Azure Cognitive Services Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Azure Cognitive Services skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure Cognitive Services 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 300 341 474
Rank change year-on-year +41 +133 +137
Contract jobs citing Azure Cognitive Services 4 4 3
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.040% 0.026% 0.012%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.10% 0.072% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £427 £344 £433
25th Percentile £542 £386 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £619 £458 £475
Median % change year-on-year +35.25% -3.68% -13.64%
75th Percentile £638 £529 £534
90th Percentile - £572 £562
UK median daily rate £625 £458 £475
% change year-on-year +36.61% -3.68% -17.39%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Azure Cognitive Services 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 Cognitive Services
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Azure Cognitive Services
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 Services.

Azure Cognitive Services daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Cognitive Services
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Azure Cognitive Services daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Cognitive Services
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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Azure AI
3 1 (25.00%) WhatsApp
General
1 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Service Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Hugging Face
1 3 (75.00%) PyTorch
1 3 (75.00%) TensorFlow
2 2 (50.00%) SpaCy
3 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (25.00%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (25.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) LLM
3 2 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (50.00%) Data Privacy
3 2 (50.00%) Data Security
3 2 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (50.00%) Prototyping
3 2 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (50.00%) Validation
3 2 (50.00%) Workflow
4 1 (25.00%) Data Management
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (25.00%) Prompt Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) R
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) OpenAI