MLOps Contracts

MLOps
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 22 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 509 624 702
Rank change year-on-year +115 +78 -30
Contract jobs citing MLOps 75 73 146
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.13% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.15% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 50 101
10th Percentile £438 £513 £512
25th Percentile £453 £575 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £713 £816 £711
90th Percentile £800 £913 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -23.33% -4.00% +25.00%
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 excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

MLOps
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing MLOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for MLOps in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for MLOps in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MLOps over the 6 months to 22 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MLOps in the UK

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Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 22 June 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
England +79 57 £575 -8.00% 56
London +87 43 £650 -10.34% 46
Work from Home +110 28 £500 -16.67% 20
UK excluding London +27 25 £460 -23.33% 13
Scotland +62 14 £453 -32.89%
South East +14 5 £500 -13.04% 4
East of England -2 3 £550 -8.33% 2
Midlands +17 2 £550 -4.35% 2
West Midlands +17 1 £550 -4.35% 1
North of England +13 1 - - 1
North East - 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 - - 1

MLOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 15 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (6.67%) Apache Spark
2 5 (6.67%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 36 (48.00%) Azure
2 29 (38.67%) AWS
3 14 (18.67%) Snowflake
4 13 (17.33%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (17.33%) GCP
5 10 (13.33%) Amazon S3
6 8 (10.67%) Azure Machine Learning
6 8 (10.67%) Vertex AI
7 7 (9.33%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (9.33%) Serverless
8 5 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (6.67%) Amazon SageMaker
8 5 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (6.67%) ChatGPT
9 4 (5.33%) OpenShift
9 4 (5.33%) Textract
10 3 (4.00%) Amazon EMR
10 3 (4.00%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (2.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (2.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.00%) NoSQL
2 5 (6.67%) Big Data
2 5 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (5.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (5.33%) BigQuery
3 4 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.00%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (4.00%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.67%) Metadata
5 2 (2.67%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.67%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.33%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.33%) Pinecone
6 1 (1.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (13.33%) MLflow
2 4 (5.33%) GitLab
3 3 (4.00%) Git
4 1 (1.33%) Jenkins
General
1 20 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.00%) Finance
3 11 (14.67%) Banking
4 10 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.00%) Front Office
5 6 (8.00%) Investment Banking
6 5 (6.67%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.67%) Marketing
7 2 (2.67%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.33%) Electronics
8 1 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.33%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.33%) Multimedia
8 1 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.33%) Publishing
8 1 (1.33%) Retail
8 1 (1.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 13 (17.33%) Azure Engineer
3 12 (16.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 10 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
5 9 (12.00%) Platform Engineer
6 8 (10.67%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (10.67%) Snowflake Engineer
7 6 (8.00%) Architect
7 6 (8.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 6 (8.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 6 (8.00%) Developer
7 6 (8.00%) Lead
7 6 (8.00%) Lead Data Engineer
8 5 (6.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 5 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (6.67%) Python Engineer
9 4 (5.33%) Automation Developer
9 4 (5.33%) AWS Data Engineer
9 4 (5.33%) Security Engineer
9 4 (5.33%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (21.33%) TensorFlow
2 13 (17.33%) scikit-learn
3 12 (16.00%) PyTorch
4 7 (9.33%) LangChain
5 6 (8.00%) NumPy
5 6 (8.00%) Pandas
6 5 (6.67%) AWS CDK
6 5 (6.67%) HTML
6 5 (6.67%) Torch
7 4 (5.33%) Google JAX
7 4 (5.33%) SpaCy
8 3 (4.00%) Kafka
9 2 (2.67%) Dask
9 2 (2.67%) Hugging Face
9 2 (2.67%) Keras
9 2 (2.67%) PySpark
10 1 (1.33%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.67%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (9.33%) Algorithms
2 7 (9.33%) Security Posture
3 6 (8.00%) Derivative
4 4 (5.33%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.67%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (69.33%) Machine Learning
2 42 (56.00%) DevOps
3 36 (48.00%) CI/CD
4 30 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
5 29 (38.67%) Artificial Intelligence
6 28 (37.33%) Data Science
7 27 (36.00%) Computer Science
8 20 (26.67%) Analytics
9 19 (25.33%) Agile
9 19 (25.33%) DataOps
9 19 (25.33%) Software Engineering
10 18 (24.00%) Data Engineering
11 17 (22.67%) Infrastructure as Code
12 14 (18.67%) ETL
13 13 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (14.67%) Data Ingestion
14 11 (14.67%) Data Integration
14 11 (14.67%) GitOps
14 11 (14.67%) SDLC
15 10 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 63 (84.00%) Python
2 26 (34.67%) Java
3 18 (24.00%) Scala
4 17 (22.67%) SQL
5 8 (10.67%) C++
6 7 (9.33%) TypeScript
7 6 (8.00%) C#
7 6 (8.00%) JavaScript
8 5 (6.67%) Go
9 4 (5.33%) R
10 3 (4.00%) C
11 1 (1.33%) Julia
11 1 (1.33%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (21.33%) Degree
2 13 (17.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (13.33%) Master's Degree
4 4 (5.33%) CISSP
5 3 (4.00%) PhD
6 2 (2.67%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.00%) GDPR
2 3 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.00%) NIST
System Software
1 24 (32.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 22 (29.33%) Terraform
3 10 (13.33%) Grafana
4 4 (5.33%) Kubeflow
5 2 (2.67%) Podman
Vendors
1 26 (34.67%) Databricks
2 7 (9.33%) Google
3 6 (8.00%) Splunk
4 2 (2.67%) Alteryx
4 2 (2.67%) IBM
4 2 (2.67%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.67%) SAP
5 1 (1.33%) Sage