DataOps Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

DataOps
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 270 317 448
Rank change year-on-year +47 +131 +56
Contract jobs citing DataOps 34 28 29
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.34% 0.18% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.21% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 17 22
10th Percentile £391 - £413
25th Percentile £541 £453 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -4.31% -12.92%
75th Percentile £850 £575 £609
90th Percentile - £615 £673
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -3.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £48.48 -
UK median hourly rate - £48.48 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

DataOps
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing DataOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DataOps trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

DataOps
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing DataOps over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 2 (5.88%) Apache
1 2 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.94%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.94%) Confluence
2 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (14.71%) MS Visio
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (2.94%) Aladdin
2 1 (2.94%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 17 (50.00%) Azure
2 10 (29.41%) Power Platform
3 8 (23.53%) AWS
3 8 (23.53%) GitHub
4 7 (20.59%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (20.59%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (11.76%) Entra ID
5 4 (11.76%) GCP
5 4 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (5.88%) dbt
6 2 (5.88%) SaaS
7 1 (2.94%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.94%) Azure Stack
7 1 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.94%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.94%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.65%) Big Data
1 6 (17.65%) Power BI
2 4 (11.76%) Apache Cassandra
2 4 (11.76%) Hadoop
2 4 (11.76%) SQL Server
3 3 (8.82%) BigQuery
4 2 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (5.88%) Looker
4 2 (5.88%) Tableau
5 1 (2.94%) Airbyte
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (2.94%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.94%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.94%) MS Access
5 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.94%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 15 (44.12%) Analytical Skills
1 15 (44.12%) Finance
2 10 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 8 (23.53%) Banking
4 7 (20.59%) Retail
4 7 (20.59%) Telecoms
5 6 (17.65%) Front Office
5 6 (17.65%) Investment Banking
6 4 (11.76%) Billing
7 2 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.94%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (23.53%) Analyst
2 7 (20.59%) Data Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) Lead
4 5 (14.71%) Architect
4 5 (14.71%) Data Analyst
4 5 (14.71%) IT Manager
4 5 (14.71%) IT Operations Manager
4 5 (14.71%) Operations Manager
4 5 (14.71%) Performance Manager
5 4 (11.76%) Data Architect
6 3 (8.82%) Data Manager
6 3 (8.82%) Senior
6 3 (8.82%) Telecoms Manager
7 2 (5.88%) Business Analyst
7 2 (5.88%) DataOps Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Operations Analyst
7 2 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (5.88%) Senior Operations Analyst
8 1 (2.94%) Cloud Architect
8 1 (2.94%) Commercial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (23.53%) Kafka
2 6 (17.65%) Play Framework
3 2 (5.88%) PySpark
3 2 (5.88%) pytest
4 1 (2.94%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.94%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.94%) Django
4 1 (2.94%) FastAPI
4 1 (2.94%) Flask
4 1 (2.94%) Great Expectations
4 1 (2.94%) Node.js
4 1 (2.94%) NumPy
4 1 (2.94%) Pandas
4 1 (2.94%) React
4 1 (2.94%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Algorithms
1 6 (17.65%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.94%) Blockchain
2 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.94%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.94%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (38.24%) Analytics
1 13 (38.24%) Business Intelligence
2 12 (35.29%) CI/CD
2 12 (35.29%) DevOps
3 10 (29.41%) Data Analysis
3 10 (29.41%) Data Engineering
3 10 (29.41%) Machine Learning
3 10 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (26.47%) Actionable Insight
4 9 (26.47%) Agile
4 9 (26.47%) Artificial Intelligence
4 9 (26.47%) MLOps
5 8 (23.53%) Data Science
6 7 (20.59%) LLM
7 6 (17.65%) Data Pipeline
7 6 (17.65%) Generative AI
7 6 (17.65%) ModelOps
7 6 (17.65%) SDLC
8 5 (14.71%) Data Modelling
8 5 (14.71%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 13 (38.24%) SQL
2 12 (35.29%) Python
3 7 (20.59%) Scala
4 1 (2.94%) Bash
4 1 (2.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (2.94%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.65%) GDPR
2 4 (11.76%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.94%) QA
3 1 (2.94%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (11.76%) Terraform
2 2 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (20.59%) Databricks
1 7 (20.59%) Splunk
2 4 (11.76%) BiZZdesign
2 4 (11.76%) Dynatrace
2 4 (11.76%) Informatica
2 4 (11.76%) Sparx
3 3 (8.82%) Google
4 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.94%) Bloomberg
5 1 (2.94%) FactSet
5 1 (2.94%) Progress
5 1 (2.94%) Salesforce