DataOps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 523 613 625
Rank change year-on-year +90 +12 -25
Contract jobs citing DataOps 63 80 225
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.14% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.15% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 55 140
10th Percentile £440 £413 £405
25th Percentile £460 £457 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +2.22%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £625
90th Percentile £675 £775 £676
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -4.00% -6.98% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £42.46 £15.04 -
25th Percentile £44.49 £15.11 -
Median hourly rate £48.48 £15.21 £90.90
Median % change year-on-year +218.75% -83.27% +599.23%
75th Percentile £51.87 £52.61 -
90th Percentile £53.54 £75.04 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £15.11 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,201 52,182 79,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.27% 89.83% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,946 36,175 55,967
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,437 1,727 1,890
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

DataOps
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing DataOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DataOps in the UK

DataOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DataOps in the UK

DataOps
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DataOps over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DataOps in the UK

DataOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for DataOps in the UK

DataOps
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 8 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
England +64 43 £550 - 77
Work from Home +123 28 £500 -4.31% 65
UK excluding London +64 28 £480 -4.00% 57
London +89 26 £550 -4.35% 30
Midlands +42 13 £550 +10.00% 10
West Midlands +37 13 £550 +10.00% 4
Scotland +48 12 £453 -9.85% 8
East of England +2 2 - - 1
South West +11 1 £500 +11.11% 4

DataOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 12 (19.05%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.17%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.59%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (4.76%) SPSS
2 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.17%) MIS ActiveH
1 2 (3.17%) NEC Housing
1 2 (3.17%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.59%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.59%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 23 (36.51%) AWS
2 21 (33.33%) Azure
3 13 (20.63%) Power Platform
3 13 (20.63%) Snowflake
4 10 (15.87%) dbt
5 8 (12.70%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (12.70%) Serverless
6 7 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (9.52%) Amazon Kinesis
7 6 (9.52%) AWS Step Functions
8 5 (7.94%) Amazon EventBridge
9 3 (4.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (4.76%) GCP
10 2 (3.17%) Amazon S3
10 2 (3.17%) Cloud Functions
10 2 (3.17%) OCI
11 1 (1.59%) Amazon ECR
11 1 (1.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.76%) Firewall
2 2 (3.17%) Network Security
3 1 (1.59%) DNS
3 1 (1.59%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (20.63%) Power BI
2 8 (12.70%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (12.70%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (7.94%) Data Lake
4 5 (7.94%) Data Mining
5 4 (6.35%) Relational Database
5 4 (6.35%) SQL Server
6 3 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (4.76%) BusinessObjects
6 3 (4.76%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 3 (4.76%) Tableau
7 2 (3.17%) Big Data
7 2 (3.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 2 (3.17%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.59%) Ataccama
8 1 (1.59%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.59%) DB2
8 1 (1.59%) Metadata
8 1 (1.59%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 8 (12.70%) Git
2 5 (7.94%) JIRA
General
1 12 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (17.46%) Finance
3 9 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 5 (7.94%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.76%) Banking
6 2 (3.17%) Agriculture
6 2 (3.17%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.17%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.17%) Marketing
6 2 (3.17%) Retail
7 1 (1.59%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.59%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.59%) Legal
7 1 (1.59%) Military
7 1 (1.59%) Multimedia
7 1 (1.59%) Police
7 1 (1.59%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 18 (28.57%) Data Engineer
2 13 (20.63%) AWS Engineer
3 10 (15.87%) Analyst
4 9 (14.29%) Data Analyst
4 9 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
5 8 (12.70%) AWS Data Engineer
5 8 (12.70%) SIEM Engineer
6 6 (9.52%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 6 (9.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 5 (7.94%) Senior
8 4 (6.35%) Architect
8 4 (6.35%) Operations Analyst
9 3 (4.76%) Analytics Manager
9 3 (4.76%) Consultant
9 3 (4.76%) Data Migration Engineer
9 3 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.76%) Insight Manager
9 3 (4.76%) Migration Engineer
9 3 (4.76%) Python Engineer
9 3 (4.76%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.29%) PySpark
2 8 (12.70%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (9.52%) Pandas
4 3 (4.76%) ADO
4 3 (4.76%) Flask
4 3 (4.76%) PyTorch
5 2 (3.17%) Dask
5 2 (3.17%) Keras
5 2 (3.17%) LDAP
5 2 (3.17%) Middleware
5 2 (3.17%) NumPy
5 2 (3.17%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (3.17%) SAML
6 1 (1.59%) EDI
6 1 (1.59%) Kafka
6 1 (1.59%) REST
6 1 (1.59%) RESTful
6 1 (1.59%) scikit-learn
6 1 (1.59%) SOAP
6 1 (1.59%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.46%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (12.70%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (4.76%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.17%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.17%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.59%) Life Science
5 1 (1.59%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 10 (15.87%) Linux
1 10 (15.87%) Windows
2 8 (12.70%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
2 25 (39.68%) DevOps
3 22 (34.92%) Visualisation
4 21 (33.33%) Analytics
4 21 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
5 19 (30.16%) Data Engineering
6 15 (23.81%) Data Management
7 14 (22.22%) Computer Science
7 14 (22.22%) MLOps
8 11 (17.46%) Agile
8 11 (17.46%) CI/CD
8 11 (17.46%) Data Modelling
8 11 (17.46%) GitOps
9 10 (15.87%) Platform Engineering
10 9 (14.29%) Data Governance
10 9 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
10 9 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (14.29%) Roadmaps
11 8 (12.70%) Infrastructure Monitoring
11 8 (12.70%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 30 (47.62%) Python
2 16 (25.40%) SQL
3 12 (19.05%) Java
3 12 (19.05%) Scala
4 11 (17.46%) R
5 3 (4.76%) PowerShell
5 3 (4.76%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.59%) Bash
6 1 (1.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 5 (7.94%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.35%) Degree
2 4 (6.35%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.17%) DV Cleared
3 2 (3.17%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.59%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (1.59%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.52%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.17%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (3.17%) GDPR
2 2 (3.17%) QA
3 1 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 13 (20.63%) Docker
2 8 (12.70%) Active Directory
2 8 (12.70%) iptables
3 1 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (28.57%) Terraform
2 13 (20.63%) Kubernetes
3 8 (12.70%) Kibana
3 8 (12.70%) logstash
4 1 (1.59%) Grafana
Vendors
1 12 (19.05%) Databricks
2 6 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.94%) Oracle
4 2 (3.17%) Liquidlogic
4 2 (3.17%) NEC
5 1 (1.59%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.59%) Cisco
5 1 (1.59%) Dataiku
5 1 (1.59%) Google
5 1 (1.59%) IBM
5 1 (1.59%) Informatica
5 1 (1.59%) SAP