DataOps Job Trends in South Wales

DataOps
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring DataOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 - 80
Rank change year-on-year - - +2
Permanent jobs citing DataOps 3 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 0.19% - 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% - 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 - -
Wales median annual salary £63,500 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,105 459 904
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 69.28% 85.16% 68.02%
Number of salaries quoted 819 334 723
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £28,800
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,500 £35,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,171 £52,500 £46,604
Median % change year-on-year +1.28% +12.65% -6.79%
75th Percentile £68,885 £65,000 £62,200
90th Percentile £80,000 £74,777 £71,190
Wales median annual salary £50,000 £50,124 £45,000
% change year-on-year -0.25% +11.39% -

DataOps
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

DataOps job vacancy trend in South Wales

DataOps
Salary Trend in South Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing DataOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing DataOps

DataOps
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DataOps within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 21 July 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
Cardiff - 2 - -
Bridgend - 1 £63,500 - 2
DataOps
Wales

DataOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (66.67%) dbt
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
1 2 (66.67%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (66.67%) Delta Lake
2 2 (66.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
General
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
1 3 (100.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
1 3 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Culture
2 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Data Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Data Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Databricks