Azure AI Contract Job Trends in England

Azure AI Platform
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Azure AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 454 468 545
Rank change year-on-year +14 +77 +195
Contract jobs citing Azure AI 83 28 16
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.26% 0.097% 0.043%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.69% 0.26% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 21 9
10th Percentile £416 £413 £163
25th Percentile £488 £450 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £616 £475 £275
Median % change year-on-year +29.58% +72.73% -57.93%
75th Percentile £694 £638 £375
90th Percentile £738 £675 £455
UK median daily rate £600 £475 £220
% change year-on-year +26.32% +115.91% -67.41%

All Cloud Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 12,009 10,593 12,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.14% 36.68% 34.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,248 7,079 9,495
10th Percentile £305 £313 £286
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £638
90th Percentile £709 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 300 136 248
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.00 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.41 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.86 £29.00 £24.31
Median % change year-on-year -7.40% +19.32% +8.02%
75th Percentile £55.25 £49.06 £53.75
90th Percentile £75.17 £68.75 £77.65
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £27.50 £25.81
% change year-on-year -3.64% +6.55% +14.71%

Azure AI
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Azure AI job vacancy trend in England

Azure AI
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure AI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure AI

Azure AI
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure AI in England over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure AI in England

Azure AI
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
London +41 67 £600 +26.32% 27
North of England - 7 £508 - 14
East of England - 6 £625 - 7
North West - 6 £440 - 9
Midlands - 2 £475 - 2
West Midlands - 2 £475 - 2
South West - 1 £700 - 6
Yorkshire - 1 £575 - 4
Azure AI
UK

Azure AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (13.25%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.20%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.20%) Appian
Applications
1 4 (4.82%) Chatbot
2 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 83 (100.00%) Azure
2 31 (37.35%) Power Platform
3 29 (34.94%) Microsoft Copilot
4 25 (30.12%) Copilot Studio
5 18 (21.69%) AWS
6 17 (20.48%) Amazon Bedrock
6 17 (20.48%) Azure Machine Learning
6 17 (20.48%) GitHub
7 16 (19.28%) Power Automate
8 15 (18.07%) PowerApps
9 14 (16.87%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (15.66%) Vertex AI
11 11 (13.25%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (12.05%) Azure Cognitive Services
12 10 (12.05%) Entra ID
12 10 (12.05%) GCP
13 9 (10.84%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (9.64%) Azure Data Factory
14 8 (9.64%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (9.64%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.41%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.05%) Power BI
2 6 (7.23%) NoSQL
3 5 (6.02%) Pinecone
4 4 (4.82%) Data Lake
4 4 (4.82%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.41%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.41%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.20%) Big Data
6 1 (1.20%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.20%) Neo4j
6 1 (1.20%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.61%) JIRA
2 2 (2.41%) Git
2 2 (2.41%) GitLab
3 1 (1.20%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.20%) Gerrit
3 1 (1.20%) MLflow
General
1 32 (38.55%) Social Skills
2 18 (21.69%) Finance
3 11 (13.25%) Public Sector
4 9 (10.84%) Banking
5 7 (8.43%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (8.43%) Legal
6 6 (7.23%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.61%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (3.61%) Front Office
8 2 (2.41%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.41%) Electronics
8 2 (2.41%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.41%) Marketing
8 2 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.41%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.20%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 32 (38.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 14 (16.87%) Developer
3 13 (15.66%) Lead
4 10 (12.05%) Architect
5 8 (9.64%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 7 (8.43%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (8.43%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (7.23%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 6 (7.23%) Data Scientist
7 6 (7.23%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (6.02%) Lead Architect
8 5 (6.02%) Microsoft Engineer
8 5 (6.02%) Power Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) Automation Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) Azure Developer
9 4 (4.82%) Data Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) Lead Developer
9 4 (4.82%) Lead Solutions Architect
9 4 (4.82%) Senior
9 4 (4.82%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (33.73%) LangChain
2 19 (22.89%) PyTorch
2 19 (22.89%) scikit-learn
3 17 (20.48%) TensorFlow
4 14 (16.87%) LangGraph
5 12 (14.46%) Pandas
6 11 (13.25%) Semantic Kernel
7 10 (12.05%) .NET
7 10 (12.05%) Microsoft Graph
8 9 (10.84%) REST
9 8 (9.64%) NumPy
10 7 (8.43%) CrewAI
11 6 (7.23%) Hugging Face
11 6 (7.23%) OAuth
12 4 (4.82%) Faiss
12 4 (4.82%) FastAPI
12 4 (4.82%) React
13 3 (3.61%) Flask
13 3 (3.61%) Node.js
13 3 (3.61%) pydantic
Miscellaneous
1 23 (27.71%) AI Agents
2 11 (13.25%) Low-Code
3 6 (7.23%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (4.82%) Autonomous Agent
4 4 (4.82%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.61%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.41%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (2.41%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.20%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.20%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.20%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (100.00%) AI
2 49 (59.04%) Machine Learning
3 44 (53.01%) LLM
4 34 (40.96%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 30 (36.14%) Generative AI
6 28 (33.73%) Prompt Engineering
7 27 (32.53%) CI/CD
8 24 (28.92%) Data Science
9 20 (24.10%) Analytics
10 19 (22.89%) DevOps
10 19 (22.89%) MLOps
11 14 (16.87%) Observability
11 14 (16.87%) Use Case
12 12 (14.46%) Data Protection
13 11 (13.25%) Business Intelligence
13 11 (13.25%) Data Analytics
13 11 (13.25%) Microservices
14 9 (10.84%) API Integration
14 9 (10.84%) Feature Engineering
14 9 (10.84%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 63 (75.90%) Python
2 22 (26.51%) SQL
3 12 (14.46%) C#
4 7 (8.43%) TypeScript
5 5 (6.02%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.82%) Bicep
7 3 (3.61%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (2.41%) Bash
8 2 (2.41%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (15.66%) MCP
2 10 (12.05%) Security Cleared
3 8 (9.64%) Degree
4 6 (7.23%) SC Cleared
5 5 (6.02%) Master's Degree
5 5 (6.02%) PhD
6 3 (3.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.41%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.61%) EU AI Act
1 3 (3.61%) GDPR
1 3 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 42001
1 3 (3.61%) NIST
2 2 (2.41%) NCSC
3 1 (1.20%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.20%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (15.66%) Docker
2 5 (6.02%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (19.28%) Kubernetes
2 8 (9.64%) Terraform
3 1 (1.20%) Ansible
3 1 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (51.81%) Microsoft
2 37 (44.58%) Foundry
3 33 (39.76%) OpenAI
4 21 (25.30%) Google
5 6 (7.23%) Databricks
6 4 (4.82%) Alteryx
7 3 (3.61%) SAP
7 3 (3.61%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.41%) UiPath
9 1 (1.20%) Automation Anywhere
9 1 (1.20%) Blue Prism
9 1 (1.20%) Salesforce