MLOps Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

MLOps
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring MLOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing MLOps 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.68% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £514 - -
25th Percentile £516 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 - -
75th Percentile £546 - -
90th Percentile £548 - -
Scotland median daily rate £533 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 537 587 826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 91.33% 91.29% 92.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 306 488
10th Percentile £221 £227 £200
25th Percentile £406 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £634 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +2.78% -7.69% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 25 10
10th Percentile £17.62 £16.86 £13.12
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £19.19 £23.59 £17.61
Median % change year-on-year -18.67% +33.96% -14.33%
75th Percentile £45.00 £24.18 £31.97
90th Percentile £66.00 - £54.48
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -13.04% +27.78% +1.58%

MLOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

MLOps job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

MLOps
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing MLOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing MLOps

MLOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (75.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (75.00%) OpenShift
1 3 (75.00%) Serverless
1 3 (75.00%) Textract
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Development Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) PyTorch
2 3 (75.00%) SpaCy
3 2 (50.00%) AWS CDK
4 1 (25.00%) FastAPI
4 1 (25.00%) Flask
4 1 (25.00%) Kafka
4 1 (25.00%) LangChain
4 1 (25.00%) LangGraph
4 1 (25.00%) OAuth
4 1 (25.00%) OAuth2
4 1 (25.00%) REST
4 1 (25.00%) RESTful
4 1 (25.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (75.00%) AI
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 3 (75.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Kanban
3 2 (50.00%) OCR
4 1 (25.00%) BDD
4 1 (25.00%) Deep Learning
4 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
4 1 (25.00%) Intelligent Automation
4 1 (25.00%) LLM
4 1 (25.00%) Observability
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (25.00%) Predictive Modelling
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Grafana
2 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) Kustomize
3 1 (25.00%) Prometheus