Azure AI Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Azure AI Platform
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands citing Azure AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 7 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	200	-	-
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Contract jobs citing Azure AI	7	0	0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands	0.14%	-	-
As % of the Cloud Services category	0.45%	-	-
Number of daily rates quoted	4	0	0
10^th Percentile	£380	-	-
25^th Percentile	£529	-	-
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£625	-	-
75^th Percentile	£638	-	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
England median daily rate	£575	£585	£473
% change year-on-year	-1.71%	+23.81%	+114.77%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Midlands

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 citing cloud computing skills in the Midlands.

	6 months to 7 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing cloud computing skills	1,554	989	787
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands	31.19%	33.53%	29.34%
Number of daily rates quoted	991	704	501
10^th Percentile	£300	£300	£213
25^th Percentile	£402	£400	£363
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£475	£492	£490
Median % change year-on-year	-3.46%	+0.41%	+5.95%
75^th Percentile	£594	£584	£600
90^th Percentile	£675	£675	£685
England median daily rate	£525	£500	£535
% change year-on-year	+5.00%	-6.54%	+1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted	101	14	15
10^th Percentile	£14.50	£20.25	£18.99
25^th Percentile	£17.48	£21.39	£25.84
Median hourly rate	£20.50	£27.21	£33.93
Median % change year-on-year	-24.66%	-19.81%	+85.92%
75^th Percentile	£25.75	£32.91	£35.00
90^th Percentile	£49.50	£35.69	£48.87
England median hourly rate	£34.13	£25.15	£35.00
% change year-on-year	+35.69%	-28.14%	+27.27%

Azure AI Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure AI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Azure AI Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Azure AI.

Azure AI Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure AI in the Midlands over the 6 months to 7 November 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure AI in the Midlands

Azure AI Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
West Midlands	-	6	£625	-	12
East Midlands	-	1	£625	-	11
Azure AI England

Azure AI Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 7 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Azure AI also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Midlands region citing Azure AI.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	AI	100.0%	7
1	Azure	100.0%	7
1	Generative AI	100.0%	7
1	LLM	100.0%	7
1	Retrieval-Augmented Generation	100.0%	7
6	Microsoft	85.7%	6
6	OpenAI	85.7%	6
6	Prompt Engineering	85.7%	6
9	Foundry	71.4%	5
9	LangGraph	71.4%	5
9	Python	71.4%	5
9	Workflow	71.4%	5
13	Chatbot	57.1%	4
13	Conversational UI	57.1%	4
13	Copilot Studio	57.1%	4
13	DevOps	57.1%	4
13	ITSM	57.1%	4
13	Knowledge Management	57.1%	4
13	LangChain	57.1%	4
13	Microsoft Copilot	57.1%	4
13	REST	57.1%	4
13	Semantic Kernel	57.1%	4
23	AIOps	42.9%	3
23	Azure DevOps	42.9%	3
23	Azure Functions	42.9%	3
23	Azure Logic Apps	42.9%	3
23	GitHub	42.9%	3
23	GitHub Copilot	42.9%	3
23	JSON	42.9%	3
23	Microsoft 365	42.9%	3

Azure AI Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Azure	100.0%	7
2	Copilot Studio	57.1%	4
2	Microsoft Copilot	57.1%	4
4	Azure DevOps	42.9%	3
4	Azure Functions	42.9%	3
4	Azure Logic Apps	42.9%	3
4	GitHub	42.9%	3
4	GitHub Copilot	42.9%	3
4	Microsoft 365	42.9%	3
4	Power Automate	42.9%	3
4	Power Platform	42.9%	3
4	PowerApps	42.9%	3
4	Serverless	42.9%	3
14	Azure Monitor	28.6%	2
15	Azure Cosmos DB	14.3%	1
15	Azure Key Vault	14.3%	1
15	Azure Machine Learning	14.3%	1
15	Datadog	14.3%	1