Azure Cognitive Search Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure Cognitive Search (formerly Azure Search)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Azure Cognitive Search skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 398 - 401
Rank change year-on-year - - +82
Contract jobs citing Azure Cognitive Search 1 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.005% - 0.031%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.017% - 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.13%
75th Percentile - - £625
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate - £566 £615
% change year-on-year - -7.93% +9.33%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

Azure Cognitive Search 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,873 4,573 5,971
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.10% 31.12% 30.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,085 3,017 4,331
10th Percentile £239 £241 £217
25th Percentile £375 £380 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -0.50%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £660 £675 £680
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 112 183
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.31 £14.01
25th Percentile £16.25 £20.18 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.42 £24.18 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.11% +15.14% +6.54%
75th Percentile £55.00 £41.31 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £68.35 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £27.50 £25.81
% change year-on-year -3.64% +6.55% +14.71%

Azure Cognitive Search
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure Cognitive Search relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Azure Cognitive Search job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Azure Cognitive Search
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Azure Cognitive Search.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Azure Cognitive Search

Azure Cognitive Search
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Cognitive Search within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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
Scotland - 1 - - 3
Azure Cognitive Search
UK

Azure Cognitive Search
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) OCR
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI