Hybrid/Remote Azure Cognitive Services Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Azure Cognitive Services skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 314 318 366
Rank change year-on-year +4 +48 +168
Contract jobs citing Azure Cognitive Services 6 2 11
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.059% 0.017% 0.065%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.14% 0.044% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 8
10th Percentile - - £163
25th Percentile £525 £613 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £425
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +47.06% -22.73%
75th Percentile £775 £638 £438
90th Percentile - - £441
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £425
% change year-on-year -12.00% +47.06% -26.09%

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 4,386 4,570 6,494
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 42.84% 38.89% 38.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,982 3,073 4,706
10th Percentile £325 £330 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £734 £750 £720
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 49 80
10th Percentile £17.80 £20.86 £15.37
25th Percentile £20.50 £26.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £37.00 £37.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year - -24.10% +39.29%
75th Percentile £66.07 £64.50 £75.63
90th Percentile £78.67 £81.50 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £26.40 £28.75 £25.00
% change year-on-year -8.17% +15.00% +11.11%

Azure Cognitive Services
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure Cognitive Services and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Azure Cognitive Services job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Azure Cognitive Services
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Azure Cognitive Services.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Azure Cognitive Services

Azure Cognitive Services
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Azure Cognitive Services over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Azure Cognitive Services daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Azure Cognitive Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 5 (83.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 4 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) GitHub
3 4 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (16.67%) Azure AI
4 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MLflow
General
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Architect
2 5 (83.33%) Azure Architect
3 4 (66.67%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Senior
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Technical Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) ARM Templates
1 1 (16.67%) PySpark
1 1 (16.67%) PyTorch
1 1 (16.67%) scikit-learn
1 1 (16.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (66.67%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) AI
1 6 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (66.67%) Cost Management
3 4 (66.67%) Data Engineering
3 4 (66.67%) RBAC
4 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
5 1 (16.67%) Data Architecture
5 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (16.67%) Data Science
5 1 (16.67%) Identity Management
5 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 1 (16.67%) MLOps
5 1 (16.67%) Natural Language Processing
5 1 (16.67%) Observability
5 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Bicep
2 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) GDPR
1 4 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (66.67%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Databricks
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (83.33%) OpenAI