DataOps
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring DataOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DataOps over the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 585 571 665
Rank change year-on-year -14 +94 +5
Permanent jobs citing DataOps 138 371 274
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.33% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.40% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 53 157 100
10th Percentile £53,750 £30,750 £50,886
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -9.68% +11.11%
75th Percentile £76,250 £90,000 £99,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £100,000 £114,152
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,750 £60,000 £73,750
% change year-on-year -2.08% -18.64% +9.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,917 91,690 87,314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 92.38% 82.10% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 26,105 63,362 53,134
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £39,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year - -9.54% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £80,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,991 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

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 20 June 2025.

Salary histogram for DataOps in the UK

DataOps
Top 14 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 20 June 2025. 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 -16 129 £72,500 +5.17% 541
UK excluding London -2 72 £58,750 -2.08% 294
London +77 58 £75,000 -6.25% 294
Work from Home +57 39 £75,000 +7.14% 301
South East +84 38 £36,500 +37.74% 73
North of England -47 17 £63,750 +6.25% 58
Yorkshire +34 9 £65,000 +100.00% 17
East of England +30 8 - - 32
Midlands +66 6 £55,000 -15.90% 42
West Midlands +61 6 £55,000 -15.90% 24
North West -58 6 £75,000 +7.14% 29
South West +95 2 £58,750 -14.78% 36
North East +40 2 £55,250 -26.33% 12
Scotland +100 1 - - 35

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 9 (6.52%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.90%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.72%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.72%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 46 (33.33%) Azure
2 44 (31.88%) AWS
3 28 (20.29%) Vertex AI
4 27 (19.57%) Snowflake
5 26 (18.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 26 (18.84%) GCP
6 22 (15.94%) Azure Data Factory
7 21 (15.22%) Power Platform
8 7 (5.07%) dbt
9 6 (4.35%) Amazon S3
10 5 (3.62%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (3.62%) Power Automate
10 5 (3.62%) PowerApps
10 5 (3.62%) Serverless
10 5 (3.62%) Zapier
11 3 (2.17%) Azure Functions
11 3 (2.17%) Cloud Composer
11 3 (2.17%) Entra ID
11 3 (2.17%) Fivetran
11 3 (2.17%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.72%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (28.99%) Data Mining
2 36 (26.09%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (11.59%) Power BI
4 15 (10.87%) Metadata
5 14 (10.14%) Amazon Redshift
5 14 (10.14%) BigQuery
6 10 (7.25%) Data Lake
7 8 (5.80%) Big Data
7 8 (5.80%) Hadoop
7 8 (5.80%) NoSQL
7 8 (5.80%) SQL Server
8 7 (5.07%) Semantic Layer
9 6 (4.35%) Data Vault
9 6 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (4.35%) Relational Database
10 5 (3.62%) Power Query
11 4 (2.90%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (2.90%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (2.17%) Looker
12 3 (2.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (6.52%) Git
2 3 (2.17%) CircleCI
2 3 (2.17%) JIRA
3 2 (1.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 61 (44.20%) Social Skills
2 60 (43.48%) Law
3 56 (40.58%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (31.88%) Retail
5 20 (14.49%) Finance
6 7 (5.07%) Billing
6 7 (5.07%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.62%) Local Government
9 4 (2.90%) Manufacturing
10 3 (2.17%) Banking
10 3 (2.17%) Legal
11 2 (1.45%) Marketing
12 1 (0.72%) Advertising
12 1 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 70 (50.72%) Senior
2 60 (43.48%) Lead
3 24 (17.39%) Developer
4 20 (14.49%) Data Engineer
5 18 (13.04%) Senior Developer
6 9 (6.52%) Administrator
6 9 (6.52%) Analyst
7 7 (5.07%) Data Administrator
7 7 (5.07%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (4.35%) Product Lead
9 5 (3.62%) Architect
9 5 (3.62%) Data Analyst
9 5 (3.62%) Operations Analyst
10 4 (2.90%) Python Developer
10 4 (2.90%) Senior Data Analyst
10 4 (2.90%) Senior Data Engineer
10 4 (2.90%) Senior Operations Analyst
11 3 (2.17%) Snowflake Architect
11 3 (2.17%) SQL Analyst
11 3 (2.17%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (12.32%) Kafka
2 4 (2.90%) PySpark
3 2 (1.45%) Pyramid
4 1 (0.72%) EDI
4 1 (0.72%) Great Expectations
4 1 (0.72%) Middleware
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 38 (27.54%) Algorithms
2 16 (11.59%) Product Ownership
3 15 (10.87%) FMCG
4 7 (5.07%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (4.35%) Data Structures
5 6 (4.35%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.62%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.90%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.45%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.72%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.72%) Industrial Internet of Things
9 1 (0.72%) IoT
9 1 (0.72%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.72%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.72%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.72%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.35%) Linux
2 2 (1.45%) Windows
3 1 (0.72%) Unix
3 1 (0.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (58.70%) Analytics
2 76 (55.07%) DevOps
3 65 (47.10%) Data Engineering
3 65 (47.10%) Problem-Solving
4 59 (42.75%) Machine Learning
5 57 (41.30%) Agile
6 55 (39.86%) Artificial Intelligence
7 47 (34.06%) Visualisation
8 46 (33.33%) Data Science
8 46 (33.33%) Roadmaps
9 44 (31.88%) Data Pipeline
9 44 (31.88%) Use Case
10 41 (29.71%) Customer-Centricity
11 40 (28.99%) MLOps
11 40 (28.99%) Product Management
12 39 (28.26%) Strategic Thinking
13 38 (27.54%) Incident Management
13 38 (27.54%) Performance Monitoring
14 37 (26.81%) Statistical Analysis
14 37 (26.81%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 58 (42.03%) SQL
2 55 (39.86%) Python
3 8 (5.80%) Bash
4 3 (2.17%) C#
4 3 (2.17%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.17%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.45%) Bicep
5 2 (1.45%) VB
6 1 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.72%) Java
6 1 (0.72%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.72%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (3.62%) ITIL Certification
2 4 (2.90%) Degree
3 3 (2.17%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.17%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.45%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.45%) Tableau Certification
5 1 (0.72%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.72%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.72%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (24.64%) Data Quality
2 10 (7.25%) QA
3 5 (3.62%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.17%) GDPR
5 1 (0.72%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (4.35%) Docker
2 4 (2.90%) zsh
3 3 (2.17%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (15.94%) Terraform
2 3 (2.17%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.72%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 60 (43.48%) Microsoft
2 43 (31.16%) Google
3 35 (25.36%) Databricks
4 33 (23.91%) OpenAI
5 5 (3.62%) Apple
6 3 (2.17%) SAP
6 3 (2.17%) Snowplow
7 2 (1.45%) Oracle
8 1 (0.72%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.72%) DataCore
8 1 (0.72%) FactSet
8 1 (0.72%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.72%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.72%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.72%) Workday
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