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 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 691 846 855
Rank change year-on-year +155 +9 +305
Permanent jobs citing FinOps 20 58 66
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.036% 0.053% 0.071%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.039% 0.064% 0.075%
Number of salaries quoted 12 50 29
10th Percentile £61,525 £45,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £64,636 £62,813 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £67,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.81% -20.59% +6.25%
75th Percentile £81,563 £75,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,875 £93,750 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £67,500 £58,750
% change year-on-year +14.81% +14.89% -16.07%

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 51,882 90,813 88,246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 92.69% 82.65% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 25,914 62,635 53,651
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,750 £33,825
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -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 13 June 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 13 June 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 +134 19 £77,500 +14.81% 76
London +78 11 £70,047 +3.77% 42
UK excluding London +182 8 £77,500 +14.81% 41
Midlands +78 5 £77,500 +14.81% 4
West Midlands - 5 £77,500 - 3
Work from Home +129 3 £80,000 +18.52% 54
North of England +68 2 £60,750 -10.00% 18
South East +92 1 £120,000 +77.78% 13
Yorkshire +64 1 £64,000 -8.57% 1
North West +19 1 £57,500 -14.81% 16

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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (50.00%) Azure
2 7 (35.00%) PaaS
3 6 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (30.00%) Serverless
4 5 (25.00%) Azure Functions
4 5 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 5 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 5 (25.00%) GitHub
4 5 (25.00%) IaaS
5 3 (15.00%) AWS
6 2 (10.00%) GCP
6 2 (10.00%) Nutanix
7 1 (5.00%) Power Automate
7 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Git
General
1 10 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) IT Manager
1 8 (40.00%) Portfolio Manager
2 5 (25.00%) Lead
3 4 (20.00%) Azure Infrastructure Lead
4 3 (15.00%) Technical Leader
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Head of Architecture
5 2 (10.00%) Head of Technology
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (10.00%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (10.00%) Technical Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Strategy Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (10.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Augmented Reality
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) Cost Management
2 10 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
3 9 (45.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 9 (45.00%) Decision-Making
3 9 (45.00%) Resource Allocation
3 9 (45.00%) Risk Management
3 9 (45.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (40.00%) Actionable Insight
4 8 (40.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
4 8 (40.00%) Business Strategy
4 8 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (40.00%) Cost Control
4 8 (40.00%) Demand Management
4 8 (40.00%) Performance Measurement
4 8 (40.00%) Portfolio Management
4 8 (40.00%) Project Management
4 8 (40.00%) Strategic Management
5 7 (35.00%) DevOps
6 5 (25.00%) Cloud Security
6 5 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) Bicep
1 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) Terraform
2 2 (10.00%) VxRail
3 1 (5.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Dell
2 2 (10.00%) VMware