
7 1 (1.04%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.04%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.04%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.13%) Linux
1 3 (3.13%) SUSE
2 1 (1.04%) Windows
2 1 (1.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (70.83%) Cost Optimisation
2 26 (27.08%) Budgeting
2 26 (27.08%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 26 (27.08%) Cybersecurity
3 24 (25.00%) AI
3 24 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (22.92%) CI/CD
5 21 (21.88%) DevOps
6 18 (18.75%) Client Onboarding
6 18 (18.75%) Software Licensing
7 15 (15.63%) Roadmaps
8 12 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (12.50%) Cost Management
9 11 (11.46%) Containerisation
9 11 (11.46%) Observability
9 11 (11.46%) Platform Engineering
10 10 (10.42%) Project Delivery
10 10 (10.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 9 (9.38%) Business Intelligence
11 9 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (8.33%) Python
2 6 (6.25%) Bicep
3 4 (4.17%) Java
3 4 (4.17%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.08%) SQL
5 1 (1.04%) Bash
5 1 (1.04%) C#
5 1 (1.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (21.88%) AWS Certification
2 10 (10.42%) Azure Certification
3 7 (7.29%) Degree
4 5 (5.21%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.21%) Security Cleared
5 4 (4.17%) Master's Degree
6 3 (3.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 3 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.08%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.21%) SLA
2 4 (4.17%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.17%) QA
2 4 (4.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 4 (4.17%) WCAG
3 2 (2.08%) GDPR
3 2 (2.08%) GRC
3 2 (2.08%) NIST
3 2 (2.08%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.04%) Data Quality
System Software
1 14 (14.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (25.00%) Terraform
2 15 (15.63%) Kubernetes
3 7 (7.29%) Grafana
4 6 (6.25%) Ansible
5 3 (3.13%) Argo
5 3 (3.13%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.13%) Rancher
Vendors
1 24 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 17 (17.71%) Adobe
2 17 (17.71%) Apple
3 5 (5.21%) SAP
4 4 (4.17%) Databricks
4 4 (4.17%) Google
5 3 (3.13%) Ariba
5 3 (3.13%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.13%) VMware
6 2 (2.08%) Workday
7 1 (1.04%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (1.04%) Oracle
7 1 (1.04%) SolarWinds