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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 32 -
Rank change year-on-year -43 - -
Contract jobs citing DataOps 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.13% 0.66% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.83% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £500 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -8.14%

All Process & 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 614 241 220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 82.42% 79.54% 81.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 362 152 107
10th Percentile £313 £225 £263
25th Percentile £368 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £461 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £576 £570 £555
90th Percentile £650 £649 £650
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 18 32
10th Percentile £17.00 - £11.50
25th Percentile £43.96 £11.60 £12.13
Median hourly rate £68.47 £17.15 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +299.24% -12.05% -25.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £20.46 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.25 £47.93 £70.00
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.43%

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 21 July 2026. 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 -39 1 £450 - 1
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks