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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 504 691 732
Rank change year-on-year +187 +41 +66
Permanent jobs citing MLOps 249 125 115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.15% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.18% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 72 57 91
10th Percentile £52,700 £55,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £66,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,126 £77,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.84% - -3.13%
75th Percentile £111,250 £102,500 £103,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £127,000 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,750 £75,000 £76,383
% change year-on-year -13.67% -1.81% +9.12%

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 54,526 70,234 70,574
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.91% 81.61% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 28,793 43,589 47,264
10th Percentile £26,929 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -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 15 August 2025.

Salary histogram for MLOps in the UK

MLOps
Top 16 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 15 August 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 +163 238 £90,000 +16.13% 348
London +95 130 £95,000 +3.26% 296
UK excluding London +167 112 £64,750 -13.67% 89
South East +93 69 £110,000 +76.00% 44
Work from Home +18 36 £85,000 +7.94% 156
North of England +14 17 £55,000 -8.33% 22
North West -8 12 £55,000 -8.33% 16
Midlands +56 10 £59,125 -21.17% 2
South West +72 6 £75,000 -25.00% 4
West Midlands +43 6 £59,125 -21.17% 1
East Midlands +21 4 - - 1
Yorkshire +7 4 £55,000 +37.50% 4
East of England -17 4 £64,000 -12.53% 4
Scotland +94 3 - - 10
Wales - 3 £69,000 - 1
North East +14 1 - - 2

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 50 (20.08%) Apache Spark
2 19 (7.63%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (4.82%) Apache
4 2 (0.80%) Confluence
4 2 (0.80%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 126 (50.60%) AWS
2 119 (47.79%) Azure
3 61 (24.50%) GCP
4 52 (20.88%) Vertex AI
5 28 (11.24%) Amazon EKS
6 25 (10.04%) Amazon Bedrock
6 25 (10.04%) Amazon S3
7 24 (9.64%) Azure Machine Learning
8 19 (7.63%) Amazon ELB
8 19 (7.63%) Azure AI
9 17 (6.83%) SaaS
10 16 (6.43%) Azure Data Factory
11 13 (5.22%) Azure Monitor
11 13 (5.22%) Serverless
12 12 (4.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 12 (4.82%) Microsoft Copilot
13 10 (4.02%) Amazon SageMaker
14 8 (3.21%) Datadog
14 8 (3.21%) Snowflake
15 7 (2.81%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (16.47%) Data Mining
2 20 (8.03%) DynamoDB
3 19 (7.63%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (7.63%) Delta Lake
3 19 (7.63%) Metadata
3 19 (7.63%) Spark SQL
4 14 (5.62%) NoSQL
5 10 (4.02%) Big Data
6 8 (3.21%) Hadoop
6 8 (3.21%) Tableau
7 7 (2.81%) Power BI
7 7 (2.81%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.41%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (2.01%) Data Lake
9 5 (2.01%) Data Vault
10 4 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (1.61%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (1.61%) Apache Hive
11 3 (1.20%) Pinecone
11 3 (1.20%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 36 (14.46%) MLflow
2 15 (6.02%) Git
3 5 (2.01%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.61%) Spinnaker
5 1 (0.40%) GitLab
General
1 139 (55.82%) Social Skills
2 92 (36.95%) Analytical Skills
3 91 (36.55%) Law
4 63 (25.30%) Retail
5 56 (22.49%) Finance
6 23 (9.24%) Banking
7 14 (5.62%) Legal
8 13 (5.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (3.61%) Private Banking
10 7 (2.81%) Marketing
11 5 (2.01%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.01%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.61%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.61%) Retail Banking
13 3 (1.20%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.80%) Advertising
14 2 (0.80%) Games
15 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 125 (50.20%) Senior
2 68 (27.31%) Lead
3 42 (16.87%) Data Scientist
4 31 (12.45%) Senior Data Scientist
5 28 (11.24%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 24 (9.64%) Architect
7 21 (8.43%) Consultant
7 21 (8.43%) Gen AI Consultant
7 21 (8.43%) Operations Engineer
7 21 (8.43%) Senior Consultant
8 20 (8.03%) Solutions Architect
9 16 (6.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 13 (5.22%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
10 13 (5.22%) Senior Manager
11 9 (3.61%) Head of Analytics
11 9 (3.61%) Head of Data Analytics
12 8 (3.21%) Data Engineer
13 7 (2.81%) Data Architect
13 7 (2.81%) Developer
13 7 (2.81%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (29.32%) TensorFlow
2 70 (28.11%) PyTorch
3 58 (23.29%) scikit-learn
4 42 (16.87%) Pandas
5 36 (14.46%) LangChain
6 33 (13.25%) NumPy
7 29 (11.65%) PySpark
8 24 (9.64%) Keras
9 21 (8.43%) Hugging Face
10 19 (7.63%) Lambda Expressions
10 19 (7.63%) Metaflow
10 19 (7.63%) YAML
11 8 (3.21%) Kafka
12 6 (2.41%) Google JAX
12 6 (2.41%) JAX
13 5 (2.01%) REST
13 5 (2.01%) SpaCy
14 4 (1.61%) AngularJS
14 4 (1.61%) pytest
14 4 (1.61%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 83 (33.33%) Algorithms
2 21 (8.43%) Legacy Systems
3 19 (7.63%) Linux Command Line
3 19 (7.63%) Product Ownership
4 13 (5.22%) Cloud Native
5 12 (4.82%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (4.42%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.41%) Credit Risk
8 5 (2.01%) Biopharmaceutical
8 5 (2.01%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.20%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.20%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.20%) Robotics
9 3 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.40%) CUDA
10 1 (0.40%) Cyberattack
10 1 (0.40%) e-Learning
10 1 (0.40%) Life Science
10 1 (0.40%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.40%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.63%) Unix
2 2 (0.80%) Linux
3 1 (0.40%) Android
3 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.40%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (90.36%) Machine Learning
2 220 (88.35%) Artificial Intelligence
3 177 (71.08%) Data Science
4 112 (44.98%) Generative AI
5 109 (43.78%) Analytics
6 108 (43.37%) LLM
7 101 (40.56%) Agile
7 101 (40.56%) DevOps
8 91 (36.55%) Roadmaps
8 91 (36.55%) Visualisation
9 86 (34.54%) Natural Language Processing
10 83 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
11 80 (32.13%) Data Engineering
12 67 (26.91%) Use Case
13 66 (26.51%) Computer Science
14 65 (26.10%) Customer-Centricity
15 62 (24.90%) Strategic Thinking
16 59 (23.69%) CI/CD
16 59 (23.69%) Incident Management
17 57 (22.89%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 128 (51.41%) Python
2 80 (32.13%) SQL
3 13 (5.22%) R
4 7 (2.81%) Java
5 6 (2.41%) C++
6 5 (2.01%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.20%) Scala
8 2 (0.80%) Bash
8 2 (0.80%) Go
8 2 (0.80%) Perl
9 1 (0.40%) Bicep
9 1 (0.40%) C#
9 1 (0.40%) Clojure
9 1 (0.40%) Elixir
9 1 (0.40%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.40%) Rust
Qualifications
1 97 (38.96%) Degree
2 56 (22.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 50 (20.08%) Master's Degree
4 20 (8.03%) PhD
5 12 (4.82%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.41%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.61%) Security Cleared
7 4 (1.61%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (1.20%) Postgraduate
9 2 (0.80%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.80%) MCP
10 1 (0.40%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.23%) GDPR
2 11 (4.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 11 (4.42%) Data Quality
3 10 (4.02%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.20%) SLA
5 2 (0.80%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.40%) CDISC
6 1 (0.40%) DICOM
6 1 (0.40%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.40%) HL7
6 1 (0.40%) NIST
6 1 (0.40%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 52 (20.88%) Docker
2 2 (0.80%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 52 (20.88%) Kubernetes
2 32 (12.85%) Terraform
3 29 (11.65%) Kubeflow
4 18 (7.23%) Grafana
4 18 (7.23%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.01%) Ansible
6 1 (0.40%) Bugsnag
Vendors
1 76 (30.52%) Google
2 71 (28.51%) Microsoft
3 59 (23.69%) Databricks
3 59 (23.69%) OpenAI
4 11 (4.42%) SAP
4 11 (4.42%) ServiceNow
4 11 (4.42%) Workday
5 7 (2.81%) Foundry
6 4 (1.61%) Splunk
7 1 (0.40%) Amplitude
7 1 (0.40%) Red Hat