MLOps Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

MLOps
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring MLOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 51 -
Rank change year-on-year -16 - -
Contract jobs citing MLOps 6 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.88% 0.93% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 1.08% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 0
10th Percentile £372 £472 -
25th Percentile £387 £478 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £489 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.16% - -
75th Percentile £432 £511 -
90th Percentile £439 £535 -
North West median daily rate £435 £489 -
% change year-on-year -11.04% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 617 464 351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 90.34% 85.93% 88.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 281 201
10th Percentile £304 £329 £265
25th Percentile £358 £390 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £520 £575 £586
90th Percentile £688 £650 £613
North West median daily rate £450 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -7.69% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 18 30
10th Percentile £12.82 £16.00 £15.90
25th Percentile £14.16 £21.83 £18.14
Median hourly rate £17.75 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -49.29% +27.27% +52.48%
75th Percentile £35.38 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £74.75 £47.50 £36.18
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.84% +21.43% +50.21%

MLOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

MLOps job vacancy trend in Cheshire

MLOps
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing MLOps

MLOps
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MLOps within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 3 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
Knutsford -18 6 £410 -16.03% 2
MLOps
North West

MLOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 4 (66.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon SageMaker
3 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) GCP
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Big Data
2 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) GitLab
1 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 4 (66.67%) MLflow
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Data Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Data Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Flask
1 4 (66.67%) HTML
1 4 (66.67%) PySpark
1 4 (66.67%) RESTful
2 2 (33.33%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Front End Development
4 2 (33.33%) Data Science
4 2 (33.33%) Generative AI
4 2 (33.33%) LLM
4 2 (33.33%) Open Source
4 2 (33.33%) Prompt Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 1 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
5 1 (16.67%) Analytics
5 1 (16.67%) API Integration
5 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) Product Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft