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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 764 789 842
Rank change year-on-year +25 +53 +50
Permanent jobs citing MLOps 158 156 472
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.17% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.18% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 78 81 121
10th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £55,225
25th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% - -3.13%
75th Percentile £114,063 £97,500 £107,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £110,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% +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 89,994 88,841 164,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.98% 95.43% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 62,089 53,798 83,455
10th Percentile £29,500 £33,848 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 9 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 9 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 +16 143 £82,500 +6.45% 77
London +113 108 £93,750 +10.29% 57
Work from Home +79 79 £80,000 +6.67% 26
UK excluding London -103 43 £77,500 +3.33% 24
North of England -1 17 £72,500 -22.67% 2
North West -5 10 £60,000 -20.00% 2
Wales - 8 £113,750 - 4
Midlands -28 6 £75,000 +50.00% 3
South West -40 6 £88,750 +28.95% 3
Yorkshire +33 5 £80,000 -21.95%
West Midlands -9 3 £75,000 +20.00% 2
South East -13 3 £70,000 +13.45% 9
East Midlands -31 3 £105,000 +180.00% 1
East of England -18 2 £51,333 -31.56% 1
North East - 2 £75,000 -
Scotland -64 1 £57,500 -

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 (11.39%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (7.59%) Apache Spark
3 10 (6.33%) Apache
4 1 (0.63%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 59 (37.34%) Azure
2 45 (28.48%) GCP
3 43 (27.22%) AWS
4 13 (8.23%) Google Gemini
5 11 (6.96%) GitHub
6 9 (5.70%) SaaS
7 8 (5.06%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (3.16%) Amazon S3
8 5 (3.16%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (2.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (2.53%) Power Platform
9 4 (2.53%) Serverless
9 4 (2.53%) Snowflake
10 3 (1.90%) AWS CodeCommit
10 3 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.27%) Amazon EMR
11 2 (1.27%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (29.11%) Tableau
2 15 (9.49%) Big Data
3 12 (7.59%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (7.59%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (6.33%) Hadoop
4 10 (6.33%) NoSQL
5 9 (5.70%) Data Lake
6 7 (4.43%) Parquet
7 6 (3.80%) Apache Hive
7 6 (3.80%) Flink
8 5 (3.16%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (2.53%) DTS
10 3 (1.90%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.90%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.90%) Data Mining
10 3 (1.90%) Power BI
11 2 (1.27%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.27%) Electronic Patient Records
11 2 (1.27%) Metadata
11 2 (1.27%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 69 (43.67%) Git
2 10 (6.33%) MLflow
3 7 (4.43%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.80%) CircleCI
5 5 (3.16%) GitLab
6 2 (1.27%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.63%) git-flow
7 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio
General
1 72 (45.57%) Social Skills
2 16 (10.13%) Finance
3 10 (6.33%) Marketing
4 8 (5.06%) Banking
4 8 (5.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (5.06%) Retail
5 6 (3.80%) Retail Banking
6 4 (2.53%) Games
6 4 (2.53%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.27%) Law
7 2 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.63%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.63%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.63%) Automotive
8 1 (0.63%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.63%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.63%) Legal
8 1 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 74 (46.84%) Senior
2 58 (36.71%) Data Scientist
3 52 (32.91%) Senior Data Scientist
4 25 (15.82%) Lead
5 23 (14.56%) Data Engineer
6 10 (6.33%) Architect
6 10 (6.33%) Senior Data Engineer
7 9 (5.70%) Lead Data Engineer
8 8 (5.06%) Audit Manager
8 8 (5.06%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 6 (3.80%) Lead Data Scientist
9 6 (3.80%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (3.16%) Azure Engineer
10 5 (3.16%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (3.16%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 5 (3.16%) Customer Engineer
11 4 (2.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 4 (2.53%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 4 (2.53%) Senior Manager
11 4 (2.53%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (43.04%) TensorFlow
2 57 (36.08%) PySpark
3 54 (34.18%) Pandas
4 51 (32.28%) scikit-learn
5 23 (14.56%) Kafka
6 22 (13.92%) PyTorch
7 18 (11.39%) Apache Beam
8 10 (6.33%) NumPy
9 8 (5.06%) XGBoost
10 6 (3.80%) .NET
10 6 (3.80%) Apache Avro
10 6 (3.80%) React
10 6 (3.80%) Spark Streaming
11 4 (2.53%) Keras
12 3 (1.90%) LangChain
12 3 (1.90%) Matplotlib
12 3 (1.90%) REST
13 2 (1.27%) Flask
13 2 (1.27%) HTML
13 2 (1.27%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 72 (45.57%) Algorithms
2 12 (7.59%) Data Structures
3 6 (3.80%) Distributed Applications
3 6 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.80%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (3.80%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.16%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (1.27%) e-Learning
5 2 (1.27%) Housing Association
5 2 (1.27%) Social Network
5 2 (1.27%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.63%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.63%) CUDA
6 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.63%) IoT
6 1 (0.63%) Life Science
6 1 (0.63%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.63%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (0.63%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.33%) Linux
2 1 (0.63%) Unix
2 1 (0.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (84.81%) Machine Learning
2 120 (75.95%) Data Science
3 101 (63.92%) Artificial Intelligence
4 79 (50.00%) Generative AI
5 76 (48.10%) Natural Language Processing
6 75 (47.47%) Statistics
7 66 (41.77%) Mathematics
8 60 (37.97%) Decision-Making
9 59 (37.34%) Predictive Modelling
10 58 (36.71%) Neural Network
11 52 (32.91%) Visualisation
12 50 (31.65%) Data Engineering
13 49 (31.01%) Analytics
14 48 (30.38%) Physics
15 47 (29.75%) Actionable Insight
15 47 (29.75%) Customer Experience
15 47 (29.75%) Storytelling
16 45 (28.48%) Propensity Modelling
16 45 (28.48%) Root Cause Analysis
16 45 (28.48%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 128 (81.01%) Python
2 87 (55.06%) SQL
3 23 (14.56%) Java
4 11 (6.96%) Scala
5 7 (4.43%) C#
6 5 (3.16%) C
6 5 (3.16%) R
7 3 (1.90%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.27%) Go
8 2 (1.27%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.63%) Bash
9 1 (0.63%) Bicep
9 1 (0.63%) C++
9 1 (0.63%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.63%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 80 (50.63%) Degree
2 60 (37.97%) Master's Degree
3 45 (28.48%) DBS Check
4 16 (10.13%) PhD
5 6 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.53%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.27%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.63%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.80%) QA
2 5 (3.16%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.27%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.63%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 11 (6.96%) Docker
2 6 (3.80%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 21 (13.29%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.96%) Terraform
3 4 (2.53%) Ansible
3 4 (2.53%) Kubeflow
4 2 (1.27%) Argo
5 1 (0.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 68 (43.04%) Databricks
2 12 (7.59%) OpenAI
3 6 (3.80%) Cloudera
3 6 (3.80%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.16%) Google
5 4 (2.53%) Dell
6 1 (0.63%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.63%) Hitachi
6 1 (0.63%) StreamSets