DataOps Contracts in the UK excluding London

DataOps
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for DataOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DataOps over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 364 413 431
Rank change year-on-year +49 +18 -2
Contract jobs citing DataOps 28 33 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.14% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.16% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 18 53
10th Percentile £439 £306 £413
25th Percentile £453 £413 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £564 £675
90th Percentile - £606 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £15.11 -
UK median hourly rate £54.66 £52.61 £90.90
% change year-on-year +3.91% -42.13% +599.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

DataOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,285 20,362 27,188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.51% 89.30% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,280 13,968 18,972
10th Percentile £250 £260 £238
25th Percentile £375 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £486
Median % change year-on-year - +2.87% +9.23%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £690 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,123 1,246 1,358
10th Percentile £12.40 £10.63 £12.39
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.25 £62.33
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £37.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year -1.35% +44.08% +7.00%

DataOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing DataOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DataOps in the UK excluding London

DataOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DataOps in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for DataOps in the UK excluding London

DataOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DataOps in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DataOps in the UK excluding London

DataOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DataOps in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for DataOps in the UK excluding London

DataOps
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DataOps within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands +31 13 £550 +10.00% 12
West Midlands +26 13 £550 +10.00% 8
Scotland +38 10 £453 -12.04% 8
East of England +6 2 - - 1
South East -6 2 - - 5
South West +1 1 £500 +17.65% 5
DataOps
UK

DataOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 10 (35.71%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 14 (50.00%) Azure
2 11 (39.29%) AWS
3 10 (35.71%) Snowflake
4 5 (17.86%) Power Platform
5 3 (10.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (10.71%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (10.71%) dbt
6 1 (3.57%) GCP
6 1 (3.57%) Veeva
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (28.57%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (17.86%) Power BI
3 3 (10.71%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (3.57%) Big Data
4 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.57%) Data Mining
4 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.57%) DB2
4 1 (3.57%) OLAP
4 1 (3.57%) OLTP
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle OLAP
4 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Git
General
1 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.57%) Banking
4 1 (3.57%) Finance
4 1 (3.57%) Fire and Rescue
4 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.57%) Marketing
4 1 (3.57%) Military
4 1 (3.57%) Multimedia
4 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Police
4 1 (3.57%) Publishing
4 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
1 8 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
1 8 (28.57%) SIEM Engineer
1 8 (28.57%) Snowflake Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) Data Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Analyst
3 3 (10.71%) AWS Data Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Data Analyst
3 3 (10.71%) Python Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Architect
4 2 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Java Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (14.29%) Pandas
3 3 (10.71%) ADO
3 3 (10.71%) Flask
4 2 (7.14%) PyTorch
4 2 (7.14%) scikit-learn
5 1 (3.57%) Dask
5 1 (3.57%) Google JAX
5 1 (3.57%) Keras
5 1 (3.57%) NumPy
5 1 (3.57%) PySpark
5 1 (3.57%) RESTful
5 1 (3.57%) SOAP
5 1 (3.57%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (35.71%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (28.57%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (7.14%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (28.57%) Linux
1 8 (28.57%) Ubuntu
1 8 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (67.86%) Data Pipeline
2 14 (50.00%) DevOps
2 14 (50.00%) Visualisation
3 12 (42.86%) MLOps
4 11 (39.29%) Computer Science
4 11 (39.29%) Data Engineering
5 10 (35.71%) GitOps
6 9 (32.14%) Platform Engineering
7 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure Monitoring
7 8 (28.57%) RBAC
7 8 (28.57%) SIEM
8 6 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (17.86%) Business Intelligence
10 4 (14.29%) Data Transformation
10 4 (14.29%) Roadmaps
11 3 (10.71%) Actionable Insight
11 3 (10.71%) Business Case
11 3 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
11 3 (10.71%) Data Governance
11 3 (10.71%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 15 (53.57%) Python
2 11 (39.29%) Java
2 11 (39.29%) Scala
3 9 (32.14%) R
4 5 (17.86%) SQL
5 1 (3.57%) C
5 1 (3.57%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.57%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) Degree
4 1 (3.57%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.57%) GDPR
1 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.57%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (35.71%) Docker
2 8 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 8 (28.57%) iptables
Systems Management
1 11 (39.29%) Kubernetes
2 10 (35.71%) Terraform
3 8 (28.57%) Kibana
3 8 (28.57%) logstash
Vendors
1 10 (35.71%) Databricks
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.14%) Liquidlogic
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle