Azure Machine Learning Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Microsoft Azure Machine Learning (Azure ML)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Azure Machine Learning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 121 -
Rank change year-on-year 0 - -
Contract jobs citing Azure Machine Learning 9 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.44% 0.11% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.05% 0.26% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 0
10th Percentile £552 - -
25th Percentile £688 £613 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% - -
75th Percentile £738 £638 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £725 £625 -
% change year-on-year +16.00% - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 855 761 901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.42% 42.07% 38.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 496 634
10th Percentile £338 £397 £363
25th Percentile £436 £463 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £745
Central London median daily rate £532 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -3.23% +1.85% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 10
10th Percentile £31.88 £28.98 £12.75
25th Percentile £39.44 £35.46 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £47.50 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +128.92% -60.48%
75th Percentile £55.94 £118.13 £42.50
90th Percentile £66.53 £159.75 £52.60
Central London median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year +15.71% +68.67% -40.71%

Azure Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Azure Machine Learning job vacancy trend in the City of London

Azure Machine Learning
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Azure Machine Learning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Azure Machine Learning

Azure Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Machine Learning in the City of London over the 6 months to 15 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Machine Learning in the City of London

Azure Machine Learning
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 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (66.67%) Power Platform
3 3 (33.33%) Azure AI
3 3 (33.33%) Copilot Studio
3 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Copilot
3 3 (33.33%) Power Automate
3 3 (33.33%) PowerApps
4 2 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 1 (11.11%) GitHub
5 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Power BI
General
1 7 (77.78%) Public Sector
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Senior
2 3 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Data Scientist
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Data Scientist
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Angular Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) NumPy
1 3 (33.33%) Pandas
1 3 (33.33%) scikit-learn
2 1 (11.11%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
2 1 (11.11%) LangChain
2 1 (11.11%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) AI Agents
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) AI
1 9 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 7 (77.78%) Data Science
2 7 (77.78%) Observability
3 6 (66.67%) Generative AI
3 6 (66.67%) Value Proposition
4 3 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
4 3 (33.33%) Analytics
4 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (33.33%) Business Strategy
4 3 (33.33%) Data Governance
4 3 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
4 3 (33.33%) LLM
4 3 (33.33%) Prompt Engineering
4 3 (33.33%) Storytelling
4 3 (33.33%) User Experience
4 3 (33.33%) Visualisation
5 2 (22.22%) DevOps
6 1 (11.11%) SIEM
6 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Bicep
2 1 (11.11%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) Foundry
3 1 (11.11%) Databricks