Azure AI Contracts in London

Azure AI Platform
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Azure AI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure AI over the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 348 366 462
Rank change year-on-year +18 +96 +154
Contract jobs citing Azure AI 25 20 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.18% 0.12% 0.013%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.43% 0.30% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 17 2
10th Percentile £356 £439 £211
25th Percentile £505 £450 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £475 £220
Median % change year-on-year +17.37% +115.91% -62.71%
75th Percentile £611 £638 £228
90th Percentile £719 £785 £229
England median daily rate £550 £475 £220
% change year-on-year +15.79% +115.91% -62.71%

All Cloud Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,819 6,591 9,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.05% 40.72% 39.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,984 4,779 6,949
10th Percentile £337 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.52% -4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £788
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 47 62
10th Percentile £22.95 £20.30 £16.61
25th Percentile £24.83 £23.80 £21.63
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +7.67% -52.00% +35.54%
75th Percentile £46.00 £39.75 £78.75
90th Percentile £72.68 £60.90 £90.00
England median hourly rate £26.00 £23.80 £32.31
% change year-on-year +9.24% -26.34% +50.28%

Azure AI
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Azure AI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure AI in London

Azure AI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure AI in London.

Daily rate trend for Azure AI in London

Azure AI
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure AI in London over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure AI in London

Azure AI
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 15 August 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
Central London -2 3 £509 +7.11% 9
East London +12 2 £585 +30.00% 2
Azure AI
England

Azure AI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 25 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (36.00%) Azure Machine Learning
3 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Copilot
4 4 (16.00%) AWS
4 4 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (12.00%) Amazon SageMaker
5 3 (12.00%) Azure Functions
5 3 (12.00%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (12.00%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (12.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (12.00%) Google Gemini
5 3 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (12.00%) Power Platform
5 3 (12.00%) Serverless
6 2 (8.00%) ChatGPT
6 2 (8.00%) Copilot Studio
6 2 (8.00%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (8.00%) Power Automate
6 2 (8.00%) PowerApps
6 2 (8.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Big Data
2 1 (4.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) GitLab
2 1 (4.00%) Git
2 1 (4.00%) git-flow
2 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (16.00%) Banking
1 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Finance
2 3 (12.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (8.00%) Front Office
3 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.00%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Architect
2 7 (28.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 3 (12.00%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Software Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Consultant
5 2 (8.00%) Data Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Data Modeller
5 2 (8.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Automation Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Data Science Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Lead
6 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Power Platform Consultant
6 1 (4.00%) Power Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) SOC Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) LangChain
2 3 (12.00%) Pandas
2 3 (12.00%) PyTorch
3 2 (8.00%) .NET
3 2 (8.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (8.00%) CrewAI
3 2 (8.00%) LangGraph
3 2 (8.00%) NumPy
3 2 (8.00%) React
3 2 (8.00%) scikit-learn
3 2 (8.00%) Semantic Kernel
4 1 (4.00%) FastAPI
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (4.00%) PySpark
4 1 (4.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) AI Agents
2 3 (12.00%) FMCG
3 2 (8.00%) Low-Code
3 2 (8.00%) PKI
4 1 (4.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.00%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Unix
1 1 (4.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 21 (84.00%) Machine Learning
3 9 (36.00%) Data Science
3 9 (36.00%) Generative AI
4 8 (32.00%) LLM
5 6 (24.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
5 6 (24.00%) MLOps
5 6 (24.00%) Natural Language Processing
6 5 (20.00%) Agile
6 5 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 4 (16.00%) DevOps
7 4 (16.00%) DevSecOps
8 3 (12.00%) Analytics
8 3 (12.00%) CI/CD
8 3 (12.00%) Containerisation
8 3 (12.00%) Decision-Making
8 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (12.00%) Prompt Engineering
9 2 (8.00%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 15 (60.00%) Python
2 8 (32.00%) SQL
3 3 (12.00%) C#
4 2 (8.00%) Bicep
4 2 (8.00%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (8.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) Degree
2 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.00%) PhD
2 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) NIST
2 2 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (8.00%) SOC 2
3 1 (4.00%) EU AI Act
3 1 (4.00%) GDPR
3 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (4.00%) NCSC
3 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Terraform
2 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.00%) Ansible
3 1 (4.00%) Argo
3 1 (4.00%) Istio
Vendors
1 13 (52.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (36.00%) OpenAI
3 4 (16.00%) Foundry
4 3 (12.00%) Google
5 2 (8.00%) UiPath
6 1 (4.00%) Blue Prism
6 1 (4.00%) Databricks
6 1 (4.00%) Dynatrace
6 1 (4.00%) Splunk