FinOps
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring FinOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited FinOps over the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 702 766 800
Rank change year-on-year +64 +34 +366
Permanent jobs citing FinOps 38 50 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.062% 0.058% 0.063%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.070% 0.071% 0.067%
Number of salaries quoted 30 44 21
10th Percentile £53,675 £56,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,774 £67,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.29% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £86,250 £79,667 £81,138
90th Percentile £130,000 £94,800 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £66,283
% change year-on-year -11.11% +1.84% -10.13%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 54,526 70,234 70,574
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.91% 81.61% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 28,793 43,589 47,264
10th Percentile £26,929 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing FinOps.

Salary trend for FinOps in the UK

FinOps
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing FinOps over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Salary histogram for FinOps in the UK

FinOps
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FinOps within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +36 30 £73,774 +9.29% 51
UK excluding London +82 23 £60,000 -11.11% 40
Midlands +65 17 £60,000 -11.11% 4
West Midlands - 17 £60,000 - 2
Work from Home +54 15 £101,250 +50.00% 48
London +45 10 £107,500 +51.41% 22
Scotland - 3 - - 9
South East +24 2 £120,000 +29.73% 12
North of England -2 1 £57,500 -14.81% 13
North West -18 1 £57,500 -14.81% 8

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 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Chatbot
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 30 (78.95%) Azure
2 12 (31.58%) PaaS
3 11 (28.95%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (23.68%) Serverless
5 8 (21.05%) AWS
5 8 (21.05%) GitHub
6 7 (18.42%) Azure Functions
6 7 (18.42%) Azure Key Vault
6 7 (18.42%) Azure Logic Apps
6 7 (18.42%) IaaS
7 4 (10.53%) GCP
7 4 (10.53%) SaaS
8 3 (7.89%) Entra ID
8 3 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (5.26%) Amazon Bedrock
9 2 (5.26%) Nutanix
9 2 (5.26%) Vertex AI
9 2 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (2.63%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (2.63%) Big Data
1 1 (2.63%) Data Lake
1 1 (2.63%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Artifactory
1 2 (5.26%) GitLab
General
1 11 (28.95%) Finance
2 7 (18.42%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (2.63%) Law
3 1 (2.63%) Marketing
3 1 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (15.79%) Lead
2 5 (13.16%) Architect
2 5 (13.16%) Senior
2 5 (13.16%) Technical Leader
3 4 (10.53%) Azure Infrastructure Lead
3 4 (10.53%) Enterprise Architect
4 3 (7.89%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Consultant
5 2 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Head of Architecture
5 2 (5.26%) Head of Technology
5 2 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (5.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (5.26%) Technical Manager
6 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.53%) Middleware
2 1 (2.63%) FastAPI
2 1 (2.63%) Node.js
2 1 (2.63%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.53%) Augmented Reality
1 4 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.89%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.26%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.63%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.63%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.63%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.63%) VMS
1 1 (2.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (44.74%) Cost Optimisation
1 17 (44.74%) DevOps
2 12 (31.58%) Artificial Intelligence
2 12 (31.58%) Roadmaps
3 10 (26.32%) Cost Management
3 10 (26.32%) Machine Learning
4 9 (23.68%) Cloud Security
5 8 (21.05%) Agile
5 8 (21.05%) Analytics
5 8 (21.05%) Budgeting
5 8 (21.05%) Budgeting and Forecasting
5 8 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (21.05%) Technology Roadmap
6 7 (18.42%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (13.16%) ERP
7 5 (13.16%) Microservices
7 5 (13.16%) Strategic Planning
7 5 (13.16%) Value Proposition
8 4 (10.53%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 4 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.16%) Python
2 4 (10.53%) PowerShell
3 3 (7.89%) Bash
4 1 (2.63%) Bicep
4 1 (2.63%) Go
4 1 (2.63%) Java
4 1 (2.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (28.95%) Azure Certification
2 6 (15.79%) Degree
2 6 (15.79%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.63%) MBA
3 1 (2.63%) PhD
3 1 (2.63%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.63%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (10.53%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.63%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (36.84%) Terraform
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (5.26%) VxRail
3 1 (2.63%) Argo
3 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.63%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (13.16%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.26%) Dell
2 2 (5.26%) Google
2 2 (5.26%) OpenAI
2 2 (5.26%) VMware