Azure Machine Learning Contracts

Microsoft Azure Machine Learning (Azure ML)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 442 577 643
Rank change year-on-year +135 +66 +162
Contract jobs citing Azure Machine Learning 77 23 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.053% 0.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.70% 0.16% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 18 36
10th Percentile £350 £450 £453
25th Percentile £405 £453 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% -12.77%
75th Percentile £559 £641 £825
90th Percentile £601 £683 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £650 £525
% change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% -13.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 10,997 14,094 22,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.61% 32.33% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,640 10,005 15,924
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £634 £650
90th Percentile £734 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 348 350
10th Percentile £15.28 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.05 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.43 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.60% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £48.56 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £62.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.53 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.47% -28.03% +31.31%

Azure Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Azure Machine Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Machine Learning in the UK

Azure Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Machine Learning.

Daily rate trend for Azure Machine Learning in the UK

Azure Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Machine Learning over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Machine Learning in the UK

Azure Machine Learning
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +109 68 £452 -13.90% 62
London +65 43 £444 -19.20% 36
Work from Home +88 41 £463 -31.48% 51
UK excluding London +75 24 £500 -23.08% 29
South East +54 12 £545 -16.15% 4
North West - 4 £456 - 9
North of England - 4 £456 - 10
South West - 4 £500 - 5
Wales - 3 £575 -
Scotland - 1 - - 4

Azure Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (5.19%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.90%) Apache
3 1 (1.30%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 73 (94.81%) Azure
2 29 (37.66%) Azure Data Factory
2 29 (37.66%) Power Platform
3 27 (35.06%) AWS
4 14 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (11.69%) Azure AKS
6 8 (10.39%) Azure AI
7 7 (9.09%) Power Automate
8 6 (7.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (6.49%) GCP
10 4 (5.19%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (5.19%) Snowflake
11 3 (3.90%) Azure Cognitive Services
11 3 (3.90%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (3.90%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (3.90%) Entra ID
12 2 (2.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (2.60%) SaaS
13 1 (1.30%) Azure Service Bus
13 1 (1.30%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.90%) DNS
1 3 (3.90%) FTP
1 3 (3.90%) HTTP
1 3 (3.90%) SMTP
1 3 (3.90%) SSL
1 3 (3.90%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.30%) LAN
2 1 (1.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (37.66%) Data Lake
1 29 (37.66%) Power BI
2 21 (27.27%) Neo4j
3 5 (6.49%) Metadata
4 4 (5.19%) Big Data
5 2 (2.60%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (2.60%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.30%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (10.39%) Git
2 2 (2.60%) MLflow
3 1 (1.30%) GitLab
3 1 (1.30%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.30%) JIRA
3 1 (1.30%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (25.97%) Public Sector
2 14 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 9 (11.69%) Finance
4 3 (3.90%) Banking
5 1 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.30%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.30%) Local Government
5 1 (1.30%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 14 (18.18%) Architect
1 14 (18.18%) Data Scientist
2 12 (15.58%) Developer
3 11 (14.29%) Data Engineer
4 10 (12.99%) Azure Engineer
5 8 (10.39%) Analyst
6 7 (9.09%) Data Analyst
7 6 (7.79%) Azure Architect
7 6 (7.79%) Azure Data Engineer
7 6 (7.79%) Data Architect
8 5 (6.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 5 (6.49%) Lead
9 4 (5.19%) Lead Data Engineer
9 4 (5.19%) Technical Architect
10 3 (3.90%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
10 3 (3.90%) AWS Data Engineer
10 3 (3.90%) AWS Engineer
10 3 (3.90%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (3.90%) Python Developer
10 3 (3.90%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (29.87%) React
2 22 (28.57%) Plotly
3 11 (14.29%) .NET
4 8 (10.39%) PyTorch
4 8 (10.39%) scikit-learn
4 8 (10.39%) TensorFlow
5 7 (9.09%) CSS
5 7 (9.09%) HTML
6 6 (7.79%) LangChain
7 4 (5.19%) Pandas
7 4 (5.19%) Regular Expression
8 3 (3.90%) JSON
8 3 (3.90%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (3.90%) PySpark
8 3 (3.90%) YAML
9 1 (1.30%) ARM Templates
9 1 (1.30%) FHIR
9 1 (1.30%) Middleware
9 1 (1.30%) RESTful
9 1 (1.30%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.79%) Cyberattack
2 5 (6.49%) Algorithms
3 3 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.90%) FMCG
4 1 (1.30%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.30%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.30%) IoT
4 1 (1.30%) NHS
4 1 (1.30%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.30%) Linux
1 1 (1.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (93.51%) Machine Learning
2 31 (40.26%) Artificial Intelligence
3 24 (31.17%) Data Science
4 22 (28.57%) Data Visualisation
4 22 (28.57%) Visualisation
5 19 (24.68%) Data Integration
5 19 (24.68%) Storage Management
6 18 (23.38%) LLM
7 17 (22.08%) Agile
8 15 (19.48%) DevOps
9 14 (18.18%) Analytics
9 14 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (16.88%) Data Pipeline
11 11 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
11 11 (14.29%) Data Engineering
12 10 (12.99%) Computer Science
12 10 (12.99%) Data Protection
13 9 (11.69%) Data Analysis
13 9 (11.69%) Data Modelling
13 9 (11.69%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 37 (48.05%) Python
2 30 (38.96%) JavaScript
3 15 (19.48%) SQL
4 11 (14.29%) C#
5 6 (7.79%) R
6 3 (3.90%) Bicep
6 3 (3.90%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (3.90%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 34 (44.16%) Security Cleared
2 31 (40.26%) SC Cleared
3 10 (12.99%) Degree
4 2 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.60%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (1.30%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.30%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.30%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.79%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.49%) QA
3 1 (1.30%) GDPR
3 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.30%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 8 (10.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (15.58%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.79%) Terraform
3 3 (3.90%) Grafana
Vendors
1 38 (49.35%) Databricks
2 14 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 12 (15.58%) OpenAI
4 3 (3.90%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.60%) Foundry
5 2 (2.60%) Google