MLOps Contract Job Trends in South London

MLOps
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring MLOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing MLOps 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South London 0.69% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 - -
London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -17.24%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 250 189 250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 86.21% 88.32% 91.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 129 172
10th Percentile £413 £345 £191
25th Percentile £463 £446 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% +3.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £553 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £753 £638
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 7 20
10th Percentile £54.42 - £16.64
25th Percentile £54.55 £15.84 £20.25
Median hourly rate £61.22 £34.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +80.05% +44.68% -46.42%
75th Percentile £66.50 £78.40 £58.22
90th Percentile £67.70 £80.32 £83.75
London median hourly rate £35.00 £36.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -4.11% +21.67% -15.49%

MLOps
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

MLOps job vacancy trend in South London

MLOps
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 28 February 2026. 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
Bromley - 2 £590 - 1
MLOps
London

MLOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Collibra
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Iceberg
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (50.00%) Tableau
1 1 (50.00%) ThoughtSpot
1 1 (50.00%) TigerGraph
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Corporate Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Gen AI Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Release Train
2 1 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Informatica
1 1 (50.00%) MicroStrategy