Azure Cognitive Services Contracts in England

Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Azure Cognitive Services skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure Cognitive Services over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 478 535 642
Rank change year-on-year +57 +107 +106
Contract jobs citing Azure Cognitive Services 7 7 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.029% 0.019% 0.022%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.077% 0.059% 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 8
10th Percentile £478 £243 £384
25th Percentile £584 £270 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £315 £519
Median % change year-on-year +98.41% -39.28% -11.70%
75th Percentile £706 £514 £574
90th Percentile £795 £633 £582
UK median daily rate £625 £458 £475
% change year-on-year +36.61% -3.68% -17.39%

All Cloud Skills
England

Azure Cognitive Services 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 9,062 11,852 18,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.21% 31.87% 36.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,341 8,544 13,518
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 321 311
10th Percentile £15.03 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.85 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%
75th Percentile £40.50 £32.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £73.38 £61.60 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Azure Cognitive Services
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Azure Cognitive Services as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Cognitive Services in England

Azure Cognitive Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Cognitive Services in England.

Daily rate trend for Azure Cognitive Services in England

Azure Cognitive Services
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Cognitive Services in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Cognitive Services in England

Azure Cognitive Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Cognitive Services in England.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Cognitive Services in England

Azure Cognitive Services
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 Cognitive Services within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +40 4 £688 +48.65% 12
South East +46 1 £350 - 19
Azure Cognitive Services
UK

Azure Cognitive Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon SageMaker
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Functions
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub
3 2 (28.57%) Serverless
3 2 (28.57%) Vertex AI
4 1 (14.29%) Azure AI
4 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Big Data
1 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Scientist
2 1 (14.29%) Gen AI Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Service Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) Hugging Face
2 3 (42.86%) PyTorch
2 3 (42.86%) TensorFlow
3 2 (28.57%) LangChain
3 2 (28.57%) REST
3 2 (28.57%) SpaCy
4 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
4 1 (14.29%) FHIR
4 1 (14.29%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Algorithms
2 1 (14.29%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) DevOps
3 5 (71.43%) LLM
4 3 (42.86%) MLOps
4 3 (42.86%) Natural Language Processing
4 3 (42.86%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (28.57%) API Development
5 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
5 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
5 2 (28.57%) Data Privacy
5 2 (28.57%) Data Security
5 2 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (28.57%) Regulatory Compliance
5 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Use Case
5 2 (28.57%) Validation
5 2 (28.57%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
1 3 (42.86%) OpenAI
2 2 (28.57%) Google
3 1 (14.29%) Databricks