FinOps Job Trends in the South West

FinOps
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring FinOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 166 208 205
Rank change year-on-year +42 -3 -
Permanent jobs citing FinOps 1 4 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.028% 0.061% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.034% 0.079% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 10
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £47,500 £56,250 £42,439
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,750 £54,326
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% +8.14% -
75th Percentile £52,500 £70,313 £66,778
90th Percentile - £84,375 -
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £65,066
% change year-on-year -6.67% +15.27% -21.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,936 5,046 4,348
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 81.87% 76.34% 94.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,848 2,853 3,327
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year -8.33% -1.32% +1.33%

FinOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

FinOps job vacancy trend in the South West

FinOps
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing FinOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing FinOps

FinOps
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FinOps within the South West region over the 6 months to 15 October 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
Bristol +36 1 £50,000 -13.04% 1
FinOps
England

FinOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform