Azure Cosmos DB Job Trends

Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB
UK

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 653 577 600
Rank change year-on-year -76 +23 -91
Permanent jobs citing Azure Cosmos DB 166 89 171
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.18% 0.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.61% 0.58% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 143 70 119
10th Percentile £43,750 £56,250 £48,500
25th Percentile £48,500 £68,563 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £82,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.21% +17.86% +0.73%
75th Percentile £77,500 £98,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £110,000 £95,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +11.11% +17.39%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

Azure Cosmos DB 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 27,082 15,471 23,413
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.89% 31.22% 31.94%
Number of salaries quoted 18,453 10,358 14,327
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -5.51% +1.60%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Azure Cosmos DB
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Azure Cosmos DB job vacancy trend in the UK

Azure Cosmos DB
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Azure Cosmos DB.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Azure Cosmos DB

Azure Cosmos DB
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Cosmos DB over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Cosmos DB in the UK

Azure Cosmos DB
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Cosmos DB within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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
England -53 159 £67,500 -18.18% 81
Work from Home +25 113 £62,500 -24.24% 47
UK excluding London -75 110 £62,500 -16.67% 61
London -60 51 £80,000 -20.00% 32
South East -21 41 £65,000 -21.21% 11
North of England -46 28 £55,000 -12.00% 18
East of England -19 17 £52,500 - 6
North West -21 17 £55,000 -16.98% 6
Midlands -39 17 £60,000 +20.00% 12
East Midlands - 12 £50,000 - 4
Yorkshire -28 6 £69,305 +10.89% 10
Scotland +3 5 £47,500 -44.12% 6
West Midlands -30 5 £69,305 +38.61% 8
North East - 5 £59,653 - 2
South West -78 2 £83,750 +19.64% 5

Azure Cosmos DB
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 8 (4.82%) SharePoint Server
2 5 (3.01%) IIS
2 5 (3.01%) nginx
3 1 (0.60%) Apache
3 1 (0.60%) CMS
3 1 (0.60%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.60%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.60%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.60%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.60%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 166 (100.00%) Azure
2 86 (51.81%) Azure DevOps
3 42 (25.30%) Azure Service Bus
4 27 (16.27%) Azure Data Factory
4 27 (16.27%) Azure Monitor
5 23 (13.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 22 (13.25%) Azure Key Vault
7 19 (11.45%) Power Platform
8 17 (10.24%) Azure AI
8 17 (10.24%) GitHub
9 14 (8.43%) Serverless
10 13 (7.83%) Azure Functions
11 12 (7.23%) PaaS
12 10 (6.02%) Azure AKS
13 9 (5.42%) SaaS
14 7 (4.22%) Cloudflare
14 7 (4.22%) GitHub Copilot
14 7 (4.22%) Microsoft Purview
15 6 (3.61%) AWS
15 6 (3.61%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.22%) Internet
2 3 (1.81%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.60%) NetScaler
3 1 (0.60%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (57.83%) Azure SQL Database
2 53 (31.93%) SQL Server
3 27 (16.27%) NoSQL
4 25 (15.06%) Elasticsearch
5 19 (11.45%) Power BI
6 17 (10.24%) MongoDB
7 15 (9.04%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (7.23%) DynamoDB
9 10 (6.02%) Metadata
9 10 (6.02%) Star Schema
10 9 (5.42%) Amazon QuickSight
10 9 (5.42%) Data Lake
10 9 (5.42%) Snowflake Schema
11 8 (4.82%) Relational Database
12 6 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
13 4 (2.41%) Redis
14 2 (1.20%) MySQL
15 1 (0.60%) GIS
15 1 (0.60%) Oracle Exadata
15 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 41 (24.70%) Git
2 7 (4.22%) NUnit
3 5 (3.01%) Octopus Deploy
4 4 (2.41%) GitLab
4 4 (2.41%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.20%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.60%) kappa
6 1 (0.60%) Moq
6 1 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 27 (16.27%) Finance
2 21 (12.65%) Social Skills
3 13 (7.83%) Public Sector
4 12 (7.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (5.42%) Advertising
6 7 (4.22%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.61%) Marketing
7 6 (3.61%) Retail
8 5 (3.01%) Law
8 5 (3.01%) Legal
9 2 (1.20%) Banking
9 2 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 82 (49.40%) Developer
2 67 (40.36%) .NET Developer
3 34 (20.48%) Senior
4 29 (17.47%) Lead
5 27 (16.27%) Azure Engineer
6 12 (7.23%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (7.23%) Lead .NET Developer
6 12 (7.23%) Lead Developer
7 11 (6.63%) Architect
7 11 (6.63%) Platform Engineer
8 10 (6.02%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 10 (6.02%) Software Engineer
9 9 (5.42%) Data Architect
10 8 (4.82%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (4.82%) Data Engineer
10 8 (4.82%) Senior Software Engineer
11 7 (4.22%) Senior Developer
12 6 (3.61%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 6 (3.61%) Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (3.61%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (66.87%) .NET
2 74 (44.58%) .NET Core
3 73 (43.98%) ASP.NET
4 58 (34.94%) ASP.NET Core
5 40 (24.10%) Blazor
6 37 (22.29%) Entity Framework
7 36 (21.69%) React
8 33 (19.88%) ASP.NET Web API
8 33 (19.88%) RESTful
9 25 (15.06%) AngularJS
9 25 (15.06%) Terraform
10 20 (12.05%) REST
11 19 (11.45%) LINQ
12 17 (10.24%) CSS
12 17 (10.24%) HTML
13 16 (9.64%) Vue
14 13 (7.83%) ML.NET
15 12 (7.23%) gRPC
15 12 (7.23%) Node.js
16 9 (5.42%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.46%) Enterprise Software
2 22 (13.25%) Legacy Systems
3 20 (12.05%) Greenfield Project
4 16 (9.64%) Cloud Native
5 10 (6.02%) Legacy Applications
6 9 (5.42%) Product Ownership
7 6 (3.61%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.41%) Life Science
8 4 (2.41%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.81%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.81%) Digital TV
9 3 (1.81%) Replication
10 2 (1.20%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.20%) iPhone
10 2 (1.20%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.20%) Tandem
11 1 (0.60%) CUDA
11 1 (0.60%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (12.05%) Windows
2 8 (4.82%) Linux
3 5 (3.01%) VMS
4 2 (1.20%) Android
5 1 (0.60%) AIX
5 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.60%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (60.84%) DevOps
2 95 (57.23%) CI/CD
3 74 (44.58%) Agile
4 72 (43.37%) Full-Stack Development
5 50 (30.12%) Microservices
6 43 (25.90%) AI
7 40 (24.10%) Mentoring
8 34 (20.48%) Infrastructure as Code
9 28 (16.87%) Analytics
10 25 (15.06%) Machine Learning
10 25 (15.06%) Multithreading
11 24 (14.46%) Business Intelligence
12 23 (13.86%) Data Modelling
13 22 (13.25%) Event-Driven
14 21 (12.65%) Continuous Improvement
15 20 (12.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 20 (12.05%) Performance Optimisation
15 20 (12.05%) Software Engineering
15 20 (12.05%) Technical Leadership
16 17 (10.24%) People Management
Programming Languages
1 118 (71.08%) C#
2 109 (65.66%) SQL
3 38 (22.89%) JavaScript
4 26 (15.66%) Python
5 25 (15.06%) TypeScript
6 24 (14.46%) PowerShell
7 13 (7.83%) Java
8 8 (4.82%) Bicep
8 8 (4.82%) C++
9 5 (3.01%) Bash
Qualifications
1 19 (11.45%) Degree
2 8 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (4.22%) TOGAF Certification
4 4 (2.41%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.41%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.81%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (14.46%) QA
2 15 (9.04%) GDPR
3 10 (6.02%) Data Quality
4 9 (5.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.20%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.60%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (19.88%) Docker
2 5 (3.01%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 18 (10.84%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.01%) Grafana
2 5 (3.01%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.60%) Data Guard
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 95 (57.23%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.23%) Databricks
3 9 (5.42%) Informatica
3 9 (5.42%) Talend
4 7 (4.22%) Facebook
4 7 (4.22%) YouTube
5 3 (1.81%) Foundry
6 2 (1.20%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (1.20%) Google
6 2 (1.20%) IFS
6 2 (1.20%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.20%) Oracle
6 2 (1.20%) Veracode
7 1 (0.60%) Citrix
7 1 (0.60%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.60%) Globalscape
7 1 (0.60%) IBM
7 1 (0.60%) NVIDIA
7 1 (0.60%) OneLogin
7 1 (0.60%) ServiceNow