Semantic Kernel Job Trends in the South West

Microsoft Semantic Kernel
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Semantic Kernel skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Semantic Kernel 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.011% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.11% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - -
75th Percentile £68,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £91,250 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South West

Semantic Kernel falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 916 465 1,334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.82% 13.35% 16.42%
Number of salaries quoted 699 351 977
10th Percentile £35,000 £27,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,375 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £69,384 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.71% +6.74% -7.14%

Semantic Kernel
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Semantic Kernel relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Semantic Kernel job vacancy trend in the South West

Semantic Kernel
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Semantic Kernel within the South West region over the 6 months to 26 August 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
Bristol - 1 £67,500 - 1
Semantic Kernel
England

Semantic Kernel
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AI
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) AI Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI