DataOps Contracts in London

DataOps
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 320 363 454
Rank change year-on-year +43 +91 +59
Contract jobs citing DataOps 33 28 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.26% 0.16% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.18% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 16 29
10th Percentile £469 £488 £425
25th Percentile £506 £522 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £683 £555 £575
Median % change year-on-year +22.97% -3.48% -4.17%
75th Percentile £850 £684 £775
90th Percentile £863 £719 £825
England median daily rate £650 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £42.31 -
England median hourly rate - £42.31 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

DataOps
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for DataOps in London

DataOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for DataOps in London

DataOps
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for DataOps in London

DataOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for DataOps in London

DataOps
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 within the London 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
Central London +1 4 £501 -7.60% 6
East London - 1 £500 -
DataOps
England

DataOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (6.06%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (6.06%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) Apache
2 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.03%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 16 (48.48%) Azure
2 7 (21.21%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (21.21%) GitHub
2 7 (21.21%) GitHub Actions
3 6 (18.18%) AWS
3 6 (18.18%) Azure Stack
4 5 (15.15%) Power Platform
5 4 (12.12%) GCP
6 3 (9.09%) SaaS
7 2 (6.06%) dbt
8 1 (3.03%) Alation
8 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
8 1 (3.03%) Cloud Composer
8 1 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (3.03%) Fivetran
8 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (3.03%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.15%) Power BI
2 3 (9.09%) Big Data
2 3 (9.09%) BigQuery
3 2 (6.06%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (6.06%) Tableau
4 1 (3.03%) Airbyte
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (3.03%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.03%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.03%) Looker
4 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (6.06%) JIRA
2 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (48.48%) Finance
2 9 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 8 (24.24%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (24.24%) Banking
4 6 (18.18%) Front Office
4 6 (18.18%) Investment Banking
5 3 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.03%) Marketing
7 1 (3.03%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 8 (24.24%) DataOps Engineer
2 8 (24.24%) Lead
3 7 (21.21%) Analyst
4 6 (18.18%) Operations Engineer
5 5 (15.15%) Data Analytics Engineer
5 5 (15.15%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) Business Analyst
6 3 (9.09%) Data Analyst
7 2 (6.06%) Data Analytics Director
7 2 (6.06%) Data Manager
8 1 (3.03%) Applications Support Analyst
8 1 (3.03%) Business Data Analyst
8 1 (3.03%) GCP Architect
8 1 (3.03%) Infrastructure Architect
8 1 (3.03%) IT Business Analyst
8 1 (3.03%) Lead Data Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) Report Analyst
8 1 (3.03%) Service Manager
8 1 (3.03%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.18%) Play Framework
2 3 (9.09%) Kafka
3 2 (6.06%) pytest
4 1 (3.03%) ARM Templates
4 1 (3.03%) Django
4 1 (3.03%) FastAPI
4 1 (3.03%) Flask
4 1 (3.03%) Great Expectations
4 1 (3.03%) Node.js
4 1 (3.03%) OAuth
4 1 (3.03%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) Algorithms
1 6 (18.18%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (15.15%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.06%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.06%) FMCG
3 2 (6.06%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.03%) Blockchain
4 1 (3.03%) Equities
4 1 (3.03%) Hedge funds
4 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.03%) Reinsurance
4 1 (3.03%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (60.61%) Analytics
2 16 (48.48%) Machine Learning
3 15 (45.45%) CI/CD
4 14 (42.42%) Agile
4 14 (42.42%) MLOps
5 13 (39.39%) Business Intelligence
5 13 (39.39%) Data Engineering
6 12 (36.36%) Data Science
6 12 (36.36%) DevOps
7 10 (30.30%) Artificial Intelligence
7 10 (30.30%) Data Governance
8 8 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (21.21%) Containerisation
9 7 (21.21%) LLM
10 6 (18.18%) Data Modelling
10 6 (18.18%) Generative AI
10 6 (18.18%) ModelOps
10 6 (18.18%) SDLC
11 5 (15.15%) Refactoring
11 5 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (51.52%) Python
2 13 (39.39%) Scala
3 12 (36.36%) SQL
4 2 (6.06%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.03%) GDPR
2 1 (3.03%) MiFID
2 1 (3.03%) QA
2 1 (3.03%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (15.15%) Terraform
2 3 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (18.18%) Databricks
2 3 (9.09%) Google
3 1 (3.03%) Bloomberg
3 1 (3.03%) Confluent
3 1 (3.03%) FactSet
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.03%) Progress
3 1 (3.03%) Salesforce