MLOps Contracts in the North of England

MLOps
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring MLOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MLOps over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 145 184 240
Rank change year-on-year +39 +56 +14
Contract jobs citing MLOps 17 8 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.43% 0.16% 0.014%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.18% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 1
10th Percentile £463 - -
25th Percentile £476 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £445 £410
Median % change year-on-year +10.56% +8.54% -21.90%
75th Percentile £520 £565 £415
90th Percentile £550 £691 -
England median daily rate £550 £507 £700
% change year-on-year +8.59% -27.64% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

MLOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,355 4,341 6,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 84.49% 88.25% 90.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,821 2,925 4,672
10th Percentile £294 £275 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £590
90th Percentile £656 £675 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 213 212
10th Percentile £14.56 £15.75 £10.20
25th Percentile £17.81 £18.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.75 £30.00 £21.38
Median % change year-on-year +9.17% +40.35% +22.14%
75th Percentile £49.69 £46.18 £45.05
90th Percentile £69.93 £62.00 £70.68
England median hourly rate £39.50 £44.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.24% +27.14% +70.73%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for MLOps in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for MLOps in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
North West - 10 £489 - 8
North East - 4 £495 - 1
Yorkshire +12 3 - - 3
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Chatbot
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) Azure
3 3 (17.65%) Amazon SageMaker
3 3 (17.65%) GCP
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.88%) Asana
5 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.88%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (5.88%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (5.88%) AWS KMS
5 1 (5.88%) GitHub
5 1 (5.88%) SaaS
5 1 (5.88%) Vertex AI
5 1 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) BigQuery
1 3 (17.65%) Bigtable
1 3 (17.65%) Data Lake
1 3 (17.65%) Data Mining
1 3 (17.65%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 9 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Retail
4 2 (11.76%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (5.88%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Lead
2 4 (23.53%) Data Scientist
3 3 (17.65%) Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Data Architect
3 3 (17.65%) GCP Architect
3 3 (17.65%) GCP Data Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Data Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior
5 1 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Data Migration Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Data Migration Lead
5 1 (5.88%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) Hugging Face
2 2 (11.76%) LangChain
2 2 (11.76%) Pandas
2 2 (11.76%) PyTorch
2 2 (11.76%) scikit-learn
2 2 (11.76%) TensorFlow
3 1 (5.88%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 9 (52.94%) Algorithms
2 2 (11.76%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.88%) CMDB
3 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.88%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) Machine Learning
2 9 (52.94%) Artificial Intelligence
2 9 (52.94%) Data Science
3 8 (47.06%) Generative AI
4 6 (35.29%) ETL
4 6 (35.29%) LLM
5 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (23.53%) Agile
6 4 (23.53%) Conversational UI
6 4 (23.53%) Data Analysis
6 4 (23.53%) Feature Extraction
6 4 (23.53%) Mathematics
6 4 (23.53%) Mentoring
6 4 (23.53%) Natural Language Processing
6 4 (23.53%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (17.65%) Data Matching
7 3 (17.65%) Data Modelling
7 3 (17.65%) Data Transformation
7 3 (17.65%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) Python
2 8 (47.06%) SQL
3 4 (23.53%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
2 3 (17.65%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Google