Azure Machine Learning Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure Machine Learning (Azure ML)
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 335 399 431
Rank change year-on-year +64 +32 +96
Contract jobs citing Azure Machine Learning 20 4 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.019% 0.056%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.44% 0.073% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 2 12
10th Percentile £354 £479 -
25th Percentile £431 £503 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £538
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +4.65% -10.42%
75th Percentile £588 £628 £563
90th Percentile £633 £656 £754
UK median daily rate £521 £540 £588
% change year-on-year -3.47% -8.09% -6.00%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,579 5,497 7,553
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.72% 26.10% 32.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,095 3,796 5,550
10th Percentile £250 £225 £240
25th Percentile £381 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £667 £694
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 274 235
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.85 £17.05
Median hourly rate £18.87 £20.99 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.08% -22.28% +40.30%
75th Percentile £33.33 £43.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £60.00 £70.00 £75.80
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -37.14% +59.09%

Azure Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Machine Learning in the UK excluding London

Azure Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Machine Learning in the UK excluding London

Azure Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Machine Learning in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Machine Learning in the UK excluding London

Azure Machine Learning
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 Machine Learning within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 July 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 +49 10 £475 - 24
North West - 5 £475 - 20
North of England - 5 £475 - 25
Wales - 4 £575 -
Midlands +13 1 - - 8
East Midlands - 1 - - 2
Azure Machine Learning
UK

Azure Machine Learning
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 2 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 20 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (20.00%) Azure AKS
2 4 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 4 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (15.00%) AWS
3 3 (15.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (15.00%) GCP
4 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (10.00%) GitHub
4 2 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (10.00%) Snowflake
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.00%) Azure AI
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (5.00%) Serverless
5 1 (5.00%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) Data Lake
1 4 (20.00%) Power BI
2 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.00%) Big Data
2 1 (5.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) MLflow
2 1 (5.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (5.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Data Scientist
2 3 (15.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Python Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Computer Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Computer Vision Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Machine Learning Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Python Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Scientist
4 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) scikit-learn
2 5 (25.00%) TensorFlow
3 4 (20.00%) PyTorch
4 3 (15.00%) Pandas
5 2 (10.00%) LangChain
5 2 (10.00%) PySpark
6 1 (5.00%) Anaconda
6 1 (5.00%) FHIR
6 1 (5.00%) Hugging Face
6 1 (5.00%) Matplotlib
6 1 (5.00%) NumPy
6 1 (5.00%) OpenCV
6 1 (5.00%) Prophet
6 1 (5.00%) Regular Expression
6 1 (5.00%) RESTful
6 1 (5.00%) SciPy
6 1 (5.00%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (5.00%) NHS
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) VMS
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 12 (60.00%) Data Science
3 9 (45.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 5 (25.00%) MLOps
6 4 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (20.00%) LLM
7 3 (15.00%) Actionable Insight
7 3 (15.00%) Computer Science
7 3 (15.00%) Data Analysis
7 3 (15.00%) Data Pipeline
8 2 (10.00%) Containerisation
8 2 (10.00%) Dashboard Development
8 2 (10.00%) Decision-Making
8 2 (10.00%) DevOps
8 2 (10.00%) Feature Engineering
8 2 (10.00%) Generative AI
8 2 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
8 2 (10.00%) Time Series Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 15 (75.00%) Python
2 5 (25.00%) SQL
3 3 (15.00%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) Numerate Degree
2 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) GDPR
1 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.00%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Databricks
2 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.00%) Google
3 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.00%) Foundry
4 1 (5.00%) OpenAI