DataOps Job Trends in Cardiff

DataOps
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring DataOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 - 63
Rank change year-on-year - - +1
Permanent jobs citing DataOps 1 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Cardiff 0.15% - 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% - 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
South Wales median annual salary £63,500 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cardiff

DataOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cardiff.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 506 182 621
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 74.41% 90.55% 75.73%
Number of salaries quoted 375 128 545
10th Percentile £29,620 £28,050 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £50,685
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +8.51% -7.85%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,438 £66,000
90th Percentile £84,000 £75,000 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £47,014
% change year-on-year -4.76% +11.67% -3.36%

DataOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DataOps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

DataOps job vacancy trend in Cardiff

DataOps
Salary Trend in Cardiff

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing DataOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing DataOps

DataOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks