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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 849 880 1156
Rank change year-on-year +31 +276 -228
Permanent jobs citing FinOps 56 66 108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.053% 0.070% 0.064%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.064% 0.073% 0.067%
Number of salaries quoted 48 31 32
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £85,000 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year -20.59% +7.94% +26.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £95,000 £89,688
90th Percentile £85,420 £115,000 £107,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £58,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year +14.89% -16.07% +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 87,980 90,493 162,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.59% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,356 54,578 82,967
10th Percentile £29,284 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £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 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for FinOps in the UK

FinOps
Top 12 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 2 June 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 +59 56 £67,500 -20.59% 26
London +113 37 £67,500 -23.94% 13
Work from Home +55 20 £67,500 -22.86% 15
UK excluding London -41 19 £67,500 +14.89% 11
North of England +29 12 £67,500 +35.00% 3
North West -4 10 £67,500 -37.21% 1
Midlands -8 5 £67,500 -12.90% 5
East Midlands - 5 £67,500 - 3
Yorkshire +57 1 £85,000 +70.00% 2
South East -13 1 £42,500 -37.04% 2
North East -19 1 £41,774 -
South West -29 1 £50,000 - 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 4 (7.14%) Apache Spark
2 3 (5.36%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 42 (75.00%) AWS
2 26 (46.43%) GCP
3 24 (42.86%) Azure
4 14 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 14 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (21.43%) GitHub
6 7 (12.50%) Serverless
7 6 (10.71%) PaaS
8 5 (8.93%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (8.93%) Power Platform
9 2 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (3.57%) Apigee
9 2 (3.57%) AWS KMS
10 1 (1.79%) Azure AKS
10 1 (1.79%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 1 (1.79%) Azure Functions
10 1 (1.79%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.79%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.36%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (23.21%) SQL Server
2 7 (12.50%) Metadata
3 6 (10.71%) Delta Lake
3 6 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (8.93%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (8.93%) BigQuery
4 5 (8.93%) Power BI
5 4 (7.14%) Big Data
6 2 (3.57%) Bigtable
7 1 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.79%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.79%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (8.93%) Git
2 2 (3.57%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (3.57%) Spinnaker
General
1 4 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (7.14%) Finance
1 4 (7.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (5.36%) Retail
3 2 (3.57%) Law
3 2 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (1.79%) Banking
4 1 (1.79%) General Ledger
4 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.79%) Legal
4 1 (1.79%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 24 (42.86%) Architect
2 20 (35.71%) Analyst
3 14 (25.00%) Service Analyst
4 12 (21.43%) Cloud Architect
4 12 (21.43%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 12 (21.43%) Solutions Architect
5 10 (17.86%) Procurement Analyst
6 7 (12.50%) Data Architect
6 7 (12.50%) Senior
6 7 (12.50%) Service Management Analyst
7 6 (10.71%) Senior Architect
7 6 (10.71%) Senior Data Architect
8 5 (8.93%) AWS Architect
9 3 (5.36%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (5.36%) Platform Engineer
10 2 (3.57%) AWS DevOps
10 2 (3.57%) DevOps Manager
11 1 (1.79%) Azure Engineer
11 1 (1.79%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 1 (1.79%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.57%) Kafka
1 2 (3.57%) Spring
1 2 (3.57%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.43%) IoT
1 12 (21.43%) Public Cloud
2 6 (10.71%) Reinsurance
3 5 (8.93%) Clustering
3 5 (8.93%) Data Centre
3 5 (8.93%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (5.36%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.79%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 11 (19.64%) Linux
2 5 (8.93%) Windows
3 1 (1.79%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (42.86%) Cost Optimisation
2 22 (39.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 19 (33.93%) DevOps
4 18 (32.14%) Architectural Patterns
5 15 (26.79%) Agile
6 13 (23.21%) Migration
7 12 (21.43%) Visualisation
8 9 (16.07%) Analytics
8 9 (16.07%) CI/CD
8 9 (16.07%) ETL
9 8 (14.29%) DevSecOps
10 7 (12.50%) Contract Management
10 7 (12.50%) Software Engineering
11 6 (10.71%) Data Integration
11 6 (10.71%) Data Mapping
11 6 (10.71%) Data Modelling
11 6 (10.71%) Data Pipeline
11 6 (10.71%) Data Strategy
11 6 (10.71%) Data Visualisation
11 6 (10.71%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 9 (16.07%) Python
2 8 (14.29%) SQL
3 3 (5.36%) Go
4 2 (3.57%) Java
5 1 (1.79%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (3.57%) AWS Certification
1 2 (3.57%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (1.79%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.79%) Degree
2 1 (1.79%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.79%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.79%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 22 (39.29%) Terraform
2 7 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 5 (8.93%) Failover Clustering
3 5 (8.93%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (5.36%) Ansible
4 3 (5.36%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (21.43%) Google
2 8 (14.29%) Oracle
3 6 (10.71%) Databricks
3 6 (10.71%) Informatica
4 3 (5.36%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.79%) IBM
5 1 (1.79%) SAP
5 1 (1.79%) VMware