Azure Cognitive Services Contracts in England

Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 525 638 744
Rank change year-on-year +113 +106 -128
Contract jobs citing Azure Cognitive Services 6 8 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.016% 0.017% 0.046%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.051% 0.045% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 27
10th Percentile £243 £384 £413
25th Percentile £270 £453 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £315 £519 £600
Median % change year-on-year -39.28% -13.54% +41.18%
75th Percentile £514 £574 £650
90th Percentile £633 £582 £675
UK median daily rate £458 £475 £588
% change year-on-year -3.68% -19.15% +38.24%

All Cloud Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,675 17,684 27,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.07% 36.49% 38.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,429 12,966 20,152
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £417 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £650
90th Percentile £745 £750 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 288 339
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.88 £18.44 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.37 £32.40 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.04% +50.70% +2.14%
75th Percentile £35.00 £67.81 £49.08
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -38.94% +59.09% -2.22%

Azure Cognitive Services
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Azure Cognitive Services as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Cognitive Services in England

Azure Cognitive Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Cognitive Services in England.

Daily rate trend for Azure Cognitive Services in England

Azure Cognitive Services
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Cognitive Services in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Cognitive Services in England

Azure Cognitive Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Cognitive Services in England.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Cognitive Services in England

Azure Cognitive Services
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Cognitive Services within the England region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +99 2 £463 -18.86% 2
South East - 1 - -
Azure Cognitive Services
UK

Azure Cognitive Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Cognitive Search
2 3 (50.00%) ChatGPT
2 3 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
General
1 2 (33.33%) Electronics
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 2 (33.33%) Marketing
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Data Scientist
3 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Junior
3 1 (16.67%) Junior Data Scientist
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Support
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Hugging Face
1 3 (50.00%) LangChain
1 3 (50.00%) PyTorch
2 2 (33.33%) RESTful
2 2 (33.33%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (66.67%) LLM
3 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Data Management
3 3 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
3 3 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 3 (50.00%) Statistical Analysis
3 3 (50.00%) Visualisation
4 2 (33.33%) API Development
4 2 (33.33%) API Integration
4 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (33.33%) Data Science
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (33.33%) Generative AI
4 2 (33.33%) Open Source
4 2 (33.33%) Programme Management
5 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) OpenAI
1 2 (33.33%) SAP