DataOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

DataOps Engineer
England > London

The median DataOps Engineer daily rate in London is £614, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025.

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

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 377 367 413
Rank change year-on-year -10 +46 +145
Contract jobs requiring a DataOps Engineer 5 11 2
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.035% 0.074% 0.011%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.038% 0.079% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 2
10th Percentile - £453 -
25th Percentile - £494 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £614 £538 £425
Median % change year-on-year +14.23% +26.47% -46.20%
75th Percentile - £600 £438
90th Percentile - £680 -
England median daily rate £614 £550 £475
% change year-on-year +11.64% +15.79% -34.48%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 13,306 13,960 17,363
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 93.50% 93.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,812 9,021 12,541
10th Percentile £344 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -1.79% -3.45%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £760 £800 £788
England median daily rate £510 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -2.86% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 154 207
10th Percentile £17.50 £18.65 £17.15
25th Percentile £22.13 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £28.06 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.82% - -
75th Percentile £56.99 £54.69 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £80.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £45.21
% change year-on-year -24.86% -22.58% +39.11%

DataOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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 London.

DataOps Engineer job vacancy trend in London

DataOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DataOps Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DataOps Engineer job vacancies in London

DataOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DataOps Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 23 December 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
Central London -2 1 - -
DataOps Engineer
England

DataOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 23 December 2025, 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 London region featuring DataOps Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) AI
1 5 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) DataOps
1 5 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 5 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Biomedicine
2 4 (80.00%) Code Coverage
2 4 (80.00%) Data Analysis
2 4 (80.00%) Data Governance
2 4 (80.00%) Data Ingestion
2 4 (80.00%) Data Modelling
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (80.00%) GitOps
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) Metadata
2 4 (80.00%) SDLC
2 4 (80.00%) Thought Leadership
3 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) Data Science
4 1 (20.00%) Databricks
4 1 (20.00%) Degree
4 1 (20.00%) Docker
4 1 (20.00%) ETL
4 1 (20.00%) Git

DataOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) MLflow
General
1 4 (80.00%) Publishing
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) LangChain
1 1 (20.00%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (80.00%) Genomics
2 4 (80.00%) Omics
3 3 (60.00%) Biopharmaceutical
4 1 (20.00%) AI Agents
4 1 (20.00%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) AI
1 5 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) DataOps
1 5 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 5 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Biomedicine
2 4 (80.00%) Code Coverage
2 4 (80.00%) Data Analysis
2 4 (80.00%) Data Governance
2 4 (80.00%) Data Ingestion
2 4 (80.00%) Data Modelling
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (80.00%) GitOps
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) SDLC
2 4 (80.00%) Thought Leadership
3 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks