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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 11 7
Rank change year-on-year -67 -4 -3
Permanent jobs citing Azure 110 161 115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 4.74% 11.88% 16.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 65.87% 54.39% 57.21%
Number of salaries quoted 21 136 43
10th Percentile £37,500 £26,250 £32,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £64,010 £65,000 £57,428
90th Percentile £87,500 £67,968 £61,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £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 167 296 201
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 7.20% 21.85% 28.15%
Number of salaries quoted 50 256 112
10th Percentile £24,500 £26,250 £27,270
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,625 £37,027
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £52,500 £47,250
Median % change year-on-year -9.18% +11.11% +11.18%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,968 £57,392
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £61,250
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

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 30 May 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 30 May 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
Blackburn -29 9 £65,000 +26.21% 2
Chorley +2 6 £46,250 -22.92% 3
Lancaster -8 3 £62,205 +24.41% 3
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 6 (5.45%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 92 (83.64%) AWS
2 77 (70.00%) GCP
3 7 (6.36%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (5.45%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.82%) Nutanix
6 1 (0.91%) Azure AKS
6 1 (0.91%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (0.91%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.91%) GitHub
6 1 (0.91%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (0.91%) IaaS
6 1 (0.91%) PaaS
6 1 (0.91%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.64%) SAN
2 3 (2.73%) Firewall
2 3 (2.73%) SD-WAN
3 2 (1.82%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (1.82%) DHCP
3 2 (1.82%) DNS
3 2 (1.82%) NAS
3 2 (1.82%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.91%) BGP
4 1 (0.91%) EIGRP
4 1 (0.91%) MPLS
4 1 (0.91%) Network Security
4 1 (0.91%) OSPF
4 1 (0.91%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.91%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (19.09%) SQL Server
2 6 (5.45%) Power BI
3 3 (2.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.91%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 19 (17.27%) JIRA
2 18 (16.36%) Bitbucket
2 18 (16.36%) Cucumber
2 18 (16.36%) GitLab
2 18 (16.36%) Maven
2 18 (16.36%) Selenium
2 18 (16.36%) SonarQube
2 18 (16.36%) Sonatype Nexus
3 6 (5.45%) Git
4 1 (0.91%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.91%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 88 (80.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 19 (17.27%) Finance
3 18 (16.36%) Banking
4 15 (13.64%) Retail
5 12 (10.91%) Corporate Banking
5 12 (10.91%) Investment Banking
6 7 (6.36%) Social Skills
7 4 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.91%) Legal
8 1 (0.91%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 88 (80.00%) Software Engineer
2 72 (65.45%) Senior
3 70 (63.64%) Senior Software Engineer
4 4 (3.64%) Developer
4 4 (3.64%) Software Developer
5 3 (2.73%) Infrastructure Manager
5 3 (2.73%) Service Desk Manager
5 3 (2.73%) Service Manager
6 2 (1.82%) Applications Support
6 2 (1.82%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (1.82%) Data Scientist
6 2 (1.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (1.82%) Network Engineer
7 1 (0.91%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 1 (0.91%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (0.91%) C# .NET Developer
7 1 (0.91%) Data Engineer
7 1 (0.91%) IT Analyst
7 1 (0.91%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
7 1 (0.91%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (67.27%) .NET
2 70 (63.64%) Node.js
3 21 (19.09%) CSS
3 21 (19.09%) HTML
4 18 (16.36%) JPA
4 18 (16.36%) Kafka
4 18 (16.36%) React
4 18 (16.36%) Redux
4 18 (16.36%) Spring
4 18 (16.36%) Spring Boot
5 12 (10.91%) CSS3
5 12 (10.91%) HTML5
5 12 (10.91%) Jest
5 12 (10.91%) REST
5 12 (10.91%) RESTful
5 12 (10.91%) Sass
6 6 (5.45%) Hibernate
7 3 (2.73%) .NET Framework
7 3 (2.73%) ASP.NET
7 3 (2.73%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 70 (63.64%) Cyberattack
1 70 (63.64%) Linux Command Line
1 70 (63.64%) Self-Motivation
2 18 (16.36%) Enterprise Software
2 18 (16.36%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.73%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.73%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.82%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.91%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.91%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.91%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.91%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 70 (63.64%) Linux
2 6 (5.45%) Windows
3 3 (2.73%) Unix
3 3 (2.73%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (80.91%) Agile
2 88 (80.00%) Microservices
2 88 (80.00%) Software Engineering
3 86 (78.18%) Mentoring
4 83 (75.45%) User Experience
5 72 (65.45%) Machine Learning
6 71 (64.55%) Data Engineering
6 71 (64.55%) Scrum
7 70 (63.64%) Cloud Security
7 70 (63.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 26 (23.64%) DevOps
9 21 (19.09%) SDLC
10 20 (18.18%) CI/CD
10 20 (18.18%) Containerisation
11 18 (16.36%) Front End Development
11 18 (16.36%) Full-Stack Development
11 18 (16.36%) Performance Optimisation
11 18 (16.36%) Test Automation
12 12 (10.91%) Migration
12 12 (10.91%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 88 (80.00%) Java
1 88 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 74 (67.27%) Python
3 70 (63.64%) C++
3 70 (63.64%) Go
3 70 (63.64%) Rust
4 25 (22.73%) SQL
5 12 (10.91%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.64%) C#
7 3 (2.73%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.91%) Bash
Qualifications
1 70 (63.64%) AWS Certification
1 70 (63.64%) AWS Certified Developer
1 70 (63.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 70 (63.64%) DV Cleared
1 70 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.36%) Azure Certification
3 4 (3.64%) Degree
3 4 (3.64%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (2.73%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.82%) PhD
5 2 (1.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (0.91%) CCIE
6 1 (0.91%) CCNP
6 1 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.91%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.91%) JNCIE
6 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (16.36%) QA
2 14 (12.73%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.82%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.91%) GDPR
System Software
1 21 (19.09%) Docker
2 3 (2.73%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.82%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.91%) KVM
4 1 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (19.09%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.82%) Ansible
4 1 (0.91%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.91%) Puppet
4 1 (0.91%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (16.36%) Solace
2 17 (15.45%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.45%) VMware
4 4 (3.64%) Veeam
5 3 (2.73%) Cisco
6 2 (1.82%) Meraki
6 2 (1.82%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.82%) Sophos
6 2 (1.82%) Synology
7 1 (0.91%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.91%) Juniper