MLOps Contracts in Manchester

MLOps
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 28 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 - 115
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing MLOps 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.40% - 0.055%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% - 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £428 - -
25th Percentile £450 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £575
75th Percentile £531 - -
90th Percentile £610 - -
North West median daily rate £475 £488 £575
% change year-on-year -2.71% -15.09% -

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 875 1,105 1,624
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.76% 86.73% 89.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 564 717 1,188
10th Percentile £305 £325 £304
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £688 £675
North West median daily rate £453 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -9.35% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 59 59
10th Percentile £17.08 £14.00 £14.52
25th Percentile £19.07 £20.88 £16.15
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +79.49% +5.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £37.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.20 £65.20
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £30.00 £30.54
% change year-on-year -4.17% -1.77% +32.47%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for MLOps in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for MLOps in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MLOps in Manchester over the 6 months to 28 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MLOps in Manchester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) MLflow
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Marketing
2 2 (50.00%) Retail
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (25.00%) Pandas
2 1 (25.00%) pytest
2 1 (25.00%) PyTorch
2 1 (25.00%) scikit-learn
2 1 (25.00%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Science
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) E-Commerce
2 3 (75.00%) Generative AI
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Customer Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) API Development
4 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (25.00%) LLM
4 1 (25.00%) Neural Network
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Statistics
4 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Postgraduate
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes