Azure Cognitive Services Contracts

Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Azure Cognitive Services skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Cognitive Services over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 585 701 810
Rank change year-on-year +116 +109 -140
Contract jobs citing Azure Cognitive Services 9 15 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.025% 0.051%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.064% 0.068% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 38
10th Percentile £252 £429 £413
25th Percentile £293 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.68% -17.39% +35.29%
75th Percentile £628 £574 £656
90th Percentile £679 £587 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate - £463 £433
% change year-on-year - +6.94% +1.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £19.25
Median hourly rate - - £20.50
75th Percentile - - £21.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

Azure Cognitive Services is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,985 22,031 34,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.29% 36.91% 38.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,926 15,923 24,891
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 350 426
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -6.30%
75th Percentile £34.69 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £24.62 £18.75
% change year-on-year -28.09% +31.31% -6.25%

Azure Cognitive Services
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Azure Cognitive Services as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Cognitive Services in the UK

Azure Cognitive Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Cognitive Services.

Daily rate trend for Azure Cognitive Services in the UK

Azure Cognitive Services
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Cognitive Services over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Cognitive Services in the UK

Azure Cognitive Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Cognitive Services.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Cognitive Services in the UK

Azure Cognitive Services
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Cognitive Services within the UK over the 6 months to 28 April 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 +113 7 £315 -39.28% 6
Work from Home +127 4 £458 -3.68% 3
London +103 2 £463 -18.86% 1
UK excluding London +61 1 - - 4
South East - 1 - - 2

Azure Cognitive Services
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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) ChatGPT
2 5 (55.56%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (33.33%) AWS
3 3 (33.33%) Azure Cognitive Search
4 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) GCP
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
General
1 4 (44.44%) Electronics
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
1 4 (44.44%) Manufacturing
1 4 (44.44%) Marketing
1 4 (44.44%) Public Sector
1 4 (44.44%) Telecoms
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Azure Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Support Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Data Scientist
2 2 (22.22%) Technical Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Technical Support
2 2 (22.22%) Technical Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Junior
3 1 (11.11%) Junior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) Hugging Face
1 5 (55.56%) LangChain
1 5 (55.56%) PyTorch
2 4 (44.44%) RESTful
3 3 (33.33%) TensorFlow
4 1 (11.11%) Great Expectations
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 6 (66.67%) LLM
3 5 (55.56%) Data Engineering
3 5 (55.56%) Data Management
3 5 (55.56%) Data Visualisation
3 5 (55.56%) Machine Learning
3 5 (55.56%) Statistical Analysis
3 5 (55.56%) Visualisation
4 4 (44.44%) API Development
4 4 (44.44%) API Integration
4 4 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (44.44%) Digital Marketing
4 4 (44.44%) Open Source
4 4 (44.44%) Programme Management
5 3 (33.33%) DevOps
5 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (22.22%) Data Science
6 2 (22.22%) Generative AI
7 1 (11.11%) Migration
7 1 (11.11%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Python
2 5 (55.56%) Kusto Query Language
2 5 (55.56%) PowerShell
2 5 (55.56%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) SAP
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) OpenAI
3 1 (11.11%) Databricks