MLOps Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

MLOps
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring MLOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 - 29
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing MLOps 2 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 0.94% - 1.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% - 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £482
25th Percentile £550 - £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 - £507
75th Percentile £551 - £549
90th Percentile - - £557
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £551 - £507
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £63.75
Median hourly rate - - £67.50
75th Percentile - - £71.25
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate - - £67.50

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 185 137 187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 87.26% 91.33% 86.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 88 108
10th Percentile £265 £296 £232
25th Percentile £400 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £488 £471
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% +3.45% -0.79%
75th Percentile £588 £578 £543
90th Percentile £675 £683 £633
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £468 £478
% change year-on-year +1.44% -2.04% +0.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 6 28
10th Percentile £14.64 £16.06 £15.51
25th Percentile £15.10 £17.29 £20.00
Median hourly rate £23.41 £20.40 £33.59
Median % change year-on-year +14.77% -39.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £32.19 £48.88 £67.88
90th Percentile £44.05 £61.25 £77.50
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
% change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%

MLOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

MLOps job vacancy trend in Cambridge

MLOps
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing MLOps

MLOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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 2 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) MLflow
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Scientist
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Conversational UI
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) DataOps
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Product Vision
2 1 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes