Azure Machine Learning Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure Machine Learning (Azure ML)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 359 404 490
Rank change year-on-year +45 +86 +10
Contract jobs citing Azure Machine Learning 10 9 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.060% 0.043% 0.057%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.20% 0.14% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 14
10th Percentile £323 £456 £574
25th Percentile £348 £489 £614
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £356 £525 £676
Median % change year-on-year -32.19% -22.34% +17.57%
75th Percentile £471 £626 £738
90th Percentile £555 £730 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £650
% change year-on-year - -19.23% +8.33%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 requiring cloud computing skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,900 6,600 10,513
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.25% 31.62% 35.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,140 4,793 7,738
10th Percentile £251 £222 £225
25th Percentile £391 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £673 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 234 285
10th Percentile £17.44 £14.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £21.25 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £34.47 £22.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.18% +15.38% +5.41%
75th Percentile £67.74 £47.17 £35.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £32.15 £22.50
% change year-on-year +8.86% +42.89% +7.14%

Azure Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Azure Machine Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Machine Learning in the UK excluding London

Azure Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Machine Learning in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Azure Machine Learning in the UK excluding London

Azure Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Machine Learning in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Machine Learning in the UK excluding London

Azure Machine Learning
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Machine Learning within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
South East +42 4 £550 +2.80% 7
Midlands +8 4 £348 -50.29% 1
East Midlands - 4 £348 -
North of England +31 3 £356 -52.53% 2
North West - 2 £356 - 1
Yorkshire +16 1 £525 -30.00% 1
Scotland - 1 £391 -
Azure Machine Learning
UK

Azure Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (40.00%) Apache
1 4 (40.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) GCP
3 4 (40.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) Azure AKS
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (10.00%) Azure AI
5 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Big Data
1 4 (40.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (20.00%) HDInsight
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (70.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (50.00%) Finance
3 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Data Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Data Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) PyTorch
1 7 (70.00%) scikit-learn
1 7 (70.00%) TensorFlow
2 2 (20.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (10.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 7 (70.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 5 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 5 (50.00%) Conversational AI
3 5 (50.00%) Conversational UI
3 5 (50.00%) Customer Experience
3 5 (50.00%) Data Analysis
3 5 (50.00%) Data Science
3 5 (50.00%) Deep Learning
3 5 (50.00%) Feature Engineering
3 5 (50.00%) Generative AI
3 5 (50.00%) Intelligent Automation
3 5 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
3 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (50.00%) Statistics
3 5 (50.00%) Use Case
4 3 (30.00%) Agile
4 3 (30.00%) Analytics
4 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (30.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Python
1 7 (70.00%) R
2 5 (50.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Databricks
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft