DataOps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for DataOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited DataOps over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 575 678 663
Rank change year-on-year +103 -15 +40
Permanent jobs citing DataOps 372 273 756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.29% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.31% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 157 94 230
10th Percentile £30,750 £50,984 £41,225
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,125 £48,455
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +19.23% -18.75%
75th Percentile £90,000 £99,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £73,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -18.64% +13.46% -13.33%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 89,994 88,841 164,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.98% 95.43% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 62,089 53,798 83,455
10th Percentile £29,500 £33,848 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DataOps.

Salary trend for DataOps in the UK

DataOps
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DataOps over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for DataOps in the UK

DataOps
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DataOps within the UK over the 6 months to 9 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +149 344 £70,000 -12.50% 77
UK excluding London +40 273 £60,000 -18.64% 60
North of England +86 131 £60,000 - 24
Work from Home +69 99 £70,000 +16.67% 71
London +60 91 £82,500 +3.13% 30
North West +48 87 £70,000 +27.27% 14
South East +28 51 £26,500 -68.82% 8
Yorkshire +59 33 £32,500 -55.17% 8
Midlands -5 33 £65,400 - 10
South West -16 24 £68,937 -11.05% 5
West Midlands +9 21 £65,400 - 6
East of England 0 13 - - 2
Scotland -88 13 £80,000 +128.57% 7
East Midlands -26 12 £44,100 - 4
North East - 11 £75,000 - 2
Wales +15 8 - - 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 (3.23%) WordPress
2 7 (1.88%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.34%) Confluence
4 3 (0.81%) CMS
5 1 (0.27%) Apache
5 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
Applications
1 17 (4.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.81%) Photoshop
3 3 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.27%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.54%) MIS ActiveH
1 2 (0.54%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.27%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.27%) SAP HCM
2 1 (0.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 172 (46.24%) GCP
2 68 (18.28%) Azure
3 37 (9.95%) AWS
4 25 (6.72%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (6.45%) Power Platform
6 22 (5.91%) Snowflake
7 17 (4.57%) dbt
8 16 (4.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 16 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
9 15 (4.03%) Microsoft Purview
10 12 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (2.96%) Fivetran
12 7 (1.88%) Serverless
13 6 (1.61%) Collibra
13 6 (1.61%) GitHub
13 6 (1.61%) SaaS
14 5 (1.34%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (1.34%) IaaS
14 5 (1.34%) PaaS
14 5 (1.34%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.69%) Structured Cabling
2 6 (1.61%) Firewall
3 5 (1.34%) DAB
4 2 (0.54%) VPN
5 1 (0.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (45.70%) BigQuery
2 161 (43.28%) Looker
3 83 (22.31%) Data Warehouse
4 38 (10.22%) Metadata
5 24 (6.45%) Power BI
6 18 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (4.30%) MySQL
8 14 (3.76%) SQL Server
9 12 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
10 11 (2.96%) DynamoDB
11 9 (2.42%) Data Mining
11 9 (2.42%) Tableau
12 8 (2.15%) Big Data
13 7 (1.88%) Data Lake
14 6 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
15 5 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
15 5 (1.34%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 5 (1.34%) MongoDB
15 5 (1.34%) Relational Database
16 4 (1.08%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 21 (5.65%) Git
2 14 (3.76%) GitLab
3 5 (1.34%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.34%) JIRA
4 1 (0.27%) CircleCI
General
1 187 (50.27%) Analytical Skills
2 52 (13.98%) Finance
3 51 (13.71%) Social Skills
4 25 (6.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (5.91%) Retail
6 18 (4.84%) Legal
7 10 (2.69%) Marketing
8 7 (1.88%) Banking
9 6 (1.61%) Law
10 5 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.08%) Advertising
11 4 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.81%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.54%) Billing
13 2 (0.54%) Electronics
14 1 (0.27%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.27%) Front Office
14 1 (0.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 205 (55.11%) Data Engineer
2 172 (46.24%) Platform Engineer
3 161 (43.28%) Principal Data Engineer
3 161 (43.28%) Principal Engineer
4 38 (10.22%) Architect
5 37 (9.95%) Lead
6 36 (9.68%) Senior
7 35 (9.41%) Data Architect
8 20 (5.38%) DataOps Engineer
9 18 (4.84%) Analyst
9 18 (4.84%) Senior Architect
10 17 (4.57%) Data Analyst
10 17 (4.57%) Data Manager
10 17 (4.57%) Senior Data Architect
11 15 (4.03%) DataOps Leader
12 13 (3.49%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 13 (3.49%) Lead Data Engineer
13 11 (2.96%) IT Manager
13 11 (2.96%) Technical Leader
14 10 (2.69%) Data Centre Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.84%) JSON
2 15 (4.03%) CSS
2 15 (4.03%) HTML
3 12 (3.23%) .NET
4 11 (2.96%) Node.js
4 11 (2.96%) React
4 11 (2.96%) XML
5 6 (1.61%) PyTorch
5 6 (1.61%) TensorFlow
6 4 (1.08%) RESTful
7 3 (0.81%) HTML5 Canvas
8 2 (0.54%) Kafka
8 2 (0.54%) Lambda Expressions
8 2 (0.54%) NumPy
8 2 (0.54%) Pandas
8 2 (0.54%) PySpark
9 1 (0.27%) ADO
9 1 (0.27%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.27%) REST
9 1 (0.27%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 160 (43.01%) Self-Motivation
2 46 (12.37%) Management Information System
3 31 (8.33%) Data Centre
4 13 (3.49%) Reference Data
5 8 (2.15%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.88%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.61%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.34%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.08%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.08%) Hedge funds
9 4 (1.08%) PMI
10 3 (0.81%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.81%) Video Editing
10 3 (0.81%) Wiki
11 2 (0.54%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.54%) NHS
11 2 (0.54%) Renewable Energy
12 1 (0.27%) e-Learning
12 1 (0.27%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.42%) Windows
2 6 (1.61%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.81%) Linux
3 3 (0.81%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.54%) OS/2
5 1 (0.27%) Android
5 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (60.48%) DevOps
2 220 (59.14%) Agile
3 206 (55.38%) Data Engineering
4 196 (52.69%) Data Science
4 196 (52.69%) Problem-Solving
5 189 (50.81%) Data Pipeline
6 179 (48.12%) Mentoring
7 172 (46.24%) Platform Engineering
8 161 (43.28%) Change Management
9 84 (22.58%) Analytics
10 80 (21.51%) Business Intelligence
11 70 (18.82%) Data Governance
12 56 (15.05%) Roadmaps
13 51 (13.71%) Data Modelling
14 50 (13.44%) Data Architecture
15 47 (12.63%) Data Management
16 44 (11.83%) Data Strategy
17 37 (9.95%) Metadata Management
18 36 (9.68%) ETL
18 36 (9.68%) Information Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (17.47%) SQL
2 48 (12.90%) Python
3 14 (3.76%) PHP
4 13 (3.49%) Java
5 11 (2.96%) C#
5 11 (2.96%) Scala
5 11 (2.96%) VB.NET
6 4 (1.08%) R
7 2 (0.54%) Bicep
7 2 (0.54%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.27%) C
8 1 (0.27%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (4.57%) Degree
2 8 (2.15%) Master's Degree
3 5 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.08%) PMI Certification
5 2 (0.54%) PhD
6 1 (0.27%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.27%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (47.31%) GDPR
2 65 (17.47%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.69%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.34%) COBIT
5 2 (0.54%) QA
6 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (1.08%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (1.61%) Terraform
2 3 (0.81%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.27%) Pingdom
3 1 (0.27%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 168 (45.16%) Google
2 52 (13.98%) Microsoft
3 18 (4.84%) Databricks
4 10 (2.69%) Dataiku
5 6 (1.61%) F5
6 4 (1.08%) Bloomberg
6 4 (1.08%) Informatica
6 4 (1.08%) Oracle
7 3 (0.81%) Reuters
7 3 (0.81%) WooCommerce
8 2 (0.54%) NEC
8 2 (0.54%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.27%) FactSet
9 1 (0.27%) Liquidlogic
9 1 (0.27%) New Relic
9 1 (0.27%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.27%) SAP
9 1 (0.27%) Splunk