Azure Cognitive Services Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Azure Cognitive Services skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 514 566 543
Rank change year-on-year +52 -23 +204
Permanent jobs citing Azure Cognitive Services 3 14 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.007% 0.038% 0.026%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.022% 0.12% 0.069%
Number of salaries quoted 2 10 8
10th Percentile £66,500 £37,925 £50,875
25th Percentile £68,750 £39,125 £68,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £53,750 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +34.88% -25.86% +10.90%
75th Percentile £76,250 £65,938 £73,750
90th Percentile £78,500 £66,600 -
UK median annual salary £75,000 £63,750 £72,500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -12.07% -14.71%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,615 12,002 11,671
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.46% 32.21% 37.95%
Number of salaries quoted 6,814 6,573 9,550
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £69,106
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -7.69%

Azure Cognitive Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Azure Cognitive Services job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Azure Cognitive Services
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Azure Cognitive Services
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Cognitive Services in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Cognitive Services in the UK excluding London

Azure Cognitive Services
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 Cognitive Services within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 January 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 +26 2 £72,500 +9.02% 1
North West - 2 £72,500 -
South West - 1 - -
Azure Cognitive Services
UK

Azure Cognitive Services
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure AI
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Copilot
2 2 (66.67%) Power Automate
2 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 2 (66.67%) PowerApps
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Machine Learning
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) Power BI
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Lead
2 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Core
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) CSS3
2 1 (33.33%) Entity Framework
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) HTML5
2 1 (33.33%) ML.NET
2 1 (33.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
3 1 (33.33%) Backlog Management
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
3 1 (33.33%) Data Science
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Product Backlog
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft