Azure Cognitive Services Contract Job Trends in the South East

Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Azure Cognitive Services skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 192 - 199
Rank change year-on-year - - +45
Contract jobs citing Azure Cognitive Services 2 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.045% - 0.080%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.15% - 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £420
25th Percentile - - £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.37%
75th Percentile - - £536
90th Percentile - - £588
England median daily rate £550 £625 £425
% change year-on-year -12.00% +47.06% -29.17%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,359 1,165 1,426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.70% 31.59% 28.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 970 797 992
10th Percentile £213 £262 £206
25th Percentile £363 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.37% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £575 £630 £623
90th Percentile £671 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 16 30
10th Percentile £12.50 £16.75 £18.74
25th Percentile £14.75 £19.10 £19.81
Median hourly rate £25.00 £28.75 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -11.05% +55.98%
75th Percentile £48.75 £46.25 £59.84
90th Percentile £95.00 £64.73 £79.78
England median hourly rate £27.21 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +16.00% +11.11%

Azure Cognitive Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Azure Cognitive Services job vacancy trend in the South East

Azure Cognitive Services
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Azure Cognitive Services
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Azure Cognitive Services.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Azure Cognitive Services

Azure Cognitive Services
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 Services within the South East region over the 6 months to 25 December 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
West Sussex - 2 - -
Azure Cognitive Services
England

Azure Cognitive Services
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 Key Vault
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Machine Learning
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) MLflow
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Technical Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) PySpark
1 2 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 2 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) MLOps
1 2 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Feature Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAI