Azure Machine Learning Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft Azure Machine Learning (Azure ML)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Azure Machine Learning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure Machine Learning 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 263 342 458
Rank change year-on-year +79 +116 +144
Contract jobs citing Azure Machine Learning 41 3 19
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.41% 0.020% 0.073%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.04% 0.054% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 1 12
10th Percentile £350 - £463
25th Percentile £405 £650 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £675 £550
Median % change year-on-year -31.48% +22.73% -15.38%
75th Percentile £551 £700 £575
90th Percentile £589 - £665
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% -12.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 -

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Azure Machine Learning 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 Machine Learning
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Azure Machine Learning trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Azure Machine Learning
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 Machine Learning.

Azure Machine Learning daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Azure Machine Learning daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Machine Learning
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 3 (7.32%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.88%) Apache
3 1 (2.44%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 38 (92.68%) Azure
2 24 (58.54%) Power Platform
3 22 (53.66%) Azure Data Factory
4 20 (48.78%) AWS
5 4 (9.76%) Azure AKS
5 4 (9.76%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (7.32%) Azure AI
6 3 (7.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (7.32%) Snowflake
7 2 (4.88%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 2 (4.88%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (4.88%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (4.88%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (4.88%) GCP
8 1 (2.44%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (2.44%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.44%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.44%) SaaS
8 1 (2.44%) Serverless
8 1 (2.44%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) DNS
1 2 (4.88%) FTP
1 2 (4.88%) HTTP
1 2 (4.88%) SMTP
1 2 (4.88%) SSL
1 2 (4.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (58.54%) Power BI
2 22 (53.66%) Data Lake
3 19 (46.34%) Neo4j
4 5 (12.20%) Metadata
5 3 (7.32%) Big Data
6 1 (2.44%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (2.44%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.44%) GitLab
1 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.44%) JIRA
1 1 (2.44%) MLflow
1 1 (2.44%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (31.71%) Public Sector
2 5 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (12.20%) Finance
2 5 (12.20%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.88%) Banking
4 1 (2.44%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.44%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (21.95%) Architect
1 9 (21.95%) Azure Engineer
1 9 (21.95%) Data Engineer
2 8 (19.51%) Data Scientist
3 6 (14.63%) Azure Data Engineer
3 6 (14.63%) Data Architect
4 4 (9.76%) Analyst
4 4 (9.76%) Azure Architect
5 3 (7.32%) Data Analyst
5 3 (7.32%) Developer
5 3 (7.32%) Lead
5 3 (7.32%) Technical Architect
6 2 (4.88%) AWS Data Architect
6 2 (4.88%) AWS Data Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Azure Data Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Lead Data Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Python Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Scrum Master
6 2 (4.88%) Senior
6 2 (4.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (46.34%) Plotly
1 19 (46.34%) React
2 5 (12.20%) TensorFlow
3 4 (9.76%) PyTorch
4 3 (7.32%) .NET
4 3 (7.32%) scikit-learn
5 2 (4.88%) JSON
5 2 (4.88%) LangChain
5 2 (4.88%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (4.88%) Regular Expression
5 2 (4.88%) YAML
6 1 (2.44%) ARM Templates
6 1 (2.44%) Dapper ORM
6 1 (2.44%) FHIR
6 1 (2.44%) Hugging Face
6 1 (2.44%) Kafka
6 1 (2.44%) Matplotlib
6 1 (2.44%) Pandas
6 1 (2.44%) REST
6 1 (2.44%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.88%) Algorithms
1 2 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.44%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (2.44%) IoT
2 1 (2.44%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (90.24%) Machine Learning
2 19 (46.34%) Data Visualisation
2 19 (46.34%) Visualisation
3 18 (43.90%) Data Integration
3 18 (43.90%) Storage Management
4 14 (34.15%) Data Science
5 9 (21.95%) Artificial Intelligence
5 9 (21.95%) Data Engineering
5 9 (21.95%) Data Pipeline
6 8 (19.51%) Analytics
6 8 (19.51%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (19.51%) Data Modelling
7 7 (17.07%) Agile
8 5 (12.20%) CI/CD
8 5 (12.20%) Data Analysis
8 5 (12.20%) Data Architecture
8 5 (12.20%) DevOps
8 5 (12.20%) LLM
9 4 (9.76%) Data Strategy
9 4 (9.76%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 19 (46.34%) JavaScript
2 15 (36.59%) Python
3 6 (14.63%) SQL
4 4 (9.76%) R
5 3 (7.32%) C#
6 2 (4.88%) Bicep
6 2 (4.88%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (4.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (58.54%) Security Cleared
2 23 (56.10%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.88%) Degree
4 1 (2.44%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.44%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.44%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (2.44%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.20%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.32%) QA
3 1 (2.44%) GDPR
3 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.44%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 4 (9.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (17.07%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.88%) Grafana
2 2 (4.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (58.54%) Databricks
2 3 (7.32%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.88%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.44%) Google
4 1 (2.44%) OpenAI