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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 559 691 655
Rank change year-on-year +132 -36 +64
Permanent jobs citing DataOps 362 288 696
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.28% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.30% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 150 98 238
10th Percentile £30,000 £49,250 £39,700
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,000 £48,455
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +16.98% -15.87%
75th Percentile £90,000 £96,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £101,375 £105,375 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £77,500 £66,250
% change year-on-year -22.58% +16.98% -11.67%

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 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
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 £96,550
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 9 May 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 9 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 +196 333 £70,000 -12.50% 78
UK excluding London +86 265 £60,000 -22.58% 57
North of England +109 126 £60,000 -4.00% 17
Work from Home +70 91 £70,000 - 65
London +91 89 £85,000 +0.59% 31
North West +63 82 £62,500 +8.70% 8
South East +36 51 £26,500 -62.14% 12
Yorkshire +85 33 £32,500 -55.17% 7
Midlands +6 29 £64,150 -19.81% 10
South West -11 24 £68,937 -11.05% 4
West Midlands +21 17 £65,400 -18.25% 4
East of England +28 13 - - 1
Scotland -90 13 £80,000 +128.57% 8
East Midlands -9 12 £44,100 - 6
North East - 11 £75,000 - 2
Wales +7 9 £60,000 +33.33% 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 (3.31%) WordPress
2 7 (1.93%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.38%) Confluence
4 4 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.83%) CMS
6 1 (0.28%) Apache
6 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
Applications
1 17 (4.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.49%) 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 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.55%) MIS ActiveH
1 2 (0.55%) 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 (47.79%) GCP
2 69 (19.06%) Azure
3 38 (10.50%) AWS
4 24 (6.63%) Power Platform
5 23 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (5.80%) Snowflake
7 16 (4.42%) dbt
7 16 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (3.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 11 (3.04%) Microsoft Purview
9 10 (2.76%) Azure Data Factory
9 10 (2.76%) Fivetran
10 7 (1.93%) Serverless
11 6 (1.66%) GitHub
11 6 (1.66%) IaaS
11 6 (1.66%) PaaS
11 6 (1.66%) SaaS
12 5 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (1.38%) Prefect
13 4 (1.10%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.76%) Structured Cabling
2 5 (1.38%) DAB
3 4 (1.10%) Firewall
4 2 (0.55%) VPN
5 1 (0.28%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (46.96%) BigQuery
2 161 (44.48%) Looker
3 79 (21.82%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (8.29%) Metadata
5 24 (6.63%) Power BI
6 18 (4.97%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (4.42%) MySQL
8 14 (3.87%) SQL Server
9 11 (3.04%) DynamoDB
10 10 (2.76%) Tableau
11 9 (2.49%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (2.49%) Big Data
11 9 (2.49%) Data Mining
12 6 (1.66%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.66%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (1.66%) Data Lake
13 5 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (1.38%) MongoDB
13 5 (1.38%) Relational Database
14 4 (1.10%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 21 (5.80%) Git
2 14 (3.87%) GitLab
3 5 (1.38%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.38%) JIRA
4 1 (0.28%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.28%) ERwin
General
1 183 (50.55%) Analytical Skills
2 50 (13.81%) Finance
3 48 (13.26%) Social Skills
4 23 (6.35%) Retail
5 21 (5.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (4.97%) Legal
7 10 (2.76%) Marketing
8 7 (1.93%) Banking
9 6 (1.66%) Law
10 5 (1.38%) Advertising
10 5 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.83%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.55%) Billing
13 2 (0.55%) Electronics
14 1 (0.28%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 201 (55.52%) Data Engineer
2 170 (46.96%) Platform Engineer
3 161 (44.48%) Principal Data Engineer
3 161 (44.48%) Principal Engineer
4 38 (10.50%) Lead
5 35 (9.67%) Senior
6 34 (9.39%) Architect
7 31 (8.56%) Data Architect
8 21 (5.80%) DataOps Engineer
9 19 (5.25%) Data Manager
10 18 (4.97%) Senior Architect
11 17 (4.70%) Senior Data Architect
12 15 (4.14%) DataOps Leader
13 12 (3.31%) IT Manager
14 11 (3.04%) Analyst
14 11 (3.04%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 11 (3.04%) Lead Data Engineer
14 11 (3.04%) Technical Leader
15 10 (2.76%) Azure Engineer
15 10 (2.76%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.97%) JSON
2 16 (4.42%) CSS
2 16 (4.42%) HTML
3 12 (3.31%) .NET
3 12 (3.31%) Node.js
3 12 (3.31%) React
4 11 (3.04%) XML
5 6 (1.66%) PyTorch
5 6 (1.66%) TensorFlow
6 4 (1.10%) RESTful
7 3 (0.83%) HTML5 Canvas
8 2 (0.55%) Kafka
8 2 (0.55%) Lambda Expressions
8 2 (0.55%) NumPy
8 2 (0.55%) Pandas
8 2 (0.55%) XGBoost
9 1 (0.28%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.28%) PySpark
9 1 (0.28%) Redux
9 1 (0.28%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 160 (44.20%) Self-Motivation
2 41 (11.33%) Management Information System
3 29 (8.01%) Data Centre
4 11 (3.04%) Reference Data
5 7 (1.93%) Public Cloud
6 6 (1.66%) Onboarding
6 6 (1.66%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.38%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.10%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.10%) PMI
9 3 (0.83%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.83%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.83%) Video Editing
9 3 (0.83%) Wiki
10 2 (0.55%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.55%) NHS
10 2 (0.55%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.28%) e-Learning
11 1 (0.28%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.93%) Windows
2 4 (1.10%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.83%) Linux
3 3 (0.83%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.55%) OS/2
5 1 (0.28%) Android
5 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (61.88%) DevOps
2 220 (60.77%) Agile
3 200 (55.25%) Data Engineering
4 195 (53.87%) Data Science
5 191 (52.76%) Problem-Solving
6 189 (52.21%) Data Pipeline
7 178 (49.17%) Mentoring
8 170 (46.96%) Platform Engineering
9 161 (44.48%) Change Management
10 74 (20.44%) Business Intelligence
11 73 (20.17%) Analytics
12 57 (15.75%) Data Governance
13 52 (14.36%) Roadmaps
14 45 (12.43%) Data Modelling
15 40 (11.05%) Data Strategy
16 39 (10.77%) Data Architecture
17 36 (9.94%) Data Management
17 36 (9.94%) ETL
18 30 (8.29%) Information Management
19 29 (8.01%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 58 (16.02%) SQL
2 43 (11.88%) Python
3 14 (3.87%) PHP
4 13 (3.59%) Java
5 11 (3.04%) C#
5 11 (3.04%) Scala
5 11 (3.04%) VB.NET
6 4 (1.10%) R
7 2 (0.55%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.55%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.28%) Bicep
8 1 (0.28%) C
8 1 (0.28%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (4.70%) Degree
2 8 (2.21%) Master's Degree
3 5 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.10%) PMI Certification
5 3 (0.83%) PhD
6 1 (0.28%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.28%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.28%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (48.34%) GDPR
2 52 (14.36%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.21%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.38%) COBIT
5 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (1.10%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (1.10%) Kubernetes
1 4 (1.10%) Terraform
2 1 (0.28%) Pingdom
2 1 (0.28%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 169 (46.69%) Google
2 48 (13.26%) Microsoft
3 11 (3.04%) Databricks
4 10 (2.76%) Dataiku
5 6 (1.66%) F5
6 4 (1.10%) Bloomberg
7 3 (0.83%) Oracle
7 3 (0.83%) Reuters
7 3 (0.83%) WooCommerce
8 2 (0.55%) NEC
8 2 (0.55%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.28%) FactSet
9 1 (0.28%) Liquidlogic
9 1 (0.28%) New Relic
9 1 (0.28%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.28%) SAP
9 1 (0.28%) Splunk
9 1 (0.28%) Talend