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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 - 103
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing MLOps 10 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.63% - 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% - 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 2
10th Percentile - - £480
25th Percentile £613 - £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £503
75th Percentile £638 - £527
90th Percentile - - £532
England median daily rate £563 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +2.27% +4.76% -25.00%

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 1,344 923 1,464
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 84.69% 84.22% 86.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 576 399 764
10th Percentile £200 £242 £225
25th Percentile £363 £340 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £681 £694 £713
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 427 176 356
10th Percentile £14.00 - £14.00
25th Percentile £16.12 £15.62 £14.88
Median hourly rate £20.35 £35.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.86% +48.94% -2.58%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.13 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £83.63 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%

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 7 January 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 - 8 £625 - 4
Cambridgeshire - 1 - - 4
Suffolk - 1 - - 3
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 1 (10.00%) Apache
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (90.00%) Azure
2 9 (90.00%) GCP
2 9 (90.00%) Power Platform
3 8 (80.00%) Azure AI
3 8 (80.00%) Copilot Studio
3 8 (80.00%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (10.00%) Serverless
4 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (90.00%) NoSQL
1 9 (90.00%) Power BI
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
General
1 9 (90.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (80.00%) Documentation Skills
2 8 (80.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Integration Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (90.00%) PyTorch
1 9 (90.00%) REST
1 9 (90.00%) scikit-learn
1 9 (90.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (10.00%) FastAPI
2 1 (10.00%) Flask
2 1 (10.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (10.00%) gRPC
2 1 (10.00%) Node.js
2 1 (10.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) AI
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
1 10 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 9 (90.00%) Analytics
2 9 (90.00%) API Development
2 9 (90.00%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (90.00%) Data Science
2 9 (90.00%) LLM
2 9 (90.00%) Microservices
2 9 (90.00%) Prompt Engineering
3 8 (80.00%) B2B
3 8 (80.00%) B2C
3 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (80.00%) Data Analytics
3 8 (80.00%) Feature Engineering
3 8 (80.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 1 (10.00%) Data Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (10.00%) Product Management
4 1 (10.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Python
2 9 (90.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (90.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (90.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Foundry
1 8 (80.00%) Google
1 8 (80.00%) Microsoft
1 8 (80.00%) OpenAI