DataOps Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

DataOps
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring DataOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DataOps 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.15% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £443 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 - -
75th Percentile £448 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £450 £485 £450
% change year-on-year -7.22% +7.78% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 613 465 354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 90.01% 85.95% 89.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 285 205
10th Percentile £273 £325 £265
25th Percentile £358 £388 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% -2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £522 £575 £586
90th Percentile £688 £650 £613
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 17 29
10th Percentile £12.82 £16.00 £15.80
25th Percentile £14.83 £21.05 £17.50
Median hourly rate £18.31 £35.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.69% +34.62% +61.79%
75th Percentile £37.56 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £72.88 £45.25 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £35.00
% change year-on-year -37.64% +15.21% +50.80%

DataOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

DataOps job vacancy trend in Cheshire

DataOps
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing DataOps

DataOps
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DataOps within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 11 October 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
Knutsford - 1 £445 - 2
DataOps
North West

DataOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Flask
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes