DataOps Contracts in the South East

DataOps
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 179 197
Rank change year-on-year +23 +18 +68
Contract jobs citing DataOps 9 5 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.25% 0.10% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.13% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 6
10th Percentile £351 - £297
25th Percentile £413 - £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -32.35%
75th Percentile £575 - £588
90th Percentile £605 - £619
England median daily rate £525 £525 £599
% change year-on-year -0.02% -12.30% -4.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £15.02
25th Percentile - - £15.05
Median hourly rate - - £15.11
75th Percentile - - £15.16
90th Percentile - - £15.19
England median hourly rate - £37.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -42.31% -28.49%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,203 3,997 4,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 89.90% 82.60% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,999 2,446 3,364
10th Percentile £250 £255 £250
25th Percentile £400 £403 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.35% +3.60%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £623
90th Percentile £666 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 298 316 235
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £15.35
25th Percentile £15.16 £26.25 £21.05
Median hourly rate £21.74 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.10% +14.70% +100.00%
75th Percentile £50.00 £70.05 £63.38
90th Percentile £70.49 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £40.85
% change year-on-year -41.51% +5.28% +54.13%

DataOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing DataOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for DataOps in the South East

DataOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DataOps in the South East.

Daily rate trend for DataOps in the South East

DataOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DataOps in the South East over the 6 months to 17 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DataOps in the South East

DataOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DataOps in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for DataOps in the South East

DataOps
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South East region over the 6 months to 17 August 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
Thames Valley +11 7 £550 - 5
Berkshire +11 4 - - 2
Buckinghamshire - 3 £550 - 2
Hampshire - 1 £320 -
Surrey - 1 £425 - 1
DataOps
England

DataOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) dbt
2 3 (33.33%) GCP
2 3 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 3 (33.33%) Snowflake
3 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
3 2 (22.22%) Fivetran
3 2 (22.22%) PaaS
4 1 (11.11%) AWS
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub
4 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 3 (33.33%) Power BI
2 2 (22.22%) Tableau
3 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (11.11%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
2 1 (11.11%) GitLab
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) MLflow
General
1 8 (88.89%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Finance
4 1 (11.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Lead
2 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Security Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Environment And Release Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Release Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) PyTorch
1 3 (33.33%) TensorFlow
2 2 (22.22%) Google JAX
2 2 (22.22%) JAX
2 2 (22.22%) scikit-learn
3 1 (11.11%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Algorithms
1 3 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (22.22%) Security Posture
3 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
3 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (44.44%) Data Science
2 4 (44.44%) DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) Analytics
3 3 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 3 (33.33%) Data Strategy
3 3 (33.33%) Deep Learning
3 3 (33.33%) LLM
3 3 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 3 (33.33%) Master Data Management
3 3 (33.33%) MLOps
3 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Incident Response
4 2 (22.22%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (22.22%) C
3 2 (22.22%) C++
3 2 (22.22%) Java
3 2 (22.22%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
1 2 (22.22%) Master's Degree
2 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (11.11%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (22.22%) EU AI Act
2 2 (22.22%) GDPR
2 2 (22.22%) GRC
2 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (22.22%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce
2 1 (11.11%) SAP