DataOps Contracts in the UK excluding London

DataOps
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for DataOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DataOps over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 363 423 453
Rank change year-on-year +60 +30 -31
Contract jobs citing DataOps 28 34 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.14% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.16% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 19 46
10th Percentile £440 £313 £413
25th Percentile £453 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £550 £553 £625
90th Percentile £575 £650 £744
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £15.11 -
UK median hourly rate £48.48 £15.21 £90.90
% change year-on-year +218.75% -83.27% +599.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

DataOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,415 21,396 27,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.71% 89.54% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,404 14,848 19,199
10th Percentile £250 £256 £233
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £689 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,049 1,314 1,359
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.17
25th Percentile £15.23 £15.63 £14.04
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.21
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.74 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 May 2024. 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
Scotland +46 12 £453 -9.85% 8
Midlands +39 12 £550 +10.00% 10
West Midlands +35 12 £550 +10.00% 3
East of England +7 2 - - 1
South West +16 1 £500 +11.11% 4
South East +10 1 £650 +15.56% 11
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 10 (35.71%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 14 (50.00%) Azure
2 11 (39.29%) Snowflake
3 10 (35.71%) AWS
4 7 (25.00%) Power Platform
5 3 (10.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (10.71%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (10.71%) dbt
6 2 (7.14%) OCI
7 1 (3.57%) Azure AKS
7 1 (3.57%) Azure API Management
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Machine Learning
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (28.57%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (25.00%) Power BI
3 3 (10.71%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (7.14%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 2 (7.14%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (7.14%) Tableau
5 1 (3.57%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Git
General
1 5 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.71%) Finance
3 3 (10.71%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Banking
4 1 (3.57%) Fire and Rescue
4 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.57%) Legal
4 1 (3.57%) Marketing
4 1 (3.57%) Military
4 1 (3.57%) Multimedia
4 1 (3.57%) Police
4 1 (3.57%) Publishing
4 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
1 8 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
1 8 (28.57%) SIEM Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) Data Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Analyst
3 5 (17.86%) Data Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) AWS Data Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Python Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (14.29%) Pandas
3 3 (10.71%) ADO
3 3 (10.71%) Flask
4 2 (7.14%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (3.57%) Dask
5 1 (3.57%) Keras
5 1 (3.57%) NumPy
5 1 (3.57%) PySpark
5 1 (3.57%) PyTorch
5 1 (3.57%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 10 (35.71%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (28.57%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (7.14%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.57%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 8 (28.57%) Linux
1 8 (28.57%) Ubuntu
1 8 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (64.29%) Data Pipeline
2 15 (53.57%) Visualisation
3 13 (46.43%) DevOps
4 12 (42.86%) MLOps
5 11 (39.29%) Computer Science
5 11 (39.29%) Data Engineering
6 10 (35.71%) GitOps
7 9 (32.14%) Platform Engineering
8 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure Monitoring
8 8 (28.57%) RBAC
8 8 (28.57%) SIEM
9 7 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
10 6 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (17.86%) Business Case
12 4 (14.29%) Data Governance
13 3 (10.71%) Actionable Insight
13 3 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
13 3 (10.71%) Data Transformation
13 3 (10.71%) Project Management
13 3 (10.71%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 14 (50.00%) Python
2 11 (39.29%) Scala
3 10 (35.71%) Java
4 8 (28.57%) R
5 5 (17.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.57%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) Degree
4 1 (3.57%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 10 (35.71%) Docker
2 8 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 8 (28.57%) iptables
Systems Management
1 11 (39.29%) Kubernetes
2 10 (35.71%) Terraform
3 8 (28.57%) Kibana
3 8 (28.57%) logstash
Vendors
1 10 (35.71%) Databricks
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.14%) Liquidlogic
3 2 (7.14%) Oracle
4 1 (3.57%) Alteryx
4 1 (3.57%) Dataiku