MLOps Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

MLOps
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring MLOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 - 29
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing MLOps 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 0.45% - 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% - 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £600
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £625 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% -15.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

MLOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 204 158 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 91.07% 81.44% 86.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 87 85
10th Percentile £328 £218 £310
25th Percentile £454 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £625 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £633
East of England median daily rate £512 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +13.78% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 17 3
10th Percentile £37.50 £46.50 £53.00
25th Percentile £62.38 £54.70 £53.75
Median hourly rate £80.00 £59.40 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.68% +8.00% -3.93%
75th Percentile £91.50 £67.50 £60.25
90th Percentile - £70.30 £61.90
East of England median hourly rate £22.53 £40.00 £19.81
% change year-on-year -43.68% +101.92% -5.67%

MLOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing MLOps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

MLOps job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

MLOps
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing MLOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing MLOps

MLOps
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MLOps within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 4 October 2025. 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
Bedford - 1 £625 -
MLOps
East of England

MLOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 1 (100.00%) Copilot Studio
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) B2B
1 1 (100.00%) B2C
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Feature Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Foundry
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI