MLOps Job Trends in the South East

MLOps
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring MLOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 269 290
Rank change year-on-year +12 +21 +115
Permanent jobs citing MLOps 16 27 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.15% 0.30% 0.068%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.34% 0.077%
Number of salaries quoted 7 8 6
10th Percentile £62,750 £58,750 £58,125
25th Percentile £66,250 £63,438 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% - -9.68%
75th Percentile £91,250 £75,625 £73,438
90th Percentile £109,000 £77,500 £73,750
England median annual salary £82,750 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -2.65% +6.25% -

All Process & 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 8,306 7,897 7,821
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.19% 88.14% 88.35%
Number of salaries quoted 4,952 3,758 5,459
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £45,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

MLOps job vacancy trend in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing MLOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing MLOps

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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 13 January 2026.

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 13 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
Thames Valley +19 15 £76,250 +8.93% 37
Berkshire +1 10 £87,500 +40.00% 28
Oxfordshire +22 5 £67,500 -6.90% 5
West Sussex - 1 £60,000 - 4
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) AWS
3 3 (18.75%) Amazon Cognito
3 3 (18.75%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (18.75%) Amazon S3
3 3 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (18.75%) Azure Machine Learning
3 3 (18.75%) Serverless
4 2 (12.50%) GCP
4 2 (12.50%) SaaS
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (6.25%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Big Data
1 1 (6.25%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) MLflow
2 3 (18.75%) Git
2 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (37.50%) Manufacturing
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Associate Director
2 4 (25.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Senior
3 3 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Operations Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Lead
5 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) GCP DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) TensorFlow
2 4 (25.00%) PyTorch
3 3 (18.75%) Keras
3 3 (18.75%) scikit-learn
4 2 (12.50%) .NET
4 2 (12.50%) LangChain
4 2 (12.50%) LangGraph
5 1 (6.25%) ModSecurity
5 1 (6.25%) RESTful
5 1 (6.25%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 11 (68.75%) Life Science
2 5 (31.25%) Hackathon
2 5 (31.25%) Low-Code
3 3 (18.75%) Animation
4 2 (12.50%) AI Agents
5 1 (6.25%) Autonomous Agent
5 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (6.25%) Operational Technology
5 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 12 (75.00%) AI
3 9 (56.25%) Computer Science
4 8 (50.00%) Data Science
5 7 (43.75%) DevOps
6 6 (37.50%) Agile
6 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
6 6 (37.50%) Deployment Automation
6 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (37.50%) LLM
6 6 (37.50%) Model Validation
7 5 (31.25%) Analytics
7 5 (31.25%) Biotechnology
7 5 (31.25%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (31.25%) Hematology
7 5 (31.25%) Immunology
7 5 (31.25%) Software Engineering
7 5 (31.25%) Use Case
7 5 (31.25%) Validation
8 4 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) C++
3 1 (6.25%) Bash
3 1 (6.25%) Go
Qualifications
1 12 (75.00%) Degree
1 12 (75.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Kubernetes
2 4 (25.00%) Kubeflow
3 3 (18.75%) Ansible
3 3 (18.75%) Terraform
4 1 (6.25%) Argo
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) Google