DataOps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for DataOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited DataOps over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 562 712 655
Rank change year-on-year +150 -57 +49
Permanent jobs citing DataOps 360 287 653
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.27% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.29% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 149 97 233
10th Percentile £30,000 £49,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +14.81% -11.48%
75th Percentile £90,000 £96,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £99,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £80,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -25.00% +18.52% -10.00%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,460 100,219 147,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.03% 95.64% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,759 58,822 83,132
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £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%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DataOps.

Salary trend for DataOps in the UK

DataOps
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DataOps over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for DataOps in the UK

DataOps
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DataOps within the UK over the 6 months to 26 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +200 330 £70,000 -12.50% 82
UK excluding London +77 264 £60,000 -25.00% 60
North of England +100 127 £60,000 -7.69% 20
Work from Home +82 89 £70,000 - 61
London +131 88 £83,750 -1.18% 34
North West +59 83 £65,000 +18.18% 9
South East +62 51 £26,500 -64.67% 11
Yorkshire +91 33 £32,500 -55.17% 9
Midlands +20 27 £54,750 -31.56% 9
South West -13 23 £68,937 -17.69% 4
West Midlands +33 15 £65,400 -18.25% 3
East of England +30 13 - - 1
Scotland -83 13 £80,000 +128.57% 9
East Midlands -10 12 £44,100 - 6
North East - 11 £75,000 - 2
Wales +11 10 £60,000 -14.29% 5

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 (3.33%) WordPress
2 7 (1.94%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.39%) Confluence
4 3 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.83%) CMS
Applications
1 17 (4.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.83%) Photoshop
3 3 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.28%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.56%) MIS ActiveH
1 2 (0.56%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.28%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.28%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.28%) SAP HCM
2 1 (0.28%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 173 (48.06%) GCP
2 71 (19.72%) Azure
3 40 (11.11%) AWS
4 25 (6.94%) Power Platform
5 22 (6.11%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (5.56%) Snowflake
7 16 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (4.17%) dbt
9 11 (3.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 11 (3.06%) Microsoft Purview
10 10 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (2.78%) Fivetran
11 8 (2.22%) Serverless
12 6 (1.67%) GitHub
12 6 (1.67%) IaaS
12 6 (1.67%) PaaS
12 6 (1.67%) SaaS
13 5 (1.39%) Amazon SageMaker
13 5 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
14 4 (1.11%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.78%) Structured Cabling
2 5 (1.39%) DAB
3 4 (1.11%) Firewall
4 2 (0.56%) VPN
5 1 (0.28%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (46.94%) BigQuery
2 161 (44.72%) Looker
3 71 (19.72%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (7.22%) Metadata
5 25 (6.94%) Power BI
6 18 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (4.44%) MySQL
8 14 (3.89%) SQL Server
9 11 (3.06%) DynamoDB
10 10 (2.78%) Tableau
11 9 (2.50%) Big Data
12 8 (2.22%) Data Mining
13 7 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (1.67%) Data Lake
15 5 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
15 5 (1.39%) MongoDB
15 5 (1.39%) Relational Database
16 4 (1.11%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 4 (1.11%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 20 (5.56%) Git
2 14 (3.89%) GitLab
3 5 (1.39%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.39%) JIRA
4 1 (0.28%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.28%) ERwin
General
1 182 (50.56%) Analytical Skills
2 49 (13.61%) Social Skills
3 47 (13.06%) Finance
4 23 (6.39%) Retail
5 21 (5.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (5.00%) Legal
7 10 (2.78%) Marketing
8 7 (1.94%) Banking
8 7 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.67%) Law
10 5 (1.39%) Advertising
11 4 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.83%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.56%) Billing
13 2 (0.56%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 201 (55.83%) Data Engineer
2 170 (47.22%) Platform Engineer
3 161 (44.72%) Principal Data Engineer
3 161 (44.72%) Principal Engineer
4 40 (11.11%) Lead
5 35 (9.72%) Senior
6 30 (8.33%) Architect
7 27 (7.50%) Data Architect
8 22 (6.11%) DataOps Engineer
9 20 (5.56%) Data Manager
10 15 (4.17%) DataOps Leader
10 15 (4.17%) Senior Architect
11 14 (3.89%) Senior Data Architect
12 13 (3.61%) Lead Data Engineer
13 12 (3.33%) Analyst
13 12 (3.33%) IT Manager
14 11 (3.06%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 11 (3.06%) Data Analyst
14 11 (3.06%) Developer
14 11 (3.06%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.00%) JSON
2 16 (4.44%) CSS
2 16 (4.44%) HTML
3 12 (3.33%) .NET
3 12 (3.33%) Node.js
3 12 (3.33%) React
4 11 (3.06%) XML
5 6 (1.67%) PyTorch
5 6 (1.67%) TensorFlow
6 4 (1.11%) RESTful
7 3 (0.83%) HTML5 Canvas
7 3 (0.83%) NumPy
7 3 (0.83%) Pandas
8 2 (0.56%) Kafka
8 2 (0.56%) Lambda Expressions
8 2 (0.56%) XGBoost
9 1 (0.28%) D3.js
9 1 (0.28%) HTML5
9 1 (0.28%) REST
9 1 (0.28%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 160 (44.44%) Self-Motivation
2 35 (9.72%) Management Information System
3 29 (8.06%) Data Centre
4 9 (2.50%) Reference Data
5 7 (1.94%) Public Cloud
6 6 (1.67%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.39%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.11%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.11%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.11%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.11%) PMI
9 3 (0.83%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.83%) Reinsurance
9 3 (0.83%) Video Editing
9 3 (0.83%) Wiki
10 2 (0.56%) NHS
10 2 (0.56%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.28%) Equities
11 1 (0.28%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.94%) Windows
2 4 (1.11%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.83%) Linux
3 3 (0.83%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.56%) OS/2
5 1 (0.28%) Android
5 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (61.94%) DevOps
2 220 (61.11%) Agile
3 199 (55.28%) Data Engineering
4 197 (54.72%) Data Science
5 192 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
6 188 (52.22%) Data Pipeline
7 179 (49.72%) Mentoring
8 171 (47.50%) Platform Engineering
9 161 (44.72%) Change Management
10 72 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
11 67 (18.61%) Analytics
12 52 (14.44%) Data Governance
13 50 (13.89%) Roadmaps
14 42 (11.67%) Data Modelling
15 36 (10.00%) Data Strategy
16 35 (9.72%) Data Management
17 34 (9.44%) ETL
18 33 (9.17%) Data Architecture
19 30 (8.33%) CI/CD
20 28 (7.78%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 58 (16.11%) SQL
2 43 (11.94%) Python
3 14 (3.89%) PHP
4 13 (3.61%) Java
5 11 (3.06%) C#
5 11 (3.06%) Scala
5 11 (3.06%) VB.NET
6 3 (0.83%) MATLAB
6 3 (0.83%) R
7 2 (0.56%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.28%) Bicep
8 1 (0.28%) C
8 1 (0.28%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (4.17%) Degree
2 8 (2.22%) Master's Degree
3 4 (1.11%) PMI Certification
4 3 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (0.83%) PhD
5 1 (0.28%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.28%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (48.61%) GDPR
2 50 (13.89%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.67%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.39%) COBIT
5 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (1.11%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (1.11%) Kubernetes
1 4 (1.11%) Terraform
2 1 (0.28%) Pingdom
2 1 (0.28%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 169 (46.94%) Google
2 48 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 10 (2.78%) Databricks
3 10 (2.78%) Dataiku
4 6 (1.67%) F5
5 3 (0.83%) Bloomberg
5 3 (0.83%) Oracle
5 3 (0.83%) Reuters
5 3 (0.83%) WooCommerce
6 2 (0.56%) NEC
6 2 (0.56%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.28%) FactSet
7 1 (0.28%) Liquidlogic
7 1 (0.28%) New Relic
7 1 (0.28%) Refinitiv
7 1 (0.28%) SAP
7 1 (0.28%) Splunk
7 1 (0.28%) Talend