DataOps Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

DataOps
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring DataOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DataOps 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.14% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £361 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £372 - -
75th Percentile £383 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £500 -
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 633 619 640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 88.53% 85.73% 84.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 410 409 431
10th Percentile £227 £196 £270
25th Percentile £387 £380 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £638 £600
90th Percentile £638 £738 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 16 19
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.70 £13.81
25th Percentile £13.25 £21.63 £15.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.23 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.57% -45.05% +205.56%
75th Percentile £23.50 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £26.51 £56.25 £67.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.50 £22.00 £24.60
% change year-on-year -6.82% -10.57% +38.98%

DataOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

DataOps job vacancy trend in Birmingham

DataOps
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing DataOps

DataOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SSH
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Parquet
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Avro
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Flask
1 1 (100.00%) NumPy
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cloudera
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft