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 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 677 843 913
Rank change year-on-year +166 +70 +194
Permanent jobs citing FinOps 23 59 60
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.042% 0.060% 0.059%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.045% 0.070% 0.062%
Number of salaries quoted 12 50 27
10th Percentile £53,875 £45,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £59,688 £58,664 £69,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,047 £67,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -22.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £85,938 £71,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,150 £78,475 £113,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,000 £60,249 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.23% +20.50% -28.57%

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 51,147 84,812 96,895
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.75% 85.58% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 26,984 59,843 56,946
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £98,474 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -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 10 May 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 10 May 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 +113 20 £73,774 +9.29% 75
London +89 15 £90,000 +33.33% 44
UK excluding London +158 6 £64,000 +6.23% 41
Work from Home +127 5 £76,250 +12.96% 36
Midlands +67 3 £77,500 +14.81% 5
West Midlands - 3 £77,500 - 3
North of England +46 2 £60,750 +0.83% 13
Scotland +129 1 - - 1
Yorkshire +58 1 £64,000 +6.23% 6
North West +4 1 £57,500 -14.81% 6

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:

Business Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 11 (47.83%) Azure
2 10 (43.48%) AWS
3 6 (26.09%) GCP
4 4 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (17.39%) Serverless
5 3 (13.04%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (13.04%) PaaS
6 2 (8.70%) Azure Functions
6 2 (8.70%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (8.70%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (8.70%) GitHub
6 2 (8.70%) IaaS
6 2 (8.70%) Nutanix
6 2 (8.70%) Power Platform
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (4.35%) Azure AKS
7 1 (4.35%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) Amazon QuickSight
1 2 (8.70%) Power BI
1 2 (8.70%) Tableau
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.35%) Big Data
2 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) GitLab
2 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (60.87%) Finance
2 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Billing
3 2 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.35%) Advertising
4 1 (4.35%) Banking
4 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) IT Manager
1 8 (34.78%) Portfolio Manager
2 3 (13.04%) Analyst
2 3 (13.04%) Head of Architecture
2 3 (13.04%) Lead
3 2 (8.70%) Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Azure Infrastructure Lead
3 2 (8.70%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Head of Technology
3 2 (8.70%) Technical Leader
4 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Consultant
4 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) ARM Templates
1 1 (4.35%) Node.js
1 1 (4.35%) Spring
1 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Public Cloud
2 4 (17.39%) Data Centre
3 3 (13.04%) Cloud Native
4 2 (8.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (8.70%) Private Cloud
5 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
5 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) Cost Management
2 11 (47.83%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (43.48%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 10 (43.48%) Technology Strategy
4 9 (39.13%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (39.13%) Resource Allocation
5 8 (34.78%) Actionable Insight
5 8 (34.78%) Business Strategy
5 8 (34.78%) Cost Control
5 8 (34.78%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 8 (34.78%) Decision-Making
5 8 (34.78%) Demand Management
5 8 (34.78%) Performance Measurement
5 8 (34.78%) Portfolio Management
5 8 (34.78%) Project Management
5 8 (34.78%) Risk Management
5 8 (34.78%) Strategic Management
6 7 (30.43%) DevOps
6 7 (30.43%) Roadmaps
7 6 (26.09%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (17.39%) Python
2 2 (8.70%) Java
2 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
2 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.35%) Bash
3 1 (4.35%) Bicep
3 1 (4.35%) C#
3 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.35%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.35%) PhD
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
1 2 (8.70%) Virtual Desktop
1 2 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Terraform
2 2 (8.70%) VxRail
3 1 (4.35%) Ansible
3 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) Dell
2 2 (8.70%) Google
2 2 (8.70%) VMware