DataOps Job Trends in London

DataOps
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring DataOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 323 384
Rank change year-on-year -10 +61 +172
Permanent jobs citing DataOps 62 102 52
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.45% 0.65% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.68% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 43 54 47
10th Percentile £43,480 £60,000 £65,750
25th Percentile £74,500 £70,000 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,500 £75,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.67% -14.29% +9.38%
75th Percentile £92,500 £92,813 £100,592
90th Percentile £140,000 £150,000 £112,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,117 14,907 16,420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 88.36% 94.37% 92.91%
Number of salaries quoted 7,725 8,332 13,201
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,000 £41,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

DataOps
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

DataOps job vacancy trend in London

DataOps
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing DataOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing DataOps

DataOps
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DataOps in London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for DataOps in London

DataOps
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DataOps within the London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London +50 17 £80,000 -5.88% 17
East London - 5 £42,500 - 1
South London - 1 £55,200 - 2
DataOps
England

DataOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 11 (17.74%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.84%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (14.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (6.45%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (6.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (1.61%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 30 (48.39%) Azure
2 20 (32.26%) AWS
3 15 (24.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 10 (16.13%) Power Platform
5 5 (8.06%) IaaS
5 5 (8.06%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (8.06%) PaaS
5 5 (8.06%) SaaS
5 5 (8.06%) Serverless
6 4 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (6.45%) Entra ID
6 4 (6.45%) Snowflake
7 3 (4.84%) dbt
7 3 (4.84%) Fivetran
7 3 (4.84%) GCP
7 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (3.23%) Amazon S3
8 2 (3.23%) GitHub
8 2 (3.23%) Workato
8 2 (3.23%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.06%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (20.97%) Big Data
2 12 (19.35%) Metadata
3 11 (17.74%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (16.13%) Power BI
5 9 (14.52%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (14.52%) Hadoop
5 9 (14.52%) NoSQL
6 8 (12.90%) Oracle Database
6 8 (12.90%) Oracle Exadata
7 4 (6.45%) BigQuery
7 4 (6.45%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (4.84%) Data Lake
8 3 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (3.23%) Delta Lake
9 2 (3.23%) Looker
9 2 (3.23%) SQL Server
10 1 (1.61%) DB2
10 1 (1.61%) Parquet
10 1 (1.61%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Git
1 1 (1.61%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.61%) JIRA
1 1 (1.61%) MLflow
General
1 36 (58.06%) Social Skills
2 23 (37.10%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (33.87%) Finance
4 13 (20.97%) Influencing Skills
5 10 (16.13%) Law
5 10 (16.13%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (9.68%) Legal
6 6 (9.68%) Marketing
7 5 (8.06%) Billing
7 5 (8.06%) Public Sector
8 3 (4.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (4.84%) Retail
9 1 (1.61%) Banking
9 1 (1.61%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 15 (24.19%) Lead
2 12 (19.35%) Architect
3 9 (14.52%) Analyst
3 9 (14.52%) Business Analyst
3 9 (14.52%) Data Analyst
3 9 (14.52%) Data Business Analyst
3 9 (14.52%) Insurance Business Analyst
3 9 (14.52%) Product Lead
4 8 (12.90%) Database Architect
4 8 (12.90%) Oracle Architect
4 8 (12.90%) Senior
5 6 (9.68%) Data Engineer
5 6 (9.68%) DataOps Engineer
5 6 (9.68%) Senior Manager
6 5 (8.06%) 3rd Line Support
6 5 (8.06%) DataOps Leader
7 4 (6.45%) Audit Manager
7 4 (6.45%) IT Manager
7 4 (6.45%) Lead Big Data Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Senior IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (17.74%) Kafka
2 3 (4.84%) PySpark
3 1 (1.61%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.13%) FMCG
2 9 (14.52%) Product Ownership
3 5 (8.06%) Data Centre
3 5 (8.06%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (4.84%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.84%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.61%) Biopharmaceutical
5 1 (1.61%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.61%) IoT
5 1 (1.61%) Life Science
5 1 (1.61%) LIMS
5 1 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.61%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.61%) Replication
5 1 (1.61%) SCADA
5 1 (1.61%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (1.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.45%) Unix
2 1 (1.61%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (45.16%) Analytics
2 23 (37.10%) CI/CD
2 23 (37.10%) Data Modelling
3 21 (33.87%) Business Intelligence
4 19 (30.65%) Data Engineering
5 18 (29.03%) Data Governance
6 17 (27.42%) Cost Optimisation
6 17 (27.42%) Data Pipeline
6 17 (27.42%) DevOps
6 17 (27.42%) Observability
7 16 (25.81%) Decision-Making
7 16 (25.81%) ETL
8 15 (24.19%) Migration
9 13 (20.97%) AI
9 13 (20.97%) Machine Learning
10 12 (19.35%) Computer Science
10 12 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (19.35%) Data Management
10 12 (19.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 12 (19.35%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 21 (33.87%) SQL
2 6 (9.68%) Python
3 1 (1.61%) Bash
3 1 (1.61%) Bicep
3 1 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (1.61%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (19.35%) Degree
2 11 (17.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (12.90%) OCP
3 8 (12.90%) Oracle Certification
4 2 (3.23%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.61%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.61%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.61%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (40.32%) Data Quality
2 11 (17.74%) QA
3 4 (6.45%) GDPR
3 4 (6.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (6.45%) SLA
4 2 (3.23%) PERC
5 1 (1.61%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.61%) GMP
System Software
1 8 (12.90%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (6.45%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.23%) Docker
4 1 (1.61%) zsh
Systems Management
1 8 (12.90%) Data Guard
1 8 (12.90%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 8 (12.90%) Oracle RMAN
2 7 (11.29%) Terraform
3 4 (6.45%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.61%) Ansible
4 1 (1.61%) Control-M
4 1 (1.61%) Grafana
4 1 (1.61%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (29.03%) Databricks
2 13 (20.97%) SAP
3 12 (19.35%) Oracle
4 9 (14.52%) Microsoft
5 8 (12.90%) Delphix
6 4 (6.45%) Workday
7 2 (3.23%) Google
7 2 (3.23%) Salesforce
7 2 (3.23%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (1.61%) BMC
8 1 (1.61%) IBM
8 1 (1.61%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.61%) Talend
8 1 (1.61%) Temenos