Azure Cognitive Search Contracts

Microsoft Azure Cognitive Search (formerly Azure Search)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Azure Cognitive Search skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Cognitive Search over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 567 668 818
Rank change year-on-year +101 +150 -168
Contract jobs citing Azure Cognitive Search 9 16 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.028% 0.035%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.065% 0.076% 0.092%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 22
10th Percentile £288 £463 -
25th Percentile £510 £481 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +3.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £616 -
90th Percentile £660 £723 £695
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £575 £440
% change year-on-year +4.35% +30.68% +3.53%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Azure Cognitive Search 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 requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,826 20,933 33,670
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.49% 36.75% 38.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,828 15,157 24,567
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 348 336 412
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.05 £18.44 £15.37
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%
75th Percentile £36.16 £66.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £69.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £25.87 £19.63
% change year-on-year -31.49% +31.80% -1.88%

Azure Cognitive Search
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Azure Cognitive Search as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Cognitive Search in the UK

Azure Cognitive Search
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Cognitive Search in the UK

Azure Cognitive Search
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Cognitive Search over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Cognitive Search in the UK

Azure Cognitive Search
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Cognitive Search within the UK over the 6 months to 16 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
England +110 8 £600 +5.26% 4
UK excluding London +56 5 £600 +4.35% 4
South East - 5 £600 -
Work from Home +119 3 £600 -6.25% 6
London +98 2 £463 -18.86%

Azure Cognitive Search
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (66.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 6 (66.67%) Azure Key Vault
2 6 (66.67%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (33.33%) Azure Cognitive Services
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Lead
2 5 (55.56%) Designer
2 5 (55.56%) Lead Designer
3 3 (33.33%) Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Data Scientist
4 2 (22.22%) Lead Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Angular Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Applications Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Cloud Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Junior
5 1 (11.11%) Junior Data Scientist
5 1 (11.11%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) AngularJS
1 6 (66.67%) Node.js
2 1 (11.11%) CSS
2 1 (11.11%) HTML
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) API Design
1 6 (66.67%) API Development
2 5 (55.56%) Coaching
3 3 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) Data Science
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Generative AI
4 2 (22.22%) LLM
4 2 (22.22%) Product Backlog
5 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (11.11%) Data-Driven Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Integration Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Security Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Software Testing
5 1 (11.11%) System Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
5 1 (11.11%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) C
3 1 (11.11%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) OpenAI