Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services
England > North West
The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 14 May 2025 |
Same period 2024 | Same period 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | - | - | 159 |
| Rank change year-on-year | - | - | - |
| Contract jobs citing Azure Cognitive Services | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West | - | - | 0.064% |
| As % of the Cloud Services category | - | - | 0.17% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 10th Percentile | - | - | £429 |
| 25th Percentile | - | - | £434 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | - | - | £463 |
| 75th Percentile | - | - | £484 |
| 90th Percentile | - | - | £486 |
| England median daily rate | £594 | £315 | £519 |
| % change year-on-year | +88.49% | -39.28% | -13.54% |
All Cloud Skills
North West
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 West.
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills | 621 | 850 | 1,176 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West | 31.96% | 31.95% | 37.58% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 478 | 616 | 870 |
| 10th Percentile | £250 | £284 | £307 |
| 25th Percentile | £393 | £388 | £413 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £475 | £484 | £500 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -1.81% | -3.25% | - |
| 75th Percentile | £550 | £575 | £575 |
| 90th Percentile | £638 | £638 | £651 |
| England median daily rate | £525 | £525 | £550 |
| % change year-on-year | - | -4.55% | - |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 12 | 65 | 33 |
| 10th Percentile | £14.23 | £13.00 | £15.81 |
| 25th Percentile | £26.88 | - | £16.62 |
| Median hourly rate | £28.75 | £16.06 | £35.00 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +79.02% | -54.11% | +51.99% |
| 75th Percentile | £50.66 | £26.50 | £65.00 |
| 90th Percentile | £75.88 | £60.40 | £70.00 |
| England median hourly rate | £25.50 | £21.00 | £32.30 |
| % change year-on-year | +21.43% | -34.98% | +50.23% |
Azure Cognitive Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West
Job postings citing Azure Cognitive Services as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.
