Azure AI Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Azure AI Platform
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure AI 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.072% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.26% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £575 £468 £220
% change year-on-year +22.99% +112.50% -64.76%

All Cloud Skills
East of England

Azure AI 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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 389 290 440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 27.95% 20.42% 23.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 170 293
10th Percentile £213 £213 £186
25th Percentile £395 £300 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £420 £470
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -10.64% -6.75%
75th Percentile £580 £561 £588
90th Percentile £675 £625 £675
England median daily rate £500 £530 £538
% change year-on-year -5.66% -1.40% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 13 29
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.98 £15.33
Median hourly rate £25.00 £20.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - +29.03%
75th Percentile £65.25 £21.46 £67.56
90th Percentile £67.00 £50.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £29.72
% change year-on-year -28.14% +17.77% +32.09%

Azure AI
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure AI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Azure AI job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure AI
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure AI within the East of England region over the 6 months to 19 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bedfordshire - 1 £625 - 2
Azure AI
England

Azure AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Copilot Studio
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) B2B
1 1 (100.00%) B2C
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Feature Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Foundry
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI