Azure AI Contracts in the South East

Azure AI Platform
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Azure AI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure AI 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 157 204 -
Rank change year-on-year +47 - -
Contract jobs citing Azure AI 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.066% 0.018% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.22% 0.073% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
England median daily rate £550 £513 -
% change year-on-year +7.32% - -

All Cloud Skills
South East

Azure AI 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 911 1,373 1,705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.27% 24.70% 29.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 924 1,252
10th Percentile £280 £250 £252
25th Percentile £403 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £635
90th Percentile £663 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 52 52
10th Percentile £16.78 £16.25 £17.72
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.80 £18.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.36 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.47% -8.74% +16.39%
75th Percentile £47.58 £52.38 £67.81
90th Percentile £75.05 £61.59 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

Azure AI
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Azure AI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Azure AI in the South East

Azure AI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure AI in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Azure AI in the South East

Azure AI
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure AI within the South East 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
Thames Valley +44 2 £625 - 11
Berkshire +32 2 £625 - 7
Azure AI
England

Azure AI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (50.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (50.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Sentiment Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) R
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAI
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce