Azure Cognitive Search Contract Job Trends in London

Microsoft Azure Cognitive Search (formerly Azure Search)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Azure Cognitive Search skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 403 340 395
Rank change year-on-year -63 +55 +88
Contract jobs citing Azure Cognitive Search 8 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.044% 0.016% 0.011%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.10% 0.039% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £266
25th Percentile £475 - £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £463
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +40.54% -18.86%
75th Percentile £525 - £603
90th Percentile - - £669
England median daily rate £550 £425 £600
% change year-on-year +29.41% -29.17% +5.26%

All Cloud Computing Skills
London

Azure Cognitive Search 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 7,680 5,172 6,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.15% 42.65% 38.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,313 3,553 4,993
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £513 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -1.54% -0.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 53 68
10th Percentile £20.87 £22.57 £17.32
25th Percentile £26.88 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -50.48%
75th Percentile £53.94 £43.75 £38.28
90th Percentile £73.23 £67.50 £55.75
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -37.15%

Azure Cognitive Search
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure Cognitive Search relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Azure Cognitive Search job vacancy trend in London

Azure Cognitive Search
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Azure Cognitive Search.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Azure Cognitive Search

Azure Cognitive Search
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 Cognitive Search within the London region over the 6 months to 23 May 2026. 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 - 5 £500 - 5
Azure Cognitive Search
England

Azure Cognitive Search
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (87.50%) Azure AI
3 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Azure Functions
3 3 (37.50%) Azure Key Vault
3 3 (37.50%) Azure Logic Apps
3 3 (37.50%) Serverless
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Architect
1 4 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) JSON
1 3 (37.50%) Node.js
2 2 (25.00%) PySpark
2 2 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) AI
2 7 (87.50%) Generative AI
2 7 (87.50%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 5 (62.50%) Prompt Engineering
3 5 (62.50%) Use Case
4 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 3 (37.50%) Data Privacy
4 3 (37.50%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (37.50%) DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) Kalman Filter
4 3 (37.50%) LLM
4 3 (37.50%) Machine Learning
4 3 (37.50%) OCR
4 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (25.00%) Data Encryption
5 2 (25.00%) Intelligent Automation
5 2 (25.00%) MLOps
5 2 (25.00%) Text Analytics
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Azure Certification
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) OpenAI
2 6 (75.00%) Foundry
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (12.50%) Databricks