MLOps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for MLOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited MLOps over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 756 794 897
Rank change year-on-year +38 +103 -70
Permanent jobs citing MLOps 149 179 331
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.17% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.18% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 86 86 97
10th Percentile £55,000 £54,375 £54,635
25th Percentile £65,000 £64,062 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.06% -3.13% -
75th Percentile £111,250 £95,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £108,750 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +15.38% -7.14%

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,360 99,485 147,504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.62% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 59,619 58,411 83,272
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £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%

MLOps
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for MLOps in the UK

MLOps
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for MLOps in the UK

MLOps
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing MLOps over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for MLOps in the UK

MLOps
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MLOps within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +69 134 £82,000 +5.81% 88
London +156 98 £95,000 +18.75% 47
Work from Home +79 66 £80,000 +6.67% 43
UK excluding London -57 44 £75,000 - 35
North of England +7 17 £67,500 -21.74% 10
North West +14 9 £60,000 -17.24% 4
Wales - 8 £113,750 -
Yorkshire +64 6 £80,000 -14.67% 4
South East +14 6 £71,250 +12.47% 13
Midlands -1 6 £75,000 -6.25% 6
South West -29 4 £77,500 +12.61% 1
West Midlands +24 3 £75,000 -6.25% 4
East Midlands -10 3 £85,000 +126.67% 2
East of England +2 2 £51,333 -33.76% 6
North East - 2 £75,000 - 2
Scotland -61 1 £57,500 - 3

MLOps
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 19 (12.75%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (8.72%) Apache Spark
3 12 (8.05%) Apache
4 2 (1.34%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 63 (42.28%) Azure
2 48 (32.21%) GCP
3 47 (31.54%) AWS
4 13 (8.72%) GitHub
5 10 (6.71%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (6.04%) Power Platform
7 8 (5.37%) SaaS
8 7 (4.70%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (4.70%) Serverless
9 5 (3.36%) Amazon S3
9 5 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (2.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (2.68%) Snowflake
11 3 (2.01%) AWS CodeCommit
11 3 (2.01%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (2.01%) Azure Cognitive Search
11 3 (2.01%) Azure Cognitive Services
11 3 (2.01%) Azure Functions
11 3 (2.01%) Azure Machine Learning
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (18.79%) Tableau
2 15 (10.07%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (8.72%) Big Data
4 12 (8.05%) Data Lake
4 12 (8.05%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (7.38%) NoSQL
5 11 (7.38%) Parquet
6 10 (6.71%) Hadoop
7 8 (5.37%) Apache Hive
7 8 (5.37%) Flink
7 8 (5.37%) Power BI
8 5 (3.36%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (2.68%) Delta Lake
9 4 (2.68%) DTS
9 4 (2.68%) Metadata
10 3 (2.01%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (2.01%) BigQuery
10 3 (2.01%) Data Mining
10 3 (2.01%) Data Vault
11 2 (1.34%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 53 (35.57%) Git
2 8 (5.37%) CircleCI
2 8 (5.37%) Jenkins
2 8 (5.37%) MLflow
3 5 (3.36%) GitLab
4 2 (1.34%) RStudio
4 2 (1.34%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (1.34%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.67%) git-flow
5 1 (0.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 53 (35.57%) Social Skills
2 20 (13.42%) Finance
3 11 (7.38%) Marketing
4 9 (6.04%) Banking
4 9 (6.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (6.04%) Retail
5 8 (5.37%) Retail Banking
6 4 (2.68%) Games
6 4 (2.68%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.01%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.67%) Law
9 1 (0.67%) Legal
9 1 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (40.27%) Senior
2 48 (32.21%) Data Scientist
3 40 (26.85%) Senior Data Scientist
4 28 (18.79%) Data Engineer
5 25 (16.78%) Lead
6 12 (8.05%) Senior Data Engineer
7 10 (6.71%) Architect
8 9 (6.04%) Lead Data Engineer
8 9 (6.04%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 8 (5.37%) Audit Manager
9 8 (5.37%) Azure Engineer
9 8 (5.37%) Lead Data Scientist
10 5 (3.36%) Customer Engineer
10 5 (3.36%) Platform Engineer
11 4 (2.68%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 4 (2.68%) Cloud Engineer
11 4 (2.68%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 4 (2.68%) Senior Audit Manager
11 4 (2.68%) Senior Manager
11 4 (2.68%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (33.56%) TensorFlow
2 42 (28.19%) PySpark
3 37 (24.83%) Pandas
4 33 (22.15%) scikit-learn
5 24 (16.11%) Kafka
6 21 (14.09%) PyTorch
7 20 (13.42%) Apache Beam
8 11 (7.38%) XGBoost
9 10 (6.71%) NumPy
10 8 (5.37%) Apache Avro
10 8 (5.37%) Spark Streaming
11 5 (3.36%) .NET
11 5 (3.36%) React
12 4 (2.68%) Keras
13 3 (2.01%) JSON
13 3 (2.01%) Matplotlib
13 3 (2.01%) XML
14 2 (1.34%) Flask
14 2 (1.34%) REST
14 2 (1.34%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 57 (38.26%) Algorithms
2 12 (8.05%) Data Structures
3 8 (5.37%) Distributed Applications
3 8 (5.37%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (5.37%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (4.03%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.01%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.34%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.34%) Housing Association
6 2 (1.34%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.34%) Social Network
6 2 (1.34%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.67%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.67%) CUDA
7 1 (0.67%) IoT
7 1 (0.67%) Life Science
7 1 (0.67%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (83.22%) Machine Learning
2 109 (73.15%) Data Science
3 88 (59.06%) Artificial Intelligence
4 64 (42.95%) Generative AI
5 62 (41.61%) Natural Language Processing
6 61 (40.94%) Statistics
7 55 (36.91%) Analytics
8 54 (36.24%) Data Engineering
9 51 (34.23%) Mathematics
10 50 (33.56%) Data Pipeline
11 45 (30.20%) Predictive Modelling
12 44 (29.53%) Neural Network
13 43 (28.86%) CI/CD
14 42 (28.19%) Decision-Making
15 41 (27.52%) DevOps
16 40 (26.85%) Agile
17 38 (25.50%) Visualisation
18 36 (24.16%) Computer Science
19 33 (22.15%) LLM
20 31 (20.81%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 120 (80.54%) Python
2 78 (52.35%) SQL
3 25 (16.78%) Java
4 12 (8.05%) Scala
5 8 (5.37%) C#
5 8 (5.37%) R
6 5 (3.36%) C
7 2 (1.34%) Go
7 2 (1.34%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.67%) Bash
8 1 (0.67%) C++
8 1 (0.67%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.67%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 68 (45.64%) Degree
2 42 (28.19%) Master's Degree
3 28 (18.79%) DBS Check
4 16 (10.74%) PhD
5 6 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.68%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.34%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.67%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.37%) QA
2 3 (2.01%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.67%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 11 (7.38%) Docker
2 8 (5.37%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 20 (13.42%) Kubernetes
2 11 (7.38%) Terraform
3 4 (2.68%) Ansible
3 4 (2.68%) Kubeflow
4 2 (1.34%) Argo
5 1 (0.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 55 (36.91%) Databricks
2 12 (8.05%) OpenAI
3 8 (5.37%) Cloudera
4 5 (3.36%) Google
5 4 (2.68%) Dell
5 4 (2.68%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.34%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.67%) Hitachi