DataOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

DataOps Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median DataOps Engineer daily rate in Glasgow is £284, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a DataOps Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.085% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.092% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £282 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £284 - -
75th Percentile £286 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £284 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Glasgow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Glasgow. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Glasgow with a recognized job title 1,088 683 641
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.13% 93.82% 94.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 621 407 455
10th Percentile £285 £264 £219
25th Percentile £363 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £575
90th Percentile £675 £613 £659
Scotland median daily rate £463 £463 £450
% change year-on-year - +2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 18 19
10th Percentile £13.58 - £11.78
25th Percentile £35.00 £16.84 £15.96
Median hourly rate £47.66 £21.86 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year +118.02% +11.59% +11.94%
75th Percentile £60.91 £26.21 £38.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £57.50 £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £18.25 £20.00 £18.27
% change year-on-year -8.75% +9.47% +3.10%

DataOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'DataOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

DataOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Glasgow

DataOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 25 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 19 September 2026, DataOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Glasgow region featuring DataOps Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lineage
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Data Reconciliation
1 1 (100.00%) DataOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Trino

DataOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Trino
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lineage
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Reconciliation
1 1 (100.00%) DataOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes