MLOps Contracts in the Thames Valley

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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 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 120 144
Rank change year-on-year +15 +24 -
Contract jobs citing MLOps 9 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.53% 0.13% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.16% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile £400 - £495
25th Percentile £416 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - £575
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile £600 - -
South East median daily rate £475 - £575
% change year-on-year - - -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 1,550 1,917 2,520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 91.99% 84.56% 90.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 929 1,090 1,706
10th Percentile £300 £263 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £623
90th Percentile £678 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £518
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.35% +3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 109 85
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.10 £14.90
25th Percentile £15.12 £22.50 £24.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £55.80 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.99% +11.60% +150.00%
75th Percentile £46.30 £67.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £77.75 £85.33 £75.15
South East median hourly rate £21.74 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -62.10% +14.70% +100.00%

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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 17 August 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 17 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +18 9 £513 - 1
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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 2 (22.22%) Apache Spark
2 1 (11.11%) Confluence
2 1 (11.11%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Azure AKS
2 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) Azure App Service
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (22.22%) GCP
3 2 (22.22%) Snowflake
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (11.11%) Azure API Management
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Storage
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 1 (11.11%) IaaS
4 1 (11.11%) PaaS
4 1 (11.11%) Twilio
4 1 (11.11%) Vertex AI
4 1 (11.11%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Big Data
2 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
2 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (22.22%) MLflow
3 1 (11.11%) GitLab
3 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 3 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Architect
2 4 (44.44%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 3 (33.33%) Security Architect
4 2 (22.22%) Azure Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) PyTorch
1 4 (44.44%) TensorFlow
2 3 (33.33%) scikit-learn
3 2 (22.22%) Google JAX
3 2 (22.22%) JAX
3 2 (22.22%) Kafka
3 2 (22.22%) REST
4 1 (11.11%) .NET
4 1 (11.11%) .NET Framework
4 1 (11.11%) ARM Templates
4 1 (11.11%) Entity Framework
4 1 (11.11%) Express.js
4 1 (11.11%) FastAPI
4 1 (11.11%) JSON
4 1 (11.11%) LangChain
4 1 (11.11%) OAuth
4 1 (11.11%) OpenID
4 1 (11.11%) React
4 1 (11.11%) RESTful
4 1 (11.11%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Algorithms
1 2 (22.22%) Security Posture
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
1 7 (77.78%) Machine Learning
2 6 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
3 5 (55.56%) DevOps
3 5 (55.56%) LLM
4 4 (44.44%) Analytics
5 3 (33.33%) Data Science
5 3 (33.33%) Generative AI
5 3 (33.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 3 (33.33%) Security Architecture
6 2 (22.22%) Architectural Patterns
6 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
6 2 (22.22%) Customer Experience
6 2 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (22.22%) Incident Response
6 2 (22.22%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (22.22%) SDLC
6 2 (22.22%) Secure Coding
6 2 (22.22%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) R
3 2 (22.22%) Bicep
3 2 (22.22%) C
3 2 (22.22%) C++
3 2 (22.22%) Java
3 2 (22.22%) SQL
4 1 (11.11%) C#
4 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) EU AI Act
1 3 (33.33%) NIST
2 2 (22.22%) GDPR
2 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (11.11%) HL7
3 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 3 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (11.11%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft