FinOps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for FinOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited FinOps over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 833 933 1088
Rank change year-on-year +100 +155 -216
Permanent jobs citing FinOps 61 60 124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.062% 0.057% 0.080%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.072% 0.060% 0.084%
Number of salaries quoted 52 27 35
10th Percentile £45,250 £50,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £58,664 £71,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £87,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% +6.06% +32.00%
75th Percentile £72,188 £95,000 £95,625
90th Percentile £92,250 £113,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,249 £50,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +20.50% -28.57% +12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

FinOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,460 100,219 147,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.03% 95.64% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,759 58,822 83,132
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for FinOps in the UK

FinOps
Top 13 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 26 April 2024. 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 +117 57 £67,500 -22.86% 8
London +146 34 £67,500 -25.00% 4
UK excluding London +3 27 £60,249 +20.50% 5
Work from Home +97 25 £67,500 -25.00% 5
North of England +43 16 £60,249 +20.50% 2
North West +15 11 £67,500 -35.71% 2
East Midlands - 5 £67,500 -
Midlands - 5 £67,500 -
Yorkshire +95 4 £60,249 +20.50%
Scotland -57 4 £60,249 - 1
North East -8 1 £41,774 -
South West -24 1 £50,000 - 1
South East - 1 £42,500 - 1

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 3 (4.92%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (4.92%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 42 (68.85%) AWS
2 29 (47.54%) GCP
3 24 (39.34%) Azure
4 14 (22.95%) AWS CloudFormation
5 13 (21.31%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (19.67%) GitHub
7 7 (11.48%) PaaS
8 6 (9.84%) Power Platform
8 6 (9.84%) Serverless
9 5 (8.20%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (4.92%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (3.28%) AWS KMS
12 1 (1.64%) Azure AKS
12 1 (1.64%) Azure API Management
12 1 (1.64%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 1 (1.64%) Azure Key Vault
12 1 (1.64%) Azure Monitor
12 1 (1.64%) Azure Pipelines
12 1 (1.64%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.92%) Network Security
2 1 (1.64%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (24.59%) SQL Server
2 6 (9.84%) Delta Lake
2 6 (9.84%) Metadata
2 6 (9.84%) Power BI
3 5 (8.20%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (8.20%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (6.56%) Big Data
4 4 (6.56%) Data Lake
5 3 (4.92%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 4 (6.56%) Git
2 1 (1.64%) Gatling
2 1 (1.64%) JUnit
2 1 (1.64%) LoadRunner
2 1 (1.64%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (19.67%) Finance
2 11 (18.03%) Social Skills
3 7 (11.48%) Banking
4 5 (8.20%) Law
5 3 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.92%) General Ledger
5 3 (4.92%) Retail
6 2 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.28%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.64%) Legal
7 1 (1.64%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 23 (37.70%) Architect
2 19 (31.15%) Analyst
3 14 (22.95%) Service Analyst
4 12 (19.67%) Cloud Architect
4 12 (19.67%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 12 (19.67%) Solutions Architect
5 10 (16.39%) Procurement Analyst
6 9 (14.75%) Senior
7 7 (11.48%) Service Management Analyst
8 6 (9.84%) Data Architect
8 6 (9.84%) Senior Architect
8 6 (9.84%) Senior Data Architect
9 5 (8.20%) AWS Architect
10 3 (4.92%) Consultant
10 3 (4.92%) DevOps Manager
10 3 (4.92%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
11 2 (3.28%) AWS DevOps
11 2 (3.28%) Platform Engineer
12 1 (1.64%) Python Software Engineer
12 1 (1.64%) Software Licensing Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.64%) .NET
1 1 (1.64%) ARM Templates
1 1 (1.64%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.67%) IoT
1 12 (19.67%) Public Cloud
2 6 (9.84%) Reinsurance
3 5 (8.20%) Clustering
3 5 (8.20%) Data Centre
3 5 (8.20%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (4.92%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.64%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.64%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.64%) PKI
5 1 (1.64%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.03%) Linux
2 5 (8.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (39.34%) Agile
1 24 (39.34%) Cost Optimisation
2 19 (31.15%) Migration
2 19 (31.15%) Visualisation
3 18 (29.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (27.87%) Architectural Patterns
5 16 (26.23%) DevOps
6 14 (22.95%) Analytics
7 12 (19.67%) Data Strategy
8 10 (16.39%) Data Management
9 9 (14.75%) Data Science
9 9 (14.75%) ETL
10 7 (11.48%) CI/CD
10 7 (11.48%) Contract Management
10 7 (11.48%) Design Patterns
11 6 (9.84%) API Management
11 6 (9.84%) Data Pipeline
11 6 (9.84%) DevSecOps
11 6 (9.84%) Roadmaps
11 6 (9.84%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 11 (18.03%) Python
1 11 (18.03%) SQL
2 4 (6.56%) Go
3 1 (1.64%) Bash
3 1 (1.64%) Bicep
3 1 (1.64%) Groovy
3 1 (1.64%) Java
3 1 (1.64%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.64%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.64%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (9.84%) OCP
1 6 (9.84%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (3.28%) AWS Certification
2 2 (3.28%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.64%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.64%) SLA
Systems Management
1 18 (29.51%) Terraform
2 6 (9.84%) Kubernetes
3 5 (8.20%) Failover Clustering
3 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (4.92%) Ansible
4 3 (4.92%) Puppet
5 1 (1.64%) Istio
Vendors
1 12 (19.67%) Google
2 7 (11.48%) Oracle
3 6 (9.84%) Databricks
3 6 (9.84%) Informatica
4 5 (8.20%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.64%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.64%) IBM
5 1 (1.64%) SAP
5 1 (1.64%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.64%) VMware