MLOps Contracts in Scotland

MLOps
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 120 167 167
Rank change year-on-year +47 0 -
Contract jobs citing MLOps 10 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.45% 0.035% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.038% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 4
10th Percentile £431 - £499
25th Percentile £440 £638 £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £675 £566
Median % change year-on-year -32.89% +19.26% -
75th Percentile - £713 £610
90th Percentile £460 - -
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £613
% change year-on-year -12.00% +2.04% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,967 2,642 3,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.76% 92.64% 92.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,900 2,313
10th Percentile £225 £263 £241
25th Percentile £400 £408 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £557 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £624
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 56 46
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.92 £12.04 £18.35
Median hourly rate £18.79 £17.47 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.59% -56.33% -0.01%
75th Percentile £40.94 £53.75 £49.34
90th Percentile £60.75 £65.78 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £36.42 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.53% +45.69% -

MLOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for MLOps in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for MLOps in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MLOps within the Scotland 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
Glasgow - 10 £453 - 2
MLOps
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 10 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
1 10 (100.00%) Snowflake
General
1 1 (10.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) AWS Engineer
1 8 (80.00%) Platform Engineer
2 6 (60.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 6 (60.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) AWS Data Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Data Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Java Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Python Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Scala Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 10 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 10 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 10 (100.00%) DataOps
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
1 10 (100.00%) GitOps
2 9 (90.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Java
1 10 (100.00%) Python
1 10 (100.00%) Scala
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 10 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Databricks