ModelOps Contracts

ModelOps (Model Operations)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring ModelOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ModelOps 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 512 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ModelOps 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.030% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £760 - -
25th Percentile £831 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

ModelOps 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 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

ModelOps
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for ModelOps in the UK

ModelOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for ModelOps in the UK

ModelOps
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ModelOps within the UK 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
London - 8 £850 - 6
England - 8 £850 - 7
Work from Home - 6 £850 - 6

ModelOps
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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
1 8 (100.00%) GitHub
2 6 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (75.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon SageMaker
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
3 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 2 (25.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Big Data
1 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 8 (100.00%) Finance
2 6 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (75.00%) Banking
2 6 (75.00%) Front Office
2 6 (75.00%) Investment Banking
2 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Gen AI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) Play Framework
2 2 (25.00%) Hugging Face
2 2 (25.00%) LangChain
2 2 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Algorithms
1 6 (75.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
1 8 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 8 (100.00%) LLM
1 8 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 8 (100.00%) MLOps
2 6 (75.00%) Agile
2 6 (75.00%) Analytics
2 6 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (75.00%) Data Science
2 6 (75.00%) DataOps
2 6 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (75.00%) SDLC
3 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (25.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
1 8 (100.00%) SQL
2 6 (75.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Master's Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Databricks
2 2 (25.00%) Google