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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 - 109
Rank change year-on-year - - -3
Contract jobs citing MLOps 7 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.32% - 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% - 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £530 - -
25th Percentile £581 - £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 - £563
90th Percentile £653 - -
England median daily rate £563 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -6.25% +4.35% -8.00%
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 £62.56 - £67.50

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 1,740 886 1,612
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.73% 90.50% 83.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 883 454 665
10th Percentile £197 £225 £200
25th Percentile £375 £395 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £589 £588 £575
90th Percentile £681 £675 £673
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 424 179 610
10th Percentile £14.52 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.12 £16.94 £15.53
Median hourly rate £27.74 £38.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.00% -5.00% +81.82%
75th Percentile £68.75 £72.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +66.67% -24.00% +1.35%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MLOps in the East of England over the 6 months to 5 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for MLOps in the East of England

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 5 June 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 - 4 £625 -
Cambridgeshire - 3 £551 - 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 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) Azure AI
1 4 (57.14%) Copilot Studio
1 4 (57.14%) GCP
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Copilot
1 4 (57.14%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) NoSQL
1 4 (57.14%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) MLflow
General
1 4 (57.14%) Documentation Skills
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
1 3 (42.86%) Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Data Scientist
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) PyTorch
1 4 (57.14%) REST
1 4 (57.14%) scikit-learn
1 4 (57.14%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 6 (85.71%) Data Science
3 5 (71.43%) Analytics
3 5 (71.43%) DevOps
4 4 (57.14%) AI
4 4 (57.14%) API Development
4 4 (57.14%) B2B
4 4 (57.14%) B2C
4 4 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (57.14%) Data Analytics
4 4 (57.14%) Feature Engineering
4 4 (57.14%) LLM
4 4 (57.14%) Microservices
4 4 (57.14%) Prompt Engineering
4 4 (57.14%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 3 (42.86%) ETL
6 1 (14.29%) Data Engineering
6 1 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) DV Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Foundry
1 4 (57.14%) Google
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
1 4 (57.14%) OpenAI