DataOps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 515 618 636
Rank change year-on-year +103 +18 -37
Contract jobs citing DataOps 58 82 224
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.14% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.16% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 57 140
10th Percentile £440 £413 £405
25th Percentile £460 £470 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.53% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £572 £650 £634
90th Percentile £624 £775 £689
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -4.00% -6.98% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
Median hourly rate £54.66 £15.21 £90.90
Median % change year-on-year +259.37% -83.27% +599.23%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £15.11 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,687 51,295 79,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.22% 89.83% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,611 35,552 55,630
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £476
% change year-on-year - +5.04% +8.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,428 1,693 1,906
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.77 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.52
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DataOps.

Daily rate trend for DataOps in the UK

DataOps
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DataOps over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DataOps in the UK

DataOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DataOps.

Hourly rate trend for DataOps in the UK

DataOps
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 15 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
England +64 40 £550 - 78
UK excluding London +42 27 £480 -4.00% 56
Work from Home +124 25 £494 -5.50% 63
London +85 23 £550 -4.35% 32
Midlands +43 13 £550 +10.00% 10
West Midlands +30 13 £550 +10.00% 5
Scotland +52 11 £453 -9.85% 8
East of England +9 2 - - 1
South West +10 1 £500 +11.11% 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 12 (20.69%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.72%) Apache
2 1 (1.72%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (5.17%) SPSS
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.45%) MIS ActiveH
1 2 (3.45%) NEC Housing
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 21 (36.21%) Azure
2 20 (34.48%) AWS
3 12 (20.69%) Snowflake
4 11 (18.97%) Power Platform
5 9 (15.52%) dbt
6 6 (10.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (10.34%) Serverless
7 5 (8.62%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (6.90%) Amazon EventBridge
8 4 (6.90%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (5.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (5.17%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (5.17%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (5.17%) GCP
10 2 (3.45%) Cloud Functions
11 1 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (1.72%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (1.72%) Collibra
11 1 (1.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.17%) Firewall
2 2 (3.45%) Network Security
3 1 (1.72%) DNS
3 1 (1.72%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.97%) Power BI
2 8 (13.79%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (13.79%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (8.62%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (8.62%) Data Lake
3 5 (8.62%) Data Mining
4 4 (6.90%) SQL Server
5 3 (5.17%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (5.17%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (5.17%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 3 (5.17%) Relational Database
6 2 (3.45%) Big Data
6 2 (3.45%) Tableau
7 1 (1.72%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.72%) DB2
7 1 (1.72%) OLAP
7 1 (1.72%) OLTP
7 1 (1.72%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (1.72%) Oracle OLAP
7 1 (1.72%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 7 (12.07%) Git
2 4 (6.90%) JIRA
General
1 11 (18.97%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (15.52%) Finance
3 8 (13.79%) Social Skills
4 4 (6.90%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.17%) Banking
6 2 (3.45%) Agriculture
6 2 (3.45%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.45%) Marketing
7 1 (1.72%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.72%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.72%) Military
7 1 (1.72%) Multimedia
7 1 (1.72%) Police
7 1 (1.72%) Publishing
7 1 (1.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (25.86%) Data Engineer
2 12 (20.69%) AWS Engineer
3 9 (15.52%) Analyst
3 9 (15.52%) Platform Engineer
4 8 (13.79%) Data Analyst
4 8 (13.79%) SIEM Engineer
5 7 (12.07%) AWS Data Engineer
6 6 (10.34%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 6 (10.34%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 5 (8.62%) Senior
8 4 (6.90%) Architect
8 4 (6.90%) Operations Analyst
9 3 (5.17%) Analytics Manager
9 3 (5.17%) Consultant
9 3 (5.17%) Data Migration Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Insight Manager
9 3 (5.17%) Migration Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Python Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.79%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (12.07%) PySpark
3 5 (8.62%) Pandas
4 3 (5.17%) ADO
4 3 (5.17%) Flask
4 3 (5.17%) PyTorch
5 2 (3.45%) Dask
5 2 (3.45%) Keras
5 2 (3.45%) LDAP
5 2 (3.45%) Middleware
5 2 (3.45%) NumPy
5 2 (3.45%) SAML
6 1 (1.72%) EDI
6 1 (1.72%) Kafka
6 1 (1.72%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (1.72%) REST
6 1 (1.72%) RESTful
6 1 (1.72%) scikit-learn
6 1 (1.72%) SOAP
6 1 (1.72%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.97%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (13.79%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (5.17%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.45%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.72%) Life Science
5 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.72%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 10 (17.24%) Linux
1 10 (17.24%) Windows
2 8 (13.79%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (44.83%) Data Pipeline
2 23 (39.66%) DevOps
3 21 (36.21%) Visualisation
4 19 (32.76%) Analytics
4 19 (32.76%) Business Intelligence
5 17 (29.31%) Data Engineering
6 14 (24.14%) Computer Science
6 14 (24.14%) MLOps
7 13 (22.41%) Data Management
8 11 (18.97%) GitOps
9 10 (17.24%) CI/CD
9 10 (17.24%) Data Modelling
9 10 (17.24%) Platform Engineering
10 9 (15.52%) Agile
10 9 (15.52%) Data Governance
11 8 (13.79%) Data Visualisation
11 8 (13.79%) Infrastructure Monitoring
11 8 (13.79%) RBAC
11 8 (13.79%) Roadmaps
11 8 (13.79%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 28 (48.28%) Python
2 14 (24.14%) SQL
3 12 (20.69%) Java
3 12 (20.69%) Scala
4 11 (18.97%) R
5 3 (5.17%) PowerShell
5 3 (5.17%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.72%) Bash
6 1 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 5 (8.62%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.90%) Degree
2 4 (6.90%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.45%) DV Cleared
3 2 (3.45%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.72%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (1.72%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.34%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.45%) GDPR
3 1 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.72%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.72%) QA
System Software
1 13 (22.41%) Docker
2 8 (13.79%) Active Directory
2 8 (13.79%) iptables
3 1 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (29.31%) Terraform
2 13 (22.41%) Kubernetes
3 8 (13.79%) Kibana
3 8 (13.79%) logstash
4 1 (1.72%) Grafana
Vendors
1 12 (20.69%) Databricks
2 6 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.90%) Oracle
4 2 (3.45%) Liquidlogic
4 2 (3.45%) NEC
5 1 (1.72%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.72%) Cisco
5 1 (1.72%) Dataiku
5 1 (1.72%) Google
5 1 (1.72%) IBM
5 1 (1.72%) SAP