Azure Contracts in Blackpool

Microsoft Azure
Lancashire > Blackpool

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Blackpool requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 6 10
Rank change year-on-year +2 +4 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 4 4 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Blackpool 22.22% 21.05% 17.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 50.00% 80.00% 31.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 10
10th Percentile £385 - £611
25th Percentile £400 - £620
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £650 £648
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +0.39% -7.50%
75th Percentile £475 - £688
90th Percentile - - £689
Lancashire median daily rate £450 £650 £463
% change year-on-year -30.77% +40.54% -31.48%

All Cloud Skills
Blackpool

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Blackpool.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 8 5 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Blackpool 44.44% 26.32% 57.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 29
10th Percentile £395 £306 £550
25th Percentile £425 £435 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £650 £645
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +0.78% -7.86%
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile £531 - £688
Lancashire median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Blackpool

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Blackpool.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Blackpool

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Blackpool

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in Blackpool.

Daily rate trend for Azure in Blackpool

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Blackpool 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Serverless
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Event Grid
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Functions
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (25.00%) AWS
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) DBA
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Administrator
3 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (25.00%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) High Availability
2 3 (75.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (50.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Runbook
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Architecture Roadmap
4 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Bicep
2 2 (50.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform