Azure Cognitive Services Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Azure Cognitive Services skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure Cognitive Services over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 384 434
Rank change year-on-year +51 +50 +71
Contract jobs citing Azure Cognitive Services 2 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.015% 0.005% 0.017%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.049% 0.019% 0.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £193 - £329
25th Percentile £219 - £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 - £463
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.94%
75th Percentile £319 - £488
90th Percentile £338 - -
UK median daily rate £613 £458 £475
% change year-on-year +33.88% -3.68% -19.15%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,089 5,269 7,619
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.61% 25.96% 33.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,858 3,741 5,627
10th Percentile £237 £213 £250
25th Percentile £381 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 262 220
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.00 £16.44
Median hourly rate £20.37 £17.72 £25.87
Median % change year-on-year +14.95% -31.49% +34.38%
75th Percentile £33.80 £27.25 £64.63
90th Percentile £69.50 £65.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £21.37 £35.00
% change year-on-year +28.69% -38.94% +57.73%

Azure Cognitive Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Azure Cognitive Services as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Cognitive Services in the UK excluding London

Azure Cognitive Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Cognitive Services in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Azure Cognitive Services in the UK excluding London

Azure Cognitive Services
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Cognitive Services in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Cognitive Services in the UK excluding London

Azure Cognitive Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Cognitive Services in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Cognitive Services in the UK excluding London

Azure Cognitive Services
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 Services within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 May 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
South East +37 1 £350 - 4
North of England - 1 £200 - 6
North East - 1 £200 -
Azure Cognitive Services
UK

Azure Cognitive Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Chatbot
1 1 (50.00%) MadCap Flare
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Cognitive Search
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) WhatsApp
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) FHIR
1 1 (50.00%) GatsbyJS
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) Next.js
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) Swagger
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Conversational AI
2 1 (50.00%) Conversational UI
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) SNOMED CT
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAI