Azure Cognitive Services Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Azure Cognitive Services skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure Cognitive Services over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 337 454 611
Rank change year-on-year +117 +157 -110
Contract jobs citing Azure Cognitive Services 4 3 12
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.027% 0.013% 0.027%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.074% 0.032% 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 10
10th Percentile £344 £441 £411
25th Percentile £386 £464 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £515 £506
Median % change year-on-year -11.17% +1.78% +19.06%
75th Percentile £529 £554 £517
90th Percentile £572 £570 £631
UK median daily rate £458 £564 £517
% change year-on-year -18.85% +9.04% +21.65%
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 median hourly rate - - £20.50

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Azure Cognitive Services falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,402 9,416 18,029
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.61% 39.44% 41.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,898 7,013 13,524
10th Percentile £350 £363 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 131 149
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.03
25th Percentile £16.90 £21.28 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.00% +25.00% +41.02%
75th Percentile £50.19 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.19 £75.00 £75.17
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%

Azure Cognitive Services
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure Cognitive Services as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure Cognitive Services trend for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Cognitive Services
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure Cognitive Services.

Azure Cognitive Services daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Cognitive Services
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Azure Cognitive Services over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Azure Cognitive Services daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Cognitive Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Azure AI
3 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) ChatGPT
3 2 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (25.00%) AWS
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Cognitive Search
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
General
1 2 (50.00%) Electronics
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (50.00%) Marketing
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Support
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (25.00%) Junior
2 1 (25.00%) Junior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Hugging Face
1 2 (50.00%) LangChain
1 2 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) Great Expectations
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) LLM
3 2 (50.00%) API Development
3 2 (50.00%) API Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Data Management
3 2 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
3 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (50.00%) Open Source
3 2 (50.00%) Programme Management
3 2 (50.00%) Statistical Analysis
3 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
4 1 (25.00%) Data Science
4 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Certification
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) OpenAI