Azure Machine Learning Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure Machine Learning (Azure ML)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure Machine Learning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 - 107
Rank change year-on-year - - +19
Contract jobs citing Azure Machine Learning 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.10% - 0.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.50% - 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £435
25th Percentile - - £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £500
75th Percentile - - £518
90th Percentile - - £529
England median daily rate £550 £452 £525
% change year-on-year +21.68% -13.90% -4.55%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 403 264 306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 20.94% 26.69% 16.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 161 189
10th Percentile £204 £200 £187
25th Percentile £363 £318 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £657
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 29 52
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.95 £14.48
Median hourly rate £21.00 £21.46 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +19.22% +2.86%
75th Percentile £41.56 £30.00 £21.46
90th Percentile £60.00 £71.00 £65.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £26.50 £21.19
% change year-on-year +41.51% +25.09% -16.10%

Azure Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Azure Machine Learning job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure Machine Learning
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure Machine Learning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure Machine Learning

Azure Machine Learning
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 Machine Learning within the East of England region over the 6 months to 20 March 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 £650 -
Azure Machine Learning
England

Azure Machine Learning
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 Data Factory
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 2 (100.00%) Semantic Search
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks
1 2 (100.00%) Foundry
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAI