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

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 114 132
Rank change year-on-year +5 +18 +47
Contract jobs citing Azure Machine Learning 10 5 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.54% 0.24% 0.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.31% 0.62% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 2
10th Percentile £603 £449 £568
25th Percentile £666 £458 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £475 £650
Median % change year-on-year +52.63% -26.92% +36.84%
75th Percentile £738 £525 £719
90th Percentile £756 £593 £753
Central London median daily rate £725 £475 £650
% change year-on-year +52.63% -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 762 802 1,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.46% 38.93% 40.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 574 511 727
10th Percentile £325 £400 £363
25th Percentile £419 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £662 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £758 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 7
10th Percentile £26.41 - -
25th Percentile £32.13 £77.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £85.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.18% +347.37% -7.32%
75th Percentile £41.89 £92.50 £43.38
90th Percentile £44.72 - £58.75
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.23% +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 25 December 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 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (70.00%) Power Platform
3 4 (40.00%) Azure AI
3 4 (40.00%) Power Automate
3 4 (40.00%) PowerApps
4 3 (30.00%) Copilot Studio
4 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (10.00%) Cloud Run
6 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
6 1 (10.00%) GCP
6 1 (10.00%) GitHub
6 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (10.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (10.00%) Pulumi
6 1 (10.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Power BI
2 1 (10.00%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (70.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Senior
2 4 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Data Scientist
3 3 (30.00%) Senior Data Scientist
4 2 (20.00%) .NET Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Angular Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Automation Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Senior .NET Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) NumPy
1 3 (30.00%) Pandas
1 3 (30.00%) scikit-learn
2 2 (20.00%) .NET
2 2 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (20.00%) LangChain
2 2 (20.00%) RxJS
3 1 (10.00%) Faiss
3 1 (10.00%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) AI
1 10 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 7 (70.00%) Observability
3 6 (60.00%) Data Science
3 6 (60.00%) Generative AI
3 6 (60.00%) Value Proposition
4 5 (50.00%) Data Governance
5 4 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (40.00%) LLM
5 4 (40.00%) Prompt Engineering
6 3 (30.00%) Actionable Insight
6 3 (30.00%) Analytics
6 3 (30.00%) Business Strategy
6 3 (30.00%) Data Visualisation
6 3 (30.00%) Storytelling
6 3 (30.00%) User Experience
6 3 (30.00%) Visualisation
7 2 (20.00%) DevOps
7 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 1 (10.00%) Client Onboarding
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) MCP
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) EU AI Act
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
1 1 (10.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Grafana
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Foundry
3 2 (20.00%) Databricks
4 1 (10.00%) Blue Prism
4 1 (10.00%) Google
4 1 (10.00%) OpenAI
4 1 (10.00%) UiPath