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 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 86 116
Rank change year-on-year -10 +30 +2
Contract jobs citing MLOps 3 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.21% 0.075% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.093% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - £480
25th Percentile £613 £525 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £503
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +9.29% -28.87%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £527
90th Percentile - - £532
England median daily rate £558 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +1.36% +4.76% -25.00%

All Process and 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 1,275 1,073 1,645
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.79% 80.37% 87.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 550 430 896
10th Percentile £195 £225 £225
25th Percentile £363 £314 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £586 £562 £608
90th Percentile £684 £650 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 343 234 373
10th Percentile £14.12 £15.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £25.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +25.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £59.50 £64.01 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.75 £70.00 £77.20
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +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 29 October 2025. 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 - 2 £625 - 1
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) Azure AI
2 2 (66.67%) Copilot Studio
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Copilot
2 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 3 (100.00%) REST
1 3 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 3 (100.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (33.33%) FastAPI
2 1 (33.33%) Flask
2 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
2 1 (33.33%) gRPC
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) API Development
1 3 (100.00%) Data Science
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) B2B
2 2 (66.67%) B2C
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Feature Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) LLM
2 2 (66.67%) Prompt Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 1 (33.33%) API Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Java
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Foundry
1 2 (66.67%) Google
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) OpenAI