Azure Cognitive Services Contract Job Trends in the Home Counties

Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services
South East > Home Counties

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Home Counties requiring Azure Cognitive Services skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure Cognitive Services 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Home Counties 12.50% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 50.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South East median daily rate - - £450
% change year-on-year - - -25.37%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Home Counties

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 the Home Counties.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2 3 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Home Counties 25.00% 50.00% 41.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £443
25th Percentile - - £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -6.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile - - £569
90th Percentile - - £588
South East median daily rate £492 £512 £513
% change year-on-year -3.88% -0.13% -2.38%

Azure Cognitive Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Home Counties 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubeflow
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft