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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 269 391
Rank change year-on-year +2 +122 -14
Permanent jobs citing Azure Machine Learning 27 4 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.19% 0.051% 0.018%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.74% 0.20% 0.060%
Number of salaries quoted 23 4 3
10th Percentile - - £85,500
25th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £101,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £85,000 £135,000
Median % change year-on-year +32.35% -37.04% +107.69%
75th Percentile £140,000 £93,438 £146,250
90th Percentile £143,750 £99,625 £148,500
England median annual salary £112,500 £88,662 £62,500
% change year-on-year +26.89% +41.86% -3.85%

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 3,672 2,040 5,040
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 25.39% 26.03% 30.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2,236 1,281 3,999
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

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
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Machine Learning in the South East over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Machine Learning in the South East

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 21 May 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
East Sussex - 13 £112,500 -
Kent - 9 £112,500 -
Thames Valley +12 4 £57,500 -30.30% 2
Berkshire +16 3 - - 1
Oxfordshire - 1 £57,500 - 1
Surrey - 1 - -
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:

Cloud Services
1 27 (100.00%) Azure
2 22 (81.48%) Azure AI
2 22 (81.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 22 (81.48%) Snowflake
3 3 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.70%) AWS
4 1 (3.70%) Copilot Studio
4 1 (3.70%) GCP
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (3.70%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (81.48%) SQL Server
2 4 (14.81%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Git
1 3 (11.11%) MLflow
General
1 22 (81.48%) Finance
2 4 (14.81%) Banking
3 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (66.67%) Data Manager
1 18 (66.67%) Engineering Manager
1 18 (66.67%) Finance Manager
2 4 (14.81%) Head of AI
2 4 (14.81%) Head of Finance
2 4 (14.81%) Senior
3 1 (3.70%) .NET Software Engineer
3 1 (3.70%) C# Software Engineer
3 1 (3.70%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 1 (3.70%) Software Engineer
3 1 (3.70%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) Keras
1 3 (11.11%) scikit-learn
1 3 (11.11%) TensorFlow
2 1 (3.70%) .NET
2 1 (3.70%) Blazor
2 1 (3.70%) LangChain
2 1 (3.70%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Life Science
2 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 26 (96.30%) AI
3 25 (92.59%) Data Governance
4 23 (85.19%) Agile
4 23 (85.19%) Roadmaps
5 22 (81.48%) Data Architecture
5 22 (81.48%) Data Development
5 22 (81.48%) Data Engineering
5 22 (81.48%) Line Management
5 22 (81.48%) Migration
5 22 (81.48%) Regulatory Compliance
6 4 (14.81%) Asset Management
6 4 (14.81%) CI/CD
6 4 (14.81%) Decision-Making
6 4 (14.81%) LLM
6 4 (14.81%) Software Engineering
7 3 (11.11%) Containerisation
7 3 (11.11%) Data Science
7 3 (11.11%) MLOps
7 3 (11.11%) Neural Network
Programming Languages
1 22 (81.48%) SQL
2 4 (14.81%) Python
3 1 (3.70%) C#
3 1 (3.70%) Java
3 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) Degree
2 3 (11.11%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 22 (81.48%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (85.19%) Microsoft
2 22 (81.48%) Databricks
3 1 (3.70%) Foundry
3 1 (3.70%) Google