Azure Cognitive Search Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure Cognitive Search (formerly Azure Search)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure Cognitive Search skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure Cognitive Search 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.12% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.57% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
England median daily rate £550 £608 £608
% change year-on-year -9.47% - +5.65%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

Azure Cognitive Search 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 353 274 333
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 20.69% 25.02% 18.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 159 209
10th Percentile £201 £213 £193
25th Percentile £350 £318 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.74% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £560
90th Percentile £713 £675 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 13 37
10th Percentile £6.00 £16.28 £14.00
25th Percentile £14.00 - £15.33
Median hourly rate £19.95 £21.46 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.04% +7.30% +23.08%
75th Percentile £36.81 £30.00 £65.75
90th Percentile £60.00 £66.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £33.09 £27.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year +20.31% +19.57% -6.12%

Azure Cognitive Search
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Azure Cognitive Search job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure Cognitive Search
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 Cognitive Search within the East of England region over the 6 months to 30 January 2026. 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
Suffolk - 2 £550 -
Azure Cognitive Search
England

Azure Cognitive Search
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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) CRM
1 2 (100.00%) ERP
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (100.00%) Intelligent Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) OCR
1 2 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Foundry
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAI