Azure Machine Learning Contract Job Trends in the North East

Microsoft Azure Machine Learning (Azure ML)
England > North East

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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure Machine Learning 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.18% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.56% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -4.55%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 179 114 62
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 31.63% 35.19% 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 83 32
10th Percentile £306 £325 £161
25th Percentile £385 £410 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £453
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +5.96% -19.82%
75th Percentile £559 £590 £550
90th Percentile £600 £650 £650
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 4 6
10th Percentile £58.50 - £11.44
25th Percentile £60.63 £12.50 £13.77
Median hourly rate £68.47 £13.00 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +426.69% -37.41% -57.61%
75th Percentile £70.00 £13.50 -
90th Percentile - - £33.48
England median hourly rate £45.25 £26.45 £20.77
% change year-on-year +71.08% +27.35% -31.90%

Azure Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure Machine Learning relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Azure Machine Learning job vacancy trend in the North East

Azure Machine Learning
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Machine Learning within the North East region over the 6 months to 6 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
Tyne and Wear - 1 £450 - 2
Azure Machine Learning
England

Azure Machine Learning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) DataOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks