Azure Machine Learning Contracts

Microsoft Azure Machine Learning (Azure ML)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Azure Machine Learning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Machine Learning over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 572 646 804
Rank change year-on-year +74 +158 -177
Contract jobs citing Azure Machine Learning 22 70 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.051% 0.12% 0.057%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.16% 0.32% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 36 33
10th Percentile £450 £453 £475
25th Percentile £453 £488 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £636
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -13.52% +6.00%
75th Percentile £641 £825 £675
90th Percentile £683 £850 £840
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £525 £606
% change year-on-year +23.81% -13.29% +38.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £19.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £20.50
75th Percentile - - £21.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

Azure Machine Learning is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,985 22,031 34,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.29% 36.91% 38.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,926 15,923 24,891
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 350 426
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -6.30%
75th Percentile £34.69 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £24.62 £18.75
% change year-on-year -28.09% +31.31% -6.25%

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 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Machine Learning in the UK

Azure Machine Learning
Top 7 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 28 April 2024. 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 +70 21 £525 -4.55% 33
London +66 12 £550 -13.73% 11
Work from Home +110 3 £675 +22.73% 22
UK excluding London +53 3 £650 +23.81% 21
West Midlands - 2 £563 -
Midlands - 2 £563 - 1
South East +11 1 £650 +20.93% 9

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 1 (4.55%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (95.45%) Azure
2 4 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (18.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (13.64%) AWS
3 3 (13.64%) Azure Functions
3 3 (13.64%) Serverless
4 2 (9.09%) GCP
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (4.55%) Azure AKS
5 1 (4.55%) Azure API Management
5 1 (4.55%) Snowflake
5 1 (4.55%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.55%) Big Data
2 1 (4.55%) GIS
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.55%) RDBMS
2 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.55%) Spatial Data
2 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (4.55%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Police
3 2 (9.09%) Finance
3 2 (9.09%) Retail
4 1 (4.55%) Legal
4 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Data Scientist
1 5 (22.73%) Developer
2 4 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Data Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Senior
4 2 (9.09%) .NET Developer
4 2 (9.09%) C# Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Data Scientist
5 1 (4.55%) Administrator
5 1 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Developer
5 1 (4.55%) CRM Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Data Administrator
5 1 (4.55%) Lead
5 1 (4.55%) Python Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Research Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) .NET
2 2 (9.09%) PySpark
3 1 (4.55%) Pandas
3 1 (4.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Algorithms
2 3 (13.64%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 12 (54.55%) Data Science
3 11 (50.00%) DevOps
4 9 (40.91%) CI/CD
5 6 (27.27%) Agile
5 6 (27.27%) MLOps
6 5 (22.73%) Analytics
7 4 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (18.18%) Deep Learning
7 4 (18.18%) Fintech
7 4 (18.18%) Natural Language Understanding
7 4 (18.18%) Software Engineering
8 3 (13.64%) CRM
8 3 (13.64%) Data Engineering
8 3 (13.64%) Design Patterns
8 3 (13.64%) Software Architecture
8 3 (13.64%) SOLID
9 2 (9.09%) Data Ingestion
9 2 (9.09%) Personalization
Programming Languages
1 13 (59.09%) Python
2 8 (36.36%) SQL
3 4 (18.18%) C#
3 4 (18.18%) R
4 1 (4.55%) F#
4 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.55%) Tcl
4 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 6 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) Degree
2 2 (9.09%) Master's Degree
2 2 (9.09%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) Databricks
2 1 (4.55%) Alteryx
2 1 (4.55%) Dataiku
2 1 (4.55%) Foundry
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) OpenAI
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle
2 1 (4.55%) Palantir