Azure Blueprints Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Microsoft Azure Blueprints
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Azure Blueprints skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure Blueprints 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.47% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.15% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £618 - -
25th Percentile £626 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 - -
75th Percentile £645 - -
90th Percentile £673 - -
North West median daily rate £630 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cheshire

Azure Blueprints falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 127 175 83
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 15.07% 27.47% 16.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 148 61
10th Percentile £376 £313 £329
25th Percentile £420 £358 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £393 £445
Median % change year-on-year +27.23% -11.69% -8.72%
75th Percentile £599 £469 £511
90th Percentile £643 £537 £620
North West median daily rate £530 £445 £500
% change year-on-year +19.10% -11.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £32.00 -
North West median hourly rate £75.00 £51.00 £46.84
% change year-on-year +47.06% +8.88% +1.43%

Azure Blueprints
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Blueprints within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 13 September 2026. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford - 4 £630 - 1
Azure Blueprints
North West

Azure Blueprints
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 4 (100.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 4 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 4 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 4 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
1 4 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 4 (100.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (100.00%) Security Posture
2 3 (75.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Analytics
1 4 (100.00%) Change Management
1 4 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 4 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Key Management
1 4 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 4 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 4 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 4 (100.00%) RBAC
1 4 (100.00%) Release Management
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) SDLC
1 4 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 4 (100.00%) SIEM
1 4 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Bash
1 4 (100.00%) Bicep
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (75.00%) CISSP
2 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (100.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Google
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat