DataOps Contract Job Trends in the North East

DataOps
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring DataOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 40 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs citing DataOps 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.26% 0.34% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.36% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% - -
England median daily rate £550 £500 £565
% change year-on-year +10.00% -11.50% -6.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 341 277 217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 88.57% 93.58% 86.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 134 150
10th Percentile £175 £305 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £481 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.49% +6.94% -18.18%
75th Percentile £538 £590 £575
90th Percentile £594 £714 £711
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 26 10
10th Percentile £14.35 £14.22 £15.46
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.50 £15.69
Median hourly rate £28.91 £18.75 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.19% +7.14% -22.22%
75th Percentile £53.75 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £55.00 - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

DataOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

DataOps job vacancy trend in the North East

DataOps
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing DataOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing DataOps

DataOps
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DataOps within the North East region over the 6 months to 16 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
Tyne and Wear - 1 £550 -
DataOps
England

DataOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Python Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Python Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks