Azure Machine Learning Contract Job Trends in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Azure Machine Learning skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 115 -
Rank change year-on-year -10 - -
Contract jobs citing Azure Machine Learning 3 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.14% 0.084% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.43% 0.28% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £447 - -
25th Percentile £453 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £356 -
Median % change year-on-year +33.43% - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile £628 - -
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -18.52%

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 702 722 1,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.34% 30.32% 35.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 526 488 759
10th Percentile £313 £300 £268
25th Percentile £380 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £525 £575 £588
90th Percentile £630 £650 £659
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 14 53
10th Percentile £12.82 £13.63 £15.75
25th Percentile £15.25 £18.08 £18.50
Median hourly rate £28.75 £33.50 £27.20
Median % change year-on-year -14.18% +23.16% +8.80%
75th Percentile £68.30 £55.05 £46.18
90th Percentile £75.50 £70.98 £50.84
England median hourly rate £26.30 £30.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -12.33% -9.09% +53.49%

Azure Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Machine Learning in the North West

Azure Machine Learning
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Azure Machine Learning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Azure Machine Learning

Azure Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Machine Learning in the North West over the 6 months to 7 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Machine Learning in the North West

Azure Machine Learning
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 7 September 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
Manchester - 3 £475 - 9
Azure Machine Learning
England

Azure Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
2 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (33.33%) Big Data
2 1 (33.33%) Delta Lake
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) MLflow
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Data Scientist
1 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) TensorFlow
2 1 (33.33%) Matplotlib
2 1 (33.33%) Pandas
2 1 (33.33%) PyTorch
2 1 (33.33%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Data Science
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Business Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 1 (33.33%) LLM
3 1 (33.33%) MLOps
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Predictive Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks