MLOps Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

MLOps
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring MLOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 94 122
Rank change year-on-year -11 +28 -4
Contract jobs citing MLOps 11 5 5
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.65% 0.38% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.41% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 5
10th Percentile £408 £415 £459
25th Percentile £409 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £569 £513 -
90th Percentile £648 £535 £515
South East median daily rate £550 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -13.04%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,471 1,213 1,819
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 86.89% 93.02% 91.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 984 672 1,015
10th Percentile £281 £300 £213
25th Percentile £400 £408 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -1.57%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £608
90th Percentile £650 £663 £678
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 35 93
10th Percentile £18.92 £27.35 £20.49
25th Percentile £30.63 £47.06 £42.50
Median hourly rate £81.00 £61.50 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.72% +0.81% -5.68%
75th Percentile £93.75 £65.17 £68.75
90th Percentile £106.60 £83.65 £85.65
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £43.94 £47.50
% change year-on-year -42.76% -7.49% +5.56%

MLOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

MLOps job vacancy trend in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing MLOps

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MLOps in Berkshire over the 6 months to 22 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for MLOps in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MLOps within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 22 February 2026. 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
Reading 0 5 £413 -25.00% 1
Wokingham -31 5 £563 +40.63% 1
MLOps
South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (54.55%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (54.55%) Azure Monitor
3 5 (45.45%) Azure Machine Learning
4 4 (36.36%) Entra ID
5 3 (27.27%) Azure AKS
5 3 (27.27%) Azure API Management
5 3 (27.27%) Azure Functions
5 3 (27.27%) GitHub
5 3 (27.27%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (27.27%) Serverless
6 2 (18.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (9.09%) AWS
7 1 (9.09%) Azure App Service
7 1 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (9.09%) Azure Storage
7 1 (9.09%) GCP
7 1 (9.09%) IaaS
7 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
7 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (27.27%) NoSQL
1 3 (27.27%) Parquet
2 2 (18.18%) Data Lake
3 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (9.09%) Power BI
3 1 (9.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Billing
4 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Active Directory Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Data Scientist
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) PyTorch
1 5 (45.45%) scikit-learn
1 5 (45.45%) TensorFlow
2 4 (36.36%) .NET
2 4 (36.36%) .NET Core
2 4 (36.36%) ARM Templates
2 4 (36.36%) OAuth
2 4 (36.36%) OpenID
2 4 (36.36%) REST
2 4 (36.36%) SAML
3 3 (27.27%) .NET Framework
3 3 (27.27%) GraphQL
3 3 (27.27%) JSON
3 3 (27.27%) OAuth2
4 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (9.09%) Entity Framework
5 1 (9.09%) Matplotlib
5 1 (9.09%) Pandas
5 1 (9.09%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (18.18%) Algorithms
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
2 7 (63.64%) Machine Learning
3 6 (54.55%) DevOps
4 5 (45.45%) Analytics
4 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (36.36%) AI
5 4 (36.36%) B2C
5 4 (36.36%) Containerisation
5 4 (36.36%) Data Governance
5 4 (36.36%) Data Science
5 4 (36.36%) Log Analytics
5 4 (36.36%) RBAC
6 3 (27.27%) Analytical Thinking
6 3 (27.27%) API Management
6 3 (27.27%) Data Engineering
6 3 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (27.27%) DevSecOps
6 3 (27.27%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (27.27%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (54.55%) SQL
3 4 (36.36%) C#
3 4 (36.36%) PowerShell
4 3 (27.27%) Bash
4 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
4 3 (27.27%) PHP
5 2 (18.18%) Java
5 2 (18.18%) R
6 1 (9.09%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Azure Certification
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Docker
2 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Terraform
2 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Databricks
2 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow