DataOps Contracts in the West Midlands

DataOps
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 95 132
Rank change year-on-year -2 +37 +16
Contract jobs citing DataOps 4 13 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.29% 0.69% 0.088%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.82% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 1
10th Percentile £301 £509 -
25th Percentile £303 £541 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £310 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -43.64% +10.00% -8.95%
75th Percentile £323 - -
90th Percentile £327 £565 -
England median daily rate £625 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +13.64% - -4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,242 1,585 1,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.71% 83.86% 88.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 809 1,055 1,366
10th Percentile £193 £275 £263
25th Percentile £375 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +4.06%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £662 £750 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 114 51
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.08 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.78 £14.03 £13.51
Median hourly rate £18.13 £22.50 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year -19.42% +8.67% +22.42%
75th Percentile £24.61 £40.38 £28.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.00 £47.50
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -21.23% +1.39% +44.00%

DataOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing DataOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for DataOps in the West Midlands

DataOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for DataOps in the West Midlands

DataOps
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DataOps within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 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
Solihull - 2 £310 -
DataOps
England

DataOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (50.00%) Apache
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
1 1 (25.00%) Semantic Layer
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Python Data Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Python Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (50.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Analytics
1 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Coaching
2 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Data Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Storage Management
2 2 (50.00%) Workflow
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Rapid Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft