DataOps Leader Job Trends in the City of London

DataOps Lead
Central London > City of London

The median DataOps Lead salary in the City of London is £81,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a DataOps Leader 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.058% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.062% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,000 - -
75th Percentile £85,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median annual salary £81,000 - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the City of London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 1,619 2,580 2,909
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.02% 92.81% 96.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,242 1,702 2,609
10th Percentile £37,335 £44,100 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year - +2.74% -2.67%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% - -3.33%

DataOps Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'DataOps Leader' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

DataOps Leader job vacancy trend in the City of London

DataOps Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 19 November 2025, DataOps Leader job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the City of London region featuring DataOps Leader in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Dagster
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) DataOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Prefect
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership

DataOps Leader Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Dagster
1 1 (100.00%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) DataOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform