DataOps
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring DataOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DataOps over the 6 months leading up to 3 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 584 561 681
Rank change year-on-year -23 +120 -29
Permanent jobs citing DataOps 123 372 272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.35% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.42% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 55 158 92
10th Percentile £53,750 £30,875 £50,984
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - -9.68% +19.23%
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £99,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £100,375 £119,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £73,750
% change year-on-year - -18.64% +13.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 52,036 87,983 90,496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.54% 83.59% 95.47%
Number of salaries quoted 25,718 61,356 54,579
10th Percentile £28,750 £29,284 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.00% -9.09% +4.76%

DataOps
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing DataOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DataOps in the UK

DataOps
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DataOps.

Salary trend for DataOps in the UK

DataOps
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DataOps over the 6 months to 3 June 2025.

Salary histogram for DataOps in the UK

DataOps
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DataOps within the UK over the 6 months to 3 June 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
England -37 114 £72,500 +3.57% 146
UK excluding London -2 65 £60,000 - 61
London +63 54 £75,000 -9.09% 98
Work from Home +68 31 £75,000 +7.14% 80
South East +65 24 - - 12
North of England -56 21 £63,750 +6.25% 14
Yorkshire +40 10 £65,000 +100.00% 3
North West -50 9 £54,750 -21.79% 7
West Midlands +51 7 £55,000 -15.90% 5
Midlands +36 7 £55,000 -15.90% 9
East of England +41 6 £80,000 - 5
Scotland +103 5 £57,500 -28.13% 6
South West +95 2 £58,750 -14.78% 8
North East +42 2 £62,500 -16.67% 4

DataOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (5.69%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.81%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.81%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.81%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 46 (37.40%) Azure
2 34 (27.64%) AWS
3 27 (21.95%) GCP
4 25 (20.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 24 (19.51%) Power Platform
5 24 (19.51%) Snowflake
6 23 (18.70%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (12.20%) Vertex AI
8 7 (5.69%) Amazon S3
8 7 (5.69%) dbt
9 6 (4.88%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (4.88%) Power Automate
9 6 (4.88%) PowerApps
9 6 (4.88%) Serverless
10 3 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.44%) Azure Functions
10 3 (2.44%) Entra ID
10 3 (2.44%) GitHub
10 3 (2.44%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.81%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (24.39%) Data Warehouse
2 27 (21.95%) Data Mining
3 18 (14.63%) Power BI
4 15 (12.20%) BigQuery
5 14 (11.38%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (9.76%) Metadata
7 10 (8.13%) Data Lake
8 8 (6.50%) Big Data
9 7 (5.69%) Semantic Layer
10 6 (4.88%) Data Vault
10 6 (4.88%) Hadoop
10 6 (4.88%) NoSQL
10 6 (4.88%) Power Query
10 6 (4.88%) Relational Database
10 6 (4.88%) SQL Server
11 4 (3.25%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (3.25%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (2.44%) Looker
13 2 (1.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (6.50%) Git
2 3 (2.44%) CircleCI
2 3 (2.44%) JIRA
3 2 (1.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 46 (37.40%) Law
2 41 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 38 (30.89%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (26.02%) Retail
5 20 (16.26%) Finance
6 9 (7.32%) Banking
7 5 (4.07%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.25%) Billing
8 4 (3.25%) Legal
9 3 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.63%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.81%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 65 (52.85%) Senior
2 42 (34.15%) Lead
3 22 (17.89%) Data Engineer
4 19 (15.45%) Developer
5 18 (14.63%) Analyst
6 15 (12.20%) Senior Analyst
6 15 (12.20%) Senior Developer
7 11 (8.94%) Operations Analyst
8 10 (8.13%) Senior Operations Analyst
9 7 (5.69%) Data Analyst
10 6 (4.88%) Senior Data Analyst
10 6 (4.88%) Senior Data Engineer
11 5 (4.07%) Administrator
11 5 (4.07%) Architect
11 5 (4.07%) SQL Analyst
11 5 (4.07%) SQL Data Analyst
12 4 (3.25%) Data Administrator
12 4 (3.25%) Product Lead
13 3 (2.44%) DataOps Engineer
13 3 (2.44%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (13.82%) Kafka
2 6 (4.88%) PySpark
3 2 (1.63%) Pyramid
4 1 (0.81%) EDI
4 1 (0.81%) Great Expectations
4 1 (0.81%) Middleware
4 1 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.81%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 24 (19.51%) Algorithms
2 14 (11.38%) Product Ownership
3 13 (10.57%) FMCG
4 7 (5.69%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.81%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.81%) Industrial Internet of Things
7 1 (0.81%) IoT
7 1 (0.81%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.81%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.81%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.81%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.25%) Linux
2 2 (1.63%) Windows
3 1 (0.81%) Unix
3 1 (0.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (52.85%) DevOps
2 61 (49.59%) Analytics
3 52 (42.28%) Data Engineering
4 48 (39.02%) Agile
5 46 (37.40%) Machine Learning
6 45 (36.59%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (31.71%) Artificial Intelligence
7 39 (31.71%) Data Pipeline
8 33 (26.83%) Data Science
8 33 (26.83%) Visualisation
9 32 (26.02%) CI/CD
10 29 (23.58%) ETL
10 29 (23.58%) MLOps
10 29 (23.58%) Use Case
11 28 (22.76%) Customer-Centricity
11 28 (22.76%) Roadmaps
12 27 (21.95%) Product Management
13 26 (21.14%) Strategic Thinking
14 25 (20.33%) Performance Monitoring
15 24 (19.51%) Time Series Analysis
Programming Languages
1 53 (43.09%) SQL
2 49 (39.84%) Python
3 7 (5.69%) Bash
4 5 (4.07%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.44%) C#
5 3 (2.44%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.63%) Bicep
6 2 (1.63%) Java
6 2 (1.63%) Scala
6 2 (1.63%) VB
7 1 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.81%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (2.44%) SC Cleared
1 3 (2.44%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.63%) Degree
2 2 (1.63%) Tableau Certification
3 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.81%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.81%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (23.58%) Data Quality
2 8 (6.50%) QA
3 6 (4.88%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.44%) GDPR
5 1 (0.81%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (5.69%) Docker
2 3 (2.44%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.63%) zsh
4 1 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (17.07%) Terraform
2 4 (3.25%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.81%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 41 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 33 (26.83%) Databricks
3 25 (20.33%) Google
4 21 (17.07%) OpenAI
5 3 (2.44%) Snowplow
6 1 (0.81%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.81%) DataCore
6 1 (0.81%) FactSet
6 1 (0.81%) Oracle
6 1 (0.81%) Refinitiv
6 1 (0.81%) Workday