DataOps Contract Job Trends in the South West

DataOps
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring DataOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 132 154
Rank change year-on-year +12 +22 +21
Contract jobs citing DataOps 11 3 6
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.51% 0.12% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.15% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 6
10th Percentile - £465 £592
25th Percentile £160 £469 £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £488 £613
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -20.41% +44.12%
75th Percentile £625 £509 £667
90th Percentile £675 £519 £739
England median daily rate £550 £500 £570
% change year-on-year +10.00% -12.28% -9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,913 2,042 2,739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 88.69% 84.52% 87.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,105 1,229 1,851
10th Percentile £221 £313 £300
25th Percentile £375 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.24% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £734 £719
England median daily rate £509 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.05% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 282 150 287
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.39 £20.40
25th Percentile £18.87 £33.50 £45.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.31% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £63.75 £70.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.78 £74.04 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.93% -15.73% +27.14%

DataOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

DataOps job vacancy trend in the South West

DataOps
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing DataOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing DataOps

DataOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DataOps in the South West over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DataOps in the South West

DataOps
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 7 November 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
Gloucestershire +3 7 £550 +12.82% 2
Somerset - 4 £170 - 4
DataOps
England

DataOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
1 6 (54.55%) Azure Data Factory
1 6 (54.55%) GitHub
2 4 (36.36%) Power Platform
3 1 (9.09%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) Elasticsearch
1 6 (54.55%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (36.36%) Power BI
3 1 (9.09%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) Maven
General
1 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Data Engineer
1 6 (54.55%) Senior
1 6 (54.55%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Applications Support
2 1 (9.09%) Applications Support Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) Kafka
1 6 (54.55%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Batch Processing
1 6 (54.55%) Containerisation
1 6 (54.55%) Data Architecture
1 6 (54.55%) Data Engineering
1 6 (54.55%) Data Pipeline
1 6 (54.55%) DevOps
1 6 (54.55%) ETL
2 4 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (36.36%) Data Analysis
2 4 (36.36%) Data Entry
2 4 (36.36%) EAM
3 1 (9.09%) Data Centre Operations
3 1 (9.09%) Incident Response
3 1 (9.09%) Microservices
3 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (9.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Go
1 6 (54.55%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 6 (54.55%) Azure Certification
2 6 (54.55%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) Grafana
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle