MLOps Contracts in the North of England

MLOps
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 163 184 216
Rank change year-on-year +21 +32 +15
Contract jobs citing MLOps 3 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.091% 0.021% 0.069%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.024% 0.076%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £410 - -
25th Percentile £424 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +43.75%
75th Percentile £463 - £644
90th Percentile - - £685
England median daily rate £575 £575 £625
% change year-on-year - -8.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing MLOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for MLOps in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MLOps in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for MLOps in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MLOps within the North of England 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
North West - 2 £455 - 42
North East 0 1 £400 - 9
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CodeBuild
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CodePipeline
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Mining
2 1 (33.33%) Flink
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Scientist
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) PyTorch
1 2 (66.67%) TensorFlow
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Science
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Data Privacy
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (66.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) Mathematics
2 2 (66.67%) Natural Language Processing
2 2 (66.67%) Predictive Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Predictive Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (66.67%) Statistical Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Storytelling
2 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) R
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Accessibility
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft