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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 337 394 475
Rank change year-on-year +57 +81 +97
Contract jobs citing Azure Cognitive Services 4 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.033% 0.011% 0.016%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.077% 0.029% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 4
10th Percentile £581 £266 £557
25th Percentile £609 £328 £557
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £463 £570
Median % change year-on-year +56.76% -18.86% -5.00%
75th Percentile £788 £603 £582
90th Percentile £810 £669 £585
England median daily rate £613 £315 £519
% change year-on-year +94.44% -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 5,184 6,810 9,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.77% 38.98% 38.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,531 5,032 7,267
10th Percentile £356 £350 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £775 £788
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 64 77
10th Percentile £22.27 £16.70 £19.57
25th Percentile £24.66 £22.00 £24.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £26.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.81% -50.48% +31.25%
75th Percentile £46.56 £38.13 £80.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £56.75 £90.00
England median hourly rate £25.01 £21.37 £35.00
% change year-on-year +17.03% -38.94% +62.79%

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 29 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 Data Factory
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) Vertex AI
3 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Copilot Studio
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (25.00%) Power Automate
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Big Data
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
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%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Hugging Face
1 2 (50.00%) LangChain
1 2 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (75.00%) MLOps
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%) Generative AI
3 2 (50.00%) LLM
3 2 (50.00%) ModelOps
3 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (50.00%) Use Case
4 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Microservices
4 1 (25.00%) Natural Language Processing
4 1 (25.00%) Predictive Analytics
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Databricks
1 2 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft