Azure Cognitive Search Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft Azure Cognitive Search (formerly Azure Search)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Azure Cognitive Search skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure Cognitive Search over the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 345 446
Rank change year-on-year +23 +101 +176
Contract jobs citing Azure Cognitive Search 1 2 8
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.010% 0.014% 0.034%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.024% 0.038% 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 7
10th Percentile - £345 £578
25th Percentile £763 £389 £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £470 £650
Median % change year-on-year +64.89% -27.69% +23.81%
75th Percentile £788 £557 £688
90th Percentile - £605 £720
UK median daily rate £650 £613 £650
% change year-on-year +6.12% -5.77% +18.18%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Azure Cognitive Search 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 4,254 5,285 9,250
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 41.42% 37.66% 39.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,995 3,769 6,865
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £763 £775 £743
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.29% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 71 138
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £25.32 £17.69 £22.09
Median hourly rate £41.25 £35.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.86% -26.32% +15.15%
75th Percentile £70.19 £57.80 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.75 £72.50 £76.83
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -37.14% +55.56%

Azure Cognitive Search
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Azure Cognitive Search trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Azure Cognitive Search
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 Cognitive Search.

Azure Cognitive Search daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Cognitive Search
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) OCR
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI