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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 825 916 1120
Rank change year-on-year +91 +204 -206
Permanent jobs citing FinOps 59 59 122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.059% 0.059% 0.075%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.069% 0.062% 0.078%
Number of salaries quoted 50 27 32
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £59,010 £69,375 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £87,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% +9.38% +28.00%
75th Percentile £72,750 £95,000 £95,313
90th Percentile £85,042 £113,500 £107,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,875 £50,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +27.75% -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 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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% +10.53%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +83 56 £67,500 -21.74% 10
London +114 35 £67,500 -25.00% 6
Work from Home +98 24 £67,500 -25.00% 7
UK excluding London -3 24 £63,875 +27.75% 6
North of England +34 14 £60,249 +20.50% 2
North West +7 10 £67,500 -37.21% 1
East Midlands - 5 £67,500 -
Midlands - 5 £67,500 - 1
Yorkshire +80 3 £60,249 +20.50% 1
Scotland - 3 £60,249 - 2
South East +12 1 £42,500 -37.04%
North East -9 1 £41,774 -
South West -23 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 (6.78%) Apache Spark
2 3 (5.08%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 42 (71.19%) AWS
2 28 (47.46%) GCP
3 23 (38.98%) Azure
4 14 (23.73%) AWS CloudFormation
5 13 (22.03%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (20.34%) GitHub
7 7 (11.86%) Serverless
8 6 (10.17%) PaaS
9 5 (8.47%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (8.47%) Power Platform
10 2 (3.39%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (3.39%) AWS KMS
11 1 (1.69%) Apigee
11 1 (1.69%) Azure AKS
11 1 (1.69%) Azure Functions
11 1 (1.69%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.08%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (22.03%) SQL Server
2 7 (11.86%) Metadata
3 6 (10.17%) Delta Lake
3 6 (10.17%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (8.47%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (8.47%) Big Data
4 5 (8.47%) Power BI
5 4 (6.78%) BigQuery
6 2 (3.39%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.69%) Bigtable
7 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.69%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.69%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Git
2 1 (1.69%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.69%) Spinnaker
General
1 9 (15.25%) Finance
1 9 (15.25%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.47%) Banking
3 4 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.08%) Law
4 3 (5.08%) Retail
5 2 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.69%) General Ledger
6 1 (1.69%) Legal
6 1 (1.69%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 24 (40.68%) Architect
2 20 (33.90%) Analyst
3 14 (23.73%) Service Analyst
4 12 (20.34%) Cloud Architect
4 12 (20.34%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 12 (20.34%) Solutions Architect
5 10 (16.95%) Procurement Analyst
6 7 (11.86%) Data Architect
6 7 (11.86%) Senior
6 7 (11.86%) Service Management Analyst
7 6 (10.17%) Senior Architect
7 6 (10.17%) Senior Data Architect
8 5 (8.47%) AWS Architect
9 3 (5.08%) Platform Engineer
10 2 (3.39%) AWS DevOps
10 2 (3.39%) Cloud Engineer
10 2 (3.39%) DevOps Manager
11 1 (1.69%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 1 (1.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 1 (1.69%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.69%) Kafka
1 1 (1.69%) Spring
1 1 (1.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.34%) IoT
1 12 (20.34%) Public Cloud
2 6 (10.17%) Reinsurance
3 5 (8.47%) Clustering
3 5 (8.47%) Data Centre
3 5 (8.47%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (6.78%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.39%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.69%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.64%) Linux
2 5 (8.47%) Windows
3 1 (1.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (42.37%) Cost Optimisation
2 21 (35.59%) Infrastructure as Code
3 20 (33.90%) Agile
4 18 (30.51%) Architectural Patterns
5 17 (28.81%) DevOps
5 17 (28.81%) Migration
5 17 (28.81%) Visualisation
6 13 (22.03%) Analytics
7 10 (16.95%) Data Strategy
8 9 (15.25%) CI/CD
8 9 (15.25%) ETL
9 7 (11.86%) Contract Management
9 7 (11.86%) Data Science
9 7 (11.86%) DevSecOps
9 7 (11.86%) Software Engineering
10 6 (10.17%) Data Analysis
10 6 (10.17%) Data Management
10 6 (10.17%) Data Mapping
10 6 (10.17%) Data Pipeline
10 6 (10.17%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 10 (16.95%) Python
2 9 (15.25%) SQL
3 3 (5.08%) Go
4 1 (1.69%) Java
4 1 (1.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (6.78%) OCP
1 4 (6.78%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (3.39%) AWS Certification
2 2 (3.39%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.69%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.69%) Degree
3 1 (1.69%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.69%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 20 (33.90%) Terraform
2 6 (10.17%) Kubernetes
3 5 (8.47%) Failover Clustering
3 5 (8.47%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (5.08%) Ansible
4 3 (5.08%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (20.34%) Google
2 8 (13.56%) Oracle
3 6 (10.17%) Databricks
3 6 (10.17%) Informatica
4 3 (5.08%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.69%) IBM
5 1 (1.69%) SAP
5 1 (1.69%) VMware