MLOps Contracts in the UK excluding London

MLOps
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 323 380 432
Rank change year-on-year +57 +52 +48
Contract jobs citing MLOps 13 19 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.091% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.11% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 16 22
10th Percentile £400 £437 -
25th Percentile £448 £450 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £457 £600
Median % change year-on-year +12.81% -23.92% -2.04%
75th Percentile £550 £516 £656
90th Percentile £728 £638 £711
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £67.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £67.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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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 1 May 2025.

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 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
South East +47 5 £475 -17.39% 119
South West - 4 £515 - 53
North of England +21 3 £455 - 91
North West - 2 £455 - 47
North East 0 1 £400 - 11
Wales - 1 £675 - 10
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UK

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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 4 (30.77%) Apache Spark
2 3 (23.08%) Apache
3 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) AWS
3 4 (30.77%) Azure Machine Learning
4 3 (23.08%) Azure AKS
5 2 (15.38%) Azure AI
5 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (15.38%) IaaS
5 2 (15.38%) PaaS
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (7.69%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (7.69%) Azure App Service
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Storage
6 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
6 1 (7.69%) GCP
6 1 (7.69%) SaaS
6 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Big Data
1 3 (23.08%) Data Mining
2 2 (15.38%) Data Lake
2 2 (15.38%) Redis
3 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (7.69%) Flink
3 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
3 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
3 1 (7.69%) Parquet
3 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) GitLab
2 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) MLflow
General
1 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Data Scientist
2 3 (23.08%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) .NET Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Machine Learning Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) PyTorch
2 6 (46.15%) TensorFlow
3 4 (30.77%) scikit-learn
4 2 (15.38%) Hugging Face
4 2 (15.38%) Pandas
5 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
5 1 (7.69%) ARM Templates
5 1 (7.69%) Entity Framework
5 1 (7.69%) Kafka
5 1 (7.69%) LangChain
5 1 (7.69%) NumPy
5 1 (7.69%) OAuth
5 1 (7.69%) OpenID
5 1 (7.69%) Prophet
5 1 (7.69%) PySpark
5 1 (7.69%) React
5 1 (7.69%) REST
5 1 (7.69%) RESTful
5 1 (7.69%) SAML
5 1 (7.69%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (7.69%) IoT
2 1 (7.69%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Machine Learning
2 6 (46.15%) Artificial Intelligence
2 6 (46.15%) Data Science
3 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
4 4 (30.77%) DevOps
4 4 (30.77%) Predictive Analysis
4 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (23.08%) Agile
5 3 (23.08%) Analytics
5 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
5 3 (23.08%) Data Visualisation
5 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making
5 3 (23.08%) Edge Computing
5 3 (23.08%) LLM
5 3 (23.08%) Mathematics
5 3 (23.08%) Natural Language Processing
5 3 (23.08%) Predictive Modelling
5 3 (23.08%) Statistical Analysis
5 3 (23.08%) Visualisation
6 2 (15.38%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Python
2 9 (69.23%) SQL
3 5 (38.46%) R
4 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
5 1 (7.69%) Bash
5 1 (7.69%) Bicep
5 1 (7.69%) C#
5 1 (7.69%) Java
5 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.69%) Perl
5 1 (7.69%) Ruby
5 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
3 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) MCITP
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
1 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 2 (15.38%) Grafana
3 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
3 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) NVIDIA
3 1 (7.69%) Databricks
3 1 (7.69%) Foundry
3 1 (7.69%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle