Azure AI Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Azure AI Platform
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Azure AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure AI 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 0.51% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.37% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £526 - -
25th Percentile £547 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 - -
75th Percentile £622 - -
90th Percentile £639 - -
South East median daily rate £600 £625 £400
% change year-on-year -4.00% +56.25% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 219 98 146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 36.87% 30.34% 25.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 72 118
10th Percentile £204 £204 £250
25th Percentile £365 £250 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £438 £463
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.41% -7.50%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £553
90th Percentile £646 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 4 8
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile - £28.00 £17.80
Median hourly rate £70.00 £29.00 £23.90
Median % change year-on-year +141.38% +21.34% -49.68%
75th Percentile - £30.69 £50.75
90th Percentile - £31.94 £63.35
South East median hourly rate £68.22 £18.82 £32.50
% change year-on-year +262.46% -42.09% +20.37%

Azure AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure AI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Azure AI job vacancy trend in Surrey

Azure AI
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure AI in Surrey over the 6 months to 10 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure AI in Surrey

Azure AI
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 10 August 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
Guildford - 1 - - 2
Egham - 1 £525 -
Azure AI
South East

Azure AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Copilot Studio
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Copilot
2 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (33.33%) Anthropic Claude
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (33.33%) ChatGPT
3 1 (33.33%) Google Gemini
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Vertex AI
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) Solutions Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) CrewAI
1 1 (33.33%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) Generative AI
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
2 2 (66.67%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Multi-Agent System
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Project Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (33.33%) Requirements Workshops
3 1 (33.33%) Resource Management
3 1 (33.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Time Management
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Foundry
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Google