MLOps Contracts in the South East

MLOps
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 26 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 184 206
Rank change year-on-year +29 +22 +75
DemandTrendContract jobs citing MLOps 11 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.31% 0.063% 0.036%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.077% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £408 - -
25th Percentile £438 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -28.57%
75th Percentile £575 - £525
90th Percentile £600 - -
England median daily rate £600 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% -1.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,150 3,920 5,001
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 89.31% 82.16% 89.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,960 2,363 3,392
10th Percentile £238 £260 £250
25th Percentile £393 £404 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £518
Median % change year-on-year -3.66% +0.11% +2.66%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 312 309 234
10th Percentile £13.54 £15.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £26.25 £21.09
Median hourly rate £24.00 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.15% +14.70% +80.31%
75th Percentile £53.75 £70.18 £64.91
90th Percentile £70.16 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +53.90%

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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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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing MLOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing MLOps

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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 26 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MLOps in the South East

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DemandTrendContract 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 26 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +24 10 £513 - 23
Thames Valley +19 10 £513 - 34
Surrey - 1 £425 -
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England

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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 2 (18.18%) Apache Spark
2 1 (9.09%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) Azure AKS
2 4 (36.36%) Azure Machine Learning
3 3 (27.27%) AWS
3 3 (27.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (27.27%) GCP
4 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Snowflake
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (9.09%) Azure App Service
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (9.09%) Twilio
5 1 (9.09%) Vertex AI
5 1 (9.09%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Data Lake
2 2 (18.18%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Git
1 3 (27.27%) MLflow
2 1 (9.09%) GitLab
2 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
1 3 (27.27%) Telecoms
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Architect
2 4 (36.36%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 3 (27.27%) Security Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (63.64%) PyTorch
1 7 (63.64%) TensorFlow
2 5 (45.45%) scikit-learn
3 2 (18.18%) Google JAX
3 2 (18.18%) JAX
3 2 (18.18%) Kafka
4 1 (9.09%) Express.js
4 1 (9.09%) FastAPI
4 1 (9.09%) FHIR
4 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
4 1 (9.09%) Hugging Face
4 1 (9.09%) LangChain
4 1 (9.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Algorithms
2 2 (18.18%) Security Posture
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
3 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Machine Learning
2 9 (81.82%) CI/CD
3 7 (63.64%) Artificial Intelligence
4 6 (54.55%) LLM
5 5 (45.45%) Containerisation
6 4 (36.36%) DevOps
7 3 (27.27%) Analytics
7 3 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (27.27%) Data Engineering
7 3 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (27.27%) Data Science
7 3 (27.27%) DataOps
7 3 (27.27%) Deep Learning
7 3 (27.27%) Generative AI
7 3 (27.27%) Natural Language Processing
7 3 (27.27%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 3 (27.27%) Security Architecture
7 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
8 2 (18.18%) Architectural Patterns
8 2 (18.18%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Python
2 5 (45.45%) R
3 3 (27.27%) SQL
4 2 (18.18%) C
4 2 (18.18%) C++
4 2 (18.18%) Java
5 1 (9.09%) Bicep
5 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) EU AI Act
1 3 (27.27%) NIST
2 2 (18.18%) GDPR
2 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (9.09%) HL7
3 1 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Kubernetes
2 2 (18.18%) Kubeflow
2 2 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Databricks