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 19 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 493 572 663
Rank change year-on-year +79 +91 -52
Contract jobs citing MLOps 57 64 124
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.14% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.15% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 45 87
10th Percentile £450 £528 £512
25th Percentile £503 £575 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £738 £825 £738
90th Percentile £800 £913 £793
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -12.00% - +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £63.75 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - -
75th Percentile £71.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 32,030 42,283 63,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.40% 89.90% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,779 29,697 45,496
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,363 1,526 1,693
10th Percentile £12.79 £10.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.01 £15.75 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.59 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.71 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 19 June 2024.

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 19 June 2024. 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 +87 43 £650 -10.34% 88
South East +14 5 £500 -13.04% 9
East of England -2 3 £550 -8.33% 3
Midlands +17 2 £550 -4.35% 3
West Midlands +17 1 £550 -4.35% 2
North of England +13 1 - - 5
North East - 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
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 5 (8.77%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (8.77%) Apache Spark
2 4 (7.02%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 25 (43.86%) Azure
2 14 (24.56%) AWS
3 13 (22.81%) GCP
4 12 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (14.04%) Azure Machine Learning
5 8 (14.04%) Vertex AI
6 5 (8.77%) Amazon S3
6 5 (8.77%) Amazon SageMaker
7 4 (7.02%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (7.02%) ChatGPT
7 4 (7.02%) Snowflake
8 3 (5.26%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (5.26%) Serverless
9 2 (3.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (3.51%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (3.51%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (3.51%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (3.51%) GitHub
9 2 (3.51%) IBM Watson
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.51%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.53%) NoSQL
2 5 (8.77%) Big Data
2 5 (8.77%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (7.02%) BigQuery
4 3 (5.26%) Data Lake
5 2 (3.51%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (3.51%) Metadata
5 2 (3.51%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.51%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.75%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.75%) Pinecone
6 1 (1.75%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (15.79%) MLflow
2 3 (5.26%) Git
2 3 (5.26%) GitLab
3 1 (1.75%) Jenkins
General
1 19 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 14 (24.56%) Finance
3 9 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (15.79%) Banking
4 5 (8.77%) Front Office
4 5 (8.77%) Investment Banking
5 2 (3.51%) Marketing
5 2 (3.51%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (3.51%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Electronics
6 1 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.75%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.75%) Multimedia
6 1 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Publishing
6 1 (1.75%) Retail
6 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (21.05%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 11 (19.30%) Azure Engineer
3 10 (17.54%) Data Engineer
4 6 (10.53%) Architect
5 5 (8.77%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Lead
5 5 (8.77%) Lead Data Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Security Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Senior
7 3 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 3 (5.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) GCP Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Python Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Security Architect
8 2 (3.51%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) Cloud Security Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) Data Scientist
8 2 (3.51%) Machine Learning Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (26.32%) TensorFlow
2 12 (21.05%) scikit-learn
3 8 (14.04%) PyTorch
4 6 (10.53%) LangChain
4 6 (10.53%) NumPy
4 6 (10.53%) Pandas
5 4 (7.02%) Google JAX
5 4 (7.02%) HTML
5 4 (7.02%) Torch
6 3 (5.26%) Kafka
7 2 (3.51%) Dask
7 2 (3.51%) Hugging Face
7 2 (3.51%) Keras
7 2 (3.51%) PySpark
8 1 (1.75%) ARM Templates
8 1 (1.75%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.28%) Algorithms
1 7 (12.28%) Security Posture
2 5 (8.77%) Derivative
3 4 (7.02%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.51%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.51%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (80.70%) Machine Learning
2 35 (61.40%) CI/CD
3 30 (52.63%) DevOps
4 28 (49.12%) Data Science
5 24 (42.11%) Artificial Intelligence
6 19 (33.33%) Analytics
6 19 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
7 17 (29.82%) Software Engineering
8 16 (28.07%) Computer Science
9 13 (22.81%) Agile
10 12 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (17.54%) Data Ingestion
11 10 (17.54%) Data Integration
11 10 (17.54%) ETL
11 10 (17.54%) SDLC
12 9 (15.79%) DataOps
13 8 (14.04%) Data Engineering
14 7 (12.28%) Deep Learning
14 7 (12.28%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 47 (82.46%) Python
2 16 (28.07%) SQL
3 15 (26.32%) Java
4 8 (14.04%) C++
5 7 (12.28%) Scala
6 6 (10.53%) C#
7 5 (8.77%) JavaScript
8 4 (7.02%) Go
8 4 (7.02%) R
9 3 (5.26%) C
9 3 (5.26%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.75%) Julia
10 1 (1.75%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (26.32%) Degree
2 12 (21.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (15.79%) Master's Degree
4 4 (7.02%) CISSP
5 3 (5.26%) PhD
6 2 (3.51%) SC Cleared
6 2 (3.51%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.04%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.26%) GDPR
2 3 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (5.26%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (15.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (26.32%) Kubernetes
2 11 (19.30%) Terraform
3 5 (8.77%) Grafana
4 4 (7.02%) Kubeflow
5 1 (1.75%) Podman
Vendors
1 15 (26.32%) Databricks
2 7 (12.28%) Google
3 5 (8.77%) Splunk
4 2 (3.51%) Alteryx
4 2 (3.51%) IBM
4 2 (3.51%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.51%) SAP
5 1 (1.75%) Sage