Azure Machine Learning Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure Machine Learning (Azure ML)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Azure Machine Learning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 500 538 539
Rank change year-on-year +38 +1 +175
Permanent jobs citing Azure Machine Learning 10 36 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.024% 0.097% 0.045%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.073% 0.30% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 6 22 14
10th Percentile - £38,450 £46,875
25th Percentile £38,750 £51,500 £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £64,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -34.11% -4.44% +3.85%
75th Percentile £46,250 £87,500 £84,250
90th Percentile £55,625 £103,375 £94,575
UK median annual salary £84,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +12.00% +3.45% +3.57%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

Azure Machine Learning 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 13,606 11,906 11,982
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.44% 32.23% 38.22%
Number of salaries quoted 6,812 6,498 9,837
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £39,750
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 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

Azure Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Azure Machine Learning job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Azure Machine Learning
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Azure Machine Learning
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Machine Learning in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Machine Learning in the UK excluding London

Azure Machine Learning
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 Machine Learning within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
South East +14 5 £42,500 -32.00% 5
West Midlands +33 2 £52,500 -41.67% 1
Midlands +21 2 £52,500 -41.67% 1
South West +9 2 £42,500 - 4
East of England - 1 £42,500 -
Azure Machine Learning
UK

Azure Machine Learning
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:

Business Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (70.00%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (50.00%) AWS
3 5 (50.00%) GCP
4 4 (40.00%) Amazon SageMaker
4 4 (40.00%) dbt
4 4 (40.00%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (40.00%) Fivetran
4 4 (40.00%) GitHub
4 4 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (40.00%) Google Data Studio
4 4 (40.00%) Power Platform
4 4 (40.00%) SaaS
4 4 (40.00%) Snowflake
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (40.00%) BigQuery
3 4 (40.00%) Looker
3 4 (40.00%) Power BI
3 4 (40.00%) Tableau
4 1 (10.00%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 7 (70.00%) Git
2 4 (40.00%) MLflow
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
1 4 (40.00%) Marketing
1 4 (40.00%) Retail
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Analyst
1 4 (40.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) scikit-learn
2 4 (40.00%) Hugging Face
2 4 (40.00%) NumPy
2 4 (40.00%) Pandas
2 4 (40.00%) TensorFlow
3 3 (30.00%) Keras
4 1 (10.00%) .NET
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Core
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (10.00%) CSS
4 1 (10.00%) CSS3
4 1 (10.00%) Entity Framework
4 1 (10.00%) HTML
4 1 (10.00%) ML.NET
4 1 (10.00%) PySpark
4 1 (10.00%) PyTorch
4 1 (10.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Life Science
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) AI
1 10 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 8 (80.00%) DevOps
3 5 (50.00%) Data Science
3 5 (50.00%) ETL
3 5 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
4 4 (40.00%) A/B Testing
4 4 (40.00%) Actionable Insight
4 4 (40.00%) Analytics
4 4 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
4 4 (40.00%) CRM
4 4 (40.00%) Customer Engagement
4 4 (40.00%) Customer Insight
4 4 (40.00%) Customer Intelligence
4 4 (40.00%) Data Munging
4 4 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (40.00%) Data Transformation
4 4 (40.00%) Segmentation Analysis
4 4 (40.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (50.00%) SQL
3 4 (40.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (10.00%) C#
4 1 (10.00%) C++
4 1 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
1 4 (40.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) OpenAI
2 4 (40.00%) Alteryx
2 4 (40.00%) Google
2 4 (40.00%) HubSpot
2 4 (40.00%) Salesforce
2 4 (40.00%) Talend
2 4 (40.00%) Zoho
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (10.00%) Databricks