DataOps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for DataOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DataOps over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 529 637 628
Rank change year-on-year +108 -9 -39
Contract jobs citing DataOps 65 79 229
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.13% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.15% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 54 140
10th Percentile £443 £413 £405
25th Percentile £471 £450 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £669 £625
90th Percentile £685 £775 £676
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £42.46 - -
25th Percentile £44.49 - -
Median hourly rate £48.48 - £90.90
75th Percentile £51.87 - -
90th Percentile £53.54 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,383 53,667 80,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.90% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,097 37,244 56,431
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,426 1,746 1,925
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.13% +80.00% -8.51%

DataOps
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing DataOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DataOps in the UK

DataOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DataOps.

Daily rate trend for DataOps in the UK

DataOps
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DataOps over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DataOps in the UK

DataOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DataOps.

Hourly rate trend for DataOps in the UK

DataOps
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DataOps within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +94 45 £550 - 81
Work from Home +125 28 £500 -4.31% 59
London +96 28 £555 -3.48% 32
UK excluding London +61 28 £500 - 60
West Midlands +41 12 £550 +10.00% 3
Scotland +40 12 £453 -9.85% 9
Midlands +37 12 £550 +10.00% 9
East of England +6 2 - - 1
South East +10 1 £650 +15.56% 11
South West +8 1 £500 +11.11% 4

DataOps
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 12 (18.46%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.08%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.54%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (4.62%) SPSS
2 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.08%) MIS ActiveH
1 2 (3.08%) NEC Housing
1 2 (3.08%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.54%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.54%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 22 (33.85%) AWS
2 21 (32.31%) Azure
3 14 (21.54%) Snowflake
4 13 (20.00%) Power Platform
5 10 (15.38%) dbt
6 8 (12.31%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (12.31%) Serverless
7 7 (10.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (9.23%) Amazon Kinesis
8 6 (9.23%) AWS Step Functions
9 5 (7.69%) Amazon EventBridge
10 3 (4.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (4.62%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (4.62%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (3.08%) Amazon S3
11 2 (3.08%) Cloud Functions
11 2 (3.08%) GCP
11 2 (3.08%) OCI
12 1 (1.54%) Amazon ECS
12 1 (1.54%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.62%) Firewall
2 2 (3.08%) Network Security
3 1 (1.54%) DNS
3 1 (1.54%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (20.00%) Power BI
2 8 (12.31%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (10.77%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (10.77%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (7.69%) Data Mining
5 4 (6.15%) Data Lake
5 4 (6.15%) Relational Database
6 3 (4.62%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (4.62%) BusinessObjects
6 3 (4.62%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 3 (4.62%) SQL Server
6 3 (4.62%) Tableau
7 2 (3.08%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 2 (3.08%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.54%) Ataccama
8 1 (1.54%) Big Data
8 1 (1.54%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.54%) Metadata
8 1 (1.54%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.54%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (12.31%) Git
2 5 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 13 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (16.92%) Finance
3 10 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 5 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.62%) Banking
6 2 (3.08%) Agriculture
6 2 (3.08%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.08%) Legal
6 2 (3.08%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.08%) Marketing
6 2 (3.08%) Retail
7 1 (1.54%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.54%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.54%) Military
7 1 (1.54%) Multimedia
7 1 (1.54%) Police
7 1 (1.54%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 18 (27.69%) Data Engineer
2 13 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 11 (16.92%) Analyst
4 9 (13.85%) Data Analyst
4 9 (13.85%) Platform Engineer
5 8 (12.31%) AWS Data Engineer
5 8 (12.31%) SIEM Engineer
6 6 (9.23%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 6 (9.23%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 6 (9.23%) Senior
7 4 (6.15%) Operations Analyst
8 3 (4.62%) Analytics Manager
8 3 (4.62%) Architect
8 3 (4.62%) Consultant
8 3 (4.62%) Data Migration Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) Insight Manager
8 3 (4.62%) Migration Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) Project Manager
8 3 (4.62%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.85%) PySpark
2 8 (12.31%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (9.23%) Pandas
4 3 (4.62%) ADO
4 3 (4.62%) Flask
4 3 (4.62%) PyTorch
5 2 (3.08%) Dask
5 2 (3.08%) Keras
5 2 (3.08%) LDAP
5 2 (3.08%) Middleware
5 2 (3.08%) NumPy
5 2 (3.08%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (3.08%) SAML
6 1 (1.54%) EDI
6 1 (1.54%) Kafka
6 1 (1.54%) REST
6 1 (1.54%) scikit-learn
6 1 (1.54%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.92%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (12.31%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (4.62%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.08%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.08%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.54%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.54%) Life Science
5 1 (1.54%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 10 (15.38%) Linux
1 10 (15.38%) Windows
2 8 (12.31%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (43.08%) Data Pipeline
2 25 (38.46%) DevOps
3 22 (33.85%) Visualisation
4 21 (32.31%) Analytics
4 21 (32.31%) Business Intelligence
5 19 (29.23%) Data Engineering
6 15 (23.08%) Data Management
6 15 (23.08%) MLOps
7 14 (21.54%) Computer Science
8 12 (18.46%) CI/CD
9 11 (16.92%) Agile
9 11 (16.92%) GitOps
10 10 (15.38%) Data Governance
10 10 (15.38%) Data Modelling
10 10 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
11 9 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (12.31%) Data Science
12 8 (12.31%) Data Visualisation
12 8 (12.31%) Infrastructure Monitoring
12 8 (12.31%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 30 (46.15%) Python
2 17 (26.15%) SQL
3 12 (18.46%) Java
3 12 (18.46%) Scala
4 11 (16.92%) R
5 3 (4.62%) PowerShell
5 3 (4.62%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.54%) Bash
6 1 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 5 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.15%) Degree
2 4 (6.15%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.08%) DV Cleared
3 2 (3.08%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.54%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (1.54%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.23%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.08%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (3.08%) GDPR
2 2 (3.08%) QA
3 1 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 13 (20.00%) Docker
2 8 (12.31%) Active Directory
2 8 (12.31%) iptables
3 1 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (27.69%) Terraform
2 14 (21.54%) Kubernetes
3 8 (12.31%) Kibana
3 8 (12.31%) logstash
4 1 (1.54%) Grafana
Vendors
1 12 (18.46%) Databricks
2 6 (9.23%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.15%) Oracle
4 2 (3.08%) Alteryx
4 2 (3.08%) Dataiku
4 2 (3.08%) Liquidlogic
4 2 (3.08%) NEC
4 2 (3.08%) SAP
5 1 (1.54%) Cisco
5 1 (1.54%) Google
5 1 (1.54%) IBM
5 1 (1.54%) Informatica