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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 182 158 191
Rank change year-on-year -24 +33 +66
Contract jobs citing MLOps 7 10 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.18% 0.24% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.29% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 6
10th Percentile £408 £455 £400
25th Percentile £413 £469 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £489 £533
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -8.17% +29.88%
75th Percentile £506 £506 £575
90th Percentile £580 £519 £675
England median daily rate £588 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +6.82% -8.33% -4.38%

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 3,553 3,466 4,633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.07% 83.96% 88.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,261 2,082 3,111
10th Percentile £268 £311 £285
25th Percentile £375 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - -
75th Percentile £556 £586 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 244 205
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £15.73
25th Percentile £17.48 £15.00 £17.75
Median hourly rate £22.63 £25.65 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year -11.77% -8.33% +39.90%
75th Percentile £44.09 £48.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.75 £69.93 £60.89
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +3.61% +56.60%

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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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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MLOps in the North of England over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 15 August 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 -7 5 £475 -2.71% 15
North East -2 1 £400 -19.19% 2
Yorkshire - 1 £425 - 4
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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 2 (28.57%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (28.57%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
3 3 (42.86%) GCP
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon SageMaker
4 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (28.57%) Serverless
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
5 1 (14.29%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (14.29%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (14.29%) GitHub
5 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (14.29%) Big Data
1 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
1 1 (14.29%) Flink
1 1 (14.29%) Metadata
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
1 1 (14.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) MLflow
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Marketing
2 2 (28.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Data Scientist
2 1 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) TensorFlow
2 2 (28.57%) Kafka
2 2 (28.57%) Pandas
2 2 (28.57%) pytest
2 2 (28.57%) scikit-learn
2 2 (28.57%) XGBoost
3 1 (14.29%) PySpark
3 1 (14.29%) PyTorch
3 1 (14.29%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Data Science
1 7 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 5 (71.43%) Analytics
2 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 4 (57.14%) DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) E-Commerce
4 3 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (42.86%) Generative AI
4 3 (42.86%) TDD
5 2 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (28.57%) Agile
5 2 (28.57%) Customer Analytics
5 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
5 2 (28.57%) Electronic Design Automation
5 2 (28.57%) Mathematics
5 2 (28.57%) Neural Network
5 2 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (28.57%) Physics
5 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (71.43%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) Scala
3 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Postgraduate
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Databricks
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft