DataOps Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

DataOps
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring DataOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 48 -
Rank change year-on-year +3 - -
Contract jobs citing DataOps 7 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 1.95% 0.74% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.20% 0.84% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 0
10th Percentile £520 £465 -
25th Percentile £525 £469 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £488 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% - -
75th Percentile £675 £509 -
90th Percentile - £519 -
South West median daily rate £550 £488 £613
% change year-on-year +12.82% -20.41% +44.12%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 318 358 401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 88.58% 88.40% 88.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 206 251
10th Percentile £278 £400 £360
25th Percentile £406 £476 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £650 £676 £675
90th Percentile £701 £750 £750
South West median daily rate £519 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.24% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 25 53
10th Percentile £19.69 £24.70 £30.60
25th Percentile £27.07 £28.00 -
Median hourly rate £34.34 £33.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.06% -32.27% -16.50%
75th Percentile £67.92 £70.00 £78.00
90th Percentile £68.40 £73.75 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -61.31% +8.33% -7.69%

DataOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

DataOps job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

DataOps
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing DataOps

DataOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DataOps in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DataOps in Gloucestershire

DataOps
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DataOps within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 7 November 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
Gloucester - 6 £600 -
Cheltenham - 1 £525 - 1
DataOps
South West

DataOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
1 6 (85.71%) Azure Data Factory
1 6 (85.71%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) Elasticsearch
1 6 (85.71%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) Maven
General
1 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Data Engineer
1 6 (85.71%) Senior
1 6 (85.71%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Applications Support
2 1 (14.29%) Applications Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) Kafka
1 6 (85.71%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Batch Processing
1 6 (85.71%) Containerisation
1 6 (85.71%) Data Architecture
1 6 (85.71%) Data Engineering
1 6 (85.71%) Data Pipeline
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
1 6 (85.71%) ETL
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre Operations
2 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
2 1 (14.29%) Microservices
2 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Go
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (85.71%) Azure Certification
2 6 (85.71%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Grafana
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle