MLOps Contract Job Trends in the East of England

MLOps
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England 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 102 - 108
Rank change year-on-year - - +21
Contract jobs citing MLOps 12 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.65% - 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% - 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 3
10th Percentile £606 - £482
25th Percentile £613 - £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £507
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.58%
75th Percentile £638 - £549
90th Percentile - - £557
England median daily rate £563 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +2.27% - -13.73%
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 - - -
England median hourly rate £57.77 - £45.50

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,466 893 1,674
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 79.20% 87.29% 86.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 655 463 832
10th Percentile £198 £250 £235
25th Percentile £350 £399 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £477
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.93% -4.70%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £576
90th Percentile £675 £693 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 438 158 516
10th Percentile £14.02 £15.56 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.51 £20.07 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.80 £57.50 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -62.09% +50.84% +15.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -7.22%

MLOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

MLOps job vacancy trend in the East of England

MLOps
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

MLOps
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England 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
Bedfordshire - 9 £625 - 4
Cambridgeshire - 2 £551 - 5
Suffolk - 1 - -
MLOps
England

MLOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (8.33%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) AWS
2 10 (83.33%) Azure
2 10 (83.33%) GCP
2 10 (83.33%) Power Platform
3 9 (75.00%) Azure AI
3 9 (75.00%) Copilot Studio
3 9 (75.00%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (8.33%) Serverless
4 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (83.33%) NoSQL
1 10 (83.33%) Power BI
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (8.33%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (8.33%) MLflow
General
1 10 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 9 (75.00%) Documentation Skills
2 9 (75.00%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
2 3 (25.00%) Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Data Scientist
3 1 (8.33%) Integration Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (83.33%) PyTorch
1 10 (83.33%) REST
1 10 (83.33%) scikit-learn
1 10 (83.33%) TensorFlow
2 1 (8.33%) FastAPI
2 1 (8.33%) Flask
2 1 (8.33%) GraphQL
2 1 (8.33%) gRPC
2 1 (8.33%) Node.js
2 1 (8.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
1 12 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 11 (91.67%) AI
2 11 (91.67%) Analytics
2 11 (91.67%) Data Science
3 10 (83.33%) API Development
3 10 (83.33%) Business Intelligence
3 10 (83.33%) CI/CD
3 10 (83.33%) LLM
3 10 (83.33%) Microservices
3 10 (83.33%) Prompt Engineering
4 9 (75.00%) B2B
4 9 (75.00%) B2C
4 9 (75.00%) Data Analytics
4 9 (75.00%) Feature Engineering
4 9 (75.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 2 (16.67%) Data Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (16.67%) ETL
6 1 (8.33%) DataOps
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Python
2 10 (83.33%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (91.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (91.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Foundry
1 9 (75.00%) Google
1 9 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 9 (75.00%) OpenAI