Azure Machine Learning Job Trends

Microsoft Azure Machine Learning (Azure ML)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Azure Machine Learning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 636 615 810
Rank change year-on-year -21 +195 -6
Permanent jobs citing Azure Machine Learning 124 58 60
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.12% 0.062%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.46% 0.36% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 104 44 41
10th Percentile £54,000 £56,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £77,500 £68,313 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £86,376 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.35% +23.39% +7.69%
75th Percentile £118,750 £97,528 £80,000
90th Percentile £143,750 £112,125 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £110,000 £85,253 £57,500
% change year-on-year +29.03% +48.27% -8.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 27,119 15,934 32,136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.19% 32.36% 33.02%
Number of salaries quoted 17,739 11,104 24,313
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £30,627
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +3.45% -7.20%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%

Azure Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Azure Machine Learning job vacancy trend in the UK

Azure Machine Learning
Salary Trend

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

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

Azure Machine Learning
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Machine Learning over the 6 months to 19 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Machine Learning in the UK

Azure Machine Learning
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 Machine Learning within the UK over the 6 months to 19 July 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 -4 112 £110,000 +24.07% 27
Work from Home +66 91 £112,500 +49.01% 9
London -5 65 £112,500 +18.42% 16
UK excluding London -53 50 £110,000 +29.03% 17
South East -8 25 £112,500 +40.63% 7
North of England -38 9 £110,000 +24.07% 4
South West - 7 £70,000 - 3
Scotland - 6 £110,000 -
Yorkshire - 6 £110,000 - 3
North West -21 3 £85,000 -4.13% 1
Midlands -30 2 £108,750 +57.04% 2
West Midlands -19 1 £145,000 +109.39% 2
Wales -56 1 £53,171 -22.94%
East Midlands - 1 £72,500 -

Azure Machine Learning
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 (6.45%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.42%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 124 (100.00%) Azure
2 75 (60.48%) Azure AI
3 63 (50.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 59 (47.58%) Snowflake
5 23 (18.55%) AWS
6 18 (14.52%) GCP
6 18 (14.52%) Power Platform
7 13 (10.48%) Amazon SageMaker
8 12 (9.68%) Vertex AI
9 8 (6.45%) Amazon Bedrock
10 6 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (4.03%) Azure Cognitive Services
11 5 (4.03%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (4.03%) Copilot Studio
11 5 (4.03%) Serverless
12 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Copilot
13 3 (2.42%) Dagster
13 3 (2.42%) GitHub
13 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (2.42%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.65%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (45.97%) SQL Server
2 16 (12.90%) Power BI
3 11 (8.87%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (4.84%) Data Lake
4 6 (4.84%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (4.84%) Delta Lake
5 3 (2.42%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (2.42%) Apache Iceberg
5 3 (2.42%) BigQuery
5 3 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (2.42%) Looker
5 3 (2.42%) Pinecone
5 3 (2.42%) Tableau
5 3 (2.42%) Weaviate
6 2 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.81%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.81%) Big Data
7 1 (0.81%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.81%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 14 (11.29%) MLflow
2 3 (2.42%) Git
3 1 (0.81%) GitLab
3 1 (0.81%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.81%) Yeoman
General
1 71 (57.26%) Finance
2 24 (19.35%) Social Skills
3 12 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.06%) Banking
5 9 (7.26%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.61%) Legal
8 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (27.42%) Engineering Manager
2 33 (26.61%) Data Manager
2 33 (26.61%) Finance Manager
3 26 (20.97%) Architect
4 18 (14.52%) Senior
5 16 (12.90%) Azure Architect
6 13 (10.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 12 (9.68%) Azure Data Architect
7 12 (9.68%) Data Architect
7 12 (9.68%) Head of AI
8 11 (8.87%) Data Scientist
9 10 (8.06%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
9 10 (8.06%) Consultant
9 10 (8.06%) Head of Finance
9 10 (8.06%) Lead
10 8 (6.45%) Data Engineer
11 7 (5.65%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (4.84%) Lead Architect
12 6 (4.84%) Principal Consultant
13 5 (4.03%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (13.71%) LangChain
2 14 (11.29%) PyTorch
3 11 (8.87%) TensorFlow
4 7 (5.65%) LangGraph
4 7 (5.65%) PySpark
5 5 (4.03%) Semantic Kernel
6 4 (3.23%) Kafka
7 3 (2.42%) .NET
7 3 (2.42%) Faiss
7 3 (2.42%) scikit-learn
7 3 (2.42%) vLLM
8 2 (1.61%) Hugging Face
8 2 (1.61%) Model Context Protocol
8 2 (1.61%) Node.js
8 2 (1.61%) React
9 1 (0.81%) Blazor
9 1 (0.81%) FastAPI
9 1 (0.81%) Next.js
9 1 (0.81%) pydantic
9 1 (0.81%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.10%) AI Agents
2 9 (7.26%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.84%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.23%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.42%) Data Fabric
5 3 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.42%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.61%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.81%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 115 (92.74%) AI
3 78 (62.90%) Data Engineering
4 77 (62.10%) Agile
5 73 (58.87%) Roadmaps
6 67 (54.03%) Data Governance
7 60 (48.39%) Regulatory Compliance
8 59 (47.58%) Data Architecture
9 58 (46.77%) Migration
10 55 (44.35%) Data Development
10 55 (44.35%) Line Management
11 35 (28.23%) CI/CD
12 32 (25.81%) Analytics
13 29 (23.39%) MLOps
14 28 (22.58%) Data Science
14 28 (22.58%) LLM
15 22 (17.74%) DevOps
15 22 (17.74%) Mentoring
16 21 (16.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 20 (16.13%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 77 (62.10%) SQL
2 50 (40.32%) Python
3 13 (10.48%) Java
4 7 (5.65%) C#
5 5 (4.03%) Scala
6 4 (3.23%) Bash
6 4 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (3.23%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (2.42%) Go
8 2 (1.61%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.61%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.81%) C
9 1 (0.81%) C++
9 1 (0.81%) PHP
9 1 (0.81%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.81%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (8.06%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.45%) Degree
2 8 (6.45%) DV Cleared
3 7 (5.65%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.81%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.45%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.81%) GDPR
2 1 (0.81%) QA
System Software
1 55 (44.35%) Virtual Machines
2 17 (13.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (11.29%) Kubernetes
2 12 (9.68%) Terraform
3 4 (3.23%) Ansible
3 4 (3.23%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 95 (76.61%) Databricks
2 85 (68.55%) Microsoft
3 17 (13.71%) Foundry
4 12 (9.68%) OpenAI
5 10 (8.06%) Google
6 3 (2.42%) Palantir
7 1 (0.81%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.81%) DataRobot
7 1 (0.81%) IBM