MLOps Contract Job Trends in Reading

MLOps
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring MLOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 89 -
Rank change year-on-year +31 - -
Contract jobs citing MLOps 8 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 1.33% 0.27% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 0.32% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £445 - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £600 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £475 - £488

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 550 944 978
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 91.51% 86.53% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 345 507 657
10th Percentile £344 £350 £276
25th Percentile £450 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% +5.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £609 £650 £638
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 26 17
10th Percentile - £14.50 £35.90
25th Percentile £14.75 £44.13 £57.50
Median hourly rate £28.50 £60.83 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.15% -7.83% +24.53%
75th Percentile £58.00 £68.45 £74.00
90th Percentile £66.60 £87.46 £75.10
Berkshire median hourly rate £37.28 £61.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -39.38% +2.49% +20.00%

MLOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

MLOps job vacancy trend in Reading

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Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing MLOps

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MLOps in Reading over the 6 months to 1 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MLOps in Reading

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 Spark
2 1 (12.50%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Azure AKS
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 2 (25.00%) Snowflake
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (12.50%) Azure App Service
4 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (12.50%) Twilio
4 1 (12.50%) Vertex AI
4 1 (12.50%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Big Data
1 2 (25.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) MLflow
General
1 3 (37.50%) Telecoms
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Architect
2 4 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 3 (37.50%) Security Architect
4 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) PyTorch
1 5 (62.50%) TensorFlow
2 4 (50.00%) scikit-learn
3 2 (25.00%) Google JAX
3 2 (25.00%) JAX
3 2 (25.00%) Kafka
4 1 (12.50%) Express.js
4 1 (12.50%) FastAPI
4 1 (12.50%) FHIR
4 1 (12.50%) GraphQL
4 1 (12.50%) LangChain
4 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (25.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Machine Learning
2 6 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (62.50%) LLM
4 3 (37.50%) Analytics
4 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
4 3 (37.50%) DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) Generative AI
4 3 (37.50%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 3 (37.50%) Security Architecture
5 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (25.00%) Data Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
5 2 (25.00%) Data Science
5 2 (25.00%) Deep Learning
5 2 (25.00%) Natural Language Processing
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (25.00%) SDLC
5 2 (25.00%) Secure Coding
5 2 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) R
3 2 (25.00%) C
3 2 (25.00%) C++
3 2 (25.00%) Java
3 2 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (12.50%) Bicep
4 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) EU AI Act
1 3 (37.50%) NIST
2 2 (25.00%) GDPR
2 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (12.50%) HL7
3 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (12.50%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Databricks