MLOps Job Trends in the UK excluding London

MLOps
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 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 476 509 523
Rank change year-on-year +33 +14 +200
Permanent jobs citing MLOps 33 57 50
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.078% 0.16% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.099% 0.18% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 14 22 24
10th Percentile £59,375 £58,750 £50,925
25th Percentile £66,250 £61,500 £63,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% -3.45% -6.45%
75th Percentile £94,063 £77,188 £88,438
90th Percentile £133,500 £99,500 £96,539
UK median annual salary £84,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +8.39% -3.13% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,283 31,985 30,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.49% 89.04% 88.64%
Number of salaries quoted 19,187 14,363 22,780
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

MLOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

MLOps job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

MLOps
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing MLOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing MLOps

MLOps
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing MLOps in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for MLOps in the UK excluding London

MLOps
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MLOps within the UK excluding London 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
South East +25 16 £67,500 -3.57% 83
Scotland +8 6 - - 9
Midlands +26 5 £76,000 -15.56% 27
West Midlands +25 5 £76,000 -15.56% 5
North of England -12 3 £71,000 +5.19% 57
North East +10 2 - - 11
Wales - 2 £135,000 - 13
Yorkshire - 1 £71,000 - 21
South West - 1 - - 33
MLOps
UK

MLOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 15 (45.45%) Azure
2 13 (39.39%) AWS
3 7 (21.21%) GCP
3 7 (21.21%) SaaS
4 4 (12.12%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (12.12%) Amazon S3
4 4 (12.12%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (12.12%) Azure Machine Learning
4 4 (12.12%) Serverless
5 3 (9.09%) Amazon Cognito
5 3 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (6.06%) Snowflake
7 1 (3.03%) GitHub
7 1 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (3.03%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) Big Data
2 1 (3.03%) BigQuery
2 1 (3.03%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (27.27%) MLflow
2 3 (9.09%) Git
2 3 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.21%) Manufacturing
3 3 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Finance
4 2 (6.06%) Law
5 1 (3.03%) Banking
5 1 (3.03%) Electronics
5 1 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Legal
5 1 (3.03%) Marketing
5 1 (3.03%) Private Banking
5 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (27.27%) Operations Engineer
2 7 (21.21%) Data Engineer
3 6 (18.18%) DataOps Engineer
3 6 (18.18%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) Associate Director
5 4 (12.12%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Lead
5 4 (12.12%) Senior
6 2 (6.06%) Head of Data Science
6 2 (6.06%) Technical Leader
7 1 (3.03%) Data Science Leader
7 1 (3.03%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) GCP DevOps
7 1 (3.03%) GCP DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) GCP Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Project Leader
7 1 (3.03%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Technical Manager
7 1 (3.03%) Technical Project Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (24.24%) TensorFlow
2 7 (21.21%) PyTorch
3 5 (15.15%) scikit-learn
4 3 (9.09%) Keras
5 2 (6.06%) .NET
5 2 (6.06%) LangChain
5 2 (6.06%) LangGraph
6 1 (3.03%) Dask
6 1 (3.03%) Kafka
6 1 (3.03%) ModSecurity
6 1 (3.03%) NumPy
6 1 (3.03%) Pandas
6 1 (3.03%) RESTful
6 1 (3.03%) SciPy
6 1 (3.03%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 11 (33.33%) Life Science
2 5 (15.15%) Hackathon
2 5 (15.15%) Low-Code
3 3 (9.09%) AI Agents
3 3 (9.09%) Animation
4 1 (3.03%) Autonomous Agent
4 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.03%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.03%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.03%) PMI
4 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (3.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 20 (60.61%) AI
3 15 (45.45%) Data Science
4 11 (33.33%) Analytics
5 10 (30.30%) Computer Science
6 8 (24.24%) CI/CD
6 8 (24.24%) Decision-Making
6 8 (24.24%) DevOps
6 8 (24.24%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (24.24%) LLM
7 7 (21.21%) Agile
7 7 (21.21%) Software Engineering
8 6 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (18.18%) Data Engineering
8 6 (18.18%) DataOps
8 6 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
8 6 (18.18%) Model Validation
8 6 (18.18%) Validation
9 5 (15.15%) Containerisation
9 5 (15.15%) Hematology
Programming Languages
1 22 (66.67%) Python
2 4 (12.12%) C++
3 2 (6.06%) Bash
3 2 (6.06%) SQL
4 1 (3.03%) Go
4 1 (3.03%) Java
Qualifications
1 13 (39.39%) Degree
1 13 (39.39%) Master's Degree
2 2 (6.06%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.03%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) Accessibility
1 2 (6.06%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (24.24%) Kubernetes
2 4 (12.12%) Ansible
2 4 (12.12%) Kubeflow
3 3 (9.09%) Terraform
4 1 (3.03%) Argo
Vendors
1 2 (6.06%) Databricks
1 2 (6.06%) Google
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.03%) OpenAI
2 1 (3.03%) SAP