Semantic Kernel Job Trends

Microsoft Semantic Kernel
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Semantic Kernel skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 671 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Semantic Kernel 5 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.063% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £69,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 - -
75th Percentile £73,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Semantic Kernel falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,921 15,360 16,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.02% 19.67% 27.15%
Number of salaries quoted 5,036 9,843 13,390
10th Percentile £38,825 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -2.26% +2.31%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

Semantic Kernel
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Semantic Kernel as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Semantic Kernel in the UK

Semantic Kernel
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Semantic Kernel within the UK over the 6 months to 18 September 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
London - 4 - - 7
England - 4 - - 12
Work from Home - 1 £71,500 - 7

Semantic Kernel
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 3 (60.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure AI
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (20.00%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Python Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Python Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Data Scientist
3 1 (20.00%) Development Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Engineering Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Development Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) LangChain
1 4 (80.00%) NumPy
1 4 (80.00%) Pandas
1 4 (80.00%) scikit-learn
2 3 (60.00%) CrewAI
2 3 (60.00%) FastAPI
2 3 (60.00%) Flask
2 3 (60.00%) JSON
2 3 (60.00%) Matplotlib
2 3 (60.00%) pydantic
2 3 (60.00%) pytest
2 3 (60.00%) REST
2 3 (60.00%) Seaborn
2 3 (60.00%) XML
3 1 (20.00%) .NET
3 1 (20.00%) LangGraph
3 1 (20.00%) ML.NET
3 1 (20.00%) ONNX
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Data Science
2 4 (80.00%) LLM
2 4 (80.00%) Visualisation
3 3 (60.00%) API Development
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) Coaching
3 3 (60.00%) Creative Thinking
3 3 (60.00%) Data Validation
3 3 (60.00%) Data Visualisation
3 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) DevSecOps
3 3 (60.00%) ETL
3 3 (60.00%) Machine Learning
3 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (60.00%) MLOps
3 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (60.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Bicep
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Alteryx
1 1 (20.00%) Foundry