DataOps Contracts with Work from Home Options

DataOps
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 324 442 491
Rank change year-on-year +118 +49 -54
Contract jobs citing DataOps 26 26 130
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.17% 0.10% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.12% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 21 89
10th Percentile - £444 £400
25th Percentile £453 £500 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -11.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £638
90th Percentile £615 £675 £678
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.26% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £54.66 - -
UK median hourly rate £54.66 £15.21 £90.90
% change year-on-year +259.37% -83.27% +599.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,243 22,460 40,020
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.02% 89.72% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,878 15,870 29,041
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 571 519 537
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.63 £13.90
25th Percentile £25.50 £29.31 £20.40
Median hourly rate £43.00 £53.35 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +52.43% +42.86%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £70.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

DataOps
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing DataOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DataOps trend for jobs with a WFH option

DataOps
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing DataOps.

DataOps daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

DataOps
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing DataOps over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

DataOps daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

DataOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (23.08%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.85%) Apache
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (11.54%) SPSS
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) MIS ActiveH
1 2 (7.69%) NEC Housing
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 10 (38.46%) AWS
2 7 (26.92%) Azure
3 6 (23.08%) dbt
4 5 (19.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (19.23%) Amazon EventBridge
4 5 (19.23%) Amazon Kinesis
4 5 (19.23%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (19.23%) AWS Step Functions
4 5 (19.23%) Serverless
4 5 (19.23%) Snowflake
5 4 (15.38%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.85%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (3.85%) GCP
6 1 (3.85%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) Firewall
1 1 (3.85%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (15.38%) Data Mining
2 4 (15.38%) Power BI
3 3 (11.54%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (11.54%) Relational Database
3 3 (11.54%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.85%) BigQuery
4 1 (3.85%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (3.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Git
2 5 (19.23%) JIRA
General
1 5 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Finance
3 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Agriculture
4 2 (7.69%) Banking
4 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.85%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (46.15%) Data Engineer
2 10 (38.46%) AWS Engineer
3 7 (26.92%) AWS Data Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Analyst
4 4 (15.38%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Data Analyst
4 4 (15.38%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Analytics Manager
5 3 (11.54%) Data Migration Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Insight Manager
5 3 (11.54%) Migration Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) Power BI Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) Python Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Development Manager
7 1 (3.85%) Software Development Manager
7 1 (3.85%) Software Development Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (23.08%) PySpark
2 1 (3.85%) ADO
2 1 (3.85%) Flask
2 1 (3.85%) Kafka
2 1 (3.85%) LDAP
2 1 (3.85%) Middleware
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (3.85%) Pandas
2 1 (3.85%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.85%) Life Science
2 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.85%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) Analytics
1 14 (53.85%) DevOps
2 13 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 11 (42.31%) Data Management
4 10 (38.46%) Data Pipeline
5 8 (30.77%) Data Engineering
6 7 (26.92%) Agile
6 7 (26.92%) Visualisation
7 6 (23.08%) CI/CD
7 6 (23.08%) Computer Science
8 5 (19.23%) GitOps
8 5 (19.23%) Mentoring
8 5 (19.23%) MLOps
8 5 (19.23%) OO
8 5 (19.23%) Performance Analysis
8 5 (19.23%) Regression Testing
8 5 (19.23%) Sprint Planning
8 5 (19.23%) Test Automation
8 5 (19.23%) Unit Testing
8 5 (19.23%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) Python
2 5 (19.23%) Java
2 5 (19.23%) Scala
2 5 (19.23%) SQL
3 3 (11.54%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (3.85%) Degree
1 1 (3.85%) Master's Degree
1 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.85%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 5 (19.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (42.31%) Terraform
2 5 (19.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Databricks
2 2 (7.69%) Liquidlogic
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.69%) NEC
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle