MLOps Contract Job Trends in Manchester

MLOps
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring MLOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 79 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs citing MLOps 8 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.69% 0.37% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.41% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 0
10th Percentile £421 £430 -
25th Percentile £429 £436 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £455 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.40% - -
75th Percentile £497 £525 -
90th Percentile £548 £555 -
North West median daily rate £440 £488 -
% change year-on-year -9.88% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,039 982 1,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.88% 89.68% 88.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 698 588 990
10th Percentile £303 £294 £298
25th Percentile £371 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 39 48
10th Percentile £17.30 £15.98 £15.74
25th Percentile £19.52 £22.75 £17.37
Median hourly rate £22.82 £32.50 £24.75
Median % change year-on-year -29.80% +31.31% -33.65%
75th Percentile £53.94 £44.38 £57.19
90th Percentile £64.13 £65.00 £76.10
North West median hourly rate £34.50 £32.01 £35.50
% change year-on-year +7.78% -9.83% +37.54%

MLOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

MLOps job vacancy trend in Manchester

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Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing MLOps

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MLOps in Manchester over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MLOps in Manchester

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (12.50%) Apache
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) GCP
3 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (12.50%) Serverless
4 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (12.50%) Big Data
2 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
2 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
2 1 (12.50%) Metadata
2 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 1 (12.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Marketing
3 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Retail
4 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Data Scientist
2 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (12.50%) Hugging Face
2 1 (12.50%) Kafka
2 1 (12.50%) Node.js
2 1 (12.50%) Pandas
2 1 (12.50%) PySpark
2 1 (12.50%) pytest
2 1 (12.50%) PyTorch
2 1 (12.50%) React
2 1 (12.50%) scikit-learn
2 1 (12.50%) Spark Streaming
2 1 (12.50%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Data Science
1 7 (87.50%) Machine Learning
2 6 (75.00%) AI
3 5 (62.50%) Analytics
4 4 (50.00%) Generative AI
4 4 (50.00%) LLM
5 3 (37.50%) DevOps
5 3 (37.50%) E-Commerce
6 2 (25.00%) Agile
6 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
6 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (25.00%) Customer Analytics
6 2 (25.00%) Data Architecture
6 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
6 2 (25.00%) Deep Learning
6 2 (25.00%) ETL
6 2 (25.00%) Natural Language Processing
6 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 2 (25.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Python
2 6 (75.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Postgraduate
2 1 (12.50%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks