MLOps Contracts in England

MLOps
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring MLOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MLOps over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 419 494 584
Rank change year-on-year +75 +90 +80
Contract jobs citing MLOps 66 48 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.27% 0.13% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.15% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 42 43
10th Percentile £400 £450 £520
25th Percentile £463 £503 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% -
75th Percentile £825 £734 £781
90th Percentile £850 £800 £870
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £67.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £67.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

MLOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing MLOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for MLOps in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MLOps in England.

Daily rate trend for MLOps in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MLOps in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MLOps in England

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Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +54 53 £588 -7.84% 177
South East +47 5 £475 -17.39% 113
South West - 4 £515 - 52
North of England +21 3 £455 - 83
North West - 2 £455 - 42
North East 0 1 £400 - 9
MLOps
UK

MLOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (10.61%) Apache Spark
2 5 (7.58%) Apache
3 2 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.52%) Confluence
4 1 (1.52%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 38 (57.58%) Azure
2 24 (36.36%) AWS
3 11 (16.67%) GCP
4 10 (15.15%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (12.12%) GitHub
6 7 (10.61%) Amazon SageMaker
6 7 (10.61%) Azure Stack
7 6 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (7.58%) Azure AKS
8 5 (7.58%) Azure Machine Learning
8 5 (7.58%) Snowflake
9 4 (6.06%) Serverless
10 3 (4.55%) Amazon S3
10 3 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (4.55%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 3 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (3.03%) IBM Watson
11 2 (3.03%) Power Platform
11 2 (3.03%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.12%) Big Data
2 6 (9.09%) Data Lake
3 4 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (6.06%) NoSQL
4 3 (4.55%) Data Mining
4 3 (4.55%) Hadoop
5 2 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (3.03%) Power BI
5 2 (3.03%) Redis
6 1 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.52%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.52%) Flink
6 1 (1.52%) Parquet
6 1 (1.52%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.52%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.52%) Tableau
6 1 (1.52%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 8 (12.12%) Git
2 7 (10.61%) MLflow
3 3 (4.55%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.03%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.03%) JIRA
5 1 (1.52%) GitLab
General
1 17 (25.76%) Social Skills
2 15 (22.73%) Finance
3 11 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (10.61%) Banking
5 6 (9.09%) Front Office
5 6 (9.09%) Investment Banking
6 5 (7.58%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.52%) Aviation
7 1 (1.52%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.52%) Games
7 1 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.52%) Retail
7 1 (1.52%) Social Science
7 1 (1.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (18.18%) Data Engineer
2 10 (15.15%) Lead
2 10 (15.15%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 9 (13.64%) Data Scientist
4 8 (12.12%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 8 (12.12%) Operations Engineer
5 7 (10.61%) Gen AI Engineer
5 7 (10.61%) Senior
6 6 (9.09%) DataOps Engineer
6 6 (9.09%) Python Engineer
7 5 (7.58%) Architect
7 5 (7.58%) Data Analytics Engineer
8 4 (6.06%) Senior Data Engineer
9 3 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
10 2 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
10 2 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
10 2 (3.03%) Consultant
10 2 (3.03%) Developer
10 2 (3.03%) Senior Data Scientist
10 2 (3.03%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (22.73%) PyTorch
2 11 (16.67%) TensorFlow
3 9 (13.64%) REST
4 8 (12.12%) LangChain
4 8 (12.12%) scikit-learn
5 6 (9.09%) Kafka
5 6 (9.09%) Play Framework
6 4 (6.06%) Hugging Face
6 4 (6.06%) Pandas
7 3 (4.55%) NumPy
7 3 (4.55%) PySpark
8 2 (3.03%) AWS CDK
8 2 (3.03%) RESTful
9 1 (1.52%) ARM Templates
9 1 (1.52%) Entity Framework
9 1 (1.52%) FastAPI
9 1 (1.52%) OpenID
9 1 (1.52%) Prophet
9 1 (1.52%) SQLAlchemy
9 1 (1.52%) Statsmodels
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.67%) Algorithms
2 10 (15.15%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (10.61%) Public Cloud
4 6 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (9.09%) Product Ownership
5 4 (6.06%) Cloud Native
6 3 (4.55%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.52%) FMCG
7 1 (1.52%) IoT
7 1 (1.52%) Life Science
7 1 (1.52%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.03%) Linux
2 1 (1.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (90.91%) Machine Learning
2 39 (59.09%) Artificial Intelligence
3 38 (57.58%) CI/CD
4 36 (54.55%) Data Science
5 24 (36.36%) DevOps
6 22 (33.33%) Analytics
6 22 (33.33%) LLM
7 19 (28.79%) Data Engineering
8 18 (27.27%) Agile
8 18 (27.27%) Generative AI
9 17 (25.76%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (24.24%) Containerisation
11 15 (22.73%) DataOps
12 13 (19.70%) SDLC
13 12 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
14 11 (16.67%) Data Governance
14 11 (16.67%) Natural Language Processing
15 10 (15.15%) ETL
16 9 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
17 8 (12.12%) ModelOps
Programming Languages
1 59 (89.39%) Python
2 28 (42.42%) SQL
3 20 (30.30%) Scala
4 7 (10.61%) Clojure
4 7 (10.61%) Elixir
4 7 (10.61%) Rust
5 5 (7.58%) R
6 4 (6.06%) Java
7 2 (3.03%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.52%) Bash
8 1 (1.52%) Bicep
8 1 (1.52%) C#
8 1 (1.52%) Go
8 1 (1.52%) Haskell
8 1 (1.52%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.52%) Perl
8 1 (1.52%) Ruby
8 1 (1.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (15.15%) Degree
2 5 (7.58%) Master's Degree
3 4 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (6.06%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.06%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.03%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.52%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.52%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.52%) MCITP
5 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.61%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.55%) QA
3 2 (3.03%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.03%) GDPR
4 1 (1.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.52%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.52%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.52%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (18.18%) Docker
2 1 (1.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (30.30%) Kubernetes
2 9 (13.64%) Terraform
3 3 (4.55%) Kubeflow
4 2 (3.03%) Grafana
5 1 (1.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (15.15%) Databricks
2 7 (10.61%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.58%) Google
4 2 (3.03%) IBM
4 2 (3.03%) NVIDIA
4 2 (3.03%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.52%) Dataiku
5 1 (1.52%) DataRobot
5 1 (1.52%) Oracle
5 1 (1.52%) Rackspace
5 1 (1.52%) ServiceNow