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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 718 803 847
Rank change year-on-year +85 +44 +6
Permanent jobs citing MLOps 160 171 404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.17% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.18% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 85 83 111
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,750 £55,225
25th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% - -3.13%
75th Percentile £115,000 £96,875 £107,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £109,500 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -3.57%

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 84,735 96,775 152,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.60% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,708 57,079 82,921
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,740
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £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 13 May 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 13 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +81 145 £82,500 +6.45% 86
London +151 111 £95,000 +15.15% 46
Work from Home +99 77 £80,000 +6.67% 36
UK excluding London -57 42 £75,000 - 35
North of England +25 17 £67,500 -28.00% 7
North West +6 9 £60,000 - 3
Wales - 8 £113,750 -
Yorkshire +54 6 £80,000 -14.67% 4
Midlands -1 5 £75,000 -6.25% 4
South West -29 5 £77,500 +12.61% 7
South East +4 4 £70,000 +13.45% 12
West Midlands +16 3 £75,000 -6.25% 1
East of England +8 2 £51,333 -33.76% 5
East Midlands -5 2 £105,000 +180.00% 3
North East - 2 £75,000 -
Scotland -55 1 £57,500 - 1

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 (11.88%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (8.13%) Apache Spark
3 12 (7.50%) Apache
4 2 (1.25%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 60 (37.50%) Azure
2 48 (30.00%) AWS
2 48 (30.00%) GCP
3 13 (8.13%) GitHub
4 10 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (5.63%) SaaS
6 6 (3.75%) Power Platform
7 5 (3.13%) Amazon S3
7 5 (3.13%) Serverless
8 4 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 4 (2.50%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.88%) AWS CodeCommit
9 3 (1.88%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.88%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (1.25%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.25%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.25%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (25.00%) Tableau
2 14 (8.75%) Big Data
3 13 (8.13%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (7.50%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (6.88%) NoSQL
6 10 (6.25%) Data Lake
6 10 (6.25%) Hadoop
7 9 (5.63%) Parquet
8 8 (5.00%) Apache Hive
8 8 (5.00%) Flink
9 5 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (3.13%) Power BI
10 4 (2.50%) DTS
11 3 (1.88%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (1.88%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.88%) Data Mining
12 2 (1.25%) Delta Lake
12 2 (1.25%) Electronic Patient Records
12 2 (1.25%) Metadata
12 2 (1.25%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 65 (40.63%) Git
2 8 (5.00%) CircleCI
2 8 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (5.00%) MLflow
3 5 (3.13%) GitLab
4 2 (1.25%) RStudio
4 2 (1.25%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (1.25%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.63%) git-flow
5 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio
General
1 66 (41.25%) Social Skills
2 20 (12.50%) Finance
3 11 (6.88%) Marketing
4 9 (5.63%) Banking
4 9 (5.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (5.63%) Retail
5 8 (5.00%) Retail Banking
6 4 (2.50%) Games
6 4 (2.50%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.88%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.63%) Law
9 1 (0.63%) Legal
9 1 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 72 (45.00%) Senior
2 60 (37.50%) Data Scientist
3 52 (32.50%) Senior Data Scientist
4 26 (16.25%) Lead
5 25 (15.63%) Data Engineer
6 12 (7.50%) Senior Data Engineer
7 10 (6.25%) Architect
8 9 (5.63%) Lead Data Engineer
8 9 (5.63%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 8 (5.00%) Audit Manager
9 8 (5.00%) Lead Data Scientist
10 6 (3.75%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (3.13%) Customer Engineer
11 5 (3.13%) Platform Engineer
12 4 (2.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 4 (2.50%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 4 (2.50%) Cloud Engineer
12 4 (2.50%) Senior Audit Manager
12 4 (2.50%) Senior Manager
12 4 (2.50%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (38.75%) TensorFlow
2 54 (33.75%) PySpark
3 49 (30.63%) Pandas
4 45 (28.13%) scikit-learn
5 24 (15.00%) Kafka
6 21 (13.13%) PyTorch
7 20 (12.50%) Apache Beam
8 11 (6.88%) XGBoost
9 10 (6.25%) NumPy
10 8 (5.00%) Apache Avro
10 8 (5.00%) Spark Streaming
11 5 (3.13%) .NET
11 5 (3.13%) React
12 4 (2.50%) Keras
13 3 (1.88%) Matplotlib
14 2 (1.25%) Django
14 2 (1.25%) Flask
14 2 (1.25%) LAMP
14 2 (1.25%) REST
14 2 (1.25%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 70 (43.75%) Algorithms
2 12 (7.50%) Data Structures
3 8 (5.00%) Distributed Applications
3 8 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (3.75%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.50%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.25%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.25%) Housing Association
6 2 (1.25%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.25%) Social Network
6 2 (1.25%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.63%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.63%) CUDA
7 1 (0.63%) IoT
7 1 (0.63%) Life Science
7 1 (0.63%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.63%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.63%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (85.00%) Machine Learning
2 120 (75.00%) Data Science
3 101 (63.13%) Artificial Intelligence
4 77 (48.13%) Generative AI
5 74 (46.25%) Natural Language Processing
6 73 (45.63%) Statistics
7 63 (39.38%) Mathematics
8 57 (35.63%) Predictive Modelling
9 56 (35.00%) Neural Network
10 54 (33.75%) Data Engineering
10 54 (33.75%) Decision-Making
11 53 (33.13%) Analytics
12 48 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
12 48 (30.00%) Visualisation
13 42 (26.25%) Actionable Insight
13 42 (26.25%) Customer Experience
13 42 (26.25%) Physics
14 41 (25.63%) CI/CD
14 41 (25.63%) Storytelling
15 40 (25.00%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 131 (81.88%) Python
2 87 (54.38%) SQL
3 25 (15.63%) Java
4 12 (7.50%) Scala
5 8 (5.00%) R
6 6 (3.75%) C#
7 5 (3.13%) C
8 2 (1.25%) Go
8 2 (1.25%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.63%) Bash
9 1 (0.63%) C++
9 1 (0.63%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.63%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 80 (50.00%) Degree
2 54 (33.75%) Master's Degree
3 40 (25.00%) DBS Check
4 16 (10.00%) PhD
5 6 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.50%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.25%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.63%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.00%) QA
2 4 (2.50%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.63%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 12 (7.50%) Docker
2 8 (5.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 21 (13.13%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.88%) Terraform
3 4 (2.50%) Ansible
3 4 (2.50%) Kubeflow
4 2 (1.25%) Argo
5 1 (0.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 64 (40.00%) Databricks
2 12 (7.50%) OpenAI
3 8 (5.00%) Cloudera
4 5 (3.13%) Google
5 4 (2.50%) Dell
5 4 (2.50%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.25%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.63%) Hitachi