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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 120 147
Rank change year-on-year +9 +27 +51
Contract jobs citing Azure Machine Learning 7 4 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.39% 0.19% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.97% 0.47% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 2
10th Percentile £513 £449 £568
25th Percentile £522 £458 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £475 £650
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.00%
75th Percentile £675 £491 £719
90th Percentile £790 £496 £753
Central London median daily rate £650 £475 £650
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.00%

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 721 845 1,298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.26% 40.47% 41.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 491 563 887
10th Percentile £340 £400 £339
25th Percentile £435 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -1.74% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £756 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £564 £563
% change year-on-year -2.44% +0.22% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 4
10th Percentile £23.84 - £14.95
25th Percentile £26.23 - £19.00
Median hourly rate £34.33 £27.00 £30.25
Median % change year-on-year +27.13% -10.74% -12.95%
75th Percentile £58.96 £59.75 £41.63
90th Percentile £86.43 £79.40 £48.15
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £30.25
% change year-on-year -2.86% +15.70% -11.03%

Azure Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Azure Machine Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Machine Learning 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 13 September 2025.

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

Azure Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon SageMaker
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (14.29%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (14.29%) Azure AI
4 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Run
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (14.29%) Google Gemini
4 1 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
4 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 1 (14.29%) PowerApps
4 1 (14.29%) Pulumi
4 1 (14.29%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Pinecone
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) MLflow
2 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) .NET Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Angular Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Data Scientist
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Senior
1 2 (28.57%) Senior .NET Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Automation Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
1 2 (28.57%) AngularJS
2 1 (14.29%) Faiss
2 1 (14.29%) FastAPI
2 1 (14.29%) LangChain
2 1 (14.29%) RxJS
2 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) AI Agents
1 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 6 (85.71%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) LLM
4 2 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
4 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
4 2 (28.57%) Data Privacy
4 2 (28.57%) Data Science
4 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (28.57%) Mathematics
4 2 (28.57%) MLOps
4 2 (28.57%) ModelOps
4 2 (28.57%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (28.57%) Statistical Analysis
4 2 (28.57%) Statistics
5 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Master's Degree
2 1 (14.29%) MCP
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) NIST
2 1 (14.29%) EU AI Act
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
2 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Grafana
2 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) Blue Prism
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) OpenAI
2 1 (14.29%) UiPath