Azure Cognitive Search Contract Job Trends in the South East

Microsoft Azure Cognitive Search (formerly Azure Search)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Azure Cognitive Search skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 - 192
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure Cognitive Search 2 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.033% - 0.091%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.12% - 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £600
75th Percentile - - £628
90th Percentile - - £634
England median daily rate £550 £425 £600
% change year-on-year +29.41% -29.17% +5.26%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South East

Azure Cognitive Search 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 1,650 871 1,321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 27.61% 29.87% 24.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,181 589 904
10th Percentile £285 £250 £263
25th Percentile £406 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £608
90th Percentile £680 £650 £675
England median daily rate £513 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -1.54% -0.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 34 53
10th Percentile £15.66 £15.76 £16.54
25th Percentile £26.16 £16.95 £17.80
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.50 £24.43
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% +16.66% +1.79%
75th Percentile £82.25 £47.20 £59.95
90th Percentile £103.93 £74.63 £61.58
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -37.15%

Azure Cognitive Search
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure Cognitive Search relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Azure Cognitive Search job vacancy trend in the South East

Azure Cognitive Search
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Azure Cognitive Search.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Azure Cognitive Search

Azure Cognitive Search
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 Cognitive Search within the South East region over the 6 months to 23 May 2026. 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
Kent - 2 £550 -
Azure Cognitive Search
England

Azure Cognitive Search
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) CRM
1 2 (100.00%) ERP
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (100.00%) Intelligent Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) OCR
1 2 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Foundry
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAI