Azure Cognitive Services Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Azure Cognitive Services skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Azure Cognitive Services 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.018% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.071% - -
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 - - -
South East median annual salary £67,500 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Thames Valley

Azure Cognitive Services 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 1,408 865 1,947
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 24.77% 25.77% 27.31%
Number of salaries quoted 966 435 1,480
10th Percentile £33,125 £31,250 £30,488
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.15% +7.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £83,750 £76,250
South East median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -12.28%

Azure Cognitive Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Azure Cognitive Services job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Azure Cognitive Services
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Azure Cognitive Services

Azure Cognitive Services
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 Cognitive Services within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 9 June 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 - 1 £67,500 - 1
Azure Cognitive Services
South East

Azure Cognitive Services
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Copilot
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (100.00%) Model Context Protocol
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Product Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI