MLOps Job Trends in Northern Ireland

MLOps
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring MLOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 36 -
Rank change year-on-year -35 - -
Permanent jobs citing MLOps 3 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.31% 0.37% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.41% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71,250 £87,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £95,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.68% - -
75th Percentile £73,750 £102,500 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £85,000 £87,626 £85,000
% change year-on-year -3.00% +3.09% +9.68%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 752 245 448
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 77.53% 89.74% 86.99%
Number of salaries quoted 294 65 294
10th Percentile - £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £26,250 £40,221 £34,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.93%

MLOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

MLOps job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

MLOps
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MLOps within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
County Antrim -27 3 £72,500 -23.68% 3
MLOps
UK

MLOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Advertising
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Gen AI Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Scientist
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Data Scientist
2 1 (33.33%) Python Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Scientist
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) LangChain
2 2 (66.67%) PyTorch
2 2 (66.67%) TensorFlow
3 1 (33.33%) FastAPI
3 1 (33.33%) Hugging Face
3 1 (33.33%) LlamaIndex
3 1 (33.33%) NumPy
3 1 (33.33%) Pandas
3 1 (33.33%) pgvector
3 1 (33.33%) scikit-learn
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) Generative AI
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) LLM
2 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) API Integration
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Vision
3 1 (33.33%) Data Science
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) HOOD
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Natural Language Processing
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Prompt Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) SEO
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) OpenAI