DataOps Contracts in England

DataOps
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring DataOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DataOps over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 431 497 585
Rank change year-on-year +66 +88 +35
Contract jobs citing DataOps 54 45 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.12% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.14% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 27 44
10th Percentile £337 £495 £413
25th Percentile £475 £519 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £850 £663 £678
90th Percentile - £713 £775
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -3.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £42.31 -
UK median hourly rate - £48.48 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

DataOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing DataOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for DataOps in England

DataOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DataOps in England.

Daily rate trend for DataOps in England

DataOps
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DataOps in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DataOps in England

DataOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DataOps in England.

Hourly rate trend for DataOps in England

DataOps
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DataOps within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +43 33 £683 +22.97% 73
South East +56 11 £650 - 38
East of England +32 4 £318 - 15
North of England - 3 £500 - 26
Midlands +12 2 - - 20
West Midlands +4 2 - - 11
North West - 2 £500 - 14
South West +46 1 - - 17
Yorkshire - 1 - - 10
DataOps
UK

DataOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 8 (14.81%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (12.96%) Apache
3 3 (5.56%) SharePoint
4 2 (3.70%) Confluence
5 1 (1.85%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 24 (44.44%) Azure
2 10 (18.52%) GitHub
3 8 (14.81%) Power Platform
4 7 (12.96%) AWS
4 7 (12.96%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (12.96%) GCP
4 7 (12.96%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (11.11%) Azure Stack
6 5 (9.26%) dbt
7 3 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (5.56%) SaaS
7 3 (5.56%) Vertex AI
8 1 (1.85%) Alation
8 1 (1.85%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.85%) Cloud Composer
8 1 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.85%) Fivetran
8 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.85%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.81%) Power BI
2 6 (11.11%) BigQuery
3 5 (9.26%) Tableau
4 4 (7.41%) Looker
5 3 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (5.56%) Big Data
5 3 (5.56%) Metadata
6 2 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (3.70%) Delta Lake
6 2 (3.70%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.85%) Airbyte
7 1 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.85%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (1.85%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.85%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.85%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.85%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Git
1 2 (3.70%) JIRA
2 1 (1.85%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.85%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (38.89%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (31.48%) Finance
3 12 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 11 (20.37%) Retail
5 10 (18.52%) Telecoms
6 8 (14.81%) Banking
7 7 (12.96%) Billing
8 6 (11.11%) Front Office
8 6 (11.11%) Investment Banking
9 3 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.85%) Marketing
11 1 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (1.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (37.04%) Data Engineer
2 9 (16.67%) Analyst
3 8 (14.81%) DataOps Engineer
3 8 (14.81%) IT Manager
3 8 (14.81%) Lead
4 7 (12.96%) IT Operations Manager
4 7 (12.96%) Operations Manager
5 6 (11.11%) Data Manager
5 6 (11.11%) Operations Engineer
5 6 (11.11%) Performance Manager
6 5 (9.26%) Data Analyst
6 5 (9.26%) Data Analytics Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) Senior
6 5 (9.26%) Telecoms Manager
7 3 (5.56%) Business Analyst
7 3 (5.56%) Python Data Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Python Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.81%) PySpark
2 7 (12.96%) Kafka
3 6 (11.11%) Play Framework
4 3 (5.56%) AngularJS
4 3 (5.56%) Apache NiFi
4 3 (5.56%) NumPy
4 3 (5.56%) Pandas
4 3 (5.56%) React
5 2 (3.70%) ADO
5 2 (3.70%) pytest
6 1 (1.85%) .NET
6 1 (1.85%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.85%) Django
6 1 (1.85%) FastAPI
6 1 (1.85%) Flask
6 1 (1.85%) Great Expectations
6 1 (1.85%) Node.js
6 1 (1.85%) OAuth
6 1 (1.85%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.11%) Algorithms
1 6 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (9.26%) Onboarding
2 5 (9.26%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.70%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.70%) FMCG
5 1 (1.85%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.85%) Equities
5 1 (1.85%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.85%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (55.56%) Analytics
2 22 (40.74%) CI/CD
3 18 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 18 (33.33%) Machine Learning
4 17 (31.48%) Data Science
5 16 (29.63%) Business Intelligence
6 15 (27.78%) Agile
6 15 (27.78%) MLOps
7 14 (25.93%) Data Analysis
7 14 (25.93%) DevOps
8 13 (24.07%) Data Governance
9 12 (22.22%) Actionable Insight
9 12 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
9 12 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
9 12 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (18.52%) Containerisation
11 8 (14.81%) Workflow
12 7 (12.96%) Data Analytics
12 7 (12.96%) Data Modelling
12 7 (12.96%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 26 (48.15%) Python
2 20 (37.04%) SQL
3 13 (24.07%) Scala
4 3 (5.56%) Java
5 2 (3.70%) Bash
6 1 (1.85%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (12.96%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.26%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.85%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 4 (7.41%) GDPR
3 3 (5.56%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.85%) MiFID
4 1 (1.85%) QA
4 1 (1.85%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (14.81%) Terraform
2 6 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (18.52%) Splunk
2 9 (16.67%) Databricks
3 8 (14.81%) Dynatrace
4 5 (9.26%) Google
5 3 (5.56%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.85%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.85%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.85%) Confluent
6 1 (1.85%) FactSet
6 1 (1.85%) Oracle
6 1 (1.85%) Progress
6 1 (1.85%) Salesforce