DataOps Engineer Job Trends in the UK excluding London

DataOps Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

As of 22 December 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median DataOps Engineer salary in the UK excluding London.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 514 562 532
Rank change year-on-year +48 -30 +254
Permanent jobs requiring a DataOps Engineer 7 2 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.017% 0.005% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.006% 0.008%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £72,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £75,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% -3.23%
75th Percentile - £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £90,000 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% +25.00% -3.23%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 37,920 35,482 26,658
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.23% 93.47% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 23,015 17,792 20,250
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,070
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

DataOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

DataOps Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

DataOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for DataOps Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for DataOps Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

DataOps Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DataOps Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 December 2025. 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
Scotland - 4 - -
North East - 2 - -
North of England - 2 - - 2
East of England - 1 - -
DataOps Engineer
UK

DataOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 22 December 2025, DataOps Engineer 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 UK excluding London region featuring DataOps Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) DataOps
2 6 (85.71%) Machine Learning
2 6 (85.71%) MLOps
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 1 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Change Control
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
3 1 (14.29%) Data Transformation
3 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (14.29%) ETL
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL
3 1 (14.29%) Power BI
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 1 (14.29%) Problem Management
3 1 (14.29%) QA
3 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) SLA
3 1 (14.29%) SQL

DataOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
General
1 1 (14.29%) Games
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) DataOps
2 6 (85.71%) Machine Learning
2 6 (85.71%) MLOps
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Change Control
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) Data Transformation
3 1 (14.29%) ETL
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL
3 1 (14.29%) Problem Management
3 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 1 (14.29%) QA
1 1 (14.29%) SLA