Azure Machine Learning Contract Job Trends in the South East

Microsoft Azure Machine Learning (Azure ML)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Azure Machine Learning skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 178 200
Rank change year-on-year +29 +22 +74
Contract jobs citing Azure Machine Learning 9 2 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.26% 0.043% 0.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.88% 0.17% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 9
10th Percentile £406 - -
25th Percentile £463 - £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.38%
75th Percentile £581 - £563
90th Percentile £588 - £635
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -18.52%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,020 1,155 1,580
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.53% 24.88% 28.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 669 805 1,128
10th Percentile £204 £300 £212
25th Percentile £365 £413 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +4.37%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £638
90th Percentile £650 £672 £713
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 26 53
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.69 £16.37
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £18.82 £33.50 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year -43.82% +3.72% +58.64%
75th Percentile £31.54 £59.85 £62.50
90th Percentile £50.65 £64.73 £75.00
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Machine Learning in the South East

Azure Machine Learning
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Azure Machine Learning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Azure Machine Learning

Azure Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Machine Learning in the South East over the 6 months to 4 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Machine Learning in the South East

Azure Machine Learning
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 Machine Learning within the South East region over the 6 months to 4 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
Thames Valley +16 6 £475 - 3
Berkshire +12 6 £475 - 2
Surrey - 3 £575 -
Azure Machine Learning
England

Azure Machine Learning
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:

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (66.67%) Azure AKS
3 3 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (33.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (11.11%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MLflow
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Data Scientist
2 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) PyTorch
1 3 (33.33%) scikit-learn
1 3 (33.33%) TensorFlow
2 1 (11.11%) FHIR
2 1 (11.11%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 4 (44.44%) MLOps
3 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 3 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Deployment
4 2 (22.22%) Data Science
5 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (11.11%) Conversational AI
5 1 (11.11%) Conversational UI
5 1 (11.11%) DevOps
5 1 (11.11%) Incident Response
5 1 (11.11%) LLM
5 1 (11.11%) Microservices
5 1 (11.11%) Prompt Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) R
2 3 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (11.11%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) OpenAI