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 1 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 8 7
Rank change year-on-year -85 -1 -3
Permanent jobs citing Azure 25 148 130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 1.65% 12.40% 16.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 24.75% 54.61% 60.75%
Number of salaries quoted 24 128 42
10th Percentile £39,375 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £38,750 £37,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £50,000 £43,833
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +14.07% -3.64%
75th Percentile £64,257 £63,000 £53,438
90th Percentile £82,625 £67,968 £57,500
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 101 271 214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 6.68% 22.70% 27.23%
Number of salaries quoted 64 230 109
10th Percentile £27,650 £26,250 £25,522
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,875 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,592 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.82% +11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £50,000
90th Percentile £84,350 £77,750 £57,500
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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -3 8 £52,500 +10.53% 4
Blackburn -22 8 £66,250 +136.61% 7
Lancaster -13 2 £62,205 +46.36% 3
Carnforth - 1 £40,000 -
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 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (8.00%) Apache
2 2 (8.00%) IIS
3 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (8.00%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 13 (52.00%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (20.00%) AWS
3 3 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (12.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (8.00%) GCP
4 2 (8.00%) Nutanix
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (24.00%) DNS
2 5 (20.00%) SAN
3 4 (16.00%) DHCP
3 4 (16.00%) Firewall
3 4 (16.00%) SD-WAN
4 3 (12.00%) Cisco ISE
4 3 (12.00%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (12.00%) WAN
5 2 (8.00%) FTP
5 2 (8.00%) HTTP
5 2 (8.00%) HTTPS
5 2 (8.00%) LAN
5 2 (8.00%) NAS
5 2 (8.00%) SSH
5 2 (8.00%) SSL
5 2 (8.00%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (4.00%) BGP
6 1 (4.00%) EIGRP
6 1 (4.00%) MPLS
6 1 (4.00%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (12.00%) Power BI
3 2 (8.00%) MySQL
3 2 (8.00%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (8.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (4.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Git
2 1 (4.00%) Postman
2 1 (4.00%) TestComplete
General
1 11 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (32.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.00%) Finance
4 1 (4.00%) Legal
4 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Service Manager
3 3 (12.00%) Developer
3 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Manager
3 3 (12.00%) Senior
3 3 (12.00%) Service Desk Manager
4 2 (8.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Administrator
4 2 (8.00%) Network Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Software Developer
5 1 (4.00%) .NET Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Software Tester
5 1 (4.00%) Tester
5 1 (4.00%) Unix Administrator
5 1 (4.00%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) .NET
2 3 (12.00%) .NET Framework
2 3 (12.00%) Entity Framework
3 2 (8.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (8.00%) CSS
3 2 (8.00%) EDI
3 2 (8.00%) HTML
3 2 (8.00%) LAMP
3 2 (8.00%) Loki
3 2 (8.00%) XML
4 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (4.00%) PySpark
4 1 (4.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (12.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (8.00%) Life Science
3 2 (8.00%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (8.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (8.00%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (8.00%) Replication
4 1 (4.00%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.00%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (28.00%) Windows
2 5 (20.00%) Unix
3 4 (16.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (8.00%) AIX
4 2 (8.00%) CentOS
4 2 (8.00%) Linux
4 2 (8.00%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (8.00%) Windows 10
4 2 (8.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (8.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (28.00%) DevOps
2 7 (28.00%) Project Delivery
3 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (24.00%) ITIL
4 5 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 4 (16.00%) Client Onboarding
5 4 (16.00%) Customer Experience
5 4 (16.00%) Customer Service
5 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Management
5 4 (16.00%) Network Design
5 4 (16.00%) Service Delivery
6 3 (12.00%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (12.00%) Patch Management
6 3 (12.00%) Roadmaps
6 3 (12.00%) SDLC
6 3 (12.00%) Service Management
6 3 (12.00%) Vulnerability Management
7 2 (8.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) Python
1 4 (16.00%) SQL
2 3 (12.00%) C#
3 2 (8.00%) AWK
3 2 (8.00%) C
3 2 (8.00%) C++
3 2 (8.00%) Korn
3 2 (8.00%) Perl
3 2 (8.00%) PHP
3 2 (8.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (4.00%) Bash
4 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) Azure Certification
2 4 (16.00%) Degree
2 4 (16.00%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (8.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (4.00%) CCIE
4 1 (4.00%) CCNP
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.00%) DBS Check
4 1 (4.00%) JNCIE
4 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.00%) GDPR
2 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 7 (28.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (24.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (12.00%) KVM
3 3 (12.00%) vSphere
4 2 (8.00%) Docker
4 2 (8.00%) Hyper-V
4 2 (8.00%) Postfix
4 2 (8.00%) Sendmail
4 2 (8.00%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (16.00%) Nessus
2 2 (8.00%) Grafana
2 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.00%) Nagios
3 1 (4.00%) Ansible
3 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (32.00%) VMware
3 5 (20.00%) Sophos
4 4 (16.00%) Cisco
4 4 (16.00%) Red Hat
4 4 (16.00%) Veeam
5 3 (12.00%) Meraki
5 3 (12.00%) Synology
6 2 (8.00%) arcserve
6 2 (8.00%) IBM
6 2 (8.00%) Oracle
6 2 (8.00%) SAP
6 2 (8.00%) Tenable
7 1 (4.00%) Fortinet
7 1 (4.00%) Juniper