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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 289 350 440
Rank change year-on-year +61 +90 +76
Contract jobs citing MLOps 52 46 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.43% 0.26% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.30% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 41 28
10th Percentile £396 £450 £513
25th Percentile £524 £513 £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £690 £650 £725
Median % change year-on-year +6.08% -10.34% +20.83%
75th Percentile £841 £800 £875
90th Percentile £850 £831 £924
England median daily rate £594 £575 £625
% change year-on-year +3.26% -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 11,178 15,459 23,168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.22% 88.48% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,507 11,105 16,762
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £431 £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 £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 316 266
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.72 £18.25
25th Percentile £23.78 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £30.81 £28.00 £39.63
Median % change year-on-year +10.02% -29.34% +12.29%
75th Percentile £49.75 £48.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.10 £66.88 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%

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 29 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 29 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 +7 3 £640 -11.79% 8
MLOps
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 4 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 3 (5.77%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.92%) Apache
3 1 (1.92%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 24 (46.15%) Azure
2 21 (40.38%) AWS
3 8 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (15.38%) GCP
3 8 (15.38%) GitHub
4 6 (11.54%) Amazon SageMaker
4 6 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (9.62%) Snowflake
6 3 (5.77%) Amazon S3
6 3 (5.77%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 3 (5.77%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (5.77%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (5.77%) Serverless
7 2 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.85%) Azure AI
7 2 (3.85%) Azure AKS
7 2 (3.85%) dbt
7 2 (3.85%) IBM Watson
7 2 (3.85%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.85%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.54%) Big Data
2 3 (5.77%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (5.77%) Data Lake
2 3 (5.77%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (5.77%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.85%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (3.85%) Power BI
4 1 (1.92%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.92%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.92%) Data Vault
4 1 (1.92%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.92%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.92%) Metadata
4 1 (1.92%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.92%) Tableau
4 1 (1.92%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 9 (17.31%) MLflow
2 4 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.85%) Bitbucket
3 2 (3.85%) JIRA
4 1 (1.92%) Git
4 1 (1.92%) GitLab
General
1 17 (32.69%) Finance
2 13 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 9 (17.31%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (11.54%) Banking
4 6 (11.54%) Front Office
4 6 (11.54%) Investment Banking
5 2 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.85%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.92%) Games
6 1 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Retail
6 1 (1.92%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 9 (17.31%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 8 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 8 (15.38%) Lead
3 7 (13.46%) Data Engineer
3 7 (13.46%) Data Scientist
3 7 (13.46%) Senior
4 6 (11.54%) Gen AI Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) Architect
6 4 (7.69%) Python Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Senior Data Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Data Science Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Operations Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Senior Data Scientist
9 1 (1.92%) AWS Data Engineer
9 1 (1.92%) Azure Data Engineer
9 1 (1.92%) DataOps Engineer
9 1 (1.92%) Python Data Engineer
9 1 (1.92%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (19.23%) PyTorch
2 9 (17.31%) LangChain
2 9 (17.31%) REST
3 7 (13.46%) scikit-learn
4 6 (11.54%) Play Framework
4 6 (11.54%) TensorFlow
5 5 (9.62%) Pandas
6 4 (7.69%) PySpark
7 3 (5.77%) Kafka
8 2 (3.85%) AWS CDK
8 2 (3.85%) Hugging Face
8 2 (3.85%) NumPy
9 1 (1.92%) FastAPI
9 1 (1.92%) Lambda Expressions
9 1 (1.92%) Ray
9 1 (1.92%) SQLAlchemy
9 1 (1.92%) Statsmodels
Miscellaneous
1 10 (19.23%) Algorithms
2 8 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (11.54%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (9.62%) Public Cloud
5 4 (7.69%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.85%) Data Structures
6 2 (3.85%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (3.85%) Life Science
7 1 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.92%) FMCG
7 1 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.92%) Linux
1 1 (1.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (94.23%) Machine Learning
2 40 (76.92%) Artificial Intelligence
3 30 (57.69%) Data Science
4 27 (51.92%) CI/CD
5 21 (40.38%) DevOps
6 19 (36.54%) Generative AI
6 19 (36.54%) LLM
7 16 (30.77%) Data Engineering
8 15 (28.85%) Natural Language Processing
9 13 (25.00%) Analytics
9 13 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (23.08%) SDLC
11 10 (19.23%) Agile
11 10 (19.23%) Data Pipeline
12 9 (17.31%) Deep Learning
13 8 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
13 8 (15.38%) Containerisation
13 8 (15.38%) DataOps
13 8 (15.38%) ETL
13 8 (15.38%) ModelOps
Programming Languages
1 44 (84.62%) Python
2 22 (42.31%) SQL
3 11 (21.15%) Scala
4 5 (9.62%) Clojure
4 5 (9.62%) Elixir
4 5 (9.62%) Rust
5 3 (5.77%) Java
6 1 (1.92%) C
6 1 (1.92%) C++
6 1 (1.92%) R
6 1 (1.92%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (23.08%) Degree
2 9 (17.31%) Master's Degree
3 4 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (5.77%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.85%) PhD
6 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.92%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.77%) QA
3 2 (3.85%) GDPR
4 1 (1.92%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.92%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.92%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (19.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (26.92%) Kubernetes
2 6 (11.54%) Terraform
3 5 (9.62%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 11 (21.15%) Databricks
2 4 (7.69%) Google
2 4 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.85%) IBM
3 2 (3.85%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.92%) Dataiku
4 1 (1.92%) DataRobot
4 1 (1.92%) Rackspace
4 1 (1.92%) ServiceNow