DataOps Job Trends in Central London

DataOps
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Central London requiring DataOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 167 161
Rank change year-on-year +38 -6 +87
Permanent jobs citing DataOps 16 17 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 0.63% 0.53% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.55% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 14 14 7
10th Percentile - £60,750 -
25th Percentile - £72,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £97,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.95% +30.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £140,000 £150,000 £95,738
90th Percentile - - £106,385
London median annual salary £81,500 £75,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +8.67% -11.76% +9.68%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,233 3,083 2,884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 87.26% 95.89% 94.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,643 1,839 2,542
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £115,000
London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

DataOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

DataOps job vacancy trend in Central London

DataOps
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing DataOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing DataOps

DataOps
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DataOps in Central London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for DataOps in Central London

DataOps
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DataOps within the Central London region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +36 16 £80,000 +6.67% 1
DataOps
London

DataOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (6.25%) Azure
1 1 (6.25%) Azure AKS
1 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (6.25%) Dagster
1 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
1 1 (6.25%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) Oracle Database
1 6 (37.50%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.25%) Power BI
General
1 14 (87.50%) Finance
2 8 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
2 8 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
2 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Analyst
1 8 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 8 (50.00%) Data Analyst
1 8 (50.00%) Data Business Analyst
1 8 (50.00%) Insurance Business Analyst
2 6 (37.50%) Architect
2 6 (37.50%) Database Architect
2 6 (37.50%) Oracle Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Data Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) DataOps Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) DataOps Leader
3 1 (6.25%) Lead
3 1 (6.25%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Kafka
1 1 (6.25%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Data Fabric
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Business Analysis
1 8 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
1 8 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 8 (50.00%) Data Management
1 8 (50.00%) Migration
1 8 (50.00%) Process Improvement
1 8 (50.00%) Validation
2 7 (43.75%) Data Modelling
3 6 (37.50%) Budgeting
3 6 (37.50%) Computer Science
3 6 (37.50%) Contract Negotiation
3 6 (37.50%) Cost Optimisation
3 6 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (12.50%) Analytics
5 1 (6.25%) DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (6.25%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (6.25%) Open Source
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) Python
1 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (37.50%) Degree
1 6 (37.50%) OCP
1 6 (37.50%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (56.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Data Guard
1 6 (37.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 6 (37.50%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (6.25%) Ansible
2 1 (6.25%) Grafana
2 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Delphix
1 6 (37.50%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft