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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 617 583 628
Rank change year-on-year -34 +45 -67
Permanent jobs citing Azure Cosmos DB 170 103 164
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.21% 0.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.61% 0.64% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 147 71 133
10th Percentile £43,250 £51,250 £45,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £63,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £82,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.21% +22.22% +3.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £88,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £92,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £80,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +23.08% +13.04%

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 27,850 15,969 26,239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.92% 31.96% 31.68%
Number of salaries quoted 18,492 11,011 18,724
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,083
25th Percentile £44,222 £40,000 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
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 18 August 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 18 August 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 -23 163 £67,500 -18.18% 51
UK excluding London -37 116 £60,000 -25.00% 29
Work from Home +39 111 £65,000 -21.21% 31
London -21 50 £80,000 -15.79% 29
North of England -14 38 £55,000 -8.33% 6
South East -26 35 £65,000 -21.21% 12
North West +14 22 £55,000 -4.35% 3
Midlands -17 17 £60,000 +20.00% 4
East of England -19 17 £52,500 - 5
East Midlands - 12 £50,000 - 2
Yorkshire -28 9 £69,305 +13.15% 2
North East - 7 £60,000 - 1
Scotland +3 5 £47,500 -44.12% 2
West Midlands -20 5 £69,305 +38.61% 2
South West -66 4 £61,250 +19.51%

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 (4.71%) SharePoint Server
2 5 (2.94%) IIS
2 5 (2.94%) nginx
3 3 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.18%) NServiceBus
4 2 (1.18%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.59%) CMS
5 1 (0.59%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.59%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.59%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.59%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (1.18%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 170 (100.00%) Azure
2 79 (46.47%) Azure DevOps
3 48 (28.24%) Azure Service Bus
4 27 (15.88%) Azure Monitor
5 24 (14.12%) Azure Key Vault
6 19 (11.18%) Azure Data Factory
7 17 (10.00%) Azure AI
8 16 (9.41%) GitHub
9 15 (8.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 15 (8.82%) PaaS
10 14 (8.24%) Azure Functions
10 14 (8.24%) Serverless
11 12 (7.06%) SaaS
12 11 (6.47%) Power Platform
13 10 (5.88%) AWS
14 9 (5.29%) Azure AKS
15 7 (4.12%) Azure Logic Apps
15 7 (4.12%) Cloudflare
16 6 (3.53%) GitHub Copilot
16 6 (3.53%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.12%) Internet
2 3 (1.76%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (1.18%) Firewall
4 1 (0.59%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (55.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 40 (23.53%) SQL Server
3 24 (14.12%) Elasticsearch
4 17 (10.00%) NoSQL
5 16 (9.41%) MongoDB
6 11 (6.47%) Power BI
7 9 (5.29%) Data Lake
8 8 (4.71%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (4.71%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (3.53%) Metadata
9 6 (3.53%) Relational Database
10 5 (2.94%) DynamoDB
11 4 (2.35%) Redis
12 3 (1.76%) Delta Lake
13 2 (1.18%) Amazon QuickSight
13 2 (1.18%) InfluxDB
13 2 (1.18%) Snowflake Schema
13 2 (1.18%) Star Schema
14 1 (0.59%) Oracle Database
14 1 (0.59%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 32 (18.82%) Git
2 6 (3.53%) NUnit
3 5 (2.94%) Octopus Deploy
4 4 (2.35%) GitLab
4 4 (2.35%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.76%) JUnit
5 3 (1.76%) Mockito
6 2 (1.18%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.59%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.59%) Vite
General
1 30 (17.65%) Finance
2 23 (13.53%) Social Skills
3 14 (8.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.29%) Advertising
6 7 (4.12%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.53%) Law
7 6 (3.53%) Marketing
7 6 (3.53%) Retail
8 5 (2.94%) Legal
9 2 (1.18%) Banking
9 2 (1.18%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 88 (51.76%) Developer
2 73 (42.94%) .NET Developer
3 38 (22.35%) Lead
4 26 (15.29%) Senior
5 20 (11.76%) Azure Engineer
6 14 (8.24%) Lead Developer
7 13 (7.65%) Lead .NET Developer
8 12 (7.06%) Architect
8 12 (7.06%) DevOps Engineer
9 11 (6.47%) Cloud Engineer
9 11 (6.47%) Platform Engineer
9 11 (6.47%) Software Engineer
10 10 (5.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 9 (5.29%) Data Architect
11 9 (5.29%) Lead Cloud Engineer
11 9 (5.29%) Senior Software Engineer
12 8 (4.71%) Data Engineer
13 6 (3.53%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 6 (3.53%) Full-Stack Developer
14 5 (2.94%) Principal DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (69.41%) .NET
2 80 (47.06%) .NET Core
3 78 (45.88%) ASP.NET
4 60 (35.29%) ASP.NET Core
5 43 (25.29%) Entity Framework
6 39 (22.94%) Blazor
7 36 (21.18%) React
8 35 (20.59%) ASP.NET Web API
8 35 (20.59%) RESTful
9 27 (15.88%) AngularJS
10 22 (12.94%) CSS
10 22 (12.94%) HTML
11 20 (11.76%) REST
11 20 (11.76%) Vue
12 19 (11.18%) LINQ
13 13 (7.65%) .NET Framework
13 13 (7.65%) ML.NET
13 13 (7.65%) Node.js
14 11 (6.47%) gRPC
15 7 (4.12%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.76%) Greenfield Project
2 17 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
3 15 (8.82%) Cloud Native
4 14 (8.24%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (5.88%) Legacy Applications
6 6 (3.53%) Mobile App
6 6 (3.53%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.76%) Digital TV
8 3 (1.76%) Replication
9 2 (1.18%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.18%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.18%) IoT
9 2 (1.18%) iPhone
9 2 (1.18%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.18%) Tandem
10 1 (0.59%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.59%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.65%) Windows
2 8 (4.71%) Linux
3 5 (2.94%) VMS
4 2 (1.18%) Android
5 1 (0.59%) AIX
5 1 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.59%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (54.71%) DevOps
2 88 (51.76%) CI/CD
3 82 (48.24%) Full-Stack Development
4 72 (42.35%) Agile
5 51 (30.00%) Microservices
6 44 (25.88%) AI
6 44 (25.88%) Mentoring
7 32 (18.82%) Infrastructure as Code
8 26 (15.29%) Machine Learning
8 26 (15.29%) Multithreading
9 22 (12.94%) Continuous Improvement
10 21 (12.35%) Technical Leadership
11 20 (11.76%) Event-Driven
12 19 (11.18%) Performance Optimisation
12 19 (11.18%) Software Engineering
13 18 (10.59%) Analytics
14 17 (10.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 16 (9.41%) Business Intelligence
16 15 (8.82%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
16 15 (8.82%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 115 (67.65%) C#
2 107 (62.94%) SQL
3 38 (22.35%) JavaScript
4 29 (17.06%) TypeScript
5 24 (14.12%) PowerShell
6 18 (10.59%) Python
7 16 (9.41%) Java
8 8 (4.71%) Bicep
8 8 (4.71%) C++
9 5 (2.94%) Bash
Qualifications
1 7 (4.12%) Degree
2 6 (3.53%) TOGAF Certification
3 3 (1.76%) Azure Certification
3 3 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.18%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.59%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (13.53%) QA
2 8 (4.71%) GDPR
3 3 (1.76%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.18%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.59%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (21.76%) Docker
2 5 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.18%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 25 (14.71%) Terraform
2 23 (13.53%) Kubernetes
3 7 (4.12%) Grafana
4 5 (2.94%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.59%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 94 (55.29%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.24%) Databricks
3 7 (4.12%) Facebook
3 7 (4.12%) YouTube
4 3 (1.76%) Foundry
4 3 (1.76%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.18%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (1.18%) Google
5 2 (1.18%) IFS
5 2 (1.18%) Informatica
5 2 (1.18%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.18%) Oracle
5 2 (1.18%) Talend
5 2 (1.18%) Veracode
6 1 (0.59%) Citrix
6 1 (0.59%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.59%) Globalscape
6 1 (0.59%) IBM
6 1 (0.59%) OneLogin
6 1 (0.59%) ServiceNow