MLOps Contracts in England

MLOps
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for MLOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited MLOps over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 493 604 667
Rank change year-on-year +111 +63 -91
Contract jobs citing MLOps 48 69 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.14% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.15% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 43 82
10th Percentile £450 £520 £496
25th Percentile £503 £575 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - +19.05%
75th Percentile £734 £788 £688
90th Percentile £800 £875 £763
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £613
% change year-on-year -12.00% +2.04% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £63.75 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - -
75th Percentile £71.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

MLOps 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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,161 45,385 64,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.56% 90.22% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,078 31,861 45,788
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,252 1,585 1,771
10th Percentile £12.93 £10.91 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.96 £37.50 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.12% +53.06% +2.08%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £36.42 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.53% +45.69% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing MLOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for MLOps in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for MLOps in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MLOps in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MLOps in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MLOps within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
London +96 37 £638 -10.53% 67
South East +15 4 £575 - 16
Midlands +28 2 £550 -4.35% 7
East of England +1 2 £550 -8.33% 8
West Midlands +27 1 £550 -4.35% 5
North of England +27 1 - - 9
North East - 1 - - 2
East Midlands - 1 - - 2
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 7 (14.58%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (6.25%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.08%) ArcGIS
3 1 (2.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 17 (35.42%) Azure
2 13 (27.08%) GCP
2 13 (27.08%) Vertex AI
3 11 (22.92%) AWS
4 6 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (12.50%) Azure Machine Learning
5 5 (10.42%) Amazon SageMaker
6 4 (8.33%) Amazon S3
6 4 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (8.33%) Serverless
7 3 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (6.25%) Snowflake
8 2 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (4.17%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (4.17%) GitHub
8 2 (4.17%) IBM Watson
9 1 (2.08%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (2.08%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.17%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.42%) Big Data
1 5 (10.42%) BigQuery
2 2 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.08%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.08%) Pinecone
3 1 (2.08%) Power BI
3 1 (2.08%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 11 (22.92%) MLflow
2 1 (2.08%) Git
2 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.08%) JIRA
General
1 14 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.67%) Banking
3 7 (14.58%) Finance
4 6 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (10.42%) Front Office
5 5 (10.42%) Investment Banking
6 4 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (4.17%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.08%) Legal
8 1 (2.08%) Marketing
8 1 (2.08%) Multimedia
8 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.08%) Publishing
8 1 (2.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (25.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 7 (14.58%) Data Engineer
3 6 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (10.42%) Lead
4 5 (10.42%) Lead Data Engineer
4 5 (10.42%) Senior
5 4 (8.33%) Data Scientist
5 4 (8.33%) Security Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) GCP Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Cloud Security Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Machine Learning Scientist
7 2 (4.17%) Python Engineer
8 1 (2.08%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 1 (2.08%) Senior Data Engineer
8 1 (2.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 1 (2.08%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.67%) NumPy
1 8 (16.67%) Pandas
1 8 (16.67%) TensorFlow
2 7 (14.58%) scikit-learn
3 4 (8.33%) PyTorch
4 3 (6.25%) AWS CDK
5 2 (4.17%) Dask
5 2 (4.17%) Hugging Face
5 2 (4.17%) Keras
5 2 (4.17%) LangChain
5 2 (4.17%) PySpark
6 1 (2.08%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 5 (10.42%) Derivative
3 4 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 4 (8.33%) Security Posture
4 2 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.08%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.08%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (83.33%) Machine Learning
2 30 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 25 (52.08%) Data Science
4 23 (47.92%) DevOps
5 21 (43.75%) Artificial Intelligence
6 15 (31.25%) Computer Science
7 14 (29.17%) Analytics
7 14 (29.17%) Software Engineering
8 13 (27.08%) Agile
8 13 (27.08%) Data Pipeline
9 12 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
10 11 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
11 8 (16.67%) Data Engineering
12 7 (14.58%) SDLC
13 6 (12.50%) Data Analytics
13 6 (12.50%) Data Integration
13 6 (12.50%) Deep Learning
13 6 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
13 6 (12.50%) Natural Language Understanding
Programming Languages
1 40 (83.33%) Python
2 13 (27.08%) SQL
3 8 (16.67%) Scala
4 5 (10.42%) C#
4 5 (10.42%) C++
4 5 (10.42%) Java
5 3 (6.25%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.08%) R
6 1 (2.08%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (31.25%) Degree
2 12 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (16.67%) Master's Degree
4 4 (8.33%) CISSP
5 3 (6.25%) PhD
6 2 (4.17%) SC Cleared
6 2 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (10.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (18.75%) Terraform
2 6 (12.50%) Kubeflow
3 4 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (27.08%) Databricks
2 8 (16.67%) Google
3 2 (4.17%) IBM
4 1 (2.08%) Alteryx
4 1 (2.08%) Dataiku
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.08%) Sage
4 1 (2.08%) SAP