MLOps
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 507 760 771
Rank change year-on-year +253 +11 +68
Permanent jobs citing MLOps 206 157 156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.14% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.17% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 52 77 85
10th Percentile £54,513 £55,000 £53,000
25th Percentile £66,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.68% -
75th Percentile £111,250 £115,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £119,750 £130,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -16.13% +6.90% +3.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,945 90,976 87,859
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 92.70% 82.55% 95.42%
Number of salaries quoted 25,967 62,719 53,482
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,790 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

MLOps
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing MLOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for MLOps in the UK

MLOps
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for MLOps in the UK

MLOps
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing MLOps over the 6 months to 14 June 2025.

Salary histogram for MLOps in the UK

MLOps
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MLOps within the UK over the 6 months to 14 June 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
England +223 191 £85,000 +6.25% 454
UK excluding London +247 104 £65,000 -16.13% 187
London +102 94 £95,000 +1.33% 315
Work from Home +130 61 £80,000 - 227
South East +151 55 £110,000 +57.14% 97
South West +134 24 £75,000 -15.49% 15
North of England +55 11 £62,500 -13.79% 41
North West +24 8 £65,000 +8.33% 30
Scotland +118 6 £57,500 - 9
Midlands +78 5 £59,000 -21.33% 12
West Midlands +66 5 £59,000 -21.33% 8
North East +50 2 £62,500 -16.67% 1
Wales +37 2 £69,000 -39.34% 3
Yorkshire +58 1 - - 10
East of England +45 1 £64,000 +24.68% 3

MLOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (11.17%) Jupyter
2 22 (10.68%) Apache Spark
3 11 (5.34%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (4.85%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 94 (45.63%) Azure
2 67 (32.52%) AWS
3 45 (21.84%) GCP
4 21 (10.19%) Vertex AI
5 18 (8.74%) Azure AI
5 18 (8.74%) Azure Machine Learning
6 16 (7.77%) Azure Data Factory
7 13 (6.31%) Azure Monitor
7 13 (6.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 12 (5.83%) Serverless
9 11 (5.34%) Amazon S3
9 11 (5.34%) Amazon SageMaker
9 11 (5.34%) Microsoft Copilot
9 11 (5.34%) SaaS
10 10 (4.85%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (4.37%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (2.91%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (2.43%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (2.43%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.97%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (14.56%) Big Data
1 30 (14.56%) Data Mining
2 17 (8.25%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (4.85%) Tableau
4 8 (3.88%) Data Lake
4 8 (3.88%) Hadoop
5 7 (3.40%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.91%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (2.91%) Relational Database
7 5 (2.43%) Data Vault
8 4 (1.94%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (1.94%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (1.94%) Apache Hive
8 4 (1.94%) Power BI
9 3 (1.46%) Pinecone
9 3 (1.46%) Weaviate
10 2 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.49%) Flink
11 1 (0.49%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.49%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 17 (8.25%) Git
2 6 (2.91%) MLflow
3 5 (2.43%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.94%) Spinnaker
5 1 (0.49%) GitLab
General
1 78 (37.86%) Finance
2 77 (37.38%) Law
2 77 (37.38%) Social Skills
3 48 (23.30%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (19.90%) Retail
5 36 (17.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (12.14%) Banking
7 14 (6.80%) Legal
8 9 (4.37%) Private Banking
9 7 (3.40%) Marketing
10 6 (2.91%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.94%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.94%) Games
11 4 (1.94%) Retail Banking
12 3 (1.46%) Public Sector
13 2 (0.97%) Electronics
13 2 (0.97%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.97%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.49%) Advertising
14 1 (0.49%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 105 (50.97%) Senior
2 55 (26.70%) Data Scientist
3 49 (23.79%) Senior Data Scientist
4 48 (23.30%) Lead
5 21 (10.19%) Architect
6 16 (7.77%) Solutions Architect
7 13 (6.31%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 13 (6.31%) Senior Manager
8 12 (5.83%) Data Engineer
9 11 (5.34%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 11 (5.34%) Software Engineer
10 9 (4.37%) Head of Analytics
10 9 (4.37%) Head of Data Analytics
10 9 (4.37%) Principal Data Scientist
11 7 (3.40%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 6 (2.91%) Data Architect
12 6 (2.91%) Gen AI Engineer
12 6 (2.91%) Gen AI Software Engineer
13 4 (1.94%) AWS Data Engineer
13 4 (1.94%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (25.73%) PyTorch
2 46 (22.33%) TensorFlow
3 30 (14.56%) Pandas
4 26 (12.62%) scikit-learn
5 23 (11.17%) NumPy
6 21 (10.19%) SciPy
7 18 (8.74%) OpenCV
8 15 (7.28%) Hugging Face
9 14 (6.80%) LangChain
10 11 (5.34%) PySpark
11 6 (2.91%) AWS CDK
11 6 (2.91%) Kafka
11 6 (2.91%) Keras
12 4 (1.94%) SpaCy
13 2 (0.97%) Google JAX
13 2 (0.97%) JAX
13 2 (0.97%) REST
14 1 (0.49%) AngularJS
14 1 (0.49%) Node.js
14 1 (0.49%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 113 (54.85%) Algorithms
2 23 (11.17%) Cyberattack
3 18 (8.74%) Robotics
3 18 (8.74%) Virtual Team
4 13 (6.31%) Cloud Native
5 11 (5.34%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (4.37%) Credit Risk
6 9 (4.37%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (4.37%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.94%) Biopharmaceutical
8 3 (1.46%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.97%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.49%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.49%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.49%) IoT
10 1 (0.49%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.97%) Linux
2 1 (0.49%) Ubuntu
2 1 (0.49%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (90.29%) Artificial Intelligence
2 185 (89.81%) Machine Learning
3 168 (81.55%) Data Science
4 105 (50.97%) Analytics
5 94 (45.63%) DevOps
6 89 (43.20%) Problem-Solving
7 85 (41.26%) LLM
8 80 (38.83%) Generative AI
9 76 (36.89%) Agile
10 75 (36.41%) Visualisation
11 74 (35.92%) Roadmaps
12 68 (33.01%) Natural Language Processing
13 63 (30.58%) Computer Science
14 60 (29.13%) Data Engineering
15 58 (28.16%) Software Engineering
16 52 (25.24%) Strategic Thinking
17 50 (24.27%) Mentoring
18 49 (23.79%) Incident Management
19 48 (23.30%) Customer-Centricity
20 47 (22.82%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 127 (61.65%) Python
2 43 (20.87%) SQL
3 30 (14.56%) Java
4 24 (11.65%) JavaScript
5 12 (5.83%) R
6 5 (2.43%) C++
6 5 (2.43%) Scala
7 4 (1.94%) Go
8 2 (0.97%) Bash
8 2 (0.97%) C#
8 2 (0.97%) Clojure
8 2 (0.97%) Elixir
8 2 (0.97%) Rust
9 1 (0.49%) Bicep
9 1 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 98 (47.57%) Degree
2 57 (27.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 53 (25.73%) Master's Degree
4 30 (14.56%) PhD
5 25 (12.14%) Security Cleared
6 24 (11.65%) DV Cleared
7 12 (5.83%) Azure Certification
8 9 (4.37%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.97%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.49%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.77%) GDPR
2 13 (6.31%) Accessibility
3 11 (5.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 8 (3.88%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.49%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.49%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.49%) NIST
5 1 (0.49%) QA
System Software
1 47 (22.82%) Docker
2 2 (0.97%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 53 (25.73%) Kubernetes
2 18 (8.74%) Grafana
2 18 (8.74%) Prometheus
3 12 (5.83%) Terraform
4 6 (2.91%) Ansible
5 4 (1.94%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.49%) Bugsnag
Vendors
1 53 (25.73%) Microsoft
2 46 (22.33%) OpenAI
3 40 (19.42%) Databricks
4 37 (17.96%) Google
5 13 (6.31%) SAP
6 11 (5.34%) ServiceNow
6 11 (5.34%) Workday
7 6 (2.91%) Foundry
8 4 (1.94%) Splunk
9 2 (0.97%) Hitachi
10 1 (0.49%) Red Hat