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 27 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 114 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Contract jobs citing Azure Machine Learning 11 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.48% 0.11% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.22% 0.26% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £592 - -
25th Percentile £713 £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 £725
% change year-on-year +16.00% -13.79% +50.65%

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 903 758 863
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.71% 42.85% 39.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 632 487 611
10th Percentile £350 £375 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.98%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £743 £763
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £536
% change year-on-year -2.27% +2.56% -6.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 8
10th Percentile £20.51 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £33.75 £29.64 £17.39
Median hourly rate £40.78 £42.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% +88.89% -72.99%
75th Percentile £59.72 £74.38 £32.81
90th Percentile £75.35 £135.00 £57.30
Central London median hourly rate £39.00 £34.83 £22.50
% change year-on-year +11.99% +54.78% -66.67%

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 27 April 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 11 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (54.55%) Power Platform
3 3 (27.27%) Azure AI
3 3 (27.27%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (27.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (27.27%) Copilot Studio
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Copilot
3 3 (27.27%) Power Automate
3 3 (27.27%) PowerApps
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon Bedrock
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon MSK
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon SageMaker
4 2 (18.18%) AWS
4 2 (18.18%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (18.18%) Azure AKS
4 2 (18.18%) GitHub
4 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (18.18%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Power BI
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (18.18%) Data Lake
2 2 (18.18%) Data Mining
2 2 (18.18%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (18.18%) Metadata
General
1 9 (81.82%) Public Sector
2 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Data Scientist
2 3 (27.27%) Senior Data Scientist
3 2 (18.18%) Data Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Platform Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) NumPy
1 3 (27.27%) Pandas
1 3 (27.27%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) AI Agents
2 3 (27.27%) Cloud Native
3 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) AI
1 11 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 8 (72.73%) Generative AI
2 8 (72.73%) Observability
3 7 (63.64%) Data Science
4 6 (54.55%) Analytics
4 6 (54.55%) Value Proposition
5 5 (45.45%) LLM
6 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
6 4 (36.36%) DevOps
6 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (27.27%) Actionable Insight
7 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (27.27%) Business Strategy
7 3 (27.27%) Data Governance
7 3 (27.27%) Data Visualisation
7 3 (27.27%) MLOps
7 3 (27.27%) Storytelling
7 3 (27.27%) User Experience
7 3 (27.27%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Bicep
1 4 (36.36%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Terraform
2 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) Foundry
2 3 (27.27%) OpenAI
3 2 (18.18%) Databricks