MLOps Contracts in the UK excluding London

MLOps
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 339 396 482
Rank change year-on-year +57 +86 +27
Contract jobs citing MLOps 30 17 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.081% 0.083%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.092% 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 12 23
10th Percentile £463 £406 -
25th Percentile £478 £461 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £708
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% -29.33% +34.76%
75th Percentile £550 £525 £738
90th Percentile £575 £535 -
UK median daily rate £550 £565 £700
% change year-on-year -2.65% -19.29% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £23.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £23.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year - -32.86% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,041 18,439 26,837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.81% 88.33% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,020 12,105 18,694
10th Percentile £250 £250 £260
25th Percentile £381 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £686 £688 £680
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 897 1,303 1,340
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £12.66
25th Percentile £18.13 £17.72 £15.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.33 £28.90
Median % change year-on-year -19.22% +49.93% +60.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.38
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.50 £70.30
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £43.86 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.92% +25.31% +66.67%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing MLOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for MLOps in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MLOps in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for MLOps in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MLOps in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MLOps in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MLOps within the UK excluding London 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 of England +39 17 £492 +10.56% 12
North West - 10 £489 - 8
South East +40 5 £550 +12.82% 8
Scotland +30 4 £485 -7.71%
North East - 4 £495 - 1
Yorkshire +12 3 - - 3
South West - 2 £526 - 4
East of England +18 1 £550 +9.29% 1
East Midlands +5 1 £700 +40.00%
Midlands +5 1 £700 +40.00% 2
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (6.67%) Apache
1 2 (6.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.33%) OpenStack
2 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Chatbot
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (43.33%) AWS
2 8 (26.67%) Azure
3 5 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 5 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (13.33%) OpenShift
4 4 (13.33%) Serverless
4 4 (13.33%) Textract
5 3 (10.00%) Amazon SageMaker
5 3 (10.00%) GCP
6 2 (6.67%) Amazon Bedrock
6 2 (6.67%) Azure AKS
6 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (6.67%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (6.67%) GitHub
7 1 (3.33%) Alation
7 1 (3.33%) AWS KMS
7 1 (3.33%) SaaS
7 1 (3.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 4 (13.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (10.00%) BigQuery
3 3 (10.00%) Bigtable
3 3 (10.00%) Data Mining
3 3 (10.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 2 (6.67%) Big Data
4 2 (6.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (3.33%) GitLab
2 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 15 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.00%) Retail
4 2 (6.67%) Finance
4 2 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 6 (20.00%) Architect
1 6 (20.00%) Lead
2 4 (13.33%) Automation Developer
2 4 (13.33%) Data Scientist
2 4 (13.33%) Developer
3 3 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 3 (10.00%) Data Architect
3 3 (10.00%) GCP Architect
3 3 (10.00%) GCP Data Architect
3 3 (10.00%) Security Architect
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Consultant
4 2 (6.67%) Data Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Senior
5 1 (3.33%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Consultant
5 1 (3.33%) Data Migration Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (36.67%) PyTorch
2 7 (23.33%) scikit-learn
2 7 (23.33%) TensorFlow
3 5 (16.67%) AWS CDK
4 4 (13.33%) Hugging Face
4 4 (13.33%) SpaCy
5 3 (10.00%) Google JAX
6 2 (6.67%) LangChain
6 2 (6.67%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 12 (40.00%) Algorithms
2 3 (10.00%) Security Posture
3 2 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.33%) CMDB
4 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.33%) IoT
4 1 (3.33%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (96.67%) Machine Learning
2 18 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 13 (43.33%) Data Science
4 11 (36.67%) ETL
5 9 (30.00%) Agile
5 9 (30.00%) LLM
6 8 (26.67%) CI/CD
6 8 (26.67%) Generative AI
6 8 (26.67%) Natural Language Processing
6 8 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (23.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (23.33%) Mentoring
7 7 (23.33%) Software Engineering
8 6 (20.00%) Data Analysis
8 6 (20.00%) DevOps
9 5 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
9 5 (16.67%) Data Protection
10 4 (13.33%) Conversational UI
10 4 (13.33%) DataOps
10 4 (13.33%) Feature Extraction
Programming Languages
1 20 (66.67%) Python
2 10 (33.33%) SQL
3 7 (23.33%) Java
4 5 (16.67%) R
5 4 (13.33%) TypeScript
6 3 (10.00%) C
6 3 (10.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Degree
2 3 (10.00%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (10.00%) GDPR
1 3 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (10.00%) NIST
2 2 (6.67%) QA
3 1 (3.33%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 7 (23.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (13.33%) Grafana
3 2 (6.67%) Terraform
4 1 (3.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.67%) Google
3 1 (3.33%) Databricks