MLOps Contract Job Trends in Leeds

MLOps
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring MLOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 19 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	82	-	-
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Contract jobs citing MLOps	7	0	0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds	0.67%	-	-
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	0.78%	-	-
Number of daily rates quoted	4	0	0
10^th Percentile	£356	-	-
25^th Percentile	£420	-	-
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£469	-	-
75^th Percentile	£475	-	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
West Yorkshire median daily rate	£500	-	-

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

	6 months to 19 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills	899	594	578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds	86.36%	88.92%	85.38%
Number of daily rates quoted	512	383	370
10^th Percentile	£363	£305	£337
25^th Percentile	£425	£400	£413
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£500	£500	£500
Median % change year-on-year	-	-	-4.76%
75^th Percentile	£588	£575	£575
90^th Percentile	£650	£671	£650
West Yorkshire median daily rate	£500	£500	£490
% change year-on-year	-	+2.04%	-6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted	19	3	14
10^th Percentile	£19.69	£25.10	£15.38
25^th Percentile	£35.00	£25.25	£20.13
Median hourly rate	£43.96	£26.00	£30.00
Median % change year-on-year	+69.08%	-13.33%	+50.00%
75^th Percentile	-	£27.63	£38.75
90^th Percentile	-	£28.30	£51.00
West Yorkshire median hourly rate	£24.00	£22.14	£27.50
% change year-on-year	+8.40%	-19.49%	+44.74%

MLOps Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

MLOps Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

MLOps Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MLOps in Leeds over the 6 months to 19 October 2026.

MLOps Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 19 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing MLOps also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Leeds region with a requirement for MLOps.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Machine Learning	100.0%	7
2	AI	85.7%	6
2	CI/CD	85.7%	6
2	Generative AI	85.7%	6
2	LLM	85.7%	6
6	Python	71.4%	5
6	PyTorch	71.4%	5
8	Azure	57.1%	4
8	Data Pipeline	57.1%	4
8	Data Science	57.1%	4
8	Docker	57.1%	4
8	GCP	57.1%	4
8	Kubernetes	57.1%	4
8	Observability	57.1%	4
8	Performance Optimisation	57.1%	4
8	Retrieval-Augmented Generation	57.1%	4
17	Analytics	42.9%	3
17	Containerisation	42.9%	3
17	Hugging Face	42.9%	3
17	TensorFlow	42.9%	3
17	Vertex AI	42.9%	3
22	Amazon Neptune	28.6%	2
22	Anomaly Detection	28.6%	2
22	Apache Spark	28.6%	2
22	API Development	28.6%	2
22	ArangoDB	28.6%	2
22	Azure Cosmos DB	28.6%	2
22	BigQuery	28.6%	2
22	Case Management	28.6%	2
22	Cloud Security	28.6%	2

MLOps Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Processes & Methodologies

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Machine Learning	100.0%	7
2	AI	85.7%	6
2	CI/CD	85.7%	6
2	Generative AI	85.7%	6
2	LLM	85.7%	6
6	Data Pipeline	57.1%	4
6	Data Science	57.1%	4
6	Observability	57.1%	4
6	Performance Optimisation	57.1%	4
6	Retrieval-Augmented Generation	57.1%	4
11	Analytics	42.9%	3
11	Containerisation	42.9%	3
13	Anomaly Detection	28.6%	2
13	API Development	28.6%	2
13	Case Management	28.6%	2
13	Cloud Security	28.6%	2
13	Computer Science	28.6%	2
13	Cyber Threat Intelligence	28.6%	2
13	Cybersecurity	28.6%	2
13	Data Engineering	28.6%	2