Azure Jobs in Lancashire

Microsoft Azure
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Lancashire requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 5 7
Rank change year-on-year -51 +2 +6
Permanent jobs citing Azure 67 63 127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 4.11% 11.91% 17.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.83% 57.80% 55.95%
Number of salaries quoted 35 59 52
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £47,000 £41,250 £38,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £47,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.77% +4.44% -10.00%
75th Percentile £63,000 £55,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £68,250 £65,121 £67,375
North West median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -

All Cloud Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 187 109 227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 11.46% 20.60% 30.59%
Number of salaries quoted 95 95 130
10th Percentile £38,000 £27,900 £26,215
25th Percentile £41,250 £34,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% - +4.94%
75th Percentile £63,750 £52,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £64,000 £66,375
North West median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Lancashire

Azure
Salary Trend in Lancashire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure in Lancashire.

Salary trend for Azure in Lancashire

Azure
Salary Histogram in Lancashire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in Lancashire over the 6 months to 14 January 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure in Lancashire

Azure
Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Chorley -7 10 £52,500 +10.53% 3
Preston -42 10 £62,500 +32.98% 4
Lancaster -8 7 £62,205 +46.36% 1
Blackburn -22 5 £55,000 +22.22% 1
Blackpool -26 2 - - 3
Newton-le-Willows - 2 £52,500 -
Burnley - 1 £28,500 - 2
Carnforth - 1 £40,000 - 1
Azure
North West

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 7 (10.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (5.97%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.99%) Apache
3 2 (2.99%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (7.46%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
2 2 (2.99%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 24 (35.82%) Microsoft 365
2 18 (26.87%) AWS
3 7 (10.45%) Azure Sentinel
4 6 (8.96%) SaaS
5 5 (7.46%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (7.46%) Entra ID
5 5 (7.46%) Power Platform
5 5 (7.46%) PowerApps
6 4 (5.97%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (4.48%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (4.48%) GCP
7 3 (4.48%) OneDrive
7 3 (4.48%) Power Automate
8 2 (2.99%) Google Workspace
8 2 (2.99%) Nutanix
9 1 (1.49%) Azure Storage
9 1 (1.49%) IaaS
9 1 (1.49%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (16.42%) DNS
1 11 (16.42%) WAN
2 9 (13.43%) DHCP
2 9 (13.43%) Firewall
2 9 (13.43%) LAN
3 6 (8.96%) SD-WAN
4 4 (5.97%) MPLS
4 4 (5.97%) SAN
4 4 (5.97%) SSL
4 4 (5.97%) TCP/IP
4 4 (5.97%) Wireless
5 3 (4.48%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (4.48%) NAS
5 3 (4.48%) Network Security
5 3 (4.48%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (4.48%) VPN
6 2 (2.99%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (2.99%) SSH
6 2 (2.99%) Structured Cabling
6 2 (2.99%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.96%) MySQL
2 3 (4.48%) MongoDB
2 3 (4.48%) NoSQL
2 3 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.48%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.99%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.49%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (5.97%) Git
2 1 (1.49%) Moq
2 1 (1.49%) NUnit
2 1 (1.49%) Postman
2 1 (1.49%) TestComplete
2 1 (1.49%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.49%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 27 (40.30%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.94%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (5.97%) Aerospace
3 4 (5.97%) Electronics
3 4 (5.97%) Manufacturing
3 4 (5.97%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (4.48%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.99%) Finance
6 1 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (17.91%) Analyst
1 12 (17.91%) Architect
1 12 (17.91%) Data Architect
2 10 (14.93%) Senior
3 9 (13.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (8.96%) IT Analyst
5 5 (7.46%) Data Scientist
5 5 (7.46%) IT Support
5 5 (7.46%) Support Analyst
6 4 (5.97%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Information Analyst
6 4 (5.97%) Information Security Analyst
6 4 (5.97%) Network Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Security Analyst
6 4 (5.97%) Service Manager
7 3 (4.48%) Applications Support Analyst
7 3 (4.48%) Business IT Analyst
7 3 (4.48%) IT Support Analyst
7 3 (4.48%) Senior Network Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.48%) .NET
1 3 (4.48%) RESTful
2 2 (2.99%) EDI
2 2 (2.99%) LAMP
2 2 (2.99%) Loki
2 2 (2.99%) XML
3 1 (1.49%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.49%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.49%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (1.49%) Dapper ORM
3 1 (1.49%) Entity Framework
3 1 (1.49%) Jest
3 1 (1.49%) Node.js
3 1 (1.49%) Playwright
3 1 (1.49%) React
3 1 (1.49%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.94%) Onboarding
2 6 (8.96%) Management Information System
3 5 (7.46%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (5.97%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (5.97%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (2.99%) Life Science
5 2 (2.99%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.99%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (2.99%) Replication
6 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.49%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 13 (19.40%) Windows
2 8 (11.94%) Windows Server
3 6 (8.96%) Linux
4 3 (4.48%) Unix
5 2 (2.99%) AIX
5 2 (2.99%) CentOS
5 2 (2.99%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (2.99%) Windows 10
5 2 (2.99%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (2.99%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (40.30%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (22.39%) Data Modelling
3 13 (19.40%) Customer Service
3 13 (19.40%) Cybersecurity
4 12 (17.91%) ITIL
5 10 (14.93%) Architectural Patterns
5 10 (14.93%) Artificial Intelligence
5 10 (14.93%) Computer Science
5 10 (14.93%) Data Science
5 10 (14.93%) Machine Learning
5 10 (14.93%) MLOps
5 10 (14.93%) Roadmaps
6 9 (13.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (11.94%) DevOps
7 8 (11.94%) Mentoring
7 8 (11.94%) Project Delivery
8 7 (10.45%) Data Strategy
8 7 (10.45%) Service Delivery
9 6 (8.96%) Data Integration
9 6 (8.96%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 10 (14.93%) PowerShell
1 10 (14.93%) Python
2 7 (10.45%) SQL
3 3 (4.48%) Bash
3 3 (4.48%) C#
3 3 (4.48%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (2.99%) AWK
4 2 (2.99%) C
4 2 (2.99%) C++
4 2 (2.99%) Java
4 2 (2.99%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.99%) Korn
4 2 (2.99%) Perl
4 2 (2.99%) PHP
4 2 (2.99%) R
4 2 (2.99%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (35.82%) Degree
2 10 (14.93%) Security Cleared
3 9 (13.43%) Azure Certification
4 7 (10.45%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (5.97%) CCNA
5 4 (5.97%) CEH
5 4 (5.97%) CISSP
5 4 (5.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (5.97%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (5.97%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (4.48%) CCIE
6 3 (4.48%) CCNP
7 2 (2.99%) A+ Certification
7 2 (2.99%) CCIE Routing and Switching
7 2 (2.99%) CCSA
7 2 (2.99%) Master's Degree
7 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.99%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (1.49%) JNCIE
8 1 (1.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.48%) SLA
2 2 (2.99%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.99%) QA
3 1 (1.49%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.49%) GDPR
3 1 (1.49%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (23.88%) Active Directory
2 12 (17.91%) Docker
3 11 (16.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (13.43%) Hyper-V
5 3 (4.48%) KVM
5 3 (4.48%) vSphere
6 2 (2.99%) Postfix
6 2 (2.99%) Sendmail
6 2 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (2.99%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (2.99%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 12 (17.91%) Kubernetes
2 7 (10.45%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (5.97%) Nessus
4 2 (2.99%) Ansible
4 2 (2.99%) Grafana
4 2 (2.99%) Nagios
4 2 (2.99%) Terraform
Vendors
1 36 (53.73%) Microsoft
2 15 (22.39%) VMware
3 6 (8.96%) Cisco
4 5 (7.46%) SAP
4 5 (7.46%) Sophos
4 5 (7.46%) Veeam
5 3 (4.48%) Baan
5 3 (4.48%) Meraki
5 3 (4.48%) Red Hat
5 3 (4.48%) Synology
6 2 (2.99%) arcserve
6 2 (2.99%) CheckPoint
6 2 (2.99%) Google
6 2 (2.99%) IBM
6 2 (2.99%) Oracle
6 2 (2.99%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.49%) DevExpress
7 1 (1.49%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.49%) Juniper