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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 308 330 424
Rank change year-on-year +22 +94 +182
Contract jobs citing Azure AI 7 11 6
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.069% 0.083% 0.027%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.17% 0.22% 0.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 4
10th Percentile £263 - -
25th Percentile £313 £400 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £198
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +127.85% -66.53%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £284
90th Percentile £688 £615 £399
UK median daily rate £565 £475 £220
% change year-on-year +18.95% +115.91% -62.71%

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 4,185 4,981 8,822
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 41.30% 37.73% 39.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,934 3,528 6,533
10th Percentile £340 £345 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £754 £775 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 53 134
10th Percentile £16.35 £14.70 £16.33
25th Percentile £28.75 £18.50 £21.48
Median hourly rate £41.25 £36.00 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -10.56% +13.38%
75th Percentile £68.06 £62.00 £68.06
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.38 £23.80 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.02% -32.00% +59.09%

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 4 August 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 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon SageMaker
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Machine Learning
2 3 (42.86%) Vertex AI
3 2 (28.57%) Anthropic Claude
3 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Cognitive Search
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Pinecone
2 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (28.57%) Redis
2 2 (28.57%) Weaviate
3 1 (14.29%) Big Data
3 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
3 1 (14.29%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 2 (28.57%) Games
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Data Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Data Science Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Security Architect
2 1 (14.29%) SOC Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) LangChain
1 4 (57.14%) PyTorch
2 3 (42.86%) CrewAI
2 3 (42.86%) TensorFlow
3 2 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (28.57%) Faiss
3 2 (28.57%) Google JAX
3 2 (28.57%) Hugging Face
3 2 (28.57%) JAX
3 2 (28.57%) Kafka
3 2 (28.57%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (28.57%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (28.57%) scikit-learn
4 1 (14.29%) .NET
4 1 (14.29%) FastAPI
4 1 (14.29%) Pandas
4 1 (14.29%) React
4 1 (14.29%) RESTful
4 1 (14.29%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) AI Agents
1 3 (42.86%) Algorithms
1 3 (42.86%) Autonomous Agent
2 2 (28.57%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (14.29%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (57.14%) LLM
3 3 (42.86%) Multi-Agent System
3 3 (42.86%) Observability
4 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
4 2 (28.57%) Data Science
4 2 (28.57%) Decision Tree
4 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
4 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (28.57%) Game Theory
4 2 (28.57%) Low Latency
4 2 (28.57%) Neural Network
4 2 (28.57%) Open Source
4 2 (28.57%) Reinforcement Learning
5 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Go
2 2 (28.57%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) MCP
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Google
1 4 (57.14%) OpenAI
2 1 (14.29%) Foundry
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk