Azure Cognitive Services Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Azure Cognitive Services skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Cognitive Services over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 337 464 601
Rank change year-on-year +127 +137 -124
Contract jobs citing Azure Cognitive Services 4 3 18
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.027% 0.012% 0.041%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.074% 0.030% 0.098%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 16
10th Percentile £344 £433 £413
25th Percentile £386 £444 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £475 £559
Median % change year-on-year -3.68% -14.95% +31.41%
75th Percentile £529 £534 £675
90th Percentile £572 £562 -
UK median daily rate £458 £475 £588
% change year-on-year -3.68% -19.15% +38.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £19.25
Median hourly rate - - £20.50
75th Percentile - - £21.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £20.50

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Azure Cognitive Services 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 WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,409 9,928 18,314
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.01% 39.52% 41.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,890 7,301 13,707
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 126 169
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £14.85
25th Percentile £16.91 £21.08 £19.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +66.15% -17.72%
75th Percentile £50.06 £70.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £71.87 £75.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +59.09% -2.22%

Azure Cognitive Services
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure Cognitive Services as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure Cognitive Services trend for jobs with a WFH option

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

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Azure Cognitive Services over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) ChatGPT
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Cognitive Search
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
General
1 2 (50.00%) Electronics
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (50.00%) Marketing
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Support
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (25.00%) Junior
2 1 (25.00%) Junior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Hugging Face
1 2 (50.00%) LangChain
1 2 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) Great Expectations
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) LLM
3 2 (50.00%) API Development
3 2 (50.00%) API Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Data Management
3 2 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
3 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (50.00%) Open Source
3 2 (50.00%) Programme Management
3 2 (50.00%) Statistical Analysis
3 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
4 1 (25.00%) Data Science
4 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Certification
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) OpenAI