MLOps Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

MLOps
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring MLOps skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 30 -
Rank change year-on-year -20 - -
Contract jobs citing MLOps 5 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 1.75% 2.40% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.82% 2.55% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 0
10th Percentile £370 £472 -
25th Percentile £381 £476 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £488 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.05% - -
75th Percentile £423 £508 -
90th Percentile £430 £510 -
Cheshire median daily rate £405 £489 -
% change year-on-year -17.18% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 275 157 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 96.49% 94.01% 96.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 132 41
10th Percentile £310 £356 £495
25th Percentile £358 £384 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £448 £586
Median % change year-on-year -8.38% -23.63% +18.38%
75th Percentile £488 £552 £595
90th Percentile £520 £640 £606
Cheshire median daily rate £430 £476 £500
% change year-on-year -9.71% -4.75% +11.11%

MLOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Knutsford 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 3 (60.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon SageMaker
3 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) GCP
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Big Data
2 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (60.00%) MLflow
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Data Scientist
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Flask
1 3 (60.00%) HTML
1 3 (60.00%) PySpark
1 3 (60.00%) RESTful
2 2 (40.00%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Data Science
3 2 (40.00%) Front End Development
3 2 (40.00%) Generative AI
3 2 (40.00%) LLM
3 2 (40.00%) Open Source
3 2 (40.00%) Prompt Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (20.00%) Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) API Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Multivariate Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft