DataOps Contracts in the Thames Valley

DataOps
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 118 135
Rank change year-on-year +13 +17 +45
DemandTrendContract jobs citing DataOps 7 5 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.42% 0.22% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.26% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £465 - £472
25th Percentile £488 - £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -32.35%
75th Percentile £600 - £603
90th Percentile £615 - £631
South East median daily rate £450 - £575
% change year-on-year - - -32.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,529 1,889 2,521
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 91.67% 84.59% 90.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 914 1,073 1,706
10th Percentile £300 £263 £300
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.44% +4.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £519 £518
% change year-on-year -3.57% +0.10% +3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 104 86
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.10 £16.25
25th Percentile £15.12 £25.12 £24.50
Median hourly rate £24.58 £57.19 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.03% +14.39% +153.16%
75th Percentile £46.30 £67.13 £66.00
90th Percentile £77.75 £85.53 £74.90
South East median hourly rate £23.50 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -59.02% +14.70% +92.31%

DataOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing DataOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for DataOps in the Thames Valley

DataOps
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing DataOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing DataOps

DataOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DataOps in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DataOps in the Thames Valley

DataOps
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing DataOps.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing DataOps

DataOps
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DataOps within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 23 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +16 4 - - 6
Buckinghamshire - 3 £550 - 1
DataOps
South East

DataOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (42.86%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) dbt
1 3 (42.86%) Snowflake
2 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
2 2 (28.57%) Fivetran
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
2 2 (28.57%) PaaS
2 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Data Lake
1 2 (28.57%) Power BI
1 2 (28.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Lead
1 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Security Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Environment And Release Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Google JAX
1 2 (28.57%) JAX
1 2 (28.57%) PyTorch
1 2 (28.57%) scikit-learn
1 2 (28.57%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (28.57%) Algorithms
2 2 (28.57%) Security Posture
3 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Data Science
2 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
4 2 (28.57%) Data Management
4 2 (28.57%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (28.57%) Deep Learning
4 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
4 2 (28.57%) Master Data Management
4 2 (28.57%) Migration
4 2 (28.57%) SDLC
4 2 (28.57%) Secure Coding
4 2 (28.57%) Security Architecture
4 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (28.57%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) C
2 2 (28.57%) C++
2 2 (28.57%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) R
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
1 2 (28.57%) EU AI Act
1 2 (28.57%) GDPR
1 2 (28.57%) GRC
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (28.57%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce
2 1 (14.29%) SAP