MLOps Contracts in the UK excluding London

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UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 377 410 479
Rank change year-on-year +33 +69 -46
Contract jobs citing MLOps 22 28 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.12% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.14% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 20 27
10th Percentile £436 - £449
25th Percentile £443 £575 £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £457 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -23.92% -4.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £494 £619 £738
90th Percentile £519 £713 £763
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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,325 20,337 27,186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.38% 89.23% 89.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,289 13,953 19,001
10th Percentile £250 £260 £238
25th Percentile £375 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,130 1,241 1,347
10th Percentile £12.42 £10.63 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.50 £62.35
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
% change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%

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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 May 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 May 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
Scotland +50 14 £453 -32.89% 1
South East +8 3 £500 -13.04% 10
Midlands +22 2 £550 -4.35% 5
East of England 0 2 £550 -8.33% 3
North of England +22 1 - - 7
West Midlands +15 1 £550 -4.35% 2
North East - 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 - - 3
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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 10 (45.45%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 15 (68.18%) AWS
1 15 (68.18%) Azure
2 10 (45.45%) Snowflake
3 5 (22.73%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (22.73%) Serverless
4 4 (18.18%) Amazon S3
4 4 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (18.18%) OpenShift
4 4 (18.18%) Textract
5 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (4.55%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (4.55%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (4.55%) Big Data
2 1 (4.55%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Git
General
1 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Banking
4 1 (4.55%) Finance
4 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.55%) Marketing
4 1 (4.55%) Multimedia
4 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Publishing
4 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) AWS Engineer
1 8 (36.36%) Platform Engineer
1 8 (36.36%) Snowflake Engineer
2 6 (27.27%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 6 (27.27%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) Developer
4 4 (18.18%) Automation Developer
4 4 (18.18%) Python Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) AWS Data Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Data Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Java Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) PyTorch
2 4 (18.18%) AWS CDK
2 4 (18.18%) SpaCy
3 2 (9.09%) scikit-learn
4 1 (4.55%) Dask
4 1 (4.55%) Google JAX
4 1 (4.55%) Keras
4 1 (4.55%) NumPy
4 1 (4.55%) Pandas
4 1 (4.55%) PySpark
4 1 (4.55%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (45.45%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (9.09%) Algorithms
2 2 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.55%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) DevOps
2 12 (54.55%) Computer Science
2 12 (54.55%) Data Pipeline
2 12 (54.55%) DataOps
3 11 (50.00%) Data Engineering
4 10 (45.45%) GitOps
4 10 (45.45%) Machine Learning
5 9 (40.91%) Platform Engineering
6 8 (36.36%) Artificial Intelligence
7 7 (31.82%) Software Engineering
8 6 (27.27%) CI/CD
9 5 (22.73%) Agile
10 4 (18.18%) Code Quality
10 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (18.18%) Natural Language Processing
10 4 (18.18%) Service Design
11 3 (13.64%) Coaching
11 3 (13.64%) Data Science
11 3 (13.64%) Mentoring
11 3 (13.64%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 22 (100.00%) Python
2 13 (59.09%) Java
3 11 (50.00%) Scala
4 6 (27.27%) TypeScript
5 5 (22.73%) C++
6 4 (18.18%) C#
7 3 (13.64%) SQL
8 2 (9.09%) R
9 1 (4.55%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) PhD
2 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.55%) GDPR
2 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.55%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (63.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (68.18%) Kubernetes
2 10 (45.45%) Terraform
3 4 (18.18%) Grafana
Vendors
1 11 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (4.55%) Google
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) Sage