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 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 168 181 206
Rank change year-on-year +13 +25 +54
Contract jobs citing Azure Cognitive Services 1 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.028% 0.023% 0.072%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.086% 0.083% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £420
25th Percentile - - £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.00%
75th Percentile - - £536
90th Percentile - - £588
England median daily rate £550 £315 £425
% change year-on-year +74.60% -25.88% -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 1,160 1,209 1,557
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 32.09% 28.37% 28.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 769 820 1,121
10th Percentile £204 £263 £206
25th Percentile £363 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% -2.38% +4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £636
90th Percentile £658 £663 £700
England median daily rate £500 £530 £538
% change year-on-year -5.66% -1.40% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 23 50
10th Percentile £12.50 £18.66 £16.25
25th Percentile £14.75 £21.88 £19.38
Median hourly rate £18.82 £42.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.72% +57.41% +28.57%
75th Percentile £27.50 £60.83 £59.30
90th Percentile £40.65 £64.73 £72.30
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £29.72
% change year-on-year -28.14% +17.77% +32.09%

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 19 October 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
Berkshire +18 1 £350 - 2
Thames Valley +7 1 £350 - 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) WhatsApp
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) FHIR
1 1 (100.00%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational AI
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) SNOMED CT
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI