MLOps Contracts in Central London

MLOps
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring MLOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MLOps over the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 120 163
Rank change year-on-year -11 +43 +40
Contract jobs citing MLOps 7 13 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.34% 0.57% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.62% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 7
10th Percentile £550 - £440
25th Percentile £556 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £660 £525 £625
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% -16.00% -
75th Percentile £702 £750 £806
90th Percentile £712 £825 £925
London median daily rate £650 £645 £625
% change year-on-year +0.78% +3.20% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,935 2,105 3,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.84% 91.76% 90.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,280 1,431 2,169
10th Percentile £325 £375 £350
25th Percentile £423 £472 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £713
90th Percentile £775 £788 £820
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 20 17
10th Percentile £19.14 £15.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.43 £15.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £26.78 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.55% -23.49% -16.67%
75th Percentile £49.22 £65.63 £42.32
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £59.30
London median hourly rate £29.29 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -16.33% -12.50% +10.34%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing MLOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for MLOps in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MLOps in Central London.

Daily rate trend for MLOps in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MLOps in Central London over the 6 months to 17 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MLOps in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MLOps within the Central London region over the 6 months to 17 August 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
City of London -12 5 £700 +38.27% 38
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London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) GCP
1 2 (28.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (14.29%) IBM Watson
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Big Data
1 2 (28.57%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) MLflow
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) GCP Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Java Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Java Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Pandas
1 1 (14.29%) PyTorch
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) scikit-learn
1 1 (14.29%) TensorFlow
1 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
1 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 4 (57.14%) Data Science
4 3 (42.86%) DevOps
4 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (28.57%) Analytics
5 2 (28.57%) Big Data Analytics
5 2 (28.57%) Cloud Operations
5 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (28.57%) Data Analytics
5 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (28.57%) Design Patterns
5 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
5 2 (28.57%) ETL
5 2 (28.57%) OO
5 2 (28.57%) OOP
5 2 (28.57%) SDLC
5 2 (28.57%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) MATLAB
3 2 (28.57%) R
4 1 (14.29%) Bicep
4 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) CISSP
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) PhD
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Progress Chef
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Kubeflow
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Databricks
2 2 (28.57%) Google
3 1 (14.29%) IBM