Azure Cognitive Services Job Trends in England

Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Azure Cognitive Services skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 610 664 661
Rank change year-on-year +54 -3 +278
Permanent jobs citing Azure Cognitive Services 7 15 19
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.013% 0.031% 0.039%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.038% 0.085% 0.095%
Number of salaries quoted 6 12 19
10th Percentile £56,875 £58,750 £40,950
25th Percentile £62,188 £60,625 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +4.80% -1.19%
75th Percentile £81,875 £77,813 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £98,250 £82,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £63,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.96% -1.92% -23.53%

All Cloud Computing Skills
England

Azure Cognitive Services falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 18,577 17,573 19,928
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.16% 36.51% 40.44%
Number of salaries quoted 10,387 10,399 16,693
10th Percentile £28,900 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,376 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,850 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

Azure Cognitive Services
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure Cognitive Services relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Azure Cognitive Services job vacancy trend in England

Azure Cognitive Services
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure Cognitive Services.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure Cognitive Services

Azure Cognitive Services
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Cognitive Services in England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Cognitive Services in England

Azure Cognitive Services
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Cognitive Services within the England region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +48 3 £75,000 -7.69% 4
North of England +9 2 £72,500 +9.02% 9
North West - 2 £72,500 - 4
South West - 1 - - 6
East Midlands - 1 £55,000 - 5
Midlands - 1 £55,000 - 6
Azure Cognitive Services
UK

Azure Cognitive Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Power Platform
3 3 (42.86%) Azure AI
3 3 (42.86%) Azure Machine Learning
3 3 (42.86%) Power Automate
3 3 (42.86%) PowerApps
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (14.29%) GitHub
5 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Power BI
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Advertising
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Local Government
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Business Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
2 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
2 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (14.29%) CSS
2 1 (14.29%) CSS3
2 1 (14.29%) Entity Framework
2 1 (14.29%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) HTML5
2 1 (14.29%) Hugging Face
2 1 (14.29%) LangChain
2 1 (14.29%) ML.NET
2 1 (14.29%) PyTorch
2 1 (14.29%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) AI Agents
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) AI
2 4 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (57.14%) Machine Learning
3 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
3 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Monitoring
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (28.57%) Data Science
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Generative AI
4 2 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) User Experience
5 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
5 1 (14.29%) Data Privacy
5 1 (14.29%) ETL
5 1 (14.29%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) R
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) OpenAI
3 1 (14.29%) Databricks
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow