Azure Machine Learning Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Azure Machine Learning (Azure ML)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Azure Machine Learning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 117 138
Rank change year-on-year -5 +21 +35
Contract jobs citing Azure Machine Learning 5 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.24% 0.25% 0.040%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.63% 0.73% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £553 -
25th Percentile £463 £558 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £569 £535
Median % change year-on-year -16.48% +6.31% -28.67%
75th Percentile £488 £583 £553
90th Percentile - £589 -
South East median daily rate £508 £569 £593
% change year-on-year -10.77% -4.01% -12.22%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 789 681 761
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 37.90% 33.91% 30.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 533 446 524
10th Percentile £263 £325 £200
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.92% -3.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £638
90th Percentile £650 £666 £700
South East median daily rate £488 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -5.34% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 15 18
10th Percentile £14.75 £18.50 £16.66
25th Percentile £17.79 £20.90 £19.25
Median hourly rate £40.44 £29.00 £33.66
Median % change year-on-year +39.43% -13.84% +60.29%
75th Percentile £90.50 £54.24 £70.13
90th Percentile £98.50 £64.73 £82.92
South East median hourly rate £20.00 £28.75 £29.66
% change year-on-year -30.43% -3.07% +48.30%

Azure Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure Machine Learning relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Azure Machine Learning job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Azure Machine Learning
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Azure Machine Learning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Azure Machine Learning

Azure Machine Learning
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 16 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
Berkshire -9 5 £475 -16.48%
Azure Machine Learning
South East

Azure Machine Learning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Azure AKS
2 4 (80.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Data Lake
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) PyTorch
1 4 (80.00%) scikit-learn
1 4 (80.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 5 (100.00%) MLOps
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (80.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Data Science
3 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) R
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks