Azure Job Trends in Blackpool

Microsoft Azure
Lancashire > Blackpool

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Blackpool requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 12 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 -9 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 4 5 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Blackpool 4.49% 9.26% 15.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 80.00% 27.78% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile £37,429 - -
25th Percentile £52,322 £42,238 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,864 £44,274 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +44.25% +4.17% -43.02%
75th Percentile £72,375 £46,311 £43,750
90th Percentile £80,702 - -
Lancashire median annual salary £45,750 £52,500 £47,000
% change year-on-year -12.86% +11.70% -6.00%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Blackpool.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5 18 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Blackpool 5.62% 33.33% 15.38%
Number of salaries quoted 5 7 2
10th Percentile £40,739 £42,238 -
25th Percentile £60,596 £43,488 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,482 £49,274 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.86% +15.94% -43.02%
75th Percentile £77,424 £59,707 £43,750
90th Percentile £82,721 £65,603 -
Lancashire median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +19.57% +8.24%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Blackpool

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

Azure job vacancy trend in Blackpool

Azure
Salary Trend in Blackpool

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Blackpool citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Blackpool citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in Blackpool

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in Blackpool over the 6 months to 1 December 2025.

Salary 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) IIS
1 1 (25.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Internet
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Trainee
2 1 (25.00%) Trainee Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Android
1 2 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Coaching
1 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Architecture Roadmap
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Functional Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Samsung
2 1 (25.00%) Apple