MLOps Jobs in the South East

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England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring MLOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited MLOps over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 243 391 403
Rank change year-on-year +148 +12 +70
Permanent jobs citing MLOps 45 6 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.53% 0.036% 0.087%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.042% 0.092%
Number of salaries quoted 5 6 8
10th Percentile - £56,875 £58,940
25th Percentile £65,000 £65,625 £61,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £71,250 £63,350
Median % change year-on-year +40.35% +12.47% -2.54%
75th Percentile £120,000 £73,750 £75,313
90th Percentile £132,000 £79,375 £89,375
England median annual salary £100,000 £82,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +21.95% +5.81% -3.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,705 14,150 14,159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 91.03% 84.80% 94.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4,103 9,942 8,229
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £86,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing MLOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for MLOps in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing MLOps in the South East.

Salary trend for MLOps in the South East

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Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing MLOps in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for MLOps in the South East

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Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MLOps within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Thames Valley +106 32 £100,000 +33.33% 3
Berkshire +84 30 £110,000 +46.67% 1
Middlesex - 13 - - 2
Oxfordshire - 2 £70,000 - 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.44%) Apache
1 2 (4.44%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 15 (33.33%) Vertex AI
2 12 (26.67%) Azure
2 12 (26.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 12 (26.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 9 (20.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (53.33%) Data Mining
2 3 (6.67%) Pinecone
2 3 (6.67%) Weaviate
3 2 (4.44%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (6.67%) MLflow
General
1 40 (88.89%) Law
2 29 (64.44%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (60.00%) Retail
3 27 (60.00%) Social Skills
4 9 (20.00%) Finance
5 7 (15.56%) Games
Job Titles
1 32 (71.11%) Lead
2 29 (64.44%) Senior
3 12 (26.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 10 (22.22%) Gen AI Engineer
4 10 (22.22%) Gen AI Software Engineer
4 10 (22.22%) Software Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Data Science Leader
6 2 (4.44%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Principal Software Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.33%) REST
2 3 (6.67%) PyTorch
2 3 (6.67%) scikit-learn
2 3 (6.67%) TensorFlow
3 2 (4.44%) Kafka
3 2 (4.44%) NumPy
3 2 (4.44%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 32 (71.11%) Algorithms
2 6 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (13.33%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (13.33%) Public Cloud
3 3 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 45 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 31 (68.89%) Generative AI
3 30 (66.67%) Use Case
4 29 (64.44%) Analytics
4 29 (64.44%) Data Science
4 29 (64.44%) LLM
4 29 (64.44%) Natural Language Processing
4 29 (64.44%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (60.00%) Agile
5 27 (60.00%) Commercialisation
5 27 (60.00%) Customer-Centricity
5 27 (60.00%) DevOps
5 27 (60.00%) Product Management
5 27 (60.00%) Roadmaps
5 27 (60.00%) Strategic Thinking
5 27 (60.00%) Time Series Analysis
6 24 (53.33%) Incident Management
6 24 (53.33%) Statistical Analysis
6 24 (53.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 18 (40.00%) Python
2 7 (15.56%) Go
3 6 (13.33%) Clojure
3 6 (13.33%) Elixir
3 6 (13.33%) Rust
3 6 (13.33%) Scala
4 3 (6.67%) C++
4 3 (6.67%) Java
4 3 (6.67%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (6.67%) Degree
2 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.22%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (28.89%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (6.67%) Docker
2 2 (4.44%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 16 (35.56%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.67%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 27 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 15 (33.33%) Google
2 15 (33.33%) OpenAI
3 12 (26.67%) Databricks