Azure Machine Learning Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Microsoft Azure Machine Learning (Azure ML)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Azure Machine Learning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 52 -
Rank change year-on-year -21 - -
Contract jobs citing Azure Machine Learning 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.15% 0.46% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.44% 1.48% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £356 -
Median % change year-on-year +61.52% - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £613 £397 -
% change year-on-year +54.38% - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Cheshire

Azure Machine Learning 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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 227 135 186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 34.60% 31.11% 36.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 90 123
10th Percentile £325 £289 £265
25th Percentile £358 £356 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £411 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.69% -13.42% -3.04%
75th Percentile £539 £550 £525
90th Percentile £621 £638 £587
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -5.26% -2.71% -2.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 16
10th Percentile - £21.05 £17.26
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.83 £17.72
Median hourly rate £16.00 £24.18 £19.86
Median % change year-on-year -33.83% +21.75% -53.54%
75th Percentile £19.50 £64.17 £43.75
90th Percentile £29.80 £82.50 -
North West median hourly rate £60.00 £28.75 £17.72
% change year-on-year +108.70% +62.25% -64.56%

Azure Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure Machine Learning relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Azure Machine Learning job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Azure Machine Learning
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Machine Learning within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 26 February 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
Knutsford -27 1 £575 +61.52%
Azure Machine Learning
North West

Azure Machine Learning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 1 (100.00%) IBM Watson
1 1 (100.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Gen AI Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) IBM