MLOps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for MLOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited MLOps over the 6 months to 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 742 796 834
Rank change year-on-year +54 +38 +45
Permanent jobs citing MLOps 161 152 465
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.16% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.17% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 82 77 120
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,078
25th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,250 £77,500 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year +11.29% +1.64% -4.69%
75th Percentile £115,000 £96,250 £107,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £108,500 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £76,250 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +1.67% +7.14% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 88,012 90,290 162,948
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.51% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,295 54,552 83,502
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,909
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

MLOps
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for MLOps in the UK

MLOps
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing MLOps.

Salary trend for MLOps in the UK

MLOps
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing MLOps over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Salary histogram for MLOps in the UK

MLOps
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MLOps within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +61 146 £82,500 +6.45% 91
London +149 111 £95,000 +15.15% 62
Work from Home +66 81 £80,000 +6.67% 34
UK excluding London -61 43 £76,250 +1.67% 33
North of England +1 17 £72,500 -14.71% 5
North West -9 10 £60,000 -20.00% 4
Wales - 8 £113,750 - 3
South West -36 6 £88,750 +28.95% 2
Yorkshire +33 5 £80,000 -14.67% 1
Midlands -16 5 £75,000 +50.00% 5
South East +10 4 £70,000 +13.45% 10
West Midlands -3 3 £75,000 +20.00% 3
East Midlands -11 2 £105,000 +180.00% 2
East of England -14 2 £51,333 -33.76% 3
North East - 2 £75,000 -
Scotland -75 1 £57,500 - 3

MLOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 18 (11.18%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (7.45%) Apache Spark
3 11 (6.83%) Apache
4 1 (0.62%) Confluence
4 1 (0.62%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 59 (36.65%) Azure
2 46 (28.57%) GCP
3 44 (27.33%) AWS
4 13 (8.07%) Google Gemini
5 11 (6.83%) GitHub
6 10 (6.21%) SaaS
7 8 (4.97%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (3.11%) Amazon S3
8 5 (3.11%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (3.11%) Power Platform
9 4 (2.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (2.48%) Serverless
9 4 (2.48%) Snowflake
10 3 (1.86%) AWS CodeCommit
10 3 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.86%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.24%) Amazon EMR
11 2 (1.24%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (1.24%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (1.24%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (28.57%) Tableau
2 15 (9.32%) Big Data
3 12 (7.45%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (7.45%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (6.21%) Hadoop
4 10 (6.21%) NoSQL
5 9 (5.59%) Data Lake
6 7 (4.35%) Parquet
7 6 (3.73%) Apache Hive
7 6 (3.73%) Flink
8 5 (3.11%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (2.48%) DTS
9 4 (2.48%) Power BI
10 3 (1.86%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.86%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.86%) Data Mining
11 2 (1.24%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.24%) Electronic Patient Records
11 2 (1.24%) Metadata
11 2 (1.24%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 68 (42.24%) Git
2 10 (6.21%) MLflow
3 7 (4.35%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.73%) CircleCI
5 5 (3.11%) GitLab
6 2 (1.24%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.62%) git-flow
7 1 (0.62%) RStudio
7 1 (0.62%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 72 (44.72%) Social Skills
2 16 (9.94%) Finance
3 11 (6.83%) Marketing
4 9 (5.59%) Retail
5 8 (4.97%) Banking
5 8 (4.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.73%) Retail Banking
7 4 (2.48%) Games
7 4 (2.48%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.24%) Law
8 2 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.62%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.62%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.62%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.62%) Legal
9 1 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.62%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 75 (46.58%) Senior
2 59 (36.65%) Data Scientist
3 53 (32.92%) Senior Data Scientist
4 25 (15.53%) Lead
5 24 (14.91%) Data Engineer
6 10 (6.21%) Architect
6 10 (6.21%) Senior Data Engineer
7 9 (5.59%) Lead Data Engineer
8 8 (4.97%) Audit Manager
8 8 (4.97%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 6 (3.73%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (3.73%) Lead Data Scientist
9 6 (3.73%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (3.11%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (3.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 5 (3.11%) Customer Engineer
11 4 (2.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 4 (2.48%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 4 (2.48%) Senior Manager
11 4 (2.48%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (42.24%) TensorFlow
2 57 (35.40%) PySpark
3 54 (33.54%) Pandas
4 51 (31.68%) scikit-learn
5 23 (14.29%) Kafka
6 22 (13.66%) PyTorch
7 18 (11.18%) Apache Beam
8 10 (6.21%) NumPy
9 8 (4.97%) XGBoost
10 6 (3.73%) Apache Avro
10 6 (3.73%) React
10 6 (3.73%) Spark Streaming
11 5 (3.11%) .NET
12 4 (2.48%) Keras
13 3 (1.86%) LangChain
13 3 (1.86%) Matplotlib
13 3 (1.86%) REST
14 2 (1.24%) Flask
14 2 (1.24%) HTML
14 2 (1.24%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 73 (45.34%) Algorithms
2 12 (7.45%) Data Structures
3 6 (3.73%) Distributed Applications
3 6 (3.73%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.73%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (3.73%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.11%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (1.86%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.24%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.24%) Housing Association
6 2 (1.24%) Social Network
7 1 (0.62%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.62%) CUDA
7 1 (0.62%) IoT
7 1 (0.62%) Life Science
7 1 (0.62%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.62%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.62%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.62%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.45%) Linux
2 1 (0.62%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (85.09%) Machine Learning
2 122 (75.78%) Data Science
3 103 (63.98%) Artificial Intelligence
4 79 (49.07%) Generative AI
5 76 (47.20%) Natural Language Processing
6 74 (45.96%) Statistics
7 66 (40.99%) Mathematics
8 60 (37.27%) Decision-Making
9 59 (36.65%) Predictive Modelling
10 58 (36.02%) Neural Network
11 53 (32.92%) Data Engineering
11 53 (32.92%) Visualisation
12 50 (31.06%) Analytics
13 47 (29.19%) Actionable Insight
13 47 (29.19%) Customer Experience
13 47 (29.19%) Physics
13 47 (29.19%) Storytelling
14 45 (27.95%) Propensity Modelling
14 45 (27.95%) Root Cause Analysis
14 45 (27.95%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 131 (81.37%) Python
2 87 (54.04%) SQL
3 24 (14.91%) Java
4 11 (6.83%) Scala
5 7 (4.35%) C#
6 6 (3.73%) R
7 5 (3.11%) C
8 3 (1.86%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.24%) Go
9 2 (1.24%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.62%) Bash
10 1 (0.62%) Bicep
10 1 (0.62%) C++
10 1 (0.62%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.62%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 82 (50.93%) Degree
2 60 (37.27%) Master's Degree
3 45 (27.95%) DBS Check
4 16 (9.94%) PhD
5 7 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.48%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.24%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.62%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.35%) QA
2 5 (3.11%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.24%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.62%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 12 (7.45%) Docker
2 6 (3.73%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 23 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 12 (7.45%) Terraform
3 5 (3.11%) Ansible
4 4 (2.48%) Kubeflow
5 2 (1.24%) Argo
6 1 (0.62%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 68 (42.24%) Databricks
2 12 (7.45%) OpenAI
3 6 (3.73%) Cloudera
3 6 (3.73%) Google
3 6 (3.73%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.48%) Dell
5 2 (1.24%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.62%) Hitachi
6 1 (0.62%) StreamSets