DataOps Job Trends in the West Midlands

DataOps
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring DataOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 190 174
Rank change year-on-year +20 -16 +72
Permanent jobs citing DataOps 8 8 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.15% 0.19% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.21% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 6 6 4
10th Percentile £49,625 £46,250 -
25th Percentile £51,913 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,750 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +38.24% -46.88%
75th Percentile £57,875 £89,063 £44,438
90th Percentile £59,625 £105,000 £45,675
England median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% -6.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,351 3,803 3,269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.03% 91.64% 87.03%
Number of salaries quoted 2,275 1,690 2,742
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,719 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

DataOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

DataOps job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

DataOps
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing DataOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing DataOps

DataOps
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DataOps within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 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
Warwickshire +31 4 £55,000 -18.52% 1
Birmingham +22 3 £55,500 +11.00%
Coventry - 1 £55,200 - 1
DataOps
England

DataOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (12.50%) Dataform
4 1 (12.50%) dbt
4 1 (12.50%) Power Automate
4 1 (12.50%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (37.50%) Power BI
2 2 (25.00%) Data Mining
2 2 (25.00%) Power Query
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (25.00%) Tableau
3 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
3 1 (12.50%) DB2
3 1 (12.50%) Delta Lake
3 1 (12.50%) Metadata
3 1 (12.50%) Parquet
3 1 (12.50%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Law
2 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Power BI Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) JSON
1 2 (25.00%) XML
2 1 (12.50%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Analytics
1 7 (87.50%) ETL
2 6 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (75.00%) Data Modelling
3 5 (62.50%) Data Engineering
3 5 (62.50%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (37.50%) Data Governance
5 3 (37.50%) Decision-Making
5 3 (37.50%) DevOps
6 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
6 2 (25.00%) Data Analytics
6 2 (25.00%) Data Mapping
6 2 (25.00%) Data Transformation
6 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
6 2 (25.00%) Optimization Problems
6 2 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
2 4 (50.00%) Python
3 3 (37.50%) T-SQL
4 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (12.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Control-M
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) BMC
1 1 (12.50%) Databricks
1 1 (12.50%) IBM
1 1 (12.50%) OpenAI
1 1 (12.50%) Talend