Hybrid/Remote DataOps Contract Job Trends

DataOps
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring DataOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 289 356
Rank change year-on-year -6 +67 +142
Contract jobs citing DataOps 22 28 25
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.22% 0.24% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.27% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 17 21
10th Percentile £425 £463 £433
25th Percentile £475 £468 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £547 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.30% -9.09% -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £526 £630
90th Percentile £688 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £565
% change year-on-year +10.00% -11.50% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £41.10
Median hourly rate - - £42.31
75th Percentile - - £43.51
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £37.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - -28.57% -

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 9,307 10,398 15,211
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.96% 89.03% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,155 6,534 10,383
10th Percentile £330 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 328 212 370
10th Percentile £15.27 £17.58 £19.91
25th Percentile £20.47 £22.00 £27.06
Median hourly rate £42.50 £37.00 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.86% -30.84% -2.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.63 £71.44
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.85
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.88% +25.29%

DataOps
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DataOps and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

DataOps job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

DataOps
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing DataOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing DataOps

DataOps
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing DataOps over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

DataOps daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

DataOps
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing DataOps.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing DataOps

DataOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (22.73%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (9.09%) Jupyter
3 1 (4.55%) CMS
3 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.55%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (36.36%) Snowflake
2 7 (31.82%) AWS
2 7 (31.82%) Azure
3 6 (27.27%) Power Platform
4 4 (18.18%) dbt
4 4 (18.18%) Serverless
5 3 (13.64%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (13.64%) GCP
5 3 (13.64%) GitHub
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon S3
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (9.09%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (9.09%) Azure Functions
6 2 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (4.55%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) Power BI
2 4 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (13.64%) Data Lake
3 3 (13.64%) Snowflake Schema
3 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (9.09%) BigQuery
4 2 (9.09%) Tableau
5 1 (4.55%) Data Vault
5 1 (4.55%) Delta Lake
5 1 (4.55%) HDInsight
5 1 (4.55%) Power Query
5 1 (4.55%) Redis
5 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Git
2 2 (9.09%) RStudio
3 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.55%) Maven
3 1 (4.55%) MLflow
3 1 (4.55%) Selenium
3 1 (4.55%) Terragrunt
General
1 10 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 7 (31.82%) Finance
3 4 (18.18%) Banking
3 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (9.09%) Retail
6 1 (4.55%) Electronics
6 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
6 1 (4.55%) Marketing
6 1 (4.55%) Retail Banking
6 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Data Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Data Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Senior
4 2 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (9.09%) GCP Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Power BI Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Python Data Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Python Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Applications Support Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Applications Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) FastAPI
1 3 (13.64%) Kafka
2 2 (9.09%) PyTorch
2 2 (9.09%) REST
2 2 (9.09%) scikit-learn
3 1 (4.55%) Flask
3 1 (4.55%) Google JAX
3 1 (4.55%) Hugging Face
3 1 (4.55%) JAX
3 1 (4.55%) Playwright
3 1 (4.55%) Puppeteer
3 1 (4.55%) PySpark
3 1 (4.55%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.55%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.55%) CMDB
2 1 (4.55%) Data Fabric
2 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.55%) IoT
2 1 (4.55%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Analytics
1 10 (45.45%) Data Pipeline
2 8 (36.36%) CI/CD
2 8 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (31.82%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (31.82%) Data Engineering
3 7 (31.82%) DevOps
4 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (27.27%) MLOps
5 5 (22.73%) AI
5 5 (22.73%) Data Science
5 5 (22.73%) ETL
5 5 (22.73%) Machine Learning
6 4 (18.18%) Data Modelling
6 4 (18.18%) Visualisation
7 3 (13.64%) Agile
7 3 (13.64%) Data Analysis
7 3 (13.64%) Migration
7 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (13.64%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (59.09%) Python
1 13 (59.09%) SQL
2 2 (9.09%) Bash
2 2 (9.09%) Java
2 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
2 2 (9.09%) R
3 1 (4.55%) C
3 1 (4.55%) C#
3 1 (4.55%) C++
3 1 (4.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (4.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) Data Quality
1 4 (18.18%) GDPR
2 1 (4.55%) EU AI Act
2 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.55%) NCSC
2 1 (4.55%) NIST
2 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) Terraform
2 5 (22.73%) Kubernetes
3 2 (9.09%) Grafana
3 2 (9.09%) Progress Chef
4 1 (4.55%) Ansible
4 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.55%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) Databricks
2 2 (9.09%) Google
3 1 (4.55%) Alteryx
3 1 (4.55%) MicroStrategy
3 1 (4.55%) MuleSoft
3 1 (4.55%) New Relic
3 1 (4.55%) SAP
3 1 (4.55%) Workday