MLOps Job Trends in the North of England

MLOps
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring MLOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 258 290
Rank change year-on-year -12 +32 +129
Permanent jobs citing MLOps 3 23 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.028% 0.25% 0.012%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.035% 0.28% 0.013%
Number of salaries quoted 1 9 1
10th Percentile - £61,250 -
25th Percentile £68,000 £62,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.19% +17.39% -10.85%
75th Percentile £74,000 £72,500 £61,250
90th Percentile - £100,500 -
England median annual salary £82,750 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -2.65% +6.25% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,623 8,255 7,516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 80.03% 90.79% 88.33%
Number of salaries quoted 4,624 3,681 5,913
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £29,010
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,856
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -0.71%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,100 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

MLOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

MLOps job vacancy trend in the North of England

MLOps
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing MLOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing MLOps

MLOps
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MLOps within the North of England region over the 6 months to 14 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
North East +10 2 - - 11
Yorkshire - 1 £71,000 - 21
MLOps
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) DataOps Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Dask
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) NumPy
1 1 (33.33%) Pandas
1 1 (33.33%) PyTorch
1 1 (33.33%) SciPy
1 1 (33.33%) TensorFlow
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) DataOps
3 1 (33.33%) Bayesian Methods
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Reinforcement Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google