Azure Cognitive Search Contract Job Trends in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Azure Cognitive Search skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure Cognitive Search 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.055% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Central London median daily rate - - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 756 735 940
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.31% 39.24% 38.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 565 464 680
10th Percentile £341 £406 £363
25th Percentile £419 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £653 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £761 £744
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 9
10th Percentile £25.49 - -
25th Percentile £32.50 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 - £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.50%
75th Percentile £41.94 - £38.00
90th Percentile £45.28 - £53.75
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -27.23% +55.56% +9.76%

Azure Cognitive Search
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Azure Cognitive Search job vacancy trend in the City of London

Azure Cognitive Search
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Azure Cognitive Search.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Azure Cognitive Search

Azure Cognitive Search
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI