MLOps Job Trends in Scotland

MLOps
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring MLOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 141 186
Rank change year-on-year +4 +45 +23
Permanent jobs citing MLOps 6 5 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.22% 0.19% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.21% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £53,750 £89,016
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £57,500 £92,778
Median % change year-on-year - -38.02% -
75th Percentile - £80,625 £96,539
90th Percentile - £92,250 -
UK median annual salary £83,000 £77,500 £81,000
% change year-on-year +7.10% -4.32% +1.25%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,173 2,395 2,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 79.89% 92.90% 93.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,061 1,005 1,817
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,800 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,808 £41,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,950 £84,056
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

MLOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

MLOps job vacancy trend in Scotland

MLOps
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing MLOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing MLOps

MLOps
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MLOps within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 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
Renfrewshire - 4 - - 1
Edinburgh -7 1 - - 3
Glasgow - 1 - -
MLOps
UK

MLOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
1 1 (16.67%) SaaS
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (16.67%) Law
1 1 (16.67%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Data Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) DataOps Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Project Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Project Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) AI Agents
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (16.67%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (66.67%) DataOps
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 1 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (16.67%) Change Management
4 1 (16.67%) Contingency Planning
4 1 (16.67%) Data Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Data Privacy
4 1 (16.67%) Data Science
4 1 (16.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (16.67%) Low Latency
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Product Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) Resource Allocation
4 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
4 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (16.67%) PMI Certification