ModelOps (Model Operations)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring ModelOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 771 666 816
Rank change year-on-year -105 +150 -
Permanent jobs citing ModelOps 2 13 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.002% 0.026% 0.001%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.003% 0.029% 0.001%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71,181 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,633 - -
75th Percentile £78,084 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

ModelOps 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 75,768 44,292 70,756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.64% 89.63% 81.31%
Number of salaries quoted 52,326 25,118 47,262
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,886
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

ModelOps
Job Vacancy Trend

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

ModelOps job vacancy trend in the UK

ModelOps
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ModelOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ModelOps

ModelOps
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ModelOps within the UK over the 6 months to 31 July 2026. 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 -93 2 £74,633 - 6
UK excluding London -87 1 - -
South West - 1 - -

ModelOps
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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
General
1 2 (100.00%) Legal
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (50.00%) Games
2 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (50.00%) Law
2 1 (50.00%) Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Head of AI
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Blog
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Change Control
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Decision Science
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) MLOps
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) Go
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared