DataOps Contracts with Work from Home Options

DataOps
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 309 441 496
Rank change year-on-year +132 +55 -53
Contract jobs citing DataOps 28 26 129
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.18% 0.10% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.11% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 20 88
10th Percentile - £438 £400
25th Percentile £453 £500 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -12.92% +9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £616 £638
90th Percentile £615 £675 £679
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £42.46 - -
25th Percentile £44.49 - -
Median hourly rate £48.48 - -
75th Percentile £51.87 - -
90th Percentile £53.54 - -
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,316 22,957 40,627
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.76% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,913 16,228 29,490
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £626
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 528 539
10th Percentile £15.17 £18.93 £13.70
25th Percentile £24.63 £30.00 £19.96
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.13
90th Percentile £75.15 £80.25 £67.56
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

DataOps
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing DataOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DataOps trend for jobs with a WFH option

DataOps
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing DataOps.

DataOps daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

DataOps
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing DataOps over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

DataOps daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

DataOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (21.43%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.57%) Apache
2 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (10.71%) SPSS
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (7.14%) MIS ActiveH
1 2 (7.14%) NEC Housing
1 2 (7.14%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 10 (35.71%) AWS
2 7 (25.00%) Azure
3 6 (21.43%) dbt
4 5 (17.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (17.86%) Amazon EventBridge
4 5 (17.86%) Amazon Kinesis
4 5 (17.86%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (17.86%) AWS Step Functions
4 5 (17.86%) Power Platform
4 5 (17.86%) Serverless
4 5 (17.86%) Snowflake
5 2 (7.14%) OCI
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.57%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (3.57%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) Firewall
1 1 (3.57%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) Amazon Redshift
1 5 (17.86%) Power BI
2 4 (14.29%) Data Mining
3 3 (10.71%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (10.71%) Relational Database
3 3 (10.71%) SQL Server
4 2 (7.14%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 2 (7.14%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (7.14%) Tableau
5 1 (3.57%) BigQuery
5 1 (3.57%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Git
2 5 (17.86%) JIRA
General
1 6 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (21.43%) Finance
2 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.14%) Agriculture
4 2 (7.14%) Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Legal
5 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.57%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (42.86%) Data Engineer
2 10 (35.71%) AWS Engineer
3 7 (25.00%) AWS Data Engineer
4 5 (17.86%) Analyst
4 5 (17.86%) Data Analyst
5 4 (14.29%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Analytics Manager
6 3 (10.71%) Data Migration Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Insight Manager
6 3 (10.71%) Migration Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 2 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
7 2 (7.14%) Power BI Analyst
7 2 (7.14%) Project Manager
7 2 (7.14%) Python Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) Python Data Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (21.43%) PySpark
2 2 (7.14%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (3.57%) ADO
3 1 (3.57%) Flask
3 1 (3.57%) Kafka
3 1 (3.57%) LDAP
3 1 (3.57%) Middleware
3 1 (3.57%) Pandas
3 1 (3.57%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.57%) Life Science
3 1 (3.57%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (53.57%) Analytics
2 14 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 14 (50.00%) DevOps
3 12 (42.86%) Data Management
4 10 (35.71%) Data Pipeline
5 9 (32.14%) Data Engineering
6 8 (28.57%) Visualisation
7 7 (25.00%) Agile
8 6 (21.43%) CI/CD
8 6 (21.43%) Computer Science
8 6 (21.43%) Data Modelling
9 5 (17.86%) GitOps
9 5 (17.86%) MLOps
9 5 (17.86%) OO
9 5 (17.86%) OOD
9 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (17.86%) Regression Testing
9 5 (17.86%) Sprint Planning
9 5 (17.86%) Unit Testing
9 5 (17.86%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 12 (42.86%) Python
2 6 (21.43%) SQL
3 5 (17.86%) Java
3 5 (17.86%) Scala
4 3 (10.71%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (3.57%) Degree
1 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
1 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.14%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (39.29%) Terraform
2 5 (17.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Databricks
2 2 (7.14%) Liquidlogic
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) NEC
2 2 (7.14%) Oracle