MLOps Contracts in the UK excluding London

MLOps
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for MLOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited MLOps over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 368 428 474
Rank change year-on-year +60 +46 -75
Contract jobs citing MLOps 18 28 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.088% 0.12% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.13% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 20 22
10th Percentile £436 - £400
25th Percentile £447 £575 £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £600 £613
Median % change year-on-year -24.50% -2.04% +16.67%
75th Percentile £500 £619 £683
90th Percentile £585 £713 £763
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £613
% change year-on-year -12.00% +2.04% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £63.75 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - -
75th Percentile £71.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

MLOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,229 21,054 27,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.55% 89.57% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,247 14,598 19,040
10th Percentile £250 £256 £232
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,039 1,291 1,337
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.23
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing MLOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for MLOps in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MLOps in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for MLOps in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MLOps in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MLOps in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. 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
Scotland +54 10 £453 -32.89% 2
South East +17 3 £500 -13.04% 17
Midlands +33 2 £550 -4.35% 7
East of England -4 2 £550 -8.33% 8
West Midlands +24 1 £550 -4.35% 4
North of England +22 1 - - 8
East Midlands - 1 - - 3
North East - 1 - - 2
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 10 (55.56%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (11.11%) Apache Spark
3 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 16 (88.89%) Azure
2 11 (61.11%) AWS
3 10 (55.56%) Snowflake
4 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (5.56%) Google Analytics
5 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.56%) PowerApps
5 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (5.56%) Big Data
1 1 (5.56%) Hadoop
1 1 (5.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Banking
2 1 (5.56%) Finance
2 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (5.56%) Marketing
2 1 (5.56%) Multimedia
2 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.56%) Publishing
2 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) AWS Engineer
1 8 (44.44%) Platform Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Python Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) AWS Data Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Data Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Java Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior
6 1 (5.56%) Data Scientist
6 1 (5.56%) Machine Learning Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Dask
1 1 (5.56%) Keras
1 1 (5.56%) NumPy
1 1 (5.56%) Pandas
1 1 (5.56%) PySpark
1 1 (5.56%) PyTorch
1 1 (5.56%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 10 (55.56%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.56%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) DevOps
2 12 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 12 (66.67%) Data Engineering
3 11 (61.11%) Data Pipeline
3 11 (61.11%) DataOps
4 10 (55.56%) GitOps
5 9 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
6 6 (33.33%) Machine Learning
7 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
8 4 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
8 4 (22.22%) Software Engineering
9 2 (11.11%) Agile
9 2 (11.11%) Analytics
9 2 (11.11%) Data Protection
9 2 (11.11%) Data Science
9 2 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
10 1 (5.56%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 1 (5.56%) Cost Reduction
10 1 (5.56%) Full Text Search
10 1 (5.56%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) Python
2 12 (66.67%) Java
2 12 (66.67%) Scala
3 4 (22.22%) C#
3 4 (22.22%) C++
3 4 (22.22%) SQL
4 2 (11.11%) TypeScript
5 1 (5.56%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) PhD
2 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (55.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (55.56%) Kubernetes
1 10 (55.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (66.67%) Databricks
2 1 (5.56%) Google
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Sage