MLOps Job Trends

MLOps
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring MLOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 468 592 599
Rank change year-on-year +124 +7 +280
Permanent jobs citing MLOps 181 122 114
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.22% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.25% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 72 53 80
10th Percentile £47,375 £58,750 £56,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £69,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £82,250
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -8.81% +2.81%
75th Percentile £105,625 £100,000 £116,250
90th Percentile £134,500 £123,750 £147,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +1.43% -3.45% -6.45%

All Process & 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 48,662 49,693 47,075
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.06% 89.92% 91.48%
Number of salaries quoted 28,549 24,753 35,968
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £36,565 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -3.83%

MLOps
Job Vacancy Trend

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

MLOps job vacancy trend in the UK

MLOps
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MLOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MLOps

MLOps
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing MLOps over the 6 months to 30 December 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 30 December 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 +121 170 £84,000 +5.00% 914
London +131 138 £84,000 -16.00% 210
Work from Home +67 44 £85,000 +17.24% 450
UK excluding London +35 36 £71,000 +1.43% 785
South East +21 17 £67,500 -3.57% 215
Scotland +17 6 - - 37
Midlands +30 5 £76,000 -15.56% 130
West Midlands +28 5 £76,000 -15.56% 65
North of England +2 4 £56,750 -15.93% 188
North East +4 2 - - 6
Wales - 2 £135,000 - 23
East of England +21 1 - - 113
North West +7 1 £42,500 -37.73% 106
Yorkshire - 1 £71,000 - 76
South West - 1 - - 75

MLOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 25 (13.81%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (12.71%) Apache Spark
3 11 (6.08%) Appian
4 3 (1.66%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.10%) Confluence
5 2 (1.10%) nginx
6 1 (0.55%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 106 (58.56%) AWS
2 94 (51.93%) Azure
3 51 (28.18%) GCP
4 32 (17.68%) Vertex AI
5 26 (14.36%) Amazon Bedrock
5 26 (14.36%) Azure Machine Learning
6 22 (12.15%) SaaS
7 19 (10.50%) Serverless
8 16 (8.84%) Snowflake
9 12 (6.63%) Amazon SageMaker
9 12 (6.63%) Azure AI
10 10 (5.52%) Amazon S3
11 9 (4.97%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (4.97%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (4.97%) GitHub
11 9 (4.97%) Power Platform
12 8 (4.42%) Anthropic Claude
12 8 (4.42%) dbt
13 7 (3.87%) Datadog
13 7 (3.87%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.10%) BGP
1 2 (1.10%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (1.10%) Firewall
1 2 (1.10%) MQTT
1 2 (1.10%) OSPF
1 2 (1.10%) Reverse Proxy
1 2 (1.10%) RTMP
1 2 (1.10%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.10%) VLAN
1 2 (1.10%) VPN
1 2 (1.10%) WAN
1 2 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (1.10%) Wireless
2 1 (0.55%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.84%) NoSQL
2 15 (8.29%) Pinecone
3 12 (6.63%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (4.97%) Power BI
5 8 (4.42%) Big Data
6 7 (3.87%) SQL Server
6 7 (3.87%) Weaviate
7 6 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (3.31%) Tableau
8 5 (2.76%) BigQuery
9 4 (2.21%) Data Lake
9 4 (2.21%) Looker
9 4 (2.21%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (1.66%) Apache Iceberg
10 3 (1.66%) Delta Lake
10 3 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.66%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.66%) MySQL
11 2 (1.10%) DynamoDB
11 2 (1.10%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 45 (24.86%) MLflow
2 6 (3.31%) Git
3 5 (2.76%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.10%) GitLab
4 2 (1.10%) Jaeger
4 2 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 76 (41.99%) Social Skills
2 53 (29.28%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (20.44%) Finance
4 13 (7.18%) Manufacturing
5 11 (6.08%) Law
6 8 (4.42%) Banking
6 8 (4.42%) Retail
7 7 (3.87%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.76%) Games
9 4 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.21%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.66%) Legal
10 3 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.10%) Agriculture
11 2 (1.10%) Marketing
11 2 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.10%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.55%) Electronics
12 1 (0.55%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 68 (37.57%) Senior
2 30 (16.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 29 (16.02%) Consultant
3 29 (16.02%) Senior Consultant
4 26 (14.36%) Gen AI Consultant
5 23 (12.71%) Data Scientist
6 22 (12.15%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 16 (8.84%) Architect
7 16 (8.84%) Lead
8 15 (8.29%) Operations Engineer
8 15 (8.29%) Senior Data Scientist
9 14 (7.73%) Data Engineer
10 10 (5.52%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (3.87%) Automation Engineer
11 7 (3.87%) Lead Architect
11 7 (3.87%) Lead Solutions Architect
12 6 (3.31%) Data Science Engineer
12 6 (3.31%) DataOps Engineer
13 5 (2.76%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
13 5 (2.76%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (28.18%) PyTorch
2 45 (24.86%) TensorFlow
3 44 (24.31%) LangChain
4 38 (20.99%) scikit-learn
5 24 (13.26%) Pandas
6 22 (12.15%) REST
7 19 (10.50%) NumPy
8 18 (9.94%) FastAPI
9 17 (9.39%) Hugging Face
10 12 (6.63%) Django
10 12 (6.63%) Flask
11 11 (6.08%) Faiss
11 11 (6.08%) React
12 10 (5.52%) Kafka
12 10 (5.52%) pytest
13 8 (4.42%) RESTful
14 7 (3.87%) AngularJS
14 7 (3.87%) OAuth
14 7 (3.87%) Vue
14 7 (3.87%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 33 (18.23%) Legacy Systems
2 18 (9.94%) Algorithms
3 17 (9.39%) Low-Code
4 16 (8.84%) Cloud Native
5 13 (7.18%) Product Ownership
6 11 (6.08%) Life Science
7 10 (5.52%) AI Agents
8 8 (4.42%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (4.42%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (3.87%) e-Learning
9 7 (3.87%) Hackathon
9 7 (3.87%) Management Information System
10 5 (2.76%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.66%) Animation
11 3 (1.66%) IoT
11 3 (1.66%) Robotics
12 2 (1.10%) Culture of Ownership
12 2 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
12 2 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (1.10%) MPEG
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.42%) Linux
2 5 (2.76%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.10%) Unix
4 1 (0.55%) Android
4 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (93.92%) Machine Learning
2 136 (75.14%) AI
3 85 (46.96%) CI/CD
4 80 (44.20%) Data Science
4 80 (44.20%) LLM
5 60 (33.15%) Generative AI
6 59 (32.60%) DevOps
6 59 (32.60%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 51 (28.18%) Analytics
8 50 (27.62%) Agile
9 49 (27.07%) Computer Science
10 47 (25.97%) Prompt Engineering
11 46 (25.41%) Data Engineering
12 43 (23.76%) Stakeholder Management
13 37 (20.44%) Containerisation
13 37 (20.44%) Decision-Making
14 36 (19.89%) Thought Leadership
15 35 (19.34%) Data Pipeline
16 33 (18.23%) Natural Language Processing
17 29 (16.02%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 110 (60.77%) Python
2 46 (25.41%) SQL
3 11 (6.08%) JavaScript
4 10 (5.52%) Java
5 8 (4.42%) Bash
5 8 (4.42%) Go
6 5 (2.76%) C++
6 5 (2.76%) R
7 4 (2.21%) MATLAB
7 4 (2.21%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.66%) Bicep
8 3 (1.66%) Scala
9 2 (1.10%) Perl
10 1 (0.55%) C#
Qualifications
1 80 (44.20%) Degree
2 39 (21.55%) Master's Degree
3 29 (16.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (10.50%) PhD
5 8 (4.42%) TOGAF Certification
6 7 (3.87%) AWS Certification
7 6 (3.31%) Security Cleared
8 5 (2.76%) SC Cleared
9 4 (2.21%) MCP
10 2 (1.10%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.55%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.94%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.08%) SLA
3 4 (2.21%) GDPR
4 2 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.55%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.55%) CDISC
5 1 (0.55%) DICOM
5 1 (0.55%) GMP
5 1 (0.55%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.55%) HL7
5 1 (0.55%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.55%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 49 (27.07%) Docker
2 2 (1.10%) NFS
Systems Management
1 43 (23.76%) Kubernetes
2 20 (11.05%) Terraform
3 10 (5.52%) Ansible
4 9 (4.97%) Kubeflow
5 4 (2.21%) Grafana
5 4 (2.21%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.66%) Argo
Vendors
1 37 (20.44%) Google
2 29 (16.02%) Databricks
3 24 (13.26%) OpenAI
4 11 (6.08%) Microsoft
5 7 (3.87%) Automation Anywhere
5 7 (3.87%) UiPath
6 5 (2.76%) NVIDIA
7 3 (1.66%) Palantir
8 2 (1.10%) Cisco
8 2 (1.10%) MikroTik
8 2 (1.10%) NETGEAR
8 2 (1.10%) Sonatype
8 2 (1.10%) Starlink
8 2 (1.10%) Ubiquiti
9 1 (0.55%) Amplitude
9 1 (0.55%) Oracle
9 1 (0.55%) OutSystems
9 1 (0.55%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.55%) SAP