MLOps Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

MLOps
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring MLOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 - 66
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing MLOps 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.090% - 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% - 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £550 £594 £575
% change year-on-year -7.37% +3.26% -8.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 873 500 612
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 78.30% 87.26% 77.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 340 417
10th Percentile £200 £232 £200
25th Percentile £388 £331 £272
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £427 £411
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% +3.89% -13.47%
75th Percentile £550 £520 £550
90th Percentile £628 £588 £622
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 36 55
10th Percentile £13.52 £13.81 £11.24
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.22 £12.73
Median hourly rate £18.00 £18.87 £16.63
Median % change year-on-year -4.61% +13.47% -27.70%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.78 £24.20
90th Percentile £30.25 £37.99 £35.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +60.71% -23.29% -2.67%

MLOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

MLOps job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

MLOps
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing MLOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing MLOps

MLOps
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MLOps within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 May 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
Nottinghamshire - 1 - - 2
MLOps
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Co-Creation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Predictive Maintenance
1 1 (100.00%) Probabilistic Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Signal Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks