MLOps Job Trends in the East Midlands

MLOps
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring MLOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 - 198
Rank change year-on-year - - -40
Permanent jobs citing MLOps 9 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.19% - 0.074%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% - 0.098%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £85,500
25th Percentile £32,500 - £90,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 - £105,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +180.00%
75th Percentile £37,500 - £125,000
90th Percentile - - £132,500
England median annual salary £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% +3.23%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

MLOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,391 1,775 4,091
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 70.79% 89.56% 76.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2,164 915 2,811
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,625 £25,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £30,188 £32,320
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £62,500 £58,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £75,794 £70,850 £68,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

MLOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing MLOps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

MLOps job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

MLOps
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing MLOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing MLOps

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Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MLOps within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 June 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Nottinghamshire - 6 - - 2
Lincolnshire - 2 - -
Derbyshire - 1 £35,000 -
MLOps
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) AWS
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
1 7 (77.78%) GCP
1 7 (77.78%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) Power BI
2 2 (22.22%) Metadata
3 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 1 (11.11%) Tableau
General
1 9 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (66.67%) Pharmaceutical
2 6 (66.67%) Retail
3 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Data Scientist
2 6 (66.67%) Machine Learning Scientist
3 2 (22.22%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) PyTorch
2 7 (77.78%) scikit-learn
3 6 (66.67%) Pandas
4 3 (33.33%) TensorFlow
5 1 (11.11%) Matplotlib
5 1 (11.11%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Data Science
1 9 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 9 (100.00%) Statistics
2 7 (77.78%) Computer Science
2 7 (77.78%) Data Visualisation
2 7 (77.78%) Mathematics
2 7 (77.78%) Visualisation
3 6 (66.67%) Analytics
3 6 (66.67%) Customer Segmentation
3 6 (66.67%) E-Commerce
3 6 (66.67%) Economics
3 6 (66.67%) Physics
3 6 (66.67%) Predictive Modelling
4 3 (33.33%) AI
5 2 (22.22%) A/B Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
5 2 (22.22%) Personalization
5 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (22.22%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Python
2 7 (77.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) Degree
2 6 (66.67%) DBS Check
3 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Databricks
1 6 (66.67%) Google