Azure Machine Learning Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Microsoft Azure Machine Learning (Azure ML)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Azure Machine Learning skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure Machine Learning 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.30% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.84% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £447 - -
25th Percentile £453 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile £628 - -
North West median daily rate £475 £356 -
% change year-on-year +33.43% - -

All Cloud Skills
Manchester

Azure Machine Learning 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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 357 411 697
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 35.88% 35.07% 40.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 286 546
10th Percentile £349 £350 £306
25th Percentile £400 £413 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -1.48% -3.33%
75th Percentile £575 £580 £588
90th Percentile £638 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 18
10th Percentile £38.32 £24.75 £15.72
25th Percentile £67.50 £36.63 £15.75
Median hourly rate £72.50 £62.25 £17.93
Median % change year-on-year +16.47% +247.18% -34.80%
75th Percentile £88.75 £71.06 £34.70
90th Percentile £92.50 £73.00 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £29.97 £33.50 £24.87
% change year-on-year -10.55% +34.73% -0.54%

Azure Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Azure Machine Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Machine Learning in Manchester

Azure Machine Learning
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Azure Machine Learning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Azure Machine Learning

Azure Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Machine Learning in Manchester over the 6 months to 8 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Machine Learning in Manchester

Azure Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
2 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (33.33%) Big Data
2 1 (33.33%) Delta Lake
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) MLflow
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Data Scientist
1 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) TensorFlow
2 1 (33.33%) Matplotlib
2 1 (33.33%) Pandas
2 1 (33.33%) PyTorch
2 1 (33.33%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Data Science
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Business Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 1 (33.33%) LLM
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) MLOps
3 1 (33.33%) Predictive Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Time Series Forecasting
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks