DataOps Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

DataOps
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring DataOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 93 121
Rank change year-on-year -11 +28 +8
Contract jobs citing DataOps 5 12 4
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.34% 0.78% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.87% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £472
25th Percentile - £681 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £688 £600
Median % change year-on-year -38.18% +14.58% +13.21%
75th Percentile - £694 £638
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £438 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -32.69% +4.00% +14.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

DataOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,303 1,385 1,605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 88.88% 89.94% 91.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 870 766 965
10th Percentile £306 £313 £213
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £615
90th Percentile £650 £691 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 41 70
10th Percentile £14.75 £26.00 £24.33
25th Percentile £18.87 £41.25 £48.40
Median hourly rate £37.28 £59.00 £61.45
Median % change year-on-year -36.81% -3.98% +26.05%
75th Percentile £80.00 £64.73 £67.75
90th Percentile £95.00 £74.87 £76.47
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £51.00 £51.96
% change year-on-year -56.86% -1.85% +38.56%

DataOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DataOps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

DataOps job vacancy trend in Berkshire

DataOps
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing DataOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing DataOps

DataOps
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DataOps within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 14 December 2025. 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
Reading +5 3 £425 - 2
Maidenhead -1 1 - -
DataOps
South East

DataOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
1 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
1 2 (40.00%) Tableau
2 1 (20.00%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
General
1 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
1 2 (40.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DataOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Google JAX
1 2 (40.00%) JAX
1 2 (40.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (40.00%) scikit-learn
1 2 (40.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (40.00%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Data Science
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) AI
3 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (40.00%) Data Management
3 2 (40.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (40.00%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (40.00%) LLM
3 2 (40.00%) Master Data Management
3 2 (40.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 2 (40.00%) MLOps
3 2 (40.00%) Security Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) C
2 2 (40.00%) C++
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) R
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (40.00%) EU AI Act
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
1 2 (40.00%) GRC
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (40.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) SAP