Azure Contract Job Trends in Blackpool

Microsoft Azure
Lancashire > Blackpool

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Blackpool requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 - 7
Rank change year-on-year - - +5
Contract jobs citing Azure 5 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Blackpool 17.24% - 12.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 62.50% - 30.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £414 - £562
25th Percentile £509 - £595
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £613 - -
90th Percentile £658 - -
Lancashire median daily rate £500 £488 £650
% change year-on-year +2.56% -25.00% +30.00%

All Cloud Computing 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 3 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Blackpool 27.59% 60.00% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 10
10th Percentile £324 - £200
25th Percentile £350 - £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £613
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.55%
75th Percentile £588 - £625
90th Percentile £648 - £650
Lancashire median daily rate £500 £538 £600
% change year-on-year -7.06% -10.33% +21.21%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Blackpool

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Blackpool.

Azure job vacancy trend in Blackpool

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in Blackpool

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Blackpool citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Blackpool citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Blackpool

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Blackpool over the 6 months to 30 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Blackpool

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Blackpool 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) OCI
1 4 (80.00%) SaaS
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Google Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Google Tag Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
1 4 (80.00%) SD-WAN
1 4 (80.00%) WAN
1 4 (80.00%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (80.00%) WLAN
2 3 (60.00%) BGP
2 3 (60.00%) BIG-IP
2 3 (60.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 3 (60.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 3 (60.00%) OSPF
2 3 (60.00%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (20.00%) Looker
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Performance Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (60.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) High Availability
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (80.00%) Zero Trust
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (60.00%) Network Architecture
2 3 (60.00%) Network Design
2 3 (60.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (20.00%) Data Privacy
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Measurement
3 1 (20.00%) Service Design
3 1 (20.00%) User Experience
3 1 (20.00%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Ansible
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Aruba
1 4 (80.00%) Palo Alto
2 3 (60.00%) Arista
2 3 (60.00%) F5
3 1 (20.00%) Google
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft