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 24 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 325 355 408
Rank change year-on-year +30 +53 +64
Contract jobs citing MLOps 13 23 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.11% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.13% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 19 20
10th Percentile - £437 -
25th Percentile £400 £447 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £460 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% -23.33% -2.04%
75th Percentile £523 £497 £619
90th Percentile £673 £570 £713
UK median daily rate £588 £525 £625
% change year-on-year +11.90% -16.00% -
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 11,628 17,095 20,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.68% 83.93% 89.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,259 10,219 14,066
10th Percentile £234 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £377 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.63%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 824 2,090 1,248
10th Percentile £14.06 £12.37 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.19 £15.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.38% +7.86% +75.00%
75th Percentile £62.24 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.63
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.61% - +40.19%

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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 24 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 24 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 6 £400 -20.00% 256
North of England +15 3 £455 - 180
South West - 3 £515 - 98
North West - 2 £540 - 95
North East 0 1 £400 - 21
Wales - 1 £675 - 26
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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 2 (15.38%) Apache Spark
2 1 (7.69%) Apache
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) Azure
2 6 (46.15%) AWS
3 5 (38.46%) Azure Machine Learning
4 3 (23.08%) Azure AKS
4 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (15.38%) Azure App Service
5 2 (15.38%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (15.38%) Serverless
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
6 1 (7.69%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (7.69%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
6 1 (7.69%) GCP
6 1 (7.69%) PaaS
6 1 (7.69%) Twilio
6 1 (7.69%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Data Mining
1 2 (15.38%) Redis
2 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (7.69%) Big Data
2 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
2 1 (7.69%) Flink
2 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
2 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Parquet
2 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Git
2 2 (15.38%) MLflow
3 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (7.69%) Finance
1 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
1 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Data Scientist
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) .NET Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) PyTorch
2 4 (30.77%) TensorFlow
3 3 (23.08%) scikit-learn
4 2 (15.38%) Hugging Face
4 2 (15.38%) LangChain
4 2 (15.38%) Pandas
4 2 (15.38%) REST
5 1 (7.69%) .NET
5 1 (7.69%) ARM Templates
5 1 (7.69%) Entity Framework
5 1 (7.69%) Express.js
5 1 (7.69%) FastAPI
5 1 (7.69%) FHIR
5 1 (7.69%) Kafka
5 1 (7.69%) NumPy
5 1 (7.69%) OAuth
5 1 (7.69%) OpenID
5 1 (7.69%) Prophet
5 1 (7.69%) RESTful
5 1 (7.69%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
2 1 (7.69%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Machine Learning
2 7 (53.85%) Data Science
3 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
4 5 (38.46%) Artificial Intelligence
4 5 (38.46%) LLM
5 4 (30.77%) DevOps
6 3 (23.08%) Predictive Analysis
6 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
7 2 (15.38%) Analytics
7 2 (15.38%) Data Visualisation
7 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
7 2 (15.38%) Edge Computing
7 2 (15.38%) Mathematics
7 2 (15.38%) Natural Language Processing
7 2 (15.38%) Performance Optimisation
7 2 (15.38%) Predictive Modelling
7 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (15.38%) Statistical Analysis
7 2 (15.38%) Time Series Forecasting
7 2 (15.38%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Python
2 7 (53.85%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) R
4 2 (15.38%) Bicep
4 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
5 1 (7.69%) C#
5 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.69%) HL7
1 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 2 (15.38%) Grafana
2 2 (15.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) 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