DataOps Contracts in the UK excluding London

DataOps
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 314 371 430
Rank change year-on-year +57 +59 +11
Contract jobs citing DataOps 22 28 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.13% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.16% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 21 19
10th Percentile £315 £440 £375
25th Percentile £320 £453 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -6.98%
75th Percentile £539 £550 £553
90th Percentile £636 £575 £650
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -3.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

DataOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing DataOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DataOps in the UK excluding London

DataOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DataOps in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for DataOps in the UK excluding London

DataOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DataOps in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DataOps in the UK excluding London

DataOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DataOps in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for DataOps in the UK excluding London

DataOps
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DataOps within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South East +56 11 £650 - 40
East of England +32 4 £318 - 15
North of England - 3 £500 - 26
Midlands +12 2 - - 20
West Midlands +4 2 - - 11
North West - 2 £500 - 14
South West +46 1 - - 18
Yorkshire - 1 - - 10
Northern Ireland - 1 £563 - 2
DataOps
UK

DataOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (27.27%) Apache
1 6 (27.27%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (9.09%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.55%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (36.36%) Azure
2 3 (13.64%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (13.64%) dbt
2 3 (13.64%) GCP
2 3 (13.64%) GitHub
2 3 (13.64%) Power Platform
2 3 (13.64%) Vertex AI
3 1 (4.55%) AWS
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (13.64%) BigQuery
1 3 (13.64%) Looker
1 3 (13.64%) Metadata
1 3 (13.64%) Power BI
1 3 (13.64%) Tableau
2 2 (9.09%) Delta Lake
3 1 (4.55%) Data Mining
3 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) SonarQube
General
1 14 (63.64%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (45.45%) Retail
2 10 (45.45%) Telecoms
3 7 (31.82%) Billing
4 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
5 2 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Data Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) IT Manager
3 7 (31.82%) IT Operations Manager
3 7 (31.82%) Operations Manager
4 6 (27.27%) Performance Manager
5 5 (22.73%) Senior
5 5 (22.73%) Telecoms Manager
6 4 (18.18%) Data Manager
7 3 (13.64%) Python Data Engineer
7 3 (13.64%) Python Engineer
7 3 (13.64%) Senior Data Engineer
8 2 (9.09%) Analyst
8 2 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (9.09%) Data Analyst
8 2 (9.09%) GCP Data Engineer
8 2 (9.09%) GCP Engineer
8 2 (9.09%) Operations Analyst
8 2 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (9.09%) Senior Operations Analyst
9 1 (4.55%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (36.36%) PySpark
2 4 (18.18%) Kafka
3 3 (13.64%) AngularJS
3 3 (13.64%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (13.64%) NumPy
3 3 (13.64%) Pandas
3 3 (13.64%) React
4 2 (9.09%) ADO
5 1 (4.55%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Cloud Native
1 3 (13.64%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (13.64%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (4.55%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Actionable Insight
1 10 (45.45%) Analytics
1 10 (45.45%) Data Analysis
2 8 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
3 7 (31.82%) CI/CD
4 6 (27.27%) Workflow
5 5 (22.73%) Data Engineering
5 5 (22.73%) Data Management
5 5 (22.73%) Data Science
6 4 (18.18%) Data Analytics
6 4 (18.18%) Data Integration
6 4 (18.18%) Data Security
6 4 (18.18%) Data Visualisation
6 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (18.18%) Regulatory Compliance
6 4 (18.18%) Visualisation
7 3 (13.64%) Data Governance
7 3 (13.64%) Open Source
7 3 (13.64%) Technical Architecture
7 3 (13.64%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) Python
2 8 (36.36%) SQL
3 3 (13.64%) Java
4 1 (4.55%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 3 (13.64%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) Data Quality
2 3 (13.64%) Accessibility
2 3 (13.64%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Kubernetes
1 3 (13.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (45.45%) Splunk
2 8 (36.36%) Dynatrace
3 3 (13.64%) Databricks
4 2 (9.09%) Google
4 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.55%) Checkmarx
5 1 (4.55%) Oracle