Azure Cognitive Search Contract Job Trends in Central London

Microsoft Azure Cognitive Search (formerly Azure Search)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Azure Cognitive Search skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure Cognitive Search 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.20% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.52% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £500 £650 £463
% change year-on-year -23.08% +40.54% -18.86%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Central London

Azure Cognitive Search falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 966 815 972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.76% 43.08% 40.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 676 520 696
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £453 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year - +3.77% -7.83%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 7
10th Percentile £20.35 £23.75 £12.75
25th Percentile £22.58 £24.66 £17.00
Median hourly rate £44.47 £29.07 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.98% +29.20% -72.73%
75th Percentile £63.54 £46.25 £25.38
90th Percentile £75.53 £100.00 £36.30
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
% change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -50.48%

Azure Cognitive Search
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure Cognitive Search relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Azure Cognitive Search job vacancy trend in Central London

Azure Cognitive Search
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Azure Cognitive Search.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Azure Cognitive Search

Azure Cognitive Search
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Cognitive Search within the Central London region over the 6 months to 23 May 2026. 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
City of London - 5 £500 - 5
Azure Cognitive Search
London

Azure Cognitive Search
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Azure AI
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Architect
1 4 (80.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) AI
1 5 (100.00%) Generative AI
2 4 (80.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 3 (60.00%) Use Case
4 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) MLOps
4 2 (40.00%) Prompt Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (20.00%) Data Science
5 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (20.00%) LLM
5 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) OpenAI
2 3 (60.00%) Foundry
3 1 (20.00%) Databricks