MLOps Contracts

MLOps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 505 608 694
Rank change year-on-year +103 +86 -19
Contract jobs citing MLOps 74 76 147
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.13% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.15% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 51 103
10th Percentile £438 £513 £512
25th Percentile £453 £575 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £725 £806 £711
90th Percentile £800 £913 £783
UK excluding London median daily rate £457 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -23.92% -4.00% +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 excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 - -

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,816 50,571 79,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.44% 89.70% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,638 35,025 55,934
10th Percentile £300 £325 £348
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,533 1,671 1,865
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.57 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%

MLOps
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for MLOps in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for MLOps in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MLOps over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MLOps in the UK

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Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 2 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
England +88 57 £575 -8.00% 90
London +107 46 £650 -10.34% 62
Work from Home +103 28 £550 -8.33% 33
UK excluding London +43 22 £457 -23.92% 32
Scotland +54 14 £453 -32.89% 3
South East +7 3 £500 -13.04% 9
Midlands +25 2 £550 -4.35% 5
East of England 0 2 £550 -8.33% 3
North of England +25 1 - - 5
West Midlands +14 1 £550 -4.35% 3
North East - 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 - - 2

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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 16 (21.62%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (5.41%) Apache Spark
2 4 (5.41%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.35%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 33 (44.59%) Azure
2 29 (39.19%) AWS
3 15 (20.27%) GCP
4 13 (17.57%) Snowflake
5 12 (16.22%) Vertex AI
6 11 (14.86%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (13.51%) Amazon S3
8 8 (10.81%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (10.81%) Azure Machine Learning
8 8 (10.81%) Serverless
9 6 (8.11%) Amazon SageMaker
10 5 (6.76%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (6.76%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (5.41%) ChatGPT
11 4 (5.41%) OpenShift
11 4 (5.41%) Textract
12 3 (4.05%) Amazon Kinesis
13 2 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 2 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (2.70%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.70%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.11%) NoSQL
2 5 (6.76%) Big Data
2 5 (6.76%) BigQuery
3 4 (5.41%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (5.41%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.05%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.35%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.35%) Metadata
5 1 (1.35%) Pinecone
5 1 (1.35%) Power BI
5 1 (1.35%) QGIS
5 1 (1.35%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.35%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 11 (14.86%) MLflow
2 3 (4.05%) GitLab
3 2 (2.70%) Git
4 1 (1.35%) Jenkins
General
1 18 (24.32%) Social Skills
2 14 (18.92%) Finance
3 11 (14.86%) Banking
4 8 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.11%) Front Office
5 6 (8.11%) Investment Banking
5 6 (8.11%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.70%) Marketing
6 2 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.35%) Electronics
7 1 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.35%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.35%) Multimedia
7 1 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.35%) Publishing
7 1 (1.35%) Retail
7 1 (1.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (20.27%) Data Engineer
2 13 (17.57%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 12 (16.22%) Azure Engineer
4 9 (12.16%) AWS Engineer
4 9 (12.16%) Platform Engineer
5 8 (10.81%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (10.81%) Snowflake Engineer
6 6 (8.11%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 6 (8.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 6 (8.11%) Developer
6 6 (8.11%) Lead
6 6 (8.11%) Lead Data Engineer
7 5 (6.76%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (6.76%) Python Engineer
7 5 (6.76%) Senior
8 4 (5.41%) Architect
8 4 (5.41%) Automation Developer
8 4 (5.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.41%) Data Scientist
8 4 (5.41%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (18.92%) TensorFlow
2 11 (14.86%) scikit-learn
3 10 (13.51%) PyTorch
4 7 (9.46%) NumPy
4 7 (9.46%) Pandas
5 6 (8.11%) LangChain
6 5 (6.76%) AWS CDK
7 4 (5.41%) HTML
7 4 (5.41%) SpaCy
7 4 (5.41%) Torch
8 2 (2.70%) Dask
8 2 (2.70%) Google JAX
8 2 (2.70%) Hugging Face
8 2 (2.70%) Kafka
8 2 (2.70%) Keras
8 2 (2.70%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.86%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (9.46%) Algorithms
3 6 (8.11%) Derivative
4 5 (6.76%) Security Posture
5 4 (5.41%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.35%) FMCG
7 1 (1.35%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (68.92%) Machine Learning
2 41 (55.41%) DevOps
3 34 (45.95%) CI/CD
4 29 (39.19%) Computer Science
5 28 (37.84%) Artificial Intelligence
5 28 (37.84%) Data Pipeline
6 27 (36.49%) Data Science
7 19 (25.68%) Agile
8 18 (24.32%) Data Engineering
9 17 (22.97%) Analytics
9 17 (22.97%) Software Engineering
10 16 (21.62%) DataOps
10 16 (21.62%) Infrastructure as Code
11 13 (17.57%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (16.22%) Data Ingestion
12 12 (16.22%) ETL
13 11 (14.86%) GitOps
14 10 (13.51%) Platform Engineering
15 9 (12.16%) Natural Language Processing
15 9 (12.16%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 63 (85.14%) Python
2 22 (29.73%) Java
3 18 (24.32%) Scala
4 17 (22.97%) SQL
5 7 (9.46%) TypeScript
6 6 (8.11%) C#
6 6 (8.11%) C++
7 5 (6.76%) JavaScript
8 4 (5.41%) Go
9 2 (2.70%) R
10 1 (1.35%) C
10 1 (1.35%) Julia
10 1 (1.35%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (24.32%) Degree
2 14 (18.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (14.86%) Master's Degree
4 4 (5.41%) CISSP
4 4 (5.41%) PhD
5 2 (2.70%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.81%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.05%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.35%) GDPR
3 1 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.35%) NIST
System Software
1 25 (33.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (36.49%) Kubernetes
2 21 (28.38%) Terraform
3 9 (12.16%) Grafana
4 5 (6.76%) Kubeflow
5 1 (1.35%) Podman
Vendors
1 26 (35.14%) Databricks
2 9 (12.16%) Google
3 5 (6.76%) Splunk
4 2 (2.70%) IBM
4 2 (2.70%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.70%) SAP
5 1 (1.35%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.35%) Sage