MLOps Contract Job Trends in the South West

MLOps
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring MLOps skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 139 154
Rank change year-on-year +18 +15 +14
Contract jobs citing MLOps 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.051% 0.038% 0.031%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.056% 0.045% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £501 £650
Median % change year-on-year +9.74% -22.89% -
75th Percentile - - £675
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £570 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -0.87% -4.17% -6.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,787 2,221 2,816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.53% 83.81% 87.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,036 1,324 1,946
10th Percentile £220 £281 £310
25th Percentile £363 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £706 £705 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 214 256
10th Percentile £15.08 £18.20 £20.38
25th Percentile £18.51 £48.50 £45.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £64.57
Median % change year-on-year -62.74% +4.53% +11.43%
75th Percentile £63.75 £72.50 £74.06
90th Percentile £68.53 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +53.66%

MLOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for MLOps in the South West

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Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Gloucestershire - 1 £550 - 6
MLOps
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Vision
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Edge Computing
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Predictive Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Signal Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree