MLOps Contracts in the South East

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England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for MLOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited MLOps over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 190 212 243
Rank change year-on-year +22 +31 -37
Contract jobs citing MLOps 4 7 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.072% 0.12% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.085% 0.14% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 12
10th Percentile - £460 £534
25th Percentile £500 £534 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +35.14%
75th Percentile £675 - £753
90th Percentile - - £763
England median daily rate £575 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -8.00% - +19.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

MLOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,700 5,156 6,968
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.75% 89.24% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,740 3,588 4,724
10th Percentile £243 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £405 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.91% +2.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £593
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 437 224 288
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.25 £12.21
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.34 £15.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.99
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +127.43% -20.05%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.72 £48.62
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.55 £62.48
England median hourly rate £36.00 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -3.59% +53.69% +1.23%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing MLOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for MLOps in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MLOps in the South East.

Daily rate trend for MLOps in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MLOps in the South East over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MLOps in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MLOps within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 May 2024. 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
Thames Valley +5 2 £500 -13.04% 4
Berkshire -12 2 £500 -13.04% 1
East Sussex +7 1 £650 +13.04%
Surrey - 1 £650 - 5
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure API Management
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) PowerApps
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) Data Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Python Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) API Management
4 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
4 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (25.00%) DataOps
4 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
4 1 (25.00%) LLM
4 1 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) C++
3 1 (25.00%) Scala
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Alteryx
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks
1 1 (25.00%) Dataiku