Azure Machine Learning Job Trends in England

Microsoft Azure Machine Learning (Azure ML)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Azure Machine Learning 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 568 636 642
Rank change year-on-year +68 +6 +188
Permanent jobs citing Azure Machine Learning 49 43 38
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.093% 0.089% 0.077%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.26% 0.24% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 30 30 24
10th Percentile £38,750 £51,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £59,375 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,500 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.63% +10.34% -
75th Percentile £94,375 £100,000 £88,313
90th Percentile £95,500 £103,875 £131,250
UK median annual salary £83,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +18.57% +7.69% -7.14%

All Cloud Computing Skills
England

Azure Machine Learning 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 Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Azure Machine Learning job vacancy trend in England

Azure Machine Learning
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure Machine Learning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure Machine Learning

Azure Machine Learning
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for Azure Machine Learning in England

Azure Machine Learning
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 Machine Learning 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 +69 34 £85,000 - 18
South East +29 5 £42,500 -26.41% 21
Midlands +23 2 £52,500 -41.67% 6
West Midlands +22 2 £52,500 -41.67% 1
South West +10 2 £42,500 - 7
East of England - 1 £42,500 - 6
Azure Machine Learning
UK

Azure Machine Learning
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 4 (8.16%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.08%) Apache
2 2 (4.08%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (6.12%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (10.20%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 49 (100.00%) Azure
2 23 (46.94%) AWS
3 14 (28.57%) GCP
4 13 (26.53%) Azure AI
4 13 (26.53%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (24.49%) Power Platform
6 10 (20.41%) Snowflake
7 9 (18.37%) SaaS
8 8 (16.33%) dbt
8 8 (16.33%) GitHub
9 5 (10.20%) Amazon SageMaker
9 5 (10.20%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (8.16%) Fivetran
10 4 (8.16%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (8.16%) Google Data Studio
11 3 (6.12%) Azure Cognitive Services
11 3 (6.12%) Azure Data Factory
12 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Copilot
12 1 (2.04%) Power Automate
12 1 (2.04%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (24.49%) Power BI
2 11 (22.45%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (12.24%) SQL Server
4 4 (8.16%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (8.16%) BigQuery
4 4 (8.16%) Looker
4 4 (8.16%) Tableau
5 2 (4.08%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 2 (4.08%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.04%) Big Data
6 1 (2.04%) Delta Lake
6 1 (2.04%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 19 (38.78%) MLflow
2 7 (14.29%) Git
General
1 23 (46.94%) Finance
1 23 (46.94%) Social Skills
2 12 (24.49%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (18.37%) Games
4 6 (12.24%) Law
5 5 (10.20%) Marketing
5 5 (10.20%) Retail
6 4 (8.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (6.12%) Public Sector
8 2 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (2.04%) Legal
9 1 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (22.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 8 (16.33%) Data Engineer
2 8 (16.33%) Senior
3 7 (14.29%) Operations Engineer
4 6 (12.24%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Analyst
5 5 (10.20%) Architect
5 5 (10.20%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 5 (10.20%) Chief Technology Officer
5 5 (10.20%) Data Science Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
6 4 (8.16%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 4 (8.16%) Consultant
6 4 (8.16%) Data Consultant
6 4 (8.16%) Platform Architect
6 4 (8.16%) Senior Consultant
6 4 (8.16%) Software Architect
6 4 (8.16%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (28.57%) LangChain
2 13 (26.53%) TensorFlow
3 12 (24.49%) scikit-learn
4 11 (22.45%) PyTorch
5 10 (20.41%) React
6 8 (16.33%) Hugging Face
6 8 (16.33%) Pandas
7 5 (10.20%) CSS
7 5 (10.20%) PySpark
7 5 (10.20%) REST
7 5 (10.20%) Symfony
7 5 (10.20%) Unity (Game Engine)
7 5 (10.20%) WebGL
8 4 (8.16%) NumPy
8 4 (8.16%) XGBoost
9 3 (6.12%) Keras
10 1 (2.04%) .NET Core
10 1 (2.04%) Faiss
10 1 (2.04%) gRPC
10 1 (2.04%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.45%) Algorithms
2 9 (18.37%) AI Agents
3 5 (10.20%) Educational Technology
3 5 (10.20%) Mobile Games
4 4 (8.16%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (6.12%) Life Science
6 2 (4.08%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (2.04%) Cloud Native
7 1 (2.04%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.20%) Android
1 5 (10.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (91.84%) Machine Learning
2 41 (83.67%) AI
3 30 (61.22%) Data Science
4 25 (51.02%) DevOps
4 25 (51.02%) MLOps
5 23 (46.94%) Analytics
5 23 (46.94%) CI/CD
6 18 (36.73%) Decision-Making
7 15 (30.61%) Data Engineering
7 15 (30.61%) ETL
7 15 (30.61%) LLM
8 14 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
8 14 (28.57%) Software Engineering
9 13 (26.53%) Clean Code
10 12 (24.49%) Natural Language Processing
11 11 (22.45%) Computer Science
11 11 (22.45%) Data Munging
11 11 (22.45%) Generative AI
11 11 (22.45%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
11 11 (22.45%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 35 (71.43%) Python
2 16 (32.65%) SQL
3 5 (10.20%) JavaScript
3 5 (10.20%) Kotlin
3 5 (10.20%) PHP
4 4 (8.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (8.16%) PowerShell
4 4 (8.16%) R
5 3 (6.12%) Java
6 2 (4.08%) C#
6 2 (4.08%) C++
Qualifications
1 15 (30.61%) Degree
2 11 (22.45%) Master's Degree
3 5 (10.20%) Azure Certification
3 5 (10.20%) PhD
4 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.04%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.04%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.37%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.04%) QA
System Software
1 12 (24.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (18.37%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.16%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (42.86%) Databricks
2 18 (36.73%) OpenAI
3 12 (24.49%) Microsoft
4 5 (10.20%) Foundry
4 5 (10.20%) Google
5 4 (8.16%) Alteryx
5 4 (8.16%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (8.16%) Fortinet
5 4 (8.16%) HubSpot
5 4 (8.16%) Palo Alto
5 4 (8.16%) Salesforce
5 4 (8.16%) Talend
5 4 (8.16%) Zoho
6 1 (2.04%) Oracle
6 1 (2.04%) OutSystems
6 1 (2.04%) Red Hat