DataOps Job Trends in Wales

DataOps
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring DataOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 - 100
Rank change year-on-year - - +15
Permanent jobs citing DataOps 1 0 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.047% - 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.073% - 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 - -
UK median annual salary £88,363 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +21.88% +3.57% -9.68%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,371 502 1,489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 64.40% 84.09% 70.87%
Number of salaries quoted 979 331 1,167
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,438 £26,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £32,976 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +15.56% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £76,201 £78,750 £70,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%

DataOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

DataOps job vacancy trend in Wales

DataOps
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing DataOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing DataOps

DataOps
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DataOps within the Wales region over the 6 months to 30 June 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
South Wales - 1 £63,500 - 3
DataOps
UK

DataOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks