Azure AI Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Azure AI Platform
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Azure AI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 185 237
Rank change year-on-year +75 +52 -
Permanent jobs citing Azure AI 78 17 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.27% 0.47% 0.015%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.25% 1.73% 0.054%
Number of salaries quoted 12 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45,000 - £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 - £60,000
75th Percentile £68,750 - £62,500
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £62,500 - £60,000

All Cloud Computing Skills
Thames Valley

Azure AI 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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,486 985 1,844
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 24.13% 27.32% 28.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,031 476 1,346
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,431 £39,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £77,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.80% +3.00% -13.04%

Azure AI
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure AI relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Azure AI job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Azure AI
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Azure AI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Azure AI

Azure AI
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure AI in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 16 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure AI in the Thames Valley

Azure AI
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure AI within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 16 July 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
Berkshire +35 32 £62,500 - 2
Oxfordshire +14 24 £50,000 - 1
Buckinghamshire - 22 - - 1
Azure AI
South East

Azure AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Applications
1 48 (61.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.56%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 78 (100.00%) Azure
2 48 (61.54%) Power Platform
3 6 (7.69%) GitHub
3 6 (7.69%) GitHub Copilot
4 5 (6.41%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.56%) AWS
6 1 (1.28%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (1.28%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 1 (1.28%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.41%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (61.54%) Power BI
1 48 (61.54%) Tableau
2 9 (11.54%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (11.54%) MongoDB
General
1 67 (85.90%) Social Skills
2 1 (1.28%) Retail
Job Titles
1 48 (61.54%) Analyst
1 48 (61.54%) Data Analyst
1 48 (61.54%) Junior
1 48 (61.54%) Junior Analyst
1 48 (61.54%) Junior Data Analyst
2 18 (23.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 12 (15.38%) Developer
4 9 (11.54%) .NET Developer
5 2 (2.56%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (1.28%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.82%) .NET
2 9 (11.54%) .NET Core
2 9 (11.54%) ASP.NET
2 9 (11.54%) ASP.NET Core
2 9 (11.54%) ML.NET
3 7 (8.97%) CSS
3 7 (8.97%) HTML
4 5 (6.41%) React
5 4 (5.13%) Blazor
5 4 (5.13%) RESTful
6 3 (3.85%) Node.js
7 1 (1.28%) FastAPI
7 1 (1.28%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.13%) Social Network
2 2 (2.56%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (1.28%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (100.00%) AI
2 48 (61.54%) Business Intelligence
3 18 (23.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
4 12 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
5 10 (12.82%) Machine Learning
6 7 (8.97%) DevOps
7 6 (7.69%) CI/CD
8 5 (6.41%) Agile
9 4 (5.13%) Multithreading
9 4 (5.13%) OO
9 4 (5.13%) SDLC
10 2 (2.56%) Conversational UI
10 2 (2.56%) Unit Testing
11 1 (1.28%) Code Quality
11 1 (1.28%) LLM
11 1 (1.28%) Problem-Solving
11 1 (1.28%) Product Strategy
11 1 (1.28%) Prompt Engineering
11 1 (1.28%) Prototyping
11 1 (1.28%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 69 (88.46%) Python
2 59 (75.64%) SQL
3 10 (12.82%) C#
4 6 (7.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 67 (85.90%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
System Software
1 5 (6.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (6.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 59 (75.64%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.28%) OpenAI