Azure AI Job Trends in Preston

Azure AI Platform
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Preston requiring Azure AI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Azure AI 7 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Preston 6.48% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 25.00% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 - -
75th Percentile £57,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Lancashire median annual salary £50,000 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Preston

Azure AI 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 Preston.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 28 33 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Preston 25.93% 23.74% 27.87%
Number of salaries quoted 13 15 26
10th Percentile £30,700 £34,400 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £61,875 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £67,500 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -40.74% +46.74% +2.22%
75th Percentile £70,000 £74,750 £51,250
90th Percentile £78,000 £98,000 £57,500
Lancashire median annual salary £40,000 £52,500 £44,274
% change year-on-year -23.81% +18.58% +4.17%

Azure AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

Azure AI job vacancy trend in Preston

Azure AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston 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 6 (85.71%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (85.71%) Power Platform
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) Power BI
1 6 (85.71%) Tableau
2 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
General
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Analyst
1 6 (85.71%) Data Analyst
1 6 (85.71%) Junior
1 6 (85.71%) Junior Analyst
1 6 (85.71%) Junior Data Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
1 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
1 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (14.29%) Blazor
1 1 (14.29%) ML.NET
1 1 (14.29%) React
1 1 (14.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Social Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) AI
2 6 (85.71%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
3 1 (14.29%) Multithreading
3 1 (14.29%) OO
3 1 (14.29%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
2 6 (85.71%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) Azure Certification
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft