Azure Machine Learning Contracts

Microsoft Azure Machine Learning (Azure ML)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 548 645 794
Rank change year-on-year +97 +149 -133
Contract jobs citing Azure Machine Learning 36 52 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.082% 0.094% 0.062%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.25% 0.26% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 33 34
10th Percentile £450 £488 £475
25th Percentile £484 £513 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% +7.22%
75th Percentile £623 £825 £800
90th Percentile £685 - £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 £538 £636
% change year-on-year +4.65% -15.49% +30.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £19.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £20.50
75th Percentile - - £21.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,152 20,251 33,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.40% 36.46% 38.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,986 14,657 24,479
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 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 356 327 381
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.89
25th Percentile £16.06 £20.00 £15.33
Median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%
75th Percentile £43.75 £69.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.48 £69.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.00 £27.35 £19.09
% change year-on-year -26.87% +43.27% -4.55%

Azure Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Azure Machine Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Machine Learning in the UK

Azure Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Machine Learning.

Daily rate trend for Azure Machine Learning in the UK

Azure Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Machine Learning over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Machine Learning in the UK

Azure Machine Learning
Top 7 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 13 June 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 +70 33 £550 -12.00% 33
London +71 24 £550 -27.87% 19
Work from Home +105 6 £540 -1.82% 33
UK excluding London +19 3 £563 +4.65% 11
Midlands - 2 £563 -
West Midlands - 2 £563 -
South East +5 1 - - 1

Azure Machine Learning
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (11.11%) Apache Spark
2 3 (8.33%) Apache
3 2 (5.56%) Jupyter
4 1 (2.78%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 34 (94.44%) Azure
2 7 (19.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 6 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (13.89%) Azure Functions
4 5 (13.89%) Serverless
5 4 (11.11%) AWS
6 3 (8.33%) Azure AKS
6 3 (8.33%) GCP
7 2 (5.56%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (5.56%) Azure Pipelines
7 2 (5.56%) ChatGPT
8 1 (2.78%) Amazon Bedrock
8 1 (2.78%) Azure AI
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (2.78%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.89%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (8.33%) Data Lake
3 2 (5.56%) Big Data
3 2 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.56%) NoSQL
3 2 (5.56%) Tableau
4 1 (2.78%) GIS
4 1 (2.78%) HDInsight
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.78%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.78%) Spatial Data
4 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.78%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Git
2 2 (5.56%) GitLab
2 2 (5.56%) MLflow
3 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.78%) JIRA
General
1 11 (30.56%) Social Skills
2 7 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.11%) Finance
4 3 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.56%) Legal
5 2 (5.56%) Police
5 2 (5.56%) Retail
6 1 (2.78%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (27.78%) Azure Engineer
2 9 (25.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 8 (22.22%) Data Scientist
3 8 (22.22%) Developer
4 5 (13.89%) .NET Developer
4 5 (13.89%) Data Engineer
4 5 (13.89%) Senior
5 4 (11.11%) Senior Data Scientist
6 3 (8.33%) Full Stack .NET Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Full Stack Developer
6 3 (8.33%) React Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Architect
7 2 (5.56%) C# Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Consultant
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) CRM Developer
8 1 (2.78%) Data Architect
8 1 (2.78%) Python Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Research Consultant
8 1 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (19.44%) .NET
2 6 (16.67%) TensorFlow
3 5 (13.89%) scikit-learn
4 4 (11.11%) PyTorch
5 3 (8.33%) PySpark
5 3 (8.33%) React
5 3 (8.33%) YAML
6 2 (5.56%) FastAPI
6 2 (5.56%) HTML
6 2 (5.56%) LangChain
6 2 (5.56%) Torch
7 1 (2.78%) ARM Templates
7 1 (2.78%) Google JAX
7 1 (2.78%) Kafka
7 1 (2.78%) Pandas
7 1 (2.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) Algorithms
2 3 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 3 (8.33%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (5.56%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.56%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 21 (58.33%) Data Science
3 17 (47.22%) CI/CD
4 14 (38.89%) DevOps
5 12 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
6 9 (25.00%) Agile
6 9 (25.00%) Analytics
7 8 (22.22%) MLOps
8 6 (16.67%) LLM
8 6 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (16.67%) Software Engineering
9 5 (13.89%) Data Engineering
9 5 (13.89%) Data Ingestion
9 5 (13.89%) Data Pipeline
9 5 (13.89%) Generative AI
9 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (11.11%) Actionable Insight
10 4 (11.11%) Fintech
10 4 (11.11%) Full Stack Development
10 4 (11.11%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 24 (66.67%) Python
2 8 (22.22%) R
3 7 (19.44%) C#
3 7 (19.44%) SQL
4 4 (11.11%) TypeScript
5 3 (8.33%) Bicep
5 3 (8.33%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.56%) Go
6 2 (5.56%) Java
7 1 (2.78%) F#
7 1 (2.78%) Julia
7 1 (2.78%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 11 (30.56%) SC Cleared
1 11 (30.56%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.33%) Degree
2 3 (8.33%) Master's Degree
2 3 (8.33%) PhD
3 2 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) QA
2 2 (5.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (13.89%) Terraform
2 4 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.56%) Grafana
Vendors
1 11 (30.56%) Databricks
2 5 (13.89%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.56%) OpenAI
3 2 (5.56%) Splunk
4 1 (2.78%) Cloudera
4 1 (2.78%) Foundry
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle
4 1 (2.78%) Palantir