MLOps Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

MLOps
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring MLOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 - 96
Rank change year-on-year - - +13
Contract jobs citing MLOps 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.26% - 0.065%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% - 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £554 - -
25th Percentile £559 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 - -
75th Percentile £644 - -
90th Percentile £723 - -
South East median daily rate £575 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +21.05% -5.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.75
Median hourly rate - - £23.50
75th Percentile - - £24.25
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - - £23.50

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,257 652 1,331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 81.68% 89.32% 86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 817 472 725
10th Percentile £325 £334 £370
25th Percentile £458 £457 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% +9.42%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £675
90th Percentile £739 £675 £738
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -0.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 39 122
10th Percentile £12.60 £20.09 £12.29
25th Percentile £16.17 £30.63 £17.85
Median hourly rate £20.71 £57.75 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -64.14% +21.58% -
75th Percentile £40.00 £73.13 £62.50
90th Percentile £55.00 £75.00 £75.16
South East median hourly rate £30.00 £37.80 £36.50
% change year-on-year -20.62% +3.55% -18.89%

MLOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

MLOps job vacancy trend in Hampshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing MLOps

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Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MLOps in Hampshire over the 6 months to 15 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for MLOps in Hampshire

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Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MLOps within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 15 March 2026. 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
Basingstoke - 3 £575 - 2
Romsey - 1 £770 -
MLOps
South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (50.00%) scikit-learn
1 2 (50.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (25.00%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) AI
1 3 (75.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 2 (50.00%) Data Science
2 2 (50.00%) Feature Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Agile Coaching
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Contract Negotiation
3 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) LLM
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubeflow
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Podman
2 1 (25.00%) Puppet
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google
1 2 (50.00%) UiPath
2 1 (25.00%) Tenable