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 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 125 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure Cognitive Search 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.21% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.55% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £500 - -

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 901 723 870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.69% 43.11% 40.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 628 456 612
10th Percentile £350 £364 £363
25th Percentile £450 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £543
Median % change year-on-year - +1.38% -9.58%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £657
90th Percentile £750 £751 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £530
% change year-on-year - +3.77% -7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 6
10th Percentile £20.35 £24.39 £12.75
25th Percentile £22.58 £24.66 £14.88
Median hourly rate £44.47 £38.58 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.28% +71.44% -72.99%
75th Percentile £63.54 £61.56 £26.19
90th Percentile £75.53 £126.25 £38.63
Central London median hourly rate £44.47 £29.07 £22.50
% change year-on-year +52.98% +29.20% -72.73%

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 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