DataOps Job Trends in the UK excluding London

DataOps
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring DataOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 486 486 528
Rank change year-on-year 0 +42 +73
Permanent jobs citing DataOps 23 80 45
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.054% 0.22% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.069% 0.25% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 12 60 39
10th Percentile £46,825 £37,250 £27,150
25th Percentile £50,688 £52,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,100 £72,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +31.82% -24.14%
75th Percentile £59,563 £87,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £63,500 £105,642 £80,627
UK median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% -3.45%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,283 31,985 30,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.49% 89.04% 88.64%
Number of salaries quoted 19,187 14,363 22,780
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

DataOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

DataOps job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

DataOps
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing DataOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing DataOps

DataOps
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DataOps in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for DataOps in the UK excluding London

DataOps
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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
Midlands +25 11 £54,250 -7.66% 11
West Midlands +21 8 £55,000 -6.38% 5
Scotland -8 4 - -
South West +5 3 £58,850 +52.86% 5
North of England -11 3 £59,000 -26.25% 4
East Midlands - 3 £48,500 - 6
North East +11 2 - -
South East +21 1 £90,000 +10.77% 8
East of England +21 1 - -
Yorkshire -17 1 £59,000 -26.25%
DataOps
UK

DataOps
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 2 (8.70%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (4.35%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) Power Platform
2 6 (26.09%) Azure
3 3 (13.04%) Amazon S3
4 2 (8.70%) Amazon SageMaker
4 2 (8.70%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (8.70%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (8.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (8.70%) Power Automate
5 1 (4.35%) AWS
5 1 (4.35%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (4.35%) Dataform
5 1 (4.35%) dbt
5 1 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (4.35%) IaaS
5 1 (4.35%) Matillion
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.35%) PaaS
5 1 (4.35%) PowerApps
5 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) Power BI
2 4 (17.39%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
3 3 (13.04%) Data Lake
3 3 (13.04%) Power Query
4 2 (8.70%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (8.70%) Data Mining
4 2 (8.70%) DB2
4 2 (8.70%) Delta Lake
4 2 (8.70%) Metadata
4 2 (8.70%) Parquet
4 2 (8.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (8.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (8.70%) Tableau
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (4.35%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Law
4 2 (8.70%) Finance
4 2 (8.70%) Manufacturing
4 2 (8.70%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.35%) Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Games
5 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Data Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) DataOps Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) Operations Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Senior
4 3 (13.04%) Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Administrator
5 2 (8.70%) Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) DBA
5 2 (8.70%) Lead
5 2 (8.70%) Operations Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) SQL DBA
5 2 (8.70%) SQL Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Analytics Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Assistant Product Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) DataOps Leader
6 1 (4.35%) Insight Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) JSON
1 2 (8.70%) PySpark
1 2 (8.70%) XML
2 1 (4.35%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Data Structures
1 2 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.35%) AI Agents
2 1 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (4.35%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (56.52%) Analytics
2 12 (52.17%) ETL
3 8 (34.78%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (34.78%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (34.78%) Decision-Making
3 8 (34.78%) Machine Learning
3 8 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (30.43%) Data Engineering
4 7 (30.43%) Data Modelling
5 6 (26.09%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (26.09%) MLOps
6 4 (17.39%) Data Analytics
6 4 (17.39%) Data Governance
6 4 (17.39%) Data Integration
6 4 (17.39%) DevOps
6 4 (17.39%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (13.04%) Data Architecture
7 3 (13.04%) Data Transformation
7 3 (13.04%) IT Governance
7 3 (13.04%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 12 (52.17%) SQL
2 6 (26.09%) Python
3 5 (21.74%) T-SQL
4 2 (8.70%) Scala
5 1 (4.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (39.13%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.70%) GDPR
3 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.35%) QA
3 1 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.35%) Hyper-V
1 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) Control-M
1 2 (8.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) BMC
2 2 (8.70%) IBM
2 2 (8.70%) Talend
3 1 (4.35%) Databricks
3 1 (4.35%) OpenAI
3 1 (4.35%) SAP
3 1 (4.35%) VMware