MLOps Contracts in the City of London

MLOps
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 108 161
Rank change year-on-year -7 +53 +34
DemandTrendContract jobs citing MLOps 7 12 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.38% 0.58% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.63% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 6
10th Percentile £611 £461 £422
25th Percentile £664 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £506 £625
Median % change year-on-year +38.27% -19.00% -
75th Percentile £720 £688 £841
90th Percentile £825 £826 £938
Central London median daily rate £680 £525 £625
% change year-on-year +29.52% -16.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,730 1,890 2,895
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.23% 91.88% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,136 1,254 1,990
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £425 £475 £475
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
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £598
% change year-on-year -4.35% -3.77% +3.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 16 15
10th Percentile £17.62 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.21 £19.79 £14.75
Median hourly rate £28.15 £26.63 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.73% -3.18% -36.40%
75th Percentile £50.25 £82.19 £47.41
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £62.45
Central London median hourly rate £28.79 £26.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year +7.49% -23.49% -17.65%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for MLOps in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing MLOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing MLOps

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MLOps in the City of London over the 6 months to 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MLOps in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) GCP
1 3 (42.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Machine Learning
2 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Run
3 1 (14.29%) Copilot Studio
3 1 (14.29%) Google Gemini
3 1 (14.29%) IBM Watson
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 1 (14.29%) Pulumi
3 1 (14.29%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Big Data
1 2 (28.57%) BigQuery
2 1 (14.29%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MLflow
1 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Security Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) GCP 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%) Machine Learning Engineer
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%) Faiss
1 1 (14.29%) FastAPI
1 1 (14.29%) LangChain
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 2 (28.57%) AI Agents
1 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
2 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 4 (57.14%) DevSecOps
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (42.86%) Analytics
4 3 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (42.86%) DevOps
4 3 (42.86%) Threat Modelling
5 2 (28.57%) Big Data Analytics
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (28.57%) Data Analytics
5 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
5 2 (28.57%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (28.57%) Data Privacy
5 2 (28.57%) ETL
5 2 (28.57%) OO
5 2 (28.57%) OOP
5 2 (28.57%) SDLC
5 2 (28.57%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Bicep
3 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) CISSP
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) MCP
2 1 (14.29%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) EU AI Act
1 2 (28.57%) GDPR
1 2 (28.57%) NIST
2 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
2 1 (14.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Progress Chef
3 1 (14.29%) Grafana
3 1 (14.29%) Kubeflow
3 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) OpenAI