MLOps Contracts in England

MLOps
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for MLOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited MLOps over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 494 571 654
Rank change year-on-year +77 +83 -47
Contract jobs citing MLOps 57 66 123
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.14% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.15% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 46 87
10th Percentile £450 £531 £512
25th Percentile £500 £575 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £750 £825 £711
90th Percentile £828 £913 £793
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -12.00% - +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £63.75 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - -
75th Percentile £71.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

MLOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,623 42,710 64,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.71% 89.97% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,632 29,989 45,672
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,323 1,520 1,714
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.05 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

MLOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing MLOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for MLOps in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MLOps in England.

Daily rate trend for MLOps in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MLOps in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MLOps in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MLOps within the England region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +101 46 £650 -10.34% 57
South East +8 3 £500 -13.04% 9
Midlands +23 2 £550 -4.35% 5
East of England -3 2 £550 -8.33% 1
North of England +19 1 - - 5
West Midlands +13 1 £550 -4.35% 2
North East - 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 - - 3
MLOps
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 6 (10.53%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (7.02%) Apache Spark
2 4 (7.02%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.75%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 23 (40.35%) Azure
2 15 (26.32%) GCP
3 14 (24.56%) AWS
4 12 (21.05%) Vertex AI
5 11 (19.30%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (14.04%) Azure Machine Learning
7 6 (10.53%) Amazon SageMaker
8 5 (8.77%) Amazon S3
9 4 (7.02%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (7.02%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (7.02%) ChatGPT
9 4 (7.02%) Serverless
10 3 (5.26%) Snowflake
11 2 (3.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (3.51%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (3.51%) Amazon EMR
11 2 (3.51%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (3.51%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (3.51%) GitHub
11 2 (3.51%) IBM Watson
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.51%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.53%) NoSQL
2 5 (8.77%) Big Data
2 5 (8.77%) BigQuery
3 4 (7.02%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (5.26%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.75%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.75%) Metadata
5 1 (1.75%) Pinecone
5 1 (1.75%) Power BI
5 1 (1.75%) QGIS
5 1 (1.75%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.75%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 10 (17.54%) MLflow
2 3 (5.26%) GitLab
3 2 (3.51%) Git
4 1 (1.75%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (29.82%) Social Skills
2 13 (22.81%) Finance
3 9 (15.79%) Banking
4 7 (12.28%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (8.77%) Front Office
5 5 (8.77%) Investment Banking
6 3 (5.26%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.51%) Marketing
7 2 (3.51%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.75%) Electronics
8 1 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.75%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.75%) Multimedia
8 1 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.75%) Publishing
8 1 (1.75%) Retail
8 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (22.81%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 10 (17.54%) Azure Engineer
2 10 (17.54%) Data Engineer
3 5 (8.77%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (8.77%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (8.77%) Lead
3 5 (8.77%) Lead Data Engineer
3 5 (8.77%) Senior
4 4 (7.02%) Architect
4 4 (7.02%) Data Scientist
4 4 (7.02%) Security Engineer
5 3 (5.26%) GCP Engineer
5 3 (5.26%) Python Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) Data Architect
6 2 (3.51%) Developer
6 2 (3.51%) Machine Learning Scientist
7 1 (1.75%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (24.56%) TensorFlow
2 11 (19.30%) scikit-learn
3 7 (12.28%) NumPy
3 7 (12.28%) Pandas
4 6 (10.53%) LangChain
4 6 (10.53%) PyTorch
5 4 (7.02%) HTML
5 4 (7.02%) Torch
6 2 (3.51%) Dask
6 2 (3.51%) Google JAX
6 2 (3.51%) Hugging Face
6 2 (3.51%) Kafka
6 2 (3.51%) Keras
6 2 (3.51%) PySpark
7 1 (1.75%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.28%) Algorithms
2 5 (8.77%) Derivative
2 5 (8.77%) Security Posture
3 4 (7.02%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.51%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.75%) FMCG
5 1 (1.75%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (80.70%) Machine Learning
2 34 (59.65%) CI/CD
3 30 (52.63%) DevOps
4 27 (47.37%) Data Science
5 23 (40.35%) Artificial Intelligence
6 18 (31.58%) Computer Science
7 17 (29.82%) Data Pipeline
8 16 (28.07%) Analytics
9 15 (26.32%) Software Engineering
10 14 (24.56%) Agile
11 12 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (19.30%) Data Ingestion
12 11 (19.30%) Infrastructure as Code
13 9 (15.79%) ETL
14 8 (14.04%) Data Engineering
14 8 (14.04%) Data Integration
14 8 (14.04%) Deep Learning
14 8 (14.04%) SDLC
15 7 (12.28%) Continuous Integration
16 6 (10.53%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 48 (84.21%) Python
2 16 (28.07%) SQL
3 12 (21.05%) Java
4 7 (12.28%) Scala
5 6 (10.53%) C#
5 6 (10.53%) C++
6 5 (8.77%) JavaScript
7 4 (7.02%) Go
8 3 (5.26%) TypeScript
9 2 (3.51%) R
10 1 (1.75%) C
10 1 (1.75%) Julia
10 1 (1.75%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (29.82%) Degree
2 13 (22.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (17.54%) Master's Degree
4 4 (7.02%) CISSP
4 4 (7.02%) PhD
5 2 (3.51%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.51%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.28%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.75%) GDPR
2 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.75%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (19.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (22.81%) Kubernetes
2 10 (17.54%) Terraform
3 5 (8.77%) Grafana
3 5 (8.77%) Kubeflow
4 1 (1.75%) Podman
Vendors
1 15 (26.32%) Databricks
2 9 (15.79%) Google
3 5 (8.77%) Splunk
4 2 (3.51%) IBM
4 2 (3.51%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.51%) SAP
5 1 (1.75%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.75%) Sage