MLOps Contracts in London

MLOps
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring MLOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MLOps over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 354 453
Rank change year-on-year +54 +99 +67
Contract jobs citing MLOps 53 37 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.42% 0.21% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.23% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 34 23
10th Percentile £403 £450 £513
25th Percentile £488 £513 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £638 £700
Median % change year-on-year -7.84% -8.93% +16.67%
75th Percentile £838 £772 £825
90th Percentile £850 £800 £875
England median daily rate £575 £575 £625
% change year-on-year - -8.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

MLOps
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing MLOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for MLOps in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MLOps in London.

Daily rate trend for MLOps in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MLOps in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MLOps in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MLOps within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Central London +5 3 £765 -0.55% 8
East London - 1 £500 - 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (5.66%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.77%) Apache
2 2 (3.77%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.89%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 32 (60.38%) Azure
2 18 (33.96%) AWS
3 10 (18.87%) GCP
4 8 (15.09%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (15.09%) GitHub
5 7 (13.21%) Azure Stack
6 6 (11.32%) Amazon SageMaker
6 6 (11.32%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (9.43%) Snowflake
8 3 (5.66%) Amazon S3
8 3 (5.66%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 3 (5.66%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (5.66%) Serverless
9 2 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (3.77%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (3.77%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (3.77%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (3.77%) IBM Watson
9 2 (3.77%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.43%) Big Data
2 4 (7.55%) Data Lake
2 4 (7.55%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (5.66%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.77%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (3.77%) Hadoop
4 2 (3.77%) Power BI
5 1 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.89%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.89%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.89%) Tableau
5 1 (1.89%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 6 (11.32%) MLflow
2 3 (5.66%) Git
3 2 (3.77%) Bitbucket
3 2 (3.77%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.89%) JIRA
General
1 15 (28.30%) Finance
2 14 (26.42%) Social Skills
3 8 (15.09%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (13.21%) Banking
5 6 (11.32%) Front Office
5 6 (11.32%) Investment Banking
6 3 (5.66%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.89%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.89%) Games
7 1 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.89%) Retail
7 1 (1.89%) Social Science
7 1 (1.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (22.64%) Data Engineer
2 9 (16.98%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 8 (15.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 8 (15.09%) Operations Engineer
4 7 (13.21%) Gen AI Engineer
4 7 (13.21%) Lead
4 7 (13.21%) Senior
5 6 (11.32%) DataOps Engineer
5 6 (11.32%) Python Engineer
6 5 (9.43%) Architect
6 5 (9.43%) Data Analytics Engineer
6 5 (9.43%) Data Scientist
7 4 (7.55%) Senior Data Engineer
8 3 (5.66%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (3.77%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (3.77%) Senior Data Scientist
9 2 (3.77%) Snowflake Engineer
10 1 (1.89%) AWS Data Engineer
10 1 (1.89%) Python Data Engineer
10 1 (1.89%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (15.09%) LangChain
1 8 (15.09%) PyTorch
1 8 (15.09%) REST
2 6 (11.32%) Play Framework
3 5 (9.43%) Kafka
3 5 (9.43%) scikit-learn
3 5 (9.43%) TensorFlow
4 3 (5.66%) Pandas
4 3 (5.66%) PySpark
5 2 (3.77%) AWS CDK
5 2 (3.77%) Hugging Face
5 2 (3.77%) NumPy
6 1 (1.89%) FastAPI
6 1 (1.89%) Lambda Expressions
6 1 (1.89%) RESTful
6 1 (1.89%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (1.89%) Statsmodels
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.87%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (15.09%) Algorithms
3 7 (13.21%) Public Cloud
4 6 (11.32%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (11.32%) Product Ownership
5 4 (7.55%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.77%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.89%) FMCG
7 1 (1.89%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.89%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (92.45%) Machine Learning
2 34 (64.15%) Artificial Intelligence
3 33 (62.26%) CI/CD
4 31 (58.49%) Data Science
5 20 (37.74%) DevOps
5 20 (37.74%) LLM
6 19 (35.85%) Analytics
7 18 (33.96%) Generative AI
8 17 (32.08%) Data Engineering
9 15 (28.30%) Agile
10 14 (26.42%) DataOps
11 13 (24.53%) Containerisation
11 13 (24.53%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (24.53%) SDLC
12 11 (20.75%) Data Pipeline
13 10 (18.87%) Data Governance
14 9 (16.98%) Business Intelligence
15 8 (15.09%) ETL
15 8 (15.09%) ModelOps
15 8 (15.09%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 46 (86.79%) Python
2 20 (37.74%) Scala
3 19 (35.85%) SQL
4 7 (13.21%) Clojure
4 7 (13.21%) Elixir
4 7 (13.21%) Rust
5 3 (5.66%) Java
6 1 (1.89%) Go
6 1 (1.89%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 7 (13.21%) Degree
2 5 (9.43%) Master's Degree
3 4 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.77%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.43%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.66%) QA
3 2 (3.77%) GDPR
4 1 (1.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.89%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.89%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.89%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (15.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (32.08%) Kubernetes
2 8 (15.09%) Terraform
3 3 (5.66%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 10 (18.87%) Databricks
2 4 (7.55%) Google
3 3 (5.66%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.77%) IBM
4 2 (3.77%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.89%) Dataiku
5 1 (1.89%) DataRobot
5 1 (1.89%) Rackspace
5 1 (1.89%) ServiceNow