Azure Machine Learning Job Trends in the South East

Microsoft Azure Machine Learning (Azure ML)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Azure Machine Learning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 282 274
Rank change year-on-year +17 -8 +129
Permanent jobs citing Azure Machine Learning 5 14 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.048% 0.15% 0.012%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.16% 0.47% 0.037%
Number of salaries quoted 2 9 1
10th Percentile - £49,700 -
25th Percentile £38,750 £51,500 £127,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £62,500 £135,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% -53.70% +89.47%
75th Percentile £46,250 £103,750 £142,500
90th Percentile - £108,000 -
England median annual salary £83,000 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.75% +10.34% -3.33%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,202 2,995 2,701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 30.83% 32.80% 32.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,719 1,622 2,234
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,750 £29,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £69,670 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year -7.69% +7.89% -7.31%

Azure Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Azure Machine Learning job vacancy trend in the South East

Azure Machine Learning
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Azure Machine Learning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Azure Machine Learning

Azure Machine Learning
Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 7 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
Thames Valley +9 5 £42,500 -19.81% 5
Berkshire -4 3 - - 4
Buckinghamshire +5 1 £42,500 -66.00% 1
Oxfordshire - 1 £42,500 -
Azure Machine Learning
England

Azure Machine Learning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) dbt
2 2 (40.00%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (40.00%) Fivetran
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (40.00%) Google Data Studio
2 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (40.00%) SaaS
2 2 (40.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (40.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (40.00%) Looker
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (40.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Git
2 3 (60.00%) MLflow
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Marketing
1 2 (40.00%) Retail
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) scikit-learn
2 3 (60.00%) Keras
2 3 (60.00%) TensorFlow
3 2 (40.00%) Hugging Face
3 2 (40.00%) NumPy
3 2 (40.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) AI
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (60.00%) Bioinformatics
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (60.00%) Data Governance
2 3 (60.00%) Data Science
2 3 (60.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (60.00%) LLM
2 3 (60.00%) MLOps
2 3 (60.00%) Neural Network
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Workflow
3 2 (40.00%) Customer Engagement
3 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (40.00%) Segmentation Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
1 3 (60.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Alteryx
1 2 (40.00%) Google
1 2 (40.00%) HubSpot
1 2 (40.00%) OpenAI
1 2 (40.00%) Salesforce
1 2 (40.00%) Talend
1 2 (40.00%) Zoho