MLOps Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

MLOps
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 38 - 47
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing MLOps 2 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.56% - 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% - 0.97%
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
East of England median daily rate £625 - £507
% change year-on-year - - -15.58%
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 - - -
East of England median hourly rate - - £67.50

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 291 257 411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 80.83% 92.11% 84.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 142 155
10th Percentile £211 £296 £225
25th Percentile £335 £402 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £468 £478
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% -2.04% +0.63%
75th Percentile £573 £550 £563
90th Percentile £675 £636 £683
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £477
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.93% -4.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 38 187
10th Percentile £13.33 £14.99 -
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.48 £14.16
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%
75th Percentile £25.15 £21.46 £21.37
90th Percentile £35.91 £31.48 £48.00
East of England median hourly rate £21.80 £57.50 £38.12
% change year-on-year -62.09% +50.84% +15.69%

MLOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

MLOps job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

MLOps
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing MLOps

MLOps
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MLOps within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 9 March 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
Cambridge - 2 £551 - 5
MLOps
East of England

MLOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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