DataOps Engineer Job Trends

DataOps Engineer
UK

The median DataOps Engineer salary in the UK is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 627 700 701
Rank change year-on-year +73 +1 +341
Permanent jobs requiring a DataOps Engineer 12 6 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.020% 0.011% 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.011% 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 5 3 3
10th Percentile - £54,500 -
25th Percentile £76,500 £61,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £75,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +25.00% -3.23%
75th Percentile - £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile - - £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +25.00% -3.23%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 53,363 52,464 45,998
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.37% 93.53% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 32,877 27,963 35,716
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,253 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -

DataOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

DataOps Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

DataOps Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for DataOps Engineer job vacancies in the UK

DataOps Engineer
Top 8 Job Locations

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 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
Work from Home +75 11 £90,000 +20.00% 6
England +83 8 £90,000 +20.00% 9
UK excluding London +48 7 - - 5
London +53 4 £90,000 +80.00% 4
Scotland - 4 - -
North of England - 2 - - 2
North East - 2 - -
East of England - 1 - -

DataOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

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 featuring DataOps Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) DataOps
2 6 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 6 (50.00%) MLOps
3 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 5 (41.67%) Observability
4 4 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (33.33%) Power BI
4 4 (33.33%) Power Platform
4 4 (33.33%) SLA
5 3 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (25.00%) Azure
5 3 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (25.00%) Big Data
5 3 (25.00%) Cost Management
5 3 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
5 3 (25.00%) Data Quality
5 3 (25.00%) Databricks
5 3 (25.00%) FinOps
5 3 (25.00%) Incident Management
5 3 (25.00%) Incident Response
6 2 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (16.67%) Analytics
6 2 (16.67%) Ansible
6 2 (16.67%) Apache Spark
6 2 (16.67%) Azure AKS
6 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 2 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (16.67%) Dagster
6 2 (16.67%) Data Architecture
6 2 (16.67%) Data Engineering

DataOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 3 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (16.67%) Azure AKS
3 2 (16.67%) Dagster
3 2 (16.67%) Prefect
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
4 1 (8.33%) AWS
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Power BI
2 3 (25.00%) Big Data
3 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (8.33%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) DataOps
2 6 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 6 (50.00%) MLOps
3 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 5 (41.67%) Observability
4 4 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (25.00%) Cost Management
5 3 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
5 3 (25.00%) FinOps
5 3 (25.00%) Incident Management
5 3 (25.00%) Incident Response
6 2 (16.67%) Analytics
6 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 2 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (16.67%) Data Engineering
6 2 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (16.67%) DevOps
6 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) SLA
2 3 (25.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Ansible
1 2 (16.67%) Grafana
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
1 2 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Databricks