MLOps Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

MLOps
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 339 523 605
Rank change year-on-year +184 +82 +45
Permanent jobs citing MLOps 74 66 66
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.49% 0.20% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.21% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 19 29 27
10th Percentile £53,350 £52,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £58,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -11.76%
75th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £88,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £123,500 £111,250
UK median annual salary £85,253 £85,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +0.30% +9.68% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,938 31,020 41,026
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.13% 91.65% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,733 23,575 28,496
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,800 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

MLOps
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing MLOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

MLOps trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

MLOps
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing MLOps.

MLOps salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

MLOps
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing MLOps over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

MLOps salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

MLOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (31.08%) Jupyter
2 7 (9.46%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (6.76%) Apache Spark
4 4 (5.41%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 20 (27.03%) Azure
2 16 (21.62%) AWS
3 8 (10.81%) GCP
4 6 (8.11%) Amazon S3
4 6 (8.11%) Azure Machine Learning
4 6 (8.11%) Serverless
5 4 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (5.41%) Amazon SageMaker
5 4 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (4.05%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (4.05%) Datadog
6 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (4.05%) Prefect
7 2 (2.70%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (2.70%) AWS Direct Connect
7 2 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (2.70%) GitHub
7 2 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.70%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (35.14%) Big Data
2 9 (12.16%) Tableau
3 4 (5.41%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.70%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.35%) Flink
5 1 (1.35%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (18.92%) Git
2 5 (6.76%) MLflow
3 3 (4.05%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.70%) GitLab
General
1 36 (48.65%) Finance
2 25 (33.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (20.27%) Law
4 11 (14.86%) Social Skills
5 7 (9.46%) Games
6 3 (4.05%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.70%) Electronics
7 2 (2.70%) Legal
7 2 (2.70%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.70%) Marketing
7 2 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (62.16%) Senior
2 41 (55.41%) Data Scientist
3 40 (54.05%) Senior Data Scientist
4 12 (16.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 12 (16.22%) Software Engineer
5 10 (13.51%) Gen AI Engineer
5 10 (13.51%) Gen AI Software Engineer
6 9 (12.16%) Principal Data Scientist
7 4 (5.41%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (4.05%) Data Engineer
8 3 (4.05%) Lead
8 3 (4.05%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 2 (2.70%) AWS Architect
9 2 (2.70%) AWS Consultant
9 2 (2.70%) Cloud Architect
9 2 (2.70%) Cloud Consultant
9 2 (2.70%) DevOps Engineer
9 2 (2.70%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 2 (2.70%) Principal Enterprise Architect
9 2 (2.70%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (27.03%) TensorFlow
2 16 (21.62%) scikit-learn
3 11 (14.86%) PySpark
3 11 (14.86%) PyTorch
4 9 (12.16%) Pandas
5 6 (8.11%) REST
6 3 (4.05%) Metaflow
7 2 (2.70%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 39 (52.70%) Algorithms
2 23 (31.08%) Cyberattack
3 9 (12.16%) Credit Risk
4 6 (8.11%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (8.11%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (8.11%) Public Cloud
5 4 (5.41%) Biopharmaceutical
6 3 (4.05%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.70%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.70%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.35%) IoT
8 1 (1.35%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.35%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.35%) Linux
1 1 (1.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (90.54%) Machine Learning
2 65 (87.84%) Artificial Intelligence
3 51 (68.92%) Data Science
4 42 (56.76%) Software Engineering
5 40 (54.05%) LLM
6 35 (47.30%) DevOps
7 34 (45.95%) Visualisation
8 33 (44.59%) Mathematics
8 33 (44.59%) Statistics
9 32 (43.24%) Decision-Making
10 29 (39.19%) Generative AI
11 28 (37.84%) Computer Science
11 28 (37.84%) Mentoring
12 27 (36.49%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (33.78%) Data Analysis
14 23 (31.08%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 23 (31.08%) Exploratory Data Analysis
14 23 (31.08%) Microservices
14 23 (31.08%) OpenUP
15 19 (25.68%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 67 (90.54%) Python
2 25 (33.78%) Java
3 23 (31.08%) JavaScript
4 17 (22.97%) SQL
5 8 (10.81%) Scala
6 7 (9.46%) Go
7 6 (8.11%) Clojure
7 6 (8.11%) Elixir
7 6 (8.11%) Rust
8 5 (6.76%) R
9 1 (1.35%) C#
Qualifications
1 40 (54.05%) Degree
2 27 (36.49%) Security Cleared
3 26 (35.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (31.08%) DV Cleared
5 17 (22.97%) Master's Degree
6 9 (12.16%) DBS Check
7 3 (4.05%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (2.70%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (2.70%) PhD
9 1 (1.35%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (17.57%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 32 (43.24%) Docker
2 2 (2.70%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 48 (64.86%) Kubernetes
2 7 (9.46%) Terraform
3 1 (1.35%) Istio
Vendors
1 18 (24.32%) Databricks
2 4 (5.41%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.70%) Hitachi
3 2 (2.70%) SAP