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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 334 396
Rank change year-on-year +18 +62 +169
Permanent jobs citing DataOps 58 99 56
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.42% 0.64% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.68% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 40 51 46
10th Percentile £68,240 £60,000 £65,625
25th Percentile £78,563 £70,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,500 £75,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.67% -11.76% +9.68%
75th Percentile £91,875 £91,875 £100,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £150,000 £112,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% -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 12,179 14,601 16,983
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 87.59% 94.58% 92.42%
Number of salaries quoted 7,774 8,034 13,619
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,263 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,250 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,875 £115,000
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 12 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 12 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 +36 16 £80,000 -17.95% 2
East London - 3 £42,500 - 1
South London - 1 £55,200 - 1
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 10 (17.24%) Apache Spark
2 3 (5.17%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (13.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (6.90%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (6.90%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (1.72%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 27 (46.55%) Azure
2 16 (27.59%) AWS
3 15 (25.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 11 (18.97%) Power Platform
5 4 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (6.90%) Entra ID
5 4 (6.90%) Snowflake
6 3 (5.17%) dbt
6 3 (5.17%) Fivetran
6 3 (5.17%) GCP
6 3 (5.17%) IaaS
6 3 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (5.17%) PaaS
6 3 (5.17%) SaaS
6 3 (5.17%) Serverless
7 2 (3.45%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.45%) Azure AKS
7 2 (3.45%) GitHub
7 2 (3.45%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.17%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (22.41%) Big Data
2 11 (18.97%) Metadata
2 11 (18.97%) Power BI
3 10 (17.24%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (13.79%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (13.79%) Hadoop
4 8 (13.79%) NoSQL
4 8 (13.79%) Oracle Database
4 8 (13.79%) Oracle Exadata
5 4 (6.90%) BigQuery
5 4 (6.90%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (5.17%) Data Lake
7 2 (3.45%) Delta Lake
7 2 (3.45%) Looker
7 2 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.72%) Data Vault
8 1 (1.72%) Parquet
8 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.72%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.72%) JIRA
1 1 (1.72%) MLflow
General
1 32 (55.17%) Social Skills
2 20 (34.48%) Analytical Skills
2 20 (34.48%) Finance
3 12 (20.69%) Influencing Skills
4 9 (15.52%) Law
4 9 (15.52%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (10.34%) Legal
5 6 (10.34%) Marketing
6 5 (8.62%) Public Sector
7 3 (5.17%) Billing
7 3 (5.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (5.17%) Retail
8 1 (1.72%) Banking
8 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 15 (25.86%) Lead
2 12 (20.69%) Architect
3 8 (13.79%) Analyst
3 8 (13.79%) Business Analyst
3 8 (13.79%) Data Analyst
3 8 (13.79%) Data Business Analyst
3 8 (13.79%) Database Architect
3 8 (13.79%) Insurance Business Analyst
3 8 (13.79%) Oracle Architect
3 8 (13.79%) Product Lead
3 8 (13.79%) Senior
4 7 (12.07%) DataOps Engineer
5 6 (10.34%) Data Engineer
5 6 (10.34%) DataOps Leader
5 6 (10.34%) Senior Manager
6 5 (8.62%) Big Data Engineer
6 5 (8.62%) Lead Big Data Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) IT Manager
7 4 (6.90%) Senior Audit Manager
7 4 (6.90%) Senior IT Audit Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (17.24%) Kafka
2 3 (5.17%) PySpark
3 1 (1.72%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.52%) FMCG
2 8 (13.79%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.17%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.17%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (5.17%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.72%) Biopharmaceutical
4 1 (1.72%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.72%) IoT
4 1 (1.72%) Life Science
4 1 (1.72%) LIMS
4 1 (1.72%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.72%) Replication
4 1 (1.72%) SCADA
4 1 (1.72%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (1.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (43.10%) Analytics
2 22 (37.93%) CI/CD
2 22 (37.93%) Data Modelling
3 21 (36.21%) Business Intelligence
4 18 (31.03%) Data Engineering
5 17 (29.31%) Data Governance
5 17 (29.31%) Observability
6 16 (27.59%) Cost Optimisation
6 16 (27.59%) Data Pipeline
6 16 (27.59%) DevOps
7 15 (25.86%) Decision-Making
7 15 (25.86%) ETL
8 13 (22.41%) AI
9 12 (20.69%) Computer Science
9 12 (20.69%) Machine Learning
9 12 (20.69%) Migration
10 11 (18.97%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (18.97%) Data Management
10 11 (18.97%) Metadata Management
10 11 (18.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 19 (32.76%) SQL
2 5 (8.62%) Python
3 1 (1.72%) Bicep
3 1 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (1.72%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (20.69%) Degree
2 11 (18.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (13.79%) OCP
3 8 (13.79%) Oracle Certification
4 2 (3.45%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.72%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.72%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.72%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.72%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (37.93%) Data Quality
2 10 (17.24%) QA
3 5 (8.62%) SLA
4 4 (6.90%) GDPR
4 4 (6.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (3.45%) PERC
6 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.72%) GMP
System Software
1 8 (13.79%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (6.90%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (13.79%) Data Guard
1 8 (13.79%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 8 (13.79%) Oracle RMAN
2 7 (12.07%) Terraform
3 4 (6.90%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.72%) Ansible
4 1 (1.72%) Control-M
4 1 (1.72%) Grafana
4 1 (1.72%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (29.31%) Databricks
2 12 (20.69%) Oracle
2 12 (20.69%) SAP
3 9 (15.52%) Microsoft
4 8 (13.79%) Delphix
5 4 (6.90%) Workday
6 2 (3.45%) Google
6 2 (3.45%) Salesforce
6 2 (3.45%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (1.72%) BMC
7 1 (1.72%) IBM
7 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.72%) Talend
7 1 (1.72%) Temenos