Azure AI Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Azure AI Platform
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Azure AI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 491 602
Rank change year-on-year +226 +111 -34
Permanent jobs citing Azure AI 550 50 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.64% 0.14% 0.033%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.28% 0.54% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 193 19 8
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £37,775
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -13.79%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,250 -
UK median annual salary £65,000 £76,250 £62,500
% change year-on-year -14.75% +22.00% -23.08%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 16,752 9,258 14,233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 19.39% 26.59% 27.82%
Number of salaries quoted 11,814 6,205 8,123
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £59,186 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.60% -8.94% +4.00%

Azure AI
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Azure AI job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Azure AI
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Azure AI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Azure AI

Azure AI
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure AI in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure AI in the UK excluding London

Azure AI
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure AI within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 October 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
North of England +74 156 £55,000 - 53
South East +36 116 £60,000 +60.00% 26
Midlands +35 92 £70,000 +14.29% 27
Yorkshire +44 82 £55,000 - 30
South West -5 72 £55,000 - 20
East of England +15 56 £60,000 - 19
North West +29 54 £57,500 - 19
West Midlands 0 51 £70,000 +14.29% 17
East Midlands +5 41 £50,000 - 10
Scotland +41 34 £55,000 -31.25% 11
Wales - 23 £60,000 - 8
North East -47 20 £70,000 - 4
Northern Ireland - 7 - - 2
Azure AI
UK

Azure AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (1.09%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 163 (29.64%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 550 (100.00%) Azure
2 185 (33.64%) Power Platform
3 82 (14.91%) Azure DevOps
4 71 (12.91%) GitHub
4 71 (12.91%) GitHub Copilot
5 23 (4.18%) Microsoft Copilot
6 17 (3.09%) Google Play
7 16 (2.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 14 (2.55%) Copilot Studio
9 12 (2.18%) Azure Machine Learning
10 11 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
11 10 (1.82%) AWS
11 10 (1.82%) PowerApps
12 9 (1.64%) Power Automate
13 8 (1.45%) Azure Cognitive Services
14 7 (1.27%) Amazon Bedrock
14 7 (1.27%) Amazon SageMaker
15 4 (0.73%) Anthropic Claude
15 4 (0.73%) Snowflake
16 3 (0.55%) Azure Databricks
Communications & Networking
1 29 (5.27%) Internet
2 2 (0.36%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (30.73%) Power BI
2 164 (29.82%) Tableau
3 138 (25.09%) Azure SQL Database
4 132 (24.00%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.55%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.36%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (0.36%) GIS
6 2 (0.36%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.36%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.18%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.18%) MySQL
7 1 (0.18%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (0.55%) Git
2 1 (0.18%) Claude Code
2 1 (0.18%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.18%) Storybook
General
1 348 (63.27%) Social Skills
2 43 (7.82%) Marketing
3 30 (5.45%) Advertising
4 29 (5.27%) Finance
5 7 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (0.73%) Public Sector
7 3 (0.55%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (0.55%) Legal
7 3 (0.55%) Retail
8 2 (0.36%) Law
8 2 (0.36%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.18%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 184 (33.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 163 (29.64%) Analyst
2 163 (29.64%) Data Analyst
3 162 (29.45%) Junior
3 162 (29.45%) Junior Analyst
3 162 (29.45%) Junior Data Analyst
4 158 (28.73%) Developer
5 145 (26.36%) .NET Developer
6 26 (4.73%) Senior
7 22 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
8 17 (3.09%) Lead
9 16 (2.91%) Consultant
9 16 (2.91%) Microsoft Engineer
10 13 (2.36%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
11 8 (1.45%) Architect
11 8 (1.45%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
11 8 (1.45%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 8 (1.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 8 (1.45%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (1.45%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (29.09%) .NET
2 145 (26.36%) ASP.NET
2 145 (26.36%) ASP.NET Core
2 145 (26.36%) ML.NET
3 135 (24.55%) .NET Core
4 94 (17.09%) Blazor
5 83 (15.09%) React
6 77 (14.00%) RESTful
7 69 (12.55%) CSS
7 69 (12.55%) HTML
8 8 (1.45%) Model Context Protocol
9 5 (0.91%) Node.js
10 3 (0.55%) FastAPI
10 3 (0.55%) REST
10 3 (0.55%) Semantic Kernel
11 2 (0.36%) AngularJS
11 2 (0.36%) PyTorch
11 2 (0.36%) scikit-learn
11 2 (0.36%) Streamlit
11 2 (0.36%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 23 (4.18%) Greenfield Project
2 19 (3.45%) Digital TV
3 17 (3.09%) AI Agents
3 17 (3.09%) iPhone
3 17 (3.09%) Mobile App
4 16 (2.91%) BBC
4 16 (2.91%) Social Media
5 10 (1.82%) Social Network
6 8 (1.45%) Cloud Native
7 7 (1.27%) Product Ownership
8 5 (0.91%) Low-Code
9 3 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.36%) Autonomous Agent
10 2 (0.36%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.36%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.36%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.36%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.18%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.18%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 17 (3.09%) Android
2 1 (0.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 530 (96.36%) AI
2 170 (30.91%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
3 169 (30.73%) Business Intelligence
4 161 (29.27%) Machine Learning
5 151 (27.45%) Full-Stack Development
6 94 (17.09%) Agile
7 89 (16.18%) DevOps
8 88 (16.00%) CI/CD
9 77 (14.00%) Multithreading
10 49 (8.91%) OO
11 18 (3.27%) Software Engineering
12 17 (3.09%) Crowdfunding
12 17 (3.09%) LLM
12 17 (3.09%) Mentoring
13 15 (2.73%) Technical Leadership
14 14 (2.55%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (2.55%) Stakeholder Management
15 13 (2.36%) BDD
15 13 (2.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 13 (2.36%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 343 (62.36%) Python
2 304 (55.27%) SQL
3 169 (30.73%) C#
4 79 (14.36%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.36%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.18%) Go
6 1 (0.18%) Java
6 1 (0.18%) PHP
6 1 (0.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 331 (60.18%) Azure Certification
2 11 (2.00%) Degree
3 7 (1.27%) SC Cleared
3 7 (1.27%) Security Cleared
4 4 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 2 (0.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (0.36%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.36%) CCSP
6 2 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.36%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (0.55%) Accessibility
1 3 (0.55%) GDPR
2 2 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.18%) NIST
3 1 (0.18%) QA
System Software
1 68 (12.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 68 (12.36%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 364 (66.18%) Microsoft
2 33 (6.00%) Facebook
2 33 (6.00%) Google
3 32 (5.82%) Foundry
4 16 (2.91%) Apple
4 16 (2.91%) Sony
4 16 (2.91%) Yahoo!
5 14 (2.55%) OpenAI
6 12 (2.18%) Databricks
7 2 (0.36%) Aderant
7 2 (0.36%) Alteryx
7 2 (0.36%) Cisco
7 2 (0.36%) iManage
7 2 (0.36%) Intapp
7 2 (0.36%) Sage
7 2 (0.36%) SAP
7 2 (0.36%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.18%) Workday