MLOps Jobs in the UK excluding London

MLOps
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 491 721 666
Rank change year-on-year +230 -55 +131
Permanent jobs citing MLOps 88 42 90
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.059% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.071% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 21 37 34
10th Percentile £51,750 £50,933 £52,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £55,000 £61,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £76,250 £98,750 £83,438
90th Percentile £105,000 £130,000 £90,125
UK median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year - +9.68% -

All Process and 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 36,236 59,478 57,467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.94% 83.96% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 17,875 41,116 29,652
10th Percentile £26,968 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,450 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

MLOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing MLOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for MLOps in the UK excluding London

MLOps
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing MLOps in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for MLOps in the UK excluding London

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 May 2025.

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 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
South East +142 45 £100,000 +42.86% 95
South West +124 22 £75,000 -3.23% 33
North of England +43 8 £62,500 -7.41% 49
Scotland +124 6 £57,500 - 16
North West +2 5 £85,253 +42.09% 34
Midlands +59 3 £53,500 -28.67% 22
West Midlands +54 3 £53,500 -28.67% 10
East of England +46 2 £68,250 +32.96% 21
North East +44 2 £62,500 -16.67% 2
Wales +35 2 £69,000 -39.34% 3
Yorkshire +70 1 - - 14
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UK

MLOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 23 (26.14%) Jupyter
2 8 (9.09%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.27%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 21 (23.86%) Azure
2 15 (17.05%) Vertex AI
3 14 (15.91%) AWS
3 14 (15.91%) GCP
4 13 (14.77%) Azure Data Factory
5 12 (13.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 7 (7.95%) Amazon SageMaker
6 7 (7.95%) Azure Machine Learning
7 5 (5.68%) Amazon S3
7 5 (5.68%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (5.68%) Serverless
8 4 (4.55%) Amazon EMR
8 4 (4.55%) Snowflake
9 3 (3.41%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.27%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (2.27%) Power Platform
11 1 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (30.68%) Big Data
2 24 (27.27%) Data Mining
3 4 (4.55%) Tableau
4 3 (3.41%) Hadoop
4 3 (3.41%) Pinecone
4 3 (3.41%) Weaviate
5 2 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.27%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.27%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.27%) Power BI
6 1 (1.14%) Flink
Development Applications
1 5 (5.68%) Git
2 3 (3.41%) MLflow
3 1 (1.14%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.14%) GitLab
3 1 (1.14%) Jenkins
General
1 40 (45.45%) Law
2 38 (43.18%) Finance
3 35 (39.77%) Social Skills
4 31 (35.23%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (31.82%) Retail
6 25 (28.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (7.95%) Games
8 4 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.27%) Banking
9 2 (2.27%) Electronics
9 2 (2.27%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.27%) Marketing
9 2 (2.27%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 58 (65.91%) Senior
2 38 (43.18%) Lead
3 26 (29.55%) Data Scientist
4 23 (26.14%) Senior Data Scientist
5 14 (15.91%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 12 (13.64%) Software Engineer
7 10 (11.36%) Gen AI Engineer
7 10 (11.36%) Gen AI Software Engineer
8 7 (7.95%) Data Science Leader
9 4 (4.55%) Architect
9 4 (4.55%) Data Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Enterprise Architect
9 4 (4.55%) Lead Architect
9 4 (4.55%) Lead Enterprise Architect
9 4 (4.55%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (3.41%) Cloud Engineer
11 2 (2.27%) Principal Engineer
11 2 (2.27%) Principal Software Engineer
11 2 (2.27%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.09%) Kafka
1 8 (9.09%) PyTorch
1 8 (9.09%) TensorFlow
2 7 (7.95%) scikit-learn
3 6 (6.82%) REST
4 2 (2.27%) Keras
4 2 (2.27%) NumPy
4 2 (2.27%) Pandas
4 2 (2.27%) PySpark
5 1 (1.14%) Google JAX
5 1 (1.14%) JAX
Miscellaneous
1 59 (67.05%) Algorithms
2 23 (26.14%) Cyberattack
3 6 (6.82%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (6.82%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (6.82%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.41%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.27%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.27%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (2.27%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.14%) IoT
6 1 (1.14%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (97.73%) Machine Learning
2 83 (94.32%) Artificial Intelligence
3 66 (75.00%) Data Science
4 58 (65.91%) Problem-Solving
5 57 (64.77%) LLM
6 56 (63.64%) DevOps
7 54 (61.36%) Visualisation
8 42 (47.73%) Software Engineering
9 34 (38.64%) Natural Language Processing
10 33 (37.50%) Agile
11 31 (35.23%) Generative AI
11 31 (35.23%) Roadmaps
12 30 (34.09%) Analytics
12 30 (34.09%) Use Case
13 29 (32.95%) Data Engineering
13 29 (32.95%) DataOps
14 28 (31.82%) Computer Science
14 28 (31.82%) Decision-Making
14 28 (31.82%) Statistical Analysis
14 28 (31.82%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 59 (67.05%) Python
2 29 (32.95%) Java
3 23 (26.14%) JavaScript
4 8 (9.09%) Scala
5 7 (7.95%) Go
6 6 (6.82%) Clojure
6 6 (6.82%) Elixir
6 6 (6.82%) R
6 6 (6.82%) Rust
6 6 (6.82%) SQL
7 4 (4.55%) C++
Qualifications
1 29 (32.95%) Degree
2 26 (29.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 23 (26.14%) DV Cleared
3 23 (26.14%) Security Cleared
4 4 (4.55%) Master's Degree
5 3 (3.41%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (15.91%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 4 (4.55%) GDPR
2 4 (4.55%) PCI DSS
3 3 (3.41%) Data Quality
System Software
1 31 (35.23%) Docker
2 2 (2.27%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 44 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.41%) Kubeflow
2 3 (3.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (30.68%) Microsoft
2 17 (19.32%) Google
3 15 (17.05%) Databricks
3 15 (17.05%) OpenAI
4 2 (2.27%) SAP