DataOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Reading

DataOps Engineer
Berkshire > Reading

The median DataOps Engineer daily rate in Reading is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 December 2025.

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

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 - 85
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a DataOps Engineer 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.14% - 0.096%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% - 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £625
75th Percentile - - £638
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £425 - £625

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Reading

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 658 974 966
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.73% 90.02% 92.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 558 642
10th Percentile £325 £327 £213
25th Percentile £425 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £574 £515
Median % change year-on-year -8.50% +11.52% -2.00%
75th Percentile £609 £650 £615
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 10 15
10th Percentile £14.75 £47.61 £59.21
25th Percentile £15.39 £50.20 £60.93
Median hourly rate £73.50 £58.98 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year +24.62% -6.81% +15.07%
75th Percentile £95.00 £68.45 £65.63
90th Percentile £97.25 £76.13 £67.23
Berkshire median hourly rate £40.44 £58.38 £61.65
% change year-on-year -30.73% -5.30% +29.78%

DataOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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 Reading.

DataOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Reading

DataOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

DataOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 19 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading

For the 6 months to 10 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 Reading region featuring DataOps Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) DataOps
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) YAML

DataOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) DataOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks