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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 122 147
Rank change year-on-year +9 +25 +47
Contract jobs citing Azure Machine Learning 11 5 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.63% 0.24% 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.50% 0.60% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 2
10th Percentile £513 £451 £568
25th Percentile £572 £463 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £475 £650
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +36.84%
75th Percentile £738 £500 £719
90th Percentile - £583 £753
Central London median daily rate £650 £475 £650
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +36.84%

All Cloud 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 734 832 1,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.85% 39.19% 40.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 548 540 787
10th Percentile £342 £400 £350
25th Percentile £429 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £671 £675 £675
90th Percentile £757 £763 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 10
10th Percentile £23.68 £32.05 £16.53
25th Percentile £30.69 £39.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £56.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -29.46% +169.88% +1.22%
75th Percentile £58.96 £76.13 £46.06
90th Percentile £72.53 £85.95 £54.63
Central London median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -10.71% +84.21% -7.32%

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 November 2025.

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 11 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (36.36%) Power Platform
3 3 (27.27%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (27.27%) GCP
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon SageMaker
4 2 (18.18%) AWS
4 2 (18.18%) Azure AI
4 2 (18.18%) Power Automate
4 2 (18.18%) PowerApps
5 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Run
5 1 (9.09%) Copilot Studio
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (9.09%) Pulumi
5 1 (9.09%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Power BI
2 1 (9.09%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) MLflow
2 1 (9.09%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (54.55%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) Public Sector
3 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Senior
2 4 (36.36%) Data Scientist
3 3 (27.27%) .NET Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Angular Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Data Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior .NET Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Data Scientist
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Automation Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) .NET
1 3 (27.27%) AngularJS
2 2 (18.18%) LangChain
2 2 (18.18%) NumPy
2 2 (18.18%) Pandas
2 2 (18.18%) RxJS
2 2 (18.18%) scikit-learn
3 1 (9.09%) Faiss
3 1 (9.09%) FastAPI
3 1 (9.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) AI Agents
2 1 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 10 (90.91%) AI
3 5 (45.45%) Data Science
4 4 (36.36%) Actionable Insight
4 4 (36.36%) Data Governance
4 4 (36.36%) DevOps
4 4 (36.36%) LLM
4 4 (36.36%) Observability
5 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (27.27%) Generative AI
5 3 (27.27%) Value Proposition
6 2 (18.18%) Business Strategy
6 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
6 2 (18.18%) Data Engineering
6 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (18.18%) MLOps
6 2 (18.18%) ModelOps
6 2 (18.18%) Prompt Engineering
6 2 (18.18%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) C#
3 1 (9.09%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) Master's Degree
3 1 (9.09%) MCP
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) NIST
2 1 (9.09%) EU AI Act
2 1 (9.09%) GDPR
2 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (9.09%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Grafana
2 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Databricks
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Blue Prism
2 1 (9.09%) Foundry
2 1 (9.09%) Google
2 1 (9.09%) OpenAI
2 1 (9.09%) UiPath