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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 31 -
Rank change year-on-year -18 - -
Contract jobs citing MLOps 6 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 2.07% 2.34% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.14% 2.48% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 0
10th Percentile £372 £472 -
25th Percentile £387 £476 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £488 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.03% - -
75th Percentile £432 £508 -
90th Percentile £439 £510 -
Cheshire median daily rate £410 £489 -
% change year-on-year -16.16% - -

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 280 161 65
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 96.55% 94.15% 97.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 133 50
10th Percentile £310 £349 £489
25th Percentile £358 £375 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £445 £584
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% -23.80% +19.18%
75th Percentile £490 £550 £595
90th Percentile £537 £640 £606
Cheshire median daily rate £447 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.60% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £17.75 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -49.29% +27.27% +52.48%

MLOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

MLOps job vacancy trend in Knutsford

MLOps
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing MLOps

MLOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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 4 (66.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon SageMaker
3 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) GCP
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Big Data
2 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) GitLab
1 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 4 (66.67%) MLflow
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Data Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Data Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Flask
1 4 (66.67%) HTML
1 4 (66.67%) PySpark
1 4 (66.67%) RESTful
2 2 (33.33%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Front End Development
4 2 (33.33%) Data Science
4 2 (33.33%) Generative AI
4 2 (33.33%) LLM
4 2 (33.33%) Open Source
4 2 (33.33%) Prompt Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 1 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
5 1 (16.67%) Analytics
5 1 (16.67%) API Integration
5 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) Product Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft