MLOps Contracts with Work from Home Options

MLOps
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 315 436 529
Rank change year-on-year +121 +93 -65
Contract jobs citing MLOps 29 38 90
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.19% 0.15% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.17% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 21 65
10th Percentile £453 £575 £531
25th Percentile £500 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -2.72%
75th Percentile £794 £713 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £613
% change year-on-year -12.00% +2.04% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,387 22,922 40,601
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.93% 89.77% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,971 16,192 29,477
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 576 528 542
10th Percentile £15.08 £18.68 £13.75
25th Percentile £24.25 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.81 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.13 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%

MLOps
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing MLOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

MLOps trend for jobs with a WFH option

MLOps
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing MLOps.

MLOps daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

MLOps
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing MLOps over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

MLOps daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

MLOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (17.24%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (10.34%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 13 (44.83%) AWS
2 12 (41.38%) Azure
3 6 (20.69%) Snowflake
4 4 (13.79%) Vertex AI
5 3 (10.34%) Amazon S3
5 3 (10.34%) Amazon SageMaker
5 3 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (10.34%) AWS Step Functions
5 3 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (10.34%) Serverless
6 2 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (6.90%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (6.90%) GCP
6 2 (6.90%) GitHub
6 2 (6.90%) IBM Watson
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (3.45%) Google Analytics
7 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.45%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (3.45%) Big Data
1 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (3.45%) Hadoop
1 1 (3.45%) Pinecone
1 1 (3.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) MLflow
2 2 (6.90%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 10 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 8 (27.59%) Finance
3 7 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (24.14%) Banking
4 6 (20.69%) Front Office
4 6 (20.69%) Investment Banking
5 3 (10.34%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) AWS Engineer
2 8 (27.59%) Data Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) Lead
3 6 (20.69%) Lead Data Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (10.34%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) AWS Data Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Data Scientist
6 2 (6.90%) Python Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior
6 2 (6.90%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) AWS CDK
2 1 (3.45%) Hugging Face
2 1 (3.45%) Kafka
2 1 (3.45%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Derivative
2 5 (17.24%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.90%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.90%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.90%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.90%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.45%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (51.72%) Machine Learning
2 14 (48.28%) Computer Science
3 13 (44.83%) CI/CD
3 13 (44.83%) Data Pipeline
4 12 (41.38%) DevOps
5 9 (31.03%) Agile
5 9 (31.03%) Analytics
5 9 (31.03%) Data Engineering
6 8 (27.59%) Data Modelling
7 7 (24.14%) Artificial Intelligence
7 7 (24.14%) Data Integration
7 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (20.69%) Data Ingestion
8 6 (20.69%) Data Science
8 6 (20.69%) Knowledge Transfer
8 6 (20.69%) SDLC
9 5 (17.24%) DataOps
9 5 (17.24%) GitOps
9 5 (17.24%) Software Engineering
10 4 (13.79%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 24 (82.76%) Python
2 12 (41.38%) Scala
3 6 (20.69%) Java
4 4 (13.79%) SQL
5 3 (10.34%) R
6 2 (6.90%) C#
6 2 (6.90%) C++
6 2 (6.90%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (31.03%) Degree
2 8 (27.59%) Master's Degree
3 7 (24.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (6.90%) PhD
5 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.69%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (27.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (27.59%) Terraform
2 7 (24.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (48.28%) Databricks
2 3 (10.34%) Google
3 2 (6.90%) IBM
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.45%) Sage