MLOps Contracts in the Thames Valley

MLOps
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 143 147
Rank change year-on-year +46 +4 +12
Contract jobs citing MLOps 5 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.33% 0.074% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.085% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £415 - -
25th Percentile £438 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -13.04% -14.81%
75th Percentile £513 - -
90th Percentile £535 - -
South East median daily rate £475 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -17.39% - -8.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing MLOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for MLOps in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MLOps in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for MLOps in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MLOps in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MLOps in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MLOps within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Berkshire +34 5 £475 -5.00% 9
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (60.00%) Apache
1 3 (60.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Azure AKS
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) AWS
4 1 (20.00%) Azure AI
4 1 (20.00%) Azure API Management
4 1 (20.00%) Azure App Service
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Storage
4 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (20.00%) IaaS
4 1 (20.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Big Data
2 2 (40.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (20.00%) Parquet
3 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Data Scientist
1 1 (20.00%) Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Lead
1 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) scikit-learn
1 3 (60.00%) TensorFlow
2 2 (40.00%) PyTorch
3 1 (20.00%) .NET
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Core
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (20.00%) Entity Framework
3 1 (20.00%) JSON
3 1 (20.00%) NumPy
3 1 (20.00%) OAuth
3 1 (20.00%) OpenID
3 1 (20.00%) Pandas
3 1 (20.00%) Prophet
3 1 (20.00%) React
3 1 (20.00%) REST
3 1 (20.00%) RESTful
3 1 (20.00%) SAML
3 1 (20.00%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (20.00%) IoT
1 1 (20.00%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) ETL
4 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) Code Coverage
4 1 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
4 1 (20.00%) Data Management
4 1 (20.00%) Predictive Modelling
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) Software Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Time Series Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Time Series Forecasting
4 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) R
4 1 (20.00%) Bicep
4 1 (20.00%) C#
4 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Google