Azure Machine Learning Contracts in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Azure Machine Learning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure Machine Learning over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 162 - 219
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure Machine Learning 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.12% - 0.017%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.36% - 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £419 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 - £475
75th Percentile £500 - £488
90th Percentile £523 - -
England median daily rate £452 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -13.90% -4.55% -14.46%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,111 1,408 2,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.72% 29.53% 36.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 999 1,595
10th Percentile £248 £263 £300
25th Percentile £385 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £643 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 79 37
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.00 £16.22
25th Percentile £26.72 £15.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.91 £16.06 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year +92.43% -59.44% +111.93%
75th Percentile £73.44 £20.77 £65.00
90th Percentile £97.98 £43.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

Azure Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Machine Learning in the North of England

Azure Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Machine Learning in the North of England

Azure Machine Learning
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 Machine Learning within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 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 West - 4 £456 - 11
Azure Machine Learning
England

Azure Machine Learning
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 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Big Data
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
1 1 (25.00%) Tableau
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Vision Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) LangChain
1 2 (50.00%) Regular Expression
1 2 (50.00%) scikit-learn
1 2 (50.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (25.00%) Matplotlib
2 1 (25.00%) OpenCV
2 1 (25.00%) Pandas
2 1 (25.00%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) Data Science
3 2 (50.00%) LLM
3 2 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Service Design
4 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) Business Transformation
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Vision
4 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (25.00%) Deep Learning
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Predictive Modelling
4 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Time Series Forecasting
4 1 (25.00%) Video Processing
4 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Degree