Azure Cognitive Services Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 - 210
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure Cognitive Services 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.030% - 0.035%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.090% - 0.096%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £429
25th Percentile £175 - £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 - £463
75th Percentile £225 - £484
90th Percentile - - £486
England median daily rate £619 £315 £519
% change year-on-year +96.43% -39.28% -13.54%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,106 1,367 2,076
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.39% 29.23% 36.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 824 971 1,548
10th Percentile £243 £263 £300
25th Percentile £380 £383 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -8.57% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £638 £681
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 79 37
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.00 £16.22
25th Percentile £19.54 £15.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -59.44% +111.20%
75th Percentile £74.38 £22.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £98.17 £44.24 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £21.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year +21.43% -34.98% +50.93%

Azure Cognitive Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Cognitive Services in the North of England

Azure Cognitive Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Cognitive Services in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Azure Cognitive Services in the North of England

Azure Cognitive Services
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Cognitive Services within the North of England region over the 6 months to 10 May 2025. 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
North East - 1 £200 -
Azure Cognitive Services
England

Azure Cognitive Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (100.00%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MadCap Flare
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Cognitive Search
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) GatsbyJS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Next.js
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Swagger
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript