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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 522 741 790
Rank change year-on-year +219 +49 +55
Permanent jobs citing MLOps 194 160 171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.16% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.19% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 59 85 83
10th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £52,750
25th Percentile £67,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.68% +3.33%
75th Percentile £111,250 £115,000 £96,875
90th Percentile £123,750 £130,000 £109,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +11.11%

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 51,972 84,955 96,877
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.89% 85.58% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26,632 59,894 57,116
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,002 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,365 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.73% -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 13 May 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 13 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
England +183 176 £87,626 +6.21% 361
London +84 95 £97,500 +2.63% 213
UK excluding London +230 88 £70,000 -6.67% 215
Work from Home +113 75 £70,000 -12.50% 227
South East +140 45 £100,000 +42.86% 88
South West +136 22 £75,000 -3.23% 31
North of England +41 8 £62,500 -7.41% 42
Scotland +129 6 £57,500 - 13
North West +8 5 £85,253 +42.09% 27
Midlands +69 3 £53,500 -28.67% 20
West Midlands +48 3 £53,500 -28.67% 10
North East +45 2 £62,500 -16.67% 2
East of England +40 2 £68,250 +32.96% 20
Wales +33 2 £69,000 -39.34% 4
Yorkshire +67 1 - - 14

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 24 (12.37%) Jupyter
2 23 (11.86%) Apache Spark
3 12 (6.19%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (4.64%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 76 (39.18%) Azure
2 53 (27.32%) AWS
3 34 (17.53%) GCP
4 17 (8.76%) Azure Data Factory
4 17 (8.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 15 (7.73%) Azure AI
5 15 (7.73%) Azure Machine Learning
5 15 (7.73%) Vertex AI
6 14 (7.22%) Microsoft Copilot
7 13 (6.70%) Amazon SageMaker
8 11 (5.67%) SaaS
9 10 (5.15%) Serverless
10 9 (4.64%) Amazon S3
10 9 (4.64%) Snowflake
11 7 (3.61%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (3.09%) Amazon EMR
12 6 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (2.58%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (2.06%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.03%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (15.46%) Big Data
2 24 (12.37%) Data Mining
3 15 (7.73%) Tableau
4 9 (4.64%) Data Lake
5 8 (4.12%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (4.12%) Hadoop
6 6 (3.09%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (3.09%) NoSQL
6 6 (3.09%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.06%) Apache Hive
7 4 (2.06%) Data Vault
8 3 (1.55%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (1.55%) Pinecone
8 3 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.55%) Weaviate
9 2 (1.03%) Power BI
10 1 (0.52%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.52%) Flink
10 1 (0.52%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 20 (10.31%) Git
2 10 (5.15%) MLflow
3 5 (2.58%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.06%) GitLab
5 1 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.52%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.52%) JIRA
General
1 56 (28.87%) Law
2 55 (28.35%) Social Skills
3 51 (26.29%) Finance
4 39 (20.10%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (15.98%) Retail
6 29 (14.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (7.22%) Banking
8 7 (3.61%) Games
9 6 (3.09%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.06%) Financial Institution
10 4 (2.06%) Investment Banking
10 4 (2.06%) Retail Banking
11 3 (1.55%) Legal
11 3 (1.55%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.03%) Electronics
12 2 (1.03%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.03%) Marketing
12 2 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 87 (44.85%) Senior
2 51 (26.29%) Lead
3 50 (25.77%) Data Scientist
4 47 (24.23%) Senior Data Scientist
5 27 (13.92%) Architect
6 15 (7.73%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 15 (7.73%) Solutions Architect
7 13 (6.70%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 12 (6.19%) Software Engineer
9 11 (5.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 10 (5.15%) Gen AI Engineer
10 10 (5.15%) Gen AI Software Engineer
11 9 (4.64%) Data Engineer
11 9 (4.64%) Data Science Leader
11 9 (4.64%) Principal Data Scientist
12 8 (4.12%) Enterprise Architect
13 6 (3.09%) Lead Architect
13 6 (3.09%) Lead DevOps
13 6 (3.09%) Lead Enterprise Architect
14 5 (2.58%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (23.71%) PyTorch
2 39 (20.10%) TensorFlow
3 30 (15.46%) scikit-learn
4 28 (14.43%) Pandas
5 23 (11.86%) NumPy
6 21 (10.82%) SciPy
7 17 (8.76%) OpenCV
8 13 (6.70%) Kafka
9 11 (5.67%) PySpark
10 6 (3.09%) Keras
10 6 (3.09%) REST
11 5 (2.58%) AWS CDK
12 4 (2.06%) SpaCy
13 3 (1.55%) Metaflow
14 1 (0.52%) FastAPI
14 1 (0.52%) Great Expectations
14 1 (0.52%) Hugging Face
14 1 (0.52%) JAX
14 1 (0.52%) LangChain
14 1 (0.52%) Ray
Miscellaneous
1 105 (54.12%) Algorithms
2 23 (11.86%) Cyberattack
3 18 (9.28%) Virtual Team
4 17 (8.76%) Robotics
5 11 (5.67%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (5.15%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (4.64%) Credit Risk
8 8 (4.12%) Cloud Native
9 6 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (3.09%) Product Ownership
9 6 (3.09%) Public Cloud
10 4 (2.06%) Biopharmaceutical
11 3 (1.55%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.55%) Onboarding
12 2 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
12 2 (1.03%) Life Science
12 2 (1.03%) Renewable Energy
13 1 (0.52%) AI Agents
13 1 (0.52%) Data Structures
13 1 (0.52%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.52%) Linux
1 1 (0.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (91.24%) Machine Learning
2 172 (88.66%) Artificial Intelligence
3 150 (77.32%) Data Science
4 90 (46.39%) Analytics
5 83 (42.78%) DevOps
5 83 (42.78%) LLM
6 80 (41.24%) Agile
7 73 (37.63%) Problem-Solving
8 69 (35.57%) Visualisation
9 68 (35.05%) Generative AI
10 62 (31.96%) Natural Language Processing
11 55 (28.35%) Roadmaps
12 52 (26.80%) Software Engineering
13 51 (26.29%) Mentoring
14 50 (25.77%) Computer Science
15 41 (21.13%) Data Engineering
15 41 (21.13%) Use Case
16 39 (20.10%) CI/CD
16 39 (20.10%) Decision-Making
16 39 (20.10%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 145 (74.74%) Python
2 38 (19.59%) SQL
3 34 (17.53%) Java
4 24 (12.37%) JavaScript
5 11 (5.67%) R
6 8 (4.12%) Scala
7 7 (3.61%) Go
7 7 (3.61%) Rust
8 6 (3.09%) Bash
8 6 (3.09%) Clojure
8 6 (3.09%) Elixir
9 5 (2.58%) C++
10 2 (1.03%) C#
11 1 (0.52%) Bicep
11 1 (0.52%) C
11 1 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.52%) Perl
Qualifications
1 88 (45.36%) Degree
2 45 (23.20%) Master's Degree
3 44 (22.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 31 (15.98%) PhD
5 27 (13.92%) Security Cleared
6 23 (11.86%) DV Cleared
7 12 (6.19%) Azure Certification
8 9 (4.64%) DBS Check
9 4 (2.06%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.52%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (10.82%) GDPR
2 18 (9.28%) Accessibility
3 17 (8.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 6 (3.09%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.06%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.52%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.52%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.52%) NIST
6 1 (0.52%) QA
System Software
1 50 (25.77%) Docker
2 2 (1.03%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.03%) HDFS
2 2 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 65 (33.51%) Kubernetes
2 15 (7.73%) Terraform
3 5 (2.58%) Ansible
4 3 (1.55%) Kubeflow
5 2 (1.03%) Grafana
5 2 (1.03%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.52%) Argo
6 1 (0.52%) Bugsnag
6 1 (0.52%) Istio
Vendors
1 48 (24.74%) Microsoft
2 38 (19.59%) Databricks
3 31 (15.98%) Google
4 27 (13.92%) OpenAI
5 13 (6.70%) SAP
6 11 (5.67%) ServiceNow
6 11 (5.67%) Workday
7 3 (1.55%) Foundry
8 2 (1.03%) Hitachi