DataOps Contracts with Work from Home Options

DataOps
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 322 437 498
Rank change year-on-year +115 +61 -49
Contract jobs citing DataOps 23 28 128
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.16% 0.12% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.13% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 23 86
10th Percentile - £399 £400
25th Percentile £453 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £515 £588
Median % change year-on-year -5.34% -12.34% +6.82%
75th Percentile £544 £594 £638
90th Percentile £641 £645 £694
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £54.66 - -
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,834 21,730 40,136
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.66% 89.60% 91.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,652 15,403 29,146
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 505 522
10th Percentile £14.89 £17.90 £14.03
25th Percentile £24.19 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £74.95 £78.45 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £37.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year -1.35% +44.08% +7.00%

DataOps
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing DataOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DataOps trend for jobs with a WFH option

DataOps
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing DataOps.

DataOps daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

DataOps
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing DataOps over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

DataOps daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

DataOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (26.09%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.35%) Apache
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (13.04%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (8.70%) MIS ActiveH
1 2 (8.70%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) AWS
2 7 (30.43%) Azure
3 5 (21.74%) Snowflake
4 4 (17.39%) dbt
5 3 (13.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (13.04%) Amazon EventBridge
5 3 (13.04%) Amazon Kinesis
5 3 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (13.04%) AWS Step Functions
5 3 (13.04%) Power Platform
5 3 (13.04%) Serverless
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (4.35%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (4.35%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Firewall
1 1 (4.35%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) Data Mining
2 3 (13.04%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (13.04%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (13.04%) Power BI
2 3 (13.04%) Relational Database
2 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.35%) BigQuery
3 1 (4.35%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Git
1 4 (17.39%) JIRA
General
1 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (17.39%) Finance
2 2 (8.70%) Agriculture
2 2 (8.70%) Banking
3 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.35%) Marketing
3 1 (4.35%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Data Engineer
2 8 (34.78%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) AWS Data Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Snowflake Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Analyst
4 4 (17.39%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Analytics Manager
5 3 (13.04%) Data Analyst
5 3 (13.04%) Data Migration Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Insight Manager
5 3 (13.04%) Migration Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 2 (8.70%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
6 2 (8.70%) Power BI Analyst
6 2 (8.70%) Python Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Python Data Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) PySpark
2 1 (4.35%) ADO
2 1 (4.35%) Flask
2 1 (4.35%) Kafka
2 1 (4.35%) LDAP
2 1 (4.35%) Middleware
2 1 (4.35%) Pandas
2 1 (4.35%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.35%) Life Science
2 1 (4.35%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (56.52%) DevOps
2 11 (47.83%) Analytics
3 10 (43.48%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (34.78%) Data Engineering
4 8 (34.78%) Data Pipeline
5 7 (30.43%) Data Management
6 6 (26.09%) Computer Science
6 6 (26.09%) Visualisation
7 5 (21.74%) Agile
7 5 (21.74%) GitOps
7 5 (21.74%) MLOps
8 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
8 4 (17.39%) Data Modelling
8 4 (17.39%) ETL
8 4 (17.39%) Migration
8 4 (17.39%) Platform Engineering
9 3 (13.04%) Information Management
9 3 (13.04%) OO
9 3 (13.04%) OOD
9 3 (13.04%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) Python
2 5 (21.74%) Java
2 5 (21.74%) Scala
2 5 (21.74%) SQL
3 3 (13.04%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) Degree
1 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
1 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (21.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (39.13%) Terraform
2 5 (21.74%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Databricks
2 2 (8.70%) Liquidlogic
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) NEC
3 1 (4.35%) Salesforce