Azure AI Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Azure AI Platform
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Azure AI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure AI over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 334 476
Rank change year-on-year +36 +142 +153
Contract jobs citing Azure AI 6 11 1
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.061% 0.072% 0.004%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.15% 0.20% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £480 £533 -
25th Percentile £506 £544 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +27.78% -23.73%
75th Percentile £644 £594 £475
90th Percentile £648 £598 -
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £450
% change year-on-year +4.55% +22.22% -22.75%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Azure AI falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,940 5,557 10,236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.78% 36.21% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,887 3,982 7,514
10th Percentile £351 £350 £373
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 89 125
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £25.25 £17.00 £21.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -52.73% +83.33%
75th Percentile £70.63 £50.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £64.37 £78.40
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Azure AI
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Azure AI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure AI trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Azure AI
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Azure AI.

Azure AI daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure AI
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Azure AI over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Azure AI daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure AI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (16.67%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Big Data
1 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
1 1 (16.67%) Pinecone
1 1 (16.67%) Redis
1 1 (16.67%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (16.67%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Lead DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 3 (50.00%) TensorFlow
2 2 (33.33%) LangChain
3 1 (16.67%) ARM Templates
3 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (16.67%) Google JAX
3 1 (16.67%) Hugging Face
3 1 (16.67%) JAX
3 1 (16.67%) Kafka
3 1 (16.67%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (16.67%) Regular Expression
3 1 (16.67%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) AI Agents
1 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
1 1 (16.67%) Autonomous Agent
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (16.67%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (66.67%) Data Science
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (33.33%) Application Security
4 2 (33.33%) Change Management
4 2 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (33.33%) FinOps
4 2 (33.33%) Identity Management
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) ITIL
4 2 (33.33%) LLM
4 2 (33.33%) Matrix Organization
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) SDLC
4 2 (33.33%) Software Deployment
5 1 (16.67%) Edge Computing
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) R
3 1 (16.67%) Go
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (50.00%) Terraform
3 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) OpenAI