Azure AI Jobs

Azure AI Platform
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Azure AI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Azure AI over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 658 852 958
Rank change year-on-year +194 +106 +268
Permanent jobs citing Azure AI 51 60 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.092% 0.058% 0.004%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.33% 0.17% 0.010%
Number of salaries quoted 10 20 4
10th Percentile £55,000 - -
25th Percentile £58,125 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.09% -21.43% -10.26%
75th Percentile £75,000 £66,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £85,675 £70,125 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -21.43% -10.83%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,281 35,941 42,041
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.58% 34.80% 43.27%
Number of salaries quoted 10,069 26,912 27,490
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £34,723
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £76,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £96,225 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Azure AI
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Azure AI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure AI in the UK

Azure AI
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure AI.

Salary trend for Azure AI in the UK

Azure AI
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure AI over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure AI in the UK

Azure AI
Top 14 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 May 2025. 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
England +151 49 £65,000 +13.04% 378
London +135 31 £68,000 +8.80% 33
Work from Home +125 21 £68,000 +23.64% 239
UK excluding London +169 18 £60,000 +9.09% 390
Midlands - 5 £60,000 - 79
North of England +54 4 - - 86
South East +51 4 - - 99
South West - 3 £60,000 - 45
West Midlands - 3 £60,000 - 43
Yorkshire +60 2 - - 36
East Midlands - 2 - - 31
North West - 2 - - 38
Scotland - 1 £80,000 - 18
East of England - 1 - - 63

Azure AI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.96%) Apache
1 1 (1.96%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 51 (100.00%) Azure
2 29 (56.86%) SaaS
3 23 (45.10%) AWS
4 22 (43.14%) Power Platform
5 21 (41.18%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (39.22%) Power Automate
7 16 (31.37%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 16 (31.37%) Azure Key Vault
7 16 (31.37%) Azure Monitor
7 16 (31.37%) Azure Service Bus
7 16 (31.37%) Entra ID
7 16 (31.37%) IaaS
7 16 (31.37%) PaaS
8 15 (29.41%) Microsoft Copilot
9 9 (17.65%) Azure Machine Learning
10 6 (11.76%) GCP
11 5 (9.80%) Serverless
12 4 (7.84%) Azure Functions
13 3 (5.88%) Azure Cognitive Services
13 3 (5.88%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 16 (31.37%) DNS
1 16 (31.37%) Firewall
1 16 (31.37%) SD-WAN
1 16 (31.37%) VPN
1 16 (31.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (41.18%) Power BI
2 18 (35.29%) Data Lake
3 16 (31.37%) MySQL
4 2 (3.92%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (3.92%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.96%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.96%) Power Query
5 1 (1.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (31.37%) Git
2 1 (1.96%) MLflow
General
1 18 (35.29%) Law
2 10 (19.61%) Social Skills
3 8 (15.69%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (13.73%) Finance
5 6 (11.76%) Retail
6 5 (9.80%) Front Office
6 5 (9.80%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.92%) Banking
8 1 (1.96%) Legal
8 1 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (62.75%) Architect
2 16 (31.37%) Cloud Architect
3 13 (25.49%) Solutions Architect
4 12 (23.53%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 6 (11.76%) Lead
6 3 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Developer
7 2 (3.92%) Analyst
7 2 (3.92%) Azure Architect
7 2 (3.92%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Consultant
7 2 (3.92%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (3.92%) Power Platform Developer
7 2 (3.92%) Presales Solution Architect
8 1 (1.96%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
8 1 (1.96%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
8 1 (1.96%) Azure Consultant
8 1 (1.96%) Business Architect
8 1 (1.96%) C# Developer
8 1 (1.96%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.92%) PyTorch
1 2 (3.92%) TensorFlow
2 1 (1.96%) .NET
2 1 (1.96%) .NET Core
2 1 (1.96%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.96%) Blazor
2 1 (1.96%) React
2 1 (1.96%) REST
2 1 (1.96%) RESTful
2 1 (1.96%) scikit-learn
2 1 (1.96%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (31.37%) Data Centre
1 16 (31.37%) NHS
2 12 (23.53%) Algorithms
3 11 (21.57%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (13.73%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (9.80%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (9.80%) Management Information System
5 5 (9.80%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.92%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.96%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.96%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (90.20%) Artificial Intelligence
2 36 (70.59%) Analytics
2 36 (70.59%) Roadmaps
3 31 (60.78%) Agile
4 27 (52.94%) TOGAF
5 26 (50.98%) DevOps
6 23 (45.10%) Data Integration
6 23 (45.10%) Migration
7 21 (41.18%) Machine Learning
8 20 (39.22%) Generative AI
9 19 (37.25%) CI/CD
10 18 (35.29%) Project Management
10 18 (35.29%) Waterfall
11 17 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
11 17 (33.33%) MLOps
12 16 (31.37%) API Management
12 16 (31.37%) Data Science
12 16 (31.37%) Log Analytics
12 16 (31.37%) Network Virtualisation
12 16 (31.37%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 19 (37.25%) SQL
2 17 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 16 (31.37%) Bicep
3 16 (31.37%) Python
4 4 (7.84%) C#
5 1 (1.96%) Groovy
5 1 (1.96%) Java
5 1 (1.96%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 32 (62.75%) Azure Certification
2 21 (41.18%) Degree
3 16 (31.37%) DBS Check
4 11 (21.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.96%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.96%) CBAP
5 1 (1.96%) ISEB
5 1 (1.96%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.96%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (21.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 11 (21.57%) GDPR
System Software
1 16 (31.37%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (31.37%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.96%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (49.02%) Microsoft
2 22 (43.14%) Databricks
3 16 (31.37%) Meraki
4 15 (29.41%) OpenAI
5 11 (21.57%) Google
5 11 (21.57%) SAP
5 11 (21.57%) ServiceNow
5 11 (21.57%) Workday
6 5 (9.80%) Foundry
7 2 (3.92%) iManage
8 1 (1.96%) Genesys
8 1 (1.96%) IBM
8 1 (1.96%) UiPath