MLOps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 536 637 706
Rank change year-on-year +101 +69 -79
Contract jobs citing MLOps 62 82 143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.14% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.15% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 50 99
10th Percentile £440 £513 £486
25th Percentile £453 £575 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £613
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +2.04% +16.67%
75th Percentile £728 £766 £688
90th Percentile £800 £853 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £457 £600 £613
% change year-on-year -23.92% -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 excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for MLOps in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for MLOps in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MLOps over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MLOps in the UK

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Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MLOps within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +107 48 £575 -8.00% 82
London +99 38 £625 -10.71% 44
Work from Home +119 28 £600 - 38
UK excluding London +53 18 £457 -23.92% 34
Scotland +42 10 £453 -32.89% 3
South East +22 4 £575 - 13
East of England +9 2 £550 -8.33% 5
North of England +30 1 - - 10
West Midlands +29 1 £550 -4.35% 4
Midlands +22 1 £550 -4.35% 6
North East - 1 - - 2

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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 18 (29.03%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.23%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.61%) Apache
3 1 (1.61%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.61%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 27 (43.55%) Azure
2 23 (37.10%) AWS
3 13 (20.97%) GCP
3 13 (20.97%) Snowflake
3 13 (20.97%) Vertex AI
4 6 (9.68%) Amazon S3
4 6 (9.68%) Amazon SageMaker
4 6 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (9.68%) Azure Machine Learning
5 5 (8.06%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (8.06%) Serverless
6 4 (6.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (4.84%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (4.84%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (3.23%) GitHub
8 2 (3.23%) IBM Watson
9 1 (1.61%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (1.61%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.23%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.06%) BigQuery
2 4 (6.45%) Big Data
3 2 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.61%) Pinecone
4 1 (1.61%) Power BI
4 1 (1.61%) QGIS
4 1 (1.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (20.97%) MLflow
2 3 (4.84%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.23%) Git
4 1 (1.61%) JIRA
General
1 15 (24.19%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.13%) Banking
3 8 (12.90%) Finance
4 7 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (9.68%) Front Office
5 6 (9.68%) Investment Banking
6 4 (6.45%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (3.23%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.61%) Legal
8 1 (1.61%) Marketing
8 1 (1.61%) Multimedia
8 1 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.61%) Publishing
8 1 (1.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (22.58%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 13 (20.97%) AWS Engineer
3 11 (17.74%) Data Engineer
4 9 (14.52%) Platform Engineer
5 8 (12.90%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (11.29%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (9.68%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 6 (9.68%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 6 (9.68%) Lead
7 6 (9.68%) Lead Data Engineer
8 5 (8.06%) Data Scientist
9 4 (6.45%) AWS DevOps
9 4 (6.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 4 (6.45%) Python Engineer
9 4 (6.45%) Security Engineer
9 4 (6.45%) Senior
10 3 (4.84%) AWS Data Engineer
10 3 (4.84%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 3 (4.84%) GCP Engineer
10 3 (4.84%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.52%) Pandas
2 8 (12.90%) NumPy
2 8 (12.90%) TensorFlow
3 7 (11.29%) scikit-learn
4 4 (6.45%) PyTorch
5 3 (4.84%) AWS CDK
6 2 (3.23%) Dask
6 2 (3.23%) Hugging Face
6 2 (3.23%) Keras
6 2 (3.23%) LangChain
6 2 (3.23%) PySpark
7 1 (1.61%) Kafka
7 1 (1.61%) Matplotlib
7 1 (1.61%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.74%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (11.29%) Algorithms
3 6 (9.68%) Derivative
4 4 (6.45%) Management Information System
4 4 (6.45%) Security Posture
5 2 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.23%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.61%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.61%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (67.74%) Machine Learning
2 35 (56.45%) DevOps
3 32 (51.61%) CI/CD
4 28 (45.16%) Data Science
5 25 (40.32%) Computer Science
6 24 (38.71%) Data Pipeline
7 20 (32.26%) Artificial Intelligence
8 17 (27.42%) Data Engineering
9 15 (24.19%) Analytics
9 15 (24.19%) DataOps
10 14 (22.58%) Agile
10 14 (22.58%) Software Engineering
11 13 (20.97%) Data Ingestion
12 12 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
13 11 (17.74%) GitOps
14 10 (16.13%) Platform Engineering
15 8 (12.90%) Continuous Integration
15 8 (12.90%) Data Modelling
15 8 (12.90%) ETL
15 8 (12.90%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 53 (85.48%) Python
2 19 (30.65%) Scala
3 15 (24.19%) Java
4 13 (20.97%) SQL
5 5 (8.06%) C#
5 5 (8.06%) C++
6 3 (4.84%) R
6 3 (4.84%) Shell Script
6 3 (4.84%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (25.81%) Degree
2 12 (19.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (14.52%) Master's Degree
4 4 (6.45%) CISSP
5 3 (4.84%) PhD
5 3 (4.84%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.84%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 17 (27.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (30.65%) Terraform
2 16 (25.81%) Kubernetes
3 6 (9.68%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 24 (38.71%) Databricks
2 8 (12.90%) Google
3 2 (3.23%) IBM
4 1 (1.61%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.61%) Dataiku
4 1 (1.61%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.61%) Oracle
4 1 (1.61%) SAP