MLOps Job Trends in London

MLOps
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring MLOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 367 390
Rank change year-on-year +118 +23 +225
Permanent jobs citing MLOps 137 62 61
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.00% 0.39% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 0.42% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 52 27 55
10th Percentile £47,375 £64,500 £56,750
25th Percentile £67,875 £75,000 £78,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,750 £100,000 £95,859
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +4.32% +16.90%
75th Percentile £105,625 £121,250 £130,000
90th Percentile £129,500 £128,250 £147,500
England median annual salary £82,750 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.44% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,140 14,826 16,532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 88.30% 94.39% 92.92%
Number of salaries quoted 7,757 8,241 13,295
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,225 £41,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

MLOps
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

MLOps job vacancy trend in London

MLOps
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing MLOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing MLOps

MLOps
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing MLOps in London over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Salary histogram for MLOps in London

MLOps
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MLOps within the London region over the 6 months to 2 January 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
Central London +45 13 £81,250 -27.78% 33
North London - 1 - -
MLOps
England

MLOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 21 (15.33%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (13.87%) Apache Spark
3 11 (8.03%) Appian
4 3 (2.19%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.46%) Confluence
5 2 (1.46%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 85 (62.04%) AWS
2 71 (51.82%) Azure
3 38 (27.74%) GCP
4 27 (19.71%) Vertex AI
5 26 (18.98%) Amazon Bedrock
6 17 (12.41%) Azure Machine Learning
7 15 (10.95%) SaaS
8 14 (10.22%) Serverless
9 12 (8.76%) Azure AI
10 10 (7.30%) Snowflake
11 9 (6.57%) dbt
11 9 (6.57%) Power Platform
12 8 (5.84%) Anthropic Claude
12 8 (5.84%) GitHub
13 7 (5.11%) Amazon SageMaker
13 7 (5.11%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (5.11%) Datadog
13 7 (5.11%) Power Automate
13 7 (5.11%) Prefect
14 6 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.46%) BGP
1 2 (1.46%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (1.46%) Firewall
1 2 (1.46%) MQTT
1 2 (1.46%) OSPF
1 2 (1.46%) Reverse Proxy
1 2 (1.46%) RTMP
1 2 (1.46%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.46%) VLAN
1 2 (1.46%) VPN
1 2 (1.46%) WAN
1 2 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (1.46%) Wireless
2 1 (0.73%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.95%) NoSQL
2 12 (8.76%) Pinecone
3 9 (6.57%) Power BI
4 8 (5.84%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (5.11%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.65%) Big Data
7 4 (2.92%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.92%) Weaviate
8 3 (2.19%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.19%) MySQL
8 3 (2.19%) Tableau
9 2 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.46%) Metadata
10 1 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.73%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.73%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.73%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.73%) Looker
10 1 (0.73%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 33 (24.09%) MLflow
2 3 (2.19%) Git
3 2 (1.46%) GitLab
3 2 (1.46%) Jaeger
3 2 (1.46%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.46%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 68 (49.64%) Social Skills
2 47 (34.31%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (24.82%) Finance
4 7 (5.11%) Banking
4 7 (5.11%) Financial Institution
5 5 (3.65%) Games
5 5 (3.65%) Law
5 5 (3.65%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.65%) Retail
6 3 (2.19%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.46%) Agriculture
7 2 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.73%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.73%) Legal
8 1 (0.73%) Marketing
8 1 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.73%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 56 (40.88%) Senior
2 26 (18.98%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 26 (18.98%) Consultant
2 26 (18.98%) Gen AI Consultant
2 26 (18.98%) Senior Consultant
3 22 (16.06%) Data Scientist
4 16 (11.68%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 14 (10.22%) Architect
5 14 (10.22%) Senior Data Scientist
6 9 (6.57%) Lead
6 9 (6.57%) Solutions Architect
7 7 (5.11%) Automation Engineer
7 7 (5.11%) Data Engineer
7 7 (5.11%) Lead Architect
7 7 (5.11%) Lead Solutions Architect
8 6 (4.38%) Data Science Engineer
8 6 (4.38%) Operations Engineer
9 5 (3.65%) Development Manager
9 5 (3.65%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 5 (3.65%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (30.66%) LangChain
2 39 (28.47%) PyTorch
3 33 (24.09%) TensorFlow
4 32 (23.36%) scikit-learn
5 23 (16.79%) Pandas
6 22 (16.06%) REST
7 18 (13.14%) FastAPI
7 18 (13.14%) NumPy
8 15 (10.95%) Hugging Face
9 12 (8.76%) Django
9 12 (8.76%) Flask
10 11 (8.03%) React
11 10 (7.30%) pytest
12 9 (6.57%) Kafka
13 8 (5.84%) Faiss
14 7 (5.11%) AngularJS
14 7 (5.11%) JWT
14 7 (5.11%) OpenAPI
14 7 (5.11%) RESTful
14 7 (5.11%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 33 (24.09%) Legacy Systems
2 18 (13.14%) Algorithms
3 14 (10.22%) Cloud Native
3 14 (10.22%) Low-Code
4 8 (5.84%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (5.11%) AI Agents
5 7 (5.11%) e-Learning
5 7 (5.11%) Management Information System
5 7 (5.11%) Product Ownership
5 7 (5.11%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (3.65%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.92%) Hackathon
8 3 (2.19%) IoT
8 3 (2.19%) Robotics
9 2 (1.46%) Culture of Ownership
9 2 (1.46%) MPEG
10 1 (0.73%) Biopharmaceutical
10 1 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.73%) Genomics
10 1 (0.73%) Omics
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.65%) Linux
1 5 (3.65%) Ubuntu
2 1 (0.73%) Android
2 1 (0.73%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.73%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (92.70%) Machine Learning
2 106 (77.37%) AI
3 72 (52.55%) CI/CD
4 63 (45.99%) LLM
5 55 (40.15%) Data Science
6 51 (37.23%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 49 (35.77%) Generative AI
8 46 (33.58%) DevOps
9 43 (31.39%) Prompt Engineering
10 41 (29.93%) Agile
10 41 (29.93%) Stakeholder Management
11 40 (29.20%) Analytics
12 37 (27.01%) Computer Science
13 36 (26.28%) Thought Leadership
14 33 (24.09%) Data Engineering
15 31 (22.63%) Containerisation
16 28 (20.44%) Natural Language Processing
17 27 (19.71%) Data Pipeline
18 26 (18.98%) Business Development
18 26 (18.98%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 82 (59.85%) Python
2 39 (28.47%) SQL
3 11 (8.03%) JavaScript
4 5 (3.65%) Java
5 4 (2.92%) Go
5 4 (2.92%) MATLAB
5 4 (2.92%) R
5 4 (2.92%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.19%) Bash
6 3 (2.19%) Bicep
7 2 (1.46%) Perl
8 1 (0.73%) C#
Qualifications
1 62 (45.26%) Degree
2 27 (19.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 24 (17.52%) Master's Degree
4 19 (13.87%) PhD
5 7 (5.11%) TOGAF Certification
6 6 (4.38%) AWS Certification
7 5 (3.65%) MCP
7 5 (3.65%) SC Cleared
7 5 (3.65%) Security Cleared
8 2 (1.46%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.41%) Data Quality
2 11 (8.03%) SLA
3 2 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.73%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.73%) GDPR
4 1 (0.73%) GMP
4 1 (0.73%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 36 (26.28%) Docker
2 2 (1.46%) NFS
Systems Management
1 34 (24.82%) Kubernetes
2 18 (13.14%) Terraform
3 6 (4.38%) Ansible
4 5 (3.65%) Grafana
4 5 (3.65%) Kubeflow
4 5 (3.65%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.46%) Argo
Vendors
1 31 (22.63%) Google
2 24 (17.52%) Databricks
3 22 (16.06%) OpenAI
4 7 (5.11%) Automation Anywhere
4 7 (5.11%) UiPath
5 5 (3.65%) NVIDIA
6 3 (2.19%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.46%) Cisco
7 2 (1.46%) MikroTik
7 2 (1.46%) NETGEAR
7 2 (1.46%) Sonatype
7 2 (1.46%) Starlink
7 2 (1.46%) Ubiquiti
8 1 (0.73%) Amplitude