MLOps Contracts in the South East

MLOps
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 198 206 245
Rank change year-on-year +8 +39 -25
Contract jobs citing MLOps 3 6 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.053% 0.11% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.064% 0.12% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -8.00% +31.58%
75th Percentile - - £763
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £575 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -8.00% - +25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,683 5,022 6,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.99% 89.03% 89.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,708 3,452 4,710
10th Percentile £260 £250 £231
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £504 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.29% +0.70% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 451 220 272
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.21 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.26 £22.47 £15.38
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.99
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +138.80% -20.05%
75th Percentile £62.60 £65.00 £47.77
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £63.15
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing MLOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for MLOps in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MLOps in the South East.

Daily rate trend for MLOps in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MLOps within the South East 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
Thames Valley +17 3 £500 -13.04% 4
Berkshire -5 3 £500 -13.04% 3
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Python Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Python Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Google JAX
1 1 (33.33%) PyTorch
1 1 (33.33%) scikit-learn
1 1 (33.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
2 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) DataOps
2 1 (33.33%) Deep Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) LLM
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C++
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) C
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) R
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes