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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 425 501 579
Rank change year-on-year +76 +78 +47
Contract jobs citing DataOps 50 41 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.11% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.13% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 24 48
10th Percentile £315 £491 £413
25th Percentile £466 £513 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £850 £603 £650
90th Percentile £853 £684 £775
UK median daily rate £575 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +6.96% -2.26% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £15.04
25th Percentile - - £15.11
Median hourly rate - - £15.21
75th Percentile - - £52.61
90th Percentile - - £75.04
UK median hourly rate - £54.66 £15.21
% change year-on-year - +259.37% -83.27%

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 22,017 31,802 44,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.19% 86.49% 90.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,406 20,831 31,133
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £446
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 £518 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 932 2,249 1,562
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.91 £10.64
25th Percentile £18.18 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £37.18 £37.32
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% -0.38% +49.28%
75th Percentile £63.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.30 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.48% +1.39% +40.19%

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 13 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 13 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 +41 29 £694 +26.14% 86
South East - 10 £320 - 27
East of England +25 4 £318 - 1
Midlands +10 4 £310 -43.64% 6
West Midlands +9 4 £310 -43.64% 4
North of England - 3 £500 - 14
North West - 2 £500 - 7
South West +45 1 - - 10
Yorkshire - 1 - - 3
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 (16.00%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (14.00%) Apache
3 3 (6.00%) SharePoint
4 2 (4.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 20 (40.00%) Azure
2 10 (20.00%) GitHub
3 9 (18.00%) Power Platform
4 7 (14.00%) AWS
4 7 (14.00%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (14.00%) GCP
4 7 (14.00%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (10.00%) dbt
6 4 (8.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (6.00%) SaaS
7 3 (6.00%) Vertex AI
8 2 (4.00%) Azure Stack
8 2 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (2.00%) Alation
9 1 (2.00%) Amazon S3
9 1 (2.00%) Cloud Composer
9 1 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (2.00%) Fivetran
9 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (2.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.00%) Power BI
2 6 (12.00%) BigQuery
3 5 (10.00%) Tableau
4 4 (8.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (8.00%) Looker
5 3 (6.00%) Big Data
5 3 (6.00%) Metadata
5 3 (6.00%) SQL Server
6 2 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (4.00%) Delta Lake
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (2.00%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.00%) Data Mining
7 1 (2.00%) DynamoDB
7 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (2.00%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (2.00%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Git
1 2 (4.00%) JIRA
2 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.00%) SonarQube
General
1 20 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (34.00%) Finance
3 12 (24.00%) Social Skills
4 10 (20.00%) Retail
5 9 (18.00%) Telecoms
6 8 (16.00%) Banking
7 7 (14.00%) Billing
8 6 (12.00%) Front Office
8 6 (12.00%) Investment Banking
9 3 (6.00%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (2.00%) Marketing
11 1 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 18 (36.00%) Data Engineer
2 9 (18.00%) Analyst
3 8 (16.00%) Lead
4 7 (14.00%) IT Manager
5 6 (12.00%) IT Operations Manager
5 6 (12.00%) Operations Manager
5 6 (12.00%) Senior
6 5 (10.00%) Data Analyst
6 5 (10.00%) Data Manager
6 5 (10.00%) DataOps Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) Performance Manager
7 4 (8.00%) Senior Data Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Telecoms Manager
8 3 (6.00%) Business Analyst
8 3 (6.00%) Operations Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Python Data Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Python Engineer
9 2 (4.00%) GCP Data Engineer
9 2 (4.00%) GCP Engineer
9 2 (4.00%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.00%) PySpark
2 6 (12.00%) Kafka
2 6 (12.00%) Play Framework
3 3 (6.00%) AngularJS
3 3 (6.00%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (6.00%) NumPy
3 3 (6.00%) Pandas
3 3 (6.00%) React
4 2 (4.00%) ADO
4 2 (4.00%) pytest
5 1 (2.00%) .NET
5 1 (2.00%) ARM Templates
5 1 (2.00%) Django
5 1 (2.00%) FastAPI
5 1 (2.00%) Flask
5 1 (2.00%) Great Expectations
5 1 (2.00%) Node.js
5 1 (2.00%) OAuth
5 1 (2.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.00%) Algorithms
1 6 (12.00%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.00%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.00%) FMCG
4 2 (4.00%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.00%) Blockchain
5 1 (2.00%) Equities
5 1 (2.00%) Hedge funds
5 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.00%) Reinsurance
5 1 (2.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (56.00%) Analytics
2 20 (40.00%) Data Engineering
3 18 (36.00%) CI/CD
4 17 (34.00%) Business Intelligence
5 15 (30.00%) DevOps
6 14 (28.00%) Data Analysis
6 14 (28.00%) Machine Learning
7 13 (26.00%) Data Pipeline
7 13 (26.00%) Data Science
8 12 (24.00%) Agile
8 12 (24.00%) Artificial Intelligence
8 12 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (22.00%) Actionable Insight
9 11 (22.00%) Data Governance
9 11 (22.00%) MLOps
10 9 (18.00%) Data Modelling
11 8 (16.00%) Workflow
12 7 (14.00%) Containerisation
12 7 (14.00%) Data Analytics
12 7 (14.00%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 22 (44.00%) Python
2 20 (40.00%) SQL
3 9 (18.00%) Scala
4 3 (6.00%) Java
5 2 (4.00%) Bash
6 1 (2.00%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.00%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (22.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (8.00%) GDPR
3 3 (6.00%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.00%) MiFID
4 1 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (12.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (16.00%) Terraform
2 6 (12.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (18.00%) Splunk
2 8 (16.00%) Databricks
2 8 (16.00%) Dynatrace
3 5 (10.00%) Google
4 4 (8.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.00%) Bloomberg
5 1 (2.00%) Checkmarx
5 1 (2.00%) Confluent
5 1 (2.00%) FactSet
5 1 (2.00%) Oracle
5 1 (2.00%) Progress
5 1 (2.00%) Salesforce