Azure Cognitive Services Contracts in London

Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 349 389 487
Rank change year-on-year +40 +98 +82
Contract jobs citing Azure Cognitive Services 4 2 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.032% 0.011% 0.022%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.075% 0.030% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 4
10th Percentile £578 £266 £557
25th Percentile £600 £328 £557
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £463 £570
Median % change year-on-year +48.65% -18.86% -5.00%
75th Percentile £788 £603 £582
90th Percentile £810 £669 £585
England median daily rate £625 £315 £519
% change year-on-year +98.41% -39.28% -11.70%

All Cloud Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,314 6,744 10,546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.35% 37.82% 39.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,693 4,977 7,700
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £440 £445 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £673 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £775 £782
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 71 90
10th Percentile £22.40 £17.78 £20.00
25th Percentile £24.66 £21.25 £24.63
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -37.50% +1.27%
75th Percentile £53.75 £38.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.13 £58.75 £88.30
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

Azure Cognitive Services
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Cognitive Services in London

Azure Cognitive Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Cognitive Services in London

Azure Cognitive Services
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Cognitive Services in London

Azure Cognitive Services
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) Vertex AI
3 1 (25.00%) Azure AI
3 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Big Data
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (25.00%) Gen AI Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Hugging Face
1 2 (50.00%) LangChain
1 2 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (25.00%) PySpark
2 1 (25.00%) PyTorch
2 1 (25.00%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (75.00%) MLOps
2 3 (75.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (50.00%) API Development
3 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (50.00%) Data Science
3 2 (50.00%) Generative AI
3 2 (50.00%) LLM
3 2 (50.00%) ModelOps
3 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Use Case
4 1 (25.00%) Data Management
4 1 (25.00%) Natural Language Processing
4 1 (25.00%) Predictive Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks