MLOps Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

MLOps
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring MLOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing MLOps 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 0.47% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £440 £489 -
% change year-on-year -10.02% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 180 139 230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 84.91% 72.02% 91.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 49 128
10th Percentile £165 £257 £362
25th Percentile £384 £325 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +6.80%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £650
90th Percentile £669 £634 £720
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 24 60
10th Percentile £24.79 £28.98 £20.58
25th Percentile £41.94 £36.59 £37.78
Median hourly rate £45.46 £40.33 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% -12.68% +38.27%
75th Percentile £69.98 £46.18 £50.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £51.61 £57.95
North West median hourly rate £29.27 £40.16 £35.00
% change year-on-year -27.12% +14.75% +44.09%

MLOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

MLOps job vacancy trend in Lancashire

MLOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Python Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared