Azure Cognitive Services Job Trends

Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Azure Cognitive Services 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 635 683 683
Rank change year-on-year +48 0 +304
Permanent jobs citing Azure Cognitive Services 8 23 21
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.014% 0.042% 0.040%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.039% 0.12% 0.097%
Number of salaries quoted 5 16 21
10th Percentile £62,750 £38,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £44,375 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £63,750 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -12.07% -14.71%
75th Percentile £82,500 £70,438 £73,750
90th Percentile £88,500 £96,250 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £53,750 £72,500
% change year-on-year +34.88% -25.86% +10.90%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 20,489 19,735 21,672
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.60% 36.05% 41.60%
Number of salaries quoted 11,181 11,619 17,805
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

Azure Cognitive Services
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Azure Cognitive Services job vacancy trend in the UK

Azure Cognitive Services
Salary Trend

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

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

Azure Cognitive Services
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Cognitive Services over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Cognitive Services in the UK

Azure Cognitive Services
Top 7 Job Locations

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 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
England +58 6 £75,000 +14.50% 8
Work from Home +78 5 £75,000 +15.38% 4
London +65 3 £75,000 -7.69% 8
UK excluding London +53 3 £72,500 +34.88% 4
North of England +27 2 £72,500 +9.02%
North West - 2 £72,500 -
South West - 1 - -

Azure Cognitive Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 1 (12.50%) Confluence
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Azure AI
2 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Machine Learning
2 3 (37.50%) Power Automate
2 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
2 3 (37.50%) PowerApps
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Cognitive Search
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (37.50%) Power BI
3 2 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
4 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Advertising
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Lead
3 2 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 2 (25.00%) .NET Web Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 2 (25.00%) Senior .NET Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior .NET Web Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Web Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Web Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) .NET
2 3 (37.50%) .NET Core
2 3 (37.50%) CSS
2 3 (37.50%) HTML
2 3 (37.50%) React
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
3 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (12.50%) CSS3
3 1 (12.50%) Entity Framework
3 1 (12.50%) HTML5
3 1 (12.50%) Hugging Face
3 1 (12.50%) LangChain
3 1 (12.50%) ML.NET
3 1 (12.50%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) AI Agents
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) AI
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
3 3 (37.50%) Performance Monitoring
3 3 (37.50%) Scrum
3 3 (37.50%) Sprint Planning
3 3 (37.50%) Sprint Retrospective
3 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (25.00%) Data Science
4 2 (25.00%) Front End Development
4 2 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Sprint Review
4 2 (25.00%) User Experience
4 2 (25.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) C#
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (12.50%) Java
4 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) OpenAI
3 1 (12.50%) Databricks
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow