Azure AI Contracts in the City of London

Azure AI Platform
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Azure AI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure AI over the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 120 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs citing Azure AI 3 8 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.16% 0.39% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.39% 0.95% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 0
10th Percentile £487 £439 -
25th Percentile £491 £453 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.11% - -
75th Percentile £528 £513 -
90th Percentile £534 £538 -
Central London median daily rate £509 £475 -
% change year-on-year +7.11% - -

All Cloud Skills
City of London

Azure AI 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 770 844 1,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.38% 40.69% 41.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 584 897
10th Percentile £356 £383 £325
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £661 £675 £695
90th Percentile £756 £763 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £573
% change year-on-year - -3.93% -0.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 5
10th Percentile £23.93 - £15.85
25th Percentile £24.66 - £21.25
Median hourly rate £34.65 £27.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.33% -28.95% -24.00%
75th Percentile £65.57 £59.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £97.75 £79.40 £71.25
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +25.93% -28.95% -8.43%

Azure AI
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Azure AI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure AI in the City of London

Azure AI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure AI in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Azure AI in the City of London

Azure AI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Cognitive Services
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (33.33%) Kong
3 1 (33.33%) Power Automate
3 1 (33.33%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) git-flow
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Solutions Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) API Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) Log Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Natural Language Processing
3 1 (33.33%) RBAC
3 1 (33.33%) Robotic Process Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Secrets Management
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Argo
1 1 (33.33%) Istio
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) UiPath
2 1 (33.33%) Blue Prism
2 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace
2 1 (33.33%) OpenAI