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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 415 483 584
Rank change year-on-year +68 +101 +73
Contract jobs citing MLOps 65 55 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.27% 0.15% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.18% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 46 46
10th Percentile £392 £450 £553
25th Percentile £463 £500 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £825 £734 £825
90th Percentile £850 £800 £913
UK median daily rate £588 £538 £625
% change year-on-year +9.30% -14.00% -
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 21,762 31,336 43,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.29% 86.24% 90.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,222 20,550 30,257
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £412 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £768
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 920 2,253 1,528
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.88 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.95 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.08 £36.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -2.67% +50.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.05 £37.00
% change year-on-year -23.71% -2.58% +44.08%

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 23 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 23 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 +65 52 £690 +6.90% 275
South East +53 6 £400 -20.00% 223
North of England +17 3 £455 - 146
South West - 3 £515 - 79
North West - 2 £540 - 79
North East 0 1 £400 - 17
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 6 (9.23%) Apache Spark
2 4 (6.15%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.08%) Apache
4 1 (1.54%) Confluence
4 1 (1.54%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 32 (49.23%) Azure
2 28 (43.08%) AWS
3 11 (16.92%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (13.85%) GCP
4 9 (13.85%) GitHub
5 8 (12.31%) Amazon SageMaker
6 7 (10.77%) Azure Machine Learning
6 7 (10.77%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (7.69%) Azure AKS
7 5 (7.69%) Serverless
7 5 (7.69%) Snowflake
8 4 (6.15%) Amazon S3
8 4 (6.15%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (4.62%) Azure Cognitive Services
9 3 (4.62%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (3.08%) Azure AI
10 2 (3.08%) dbt
10 2 (3.08%) IBM Watson
10 2 (3.08%) Power Platform
10 2 (3.08%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.54%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.77%) Big Data
2 4 (6.15%) Data Lake
2 4 (6.15%) NoSQL
3 3 (4.62%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (4.62%) Data Mining
3 3 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.08%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (3.08%) Hadoop
4 2 (3.08%) Power BI
4 2 (3.08%) Redis
5 1 (1.54%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.54%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.54%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.54%) Flink
5 1 (1.54%) Parquet
5 1 (1.54%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.54%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (16.92%) MLflow
2 5 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 4 (6.15%) Git
4 3 (4.62%) JIRA
5 2 (3.08%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.54%) GitLab
General
1 18 (27.69%) Finance
2 14 (21.54%) Social Skills
3 10 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.23%) Banking
4 6 (9.23%) Front Office
4 6 (9.23%) Investment Banking
5 2 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.08%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.54%) Games
6 1 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.54%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.54%) Retail
6 1 (1.54%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 10 (15.38%) Data Scientist
1 10 (15.38%) Lead
1 10 (15.38%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 8 (12.31%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 7 (10.77%) Data Engineer
3 7 (10.77%) Senior
4 6 (9.23%) Gen AI Engineer
5 5 (7.69%) Architect
6 4 (6.15%) Python Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Developer
7 3 (4.62%) Senior Data Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.08%) Azure Developer
8 2 (3.08%) Data Science Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) Operations Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) Senior Data Scientist
9 1 (1.54%) Automation Engineer
9 1 (1.54%) Data Science Leader
9 1 (1.54%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (23.08%) PyTorch
2 11 (16.92%) REST
3 10 (15.38%) LangChain
3 10 (15.38%) TensorFlow
4 9 (13.85%) scikit-learn
5 6 (9.23%) Pandas
5 6 (9.23%) Play Framework
6 4 (6.15%) Hugging Face
6 4 (6.15%) Kafka
6 4 (6.15%) PySpark
7 3 (4.62%) NumPy
8 2 (3.08%) AWS CDK
8 2 (3.08%) FastAPI
9 1 (1.54%) ARM Templates
9 1 (1.54%) FHIR
9 1 (1.54%) OpenID
9 1 (1.54%) Prophet
9 1 (1.54%) Ray
9 1 (1.54%) SQLAlchemy
9 1 (1.54%) Statsmodels
Miscellaneous
1 12 (18.46%) Algorithms
2 8 (12.31%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (9.23%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (7.69%) Public Cloud
5 4 (6.15%) Cloud Native
6 3 (4.62%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (3.08%) Data Structures
7 2 (3.08%) Life Science
8 1 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.54%) FMCG
8 1 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.54%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.54%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.54%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.54%) Linux
1 1 (1.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (90.77%) Machine Learning
2 44 (67.69%) Artificial Intelligence
3 36 (55.38%) Data Science
4 33 (50.77%) CI/CD
5 25 (38.46%) DevOps
6 23 (35.38%) LLM
7 20 (30.77%) Generative AI
8 17 (26.15%) Data Engineering
8 17 (26.15%) Natural Language Processing
9 15 (23.08%) Analytics
9 15 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (18.46%) SDLC
11 11 (16.92%) Agile
11 11 (16.92%) Data Pipeline
12 10 (15.38%) Containerisation
13 9 (13.85%) DataOps
13 9 (13.85%) Deep Learning
14 8 (12.31%) Business Intelligence
14 8 (12.31%) ETL
14 8 (12.31%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 57 (87.69%) Python
2 29 (44.62%) SQL
3 11 (16.92%) Scala
4 5 (7.69%) Clojure
4 5 (7.69%) Elixir
4 5 (7.69%) Rust
5 4 (6.15%) R
6 3 (4.62%) Java
7 2 (3.08%) Bicep
7 2 (3.08%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.54%) C
8 1 (1.54%) C#
8 1 (1.54%) C++
8 1 (1.54%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.54%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (20.00%) Degree
2 9 (13.85%) Master's Degree
3 4 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.62%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.62%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.62%) Security Cleared
5 2 (3.08%) PhD
6 1 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.54%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.54%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.62%) QA
3 2 (3.08%) GDPR
4 1 (1.54%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.54%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.54%) HL7
4 1 (1.54%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.54%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (23.08%) Docker
2 1 (1.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (26.15%) Kubernetes
2 8 (12.31%) Terraform
3 5 (7.69%) Kubeflow
4 2 (3.08%) Grafana
Vendors
1 11 (16.92%) Databricks
2 7 (10.77%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.69%) Google
4 2 (3.08%) IBM
4 2 (3.08%) NVIDIA
4 2 (3.08%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.54%) Dataiku
5 1 (1.54%) DataRobot
5 1 (1.54%) Oracle
5 1 (1.54%) Rackspace
5 1 (1.54%) ServiceNow