Azure Machine Learning Contracts in England

Microsoft Azure Machine Learning (Azure ML)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Azure Machine Learning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure Machine Learning 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 418 520 585
Rank change year-on-year +102 +65 +157
Contract jobs citing Azure Machine Learning 67 22 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.28% 0.059% 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.74% 0.19% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 18 36
10th Percentile £349 £450 £453
25th Percentile £383 £453 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.90% -4.55% -14.46%
75th Percentile £556 £641 £825
90th Percentile £599 £683 £850
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% -12.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 -

All Cloud Skills
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 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 Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Azure Machine Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Machine Learning in England

Azure Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Machine Learning in England.

Daily rate trend for Azure Machine Learning in England

Azure Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Machine Learning in England

Azure Machine Learning
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 Machine Learning 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 +67 42 £444 -19.20% 50
South East +57 12 £545 -16.15% 34
South West - 4 £500 - 14
North of England - 4 £456 - 30
North West - 4 £456 - 20
Azure Machine Learning
UK

Azure Machine Learning
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.97%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.48%) Apache
3 1 (1.49%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 63 (94.03%) Azure
2 28 (41.79%) Azure Data Factory
2 28 (41.79%) Power Platform
3 25 (37.31%) AWS
4 10 (14.93%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (13.43%) Azure AKS
6 6 (8.96%) Azure AI
6 6 (8.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (5.97%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (5.97%) Power Automate
7 4 (5.97%) Snowflake
8 3 (4.48%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 3 (4.48%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (4.48%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (4.48%) Entra ID
8 3 (4.48%) GCP
9 2 (2.99%) SaaS
10 1 (1.49%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (1.49%) GitHub
10 1 (1.49%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.48%) DNS
1 3 (4.48%) FTP
1 3 (4.48%) HTTP
1 3 (4.48%) SMTP
1 3 (4.48%) SSL
1 3 (4.48%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.49%) LAN
2 1 (1.49%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (41.79%) Data Lake
1 28 (41.79%) Power BI
2 20 (29.85%) Neo4j
3 5 (7.46%) Metadata
4 4 (5.97%) Big Data
5 2 (2.99%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (2.99%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.49%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (5.97%) Git
2 1 (1.49%) GitLab
2 1 (1.49%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.49%) JIRA
2 1 (1.49%) MLflow
2 1 (1.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (29.85%) Public Sector
2 12 (17.91%) Social Skills
3 9 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (13.43%) Finance
4 3 (4.48%) Banking
5 1 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.49%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.49%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 13 (19.40%) Data Scientist
2 12 (17.91%) Architect
3 9 (13.43%) Azure Engineer
3 9 (13.43%) Data Engineer
4 8 (11.94%) Developer
5 7 (10.45%) Analyst
6 6 (8.96%) Data Analyst
7 5 (7.46%) Azure Architect
7 5 (7.46%) Azure Data Engineer
7 5 (7.46%) Data Architect
7 5 (7.46%) Lead
8 4 (5.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) Lead Data Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
9 3 (4.48%) AWS Data Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Senior
9 3 (4.48%) Technical Architect
10 2 (2.99%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (32.84%) React
2 21 (31.34%) Plotly
3 8 (11.94%) .NET
4 7 (10.45%) TensorFlow
5 6 (8.96%) PyTorch
5 6 (8.96%) scikit-learn
6 4 (5.97%) CSS
6 4 (5.97%) HTML
6 4 (5.97%) LangChain
7 3 (4.48%) JSON
7 3 (4.48%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (4.48%) Regular Expression
7 3 (4.48%) YAML
8 2 (2.99%) Pandas
8 2 (2.99%) PySpark
9 1 (1.49%) Dapper ORM
9 1 (1.49%) Kafka
9 1 (1.49%) Matplotlib
9 1 (1.49%) OpenCV
9 1 (1.49%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.48%) Cyberattack
1 3 (4.48%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (4.48%) FMCG
2 2 (2.99%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.49%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (1.49%) IoT
3 1 (1.49%) NHS
3 1 (1.49%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.49%) Linux
1 1 (1.49%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (92.54%) Machine Learning
2 25 (37.31%) Artificial Intelligence
3 21 (31.34%) Data Visualisation
3 21 (31.34%) Visualisation
4 20 (29.85%) Data Science
5 18 (26.87%) Data Integration
5 18 (26.87%) Storage Management
6 14 (20.90%) Agile
7 13 (19.40%) Analytics
7 13 (19.40%) Data Pipeline
7 13 (19.40%) LLM
8 11 (16.42%) Business Intelligence
8 11 (16.42%) Data Engineering
8 11 (16.42%) DevOps
9 10 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (13.43%) Data Modelling
11 8 (11.94%) CI/CD
11 8 (11.94%) Data Analysis
12 7 (10.45%) Computer Science
13 6 (8.96%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 29 (43.28%) Python
2 26 (38.81%) JavaScript
3 12 (17.91%) SQL
4 8 (11.94%) C#
5 6 (8.96%) R
6 3 (4.48%) Bicep
6 3 (4.48%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (4.48%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 32 (47.76%) Security Cleared
2 30 (44.78%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.45%) Degree
4 2 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.99%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (1.49%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.49%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.49%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.96%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.46%) QA
3 1 (1.49%) GDPR
3 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.49%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 8 (11.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (17.91%) Kubernetes
2 6 (8.96%) Terraform
3 3 (4.48%) Grafana
Vendors
1 35 (52.24%) Databricks
2 12 (17.91%) Microsoft
3 9 (13.43%) OpenAI
4 3 (4.48%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.49%) Foundry