Azure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Warrington

Microsoft Azure Engineer
Cheshire > Warrington

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in Warrington is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 22 19
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 4 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Warrington 4.71% 1.56% 1.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.19% 1.69% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.70%
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £421 - £538
% change year-on-year - - +16.22%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Warrington

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Warrington. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Warrington with a recognized job title 77 59 76
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.59% 92.19% 95.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 37 44
10th Percentile £225 £203 £158
25th Percentile £363 £230 £181
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £438
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -8.57% +2.94%
75th Percentile £543 £519 £500
90th Percentile £590 £568 £568
Cheshire median daily rate £455 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% +4.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 11
10th Percentile - - £11.00
25th Percentile £13.47 - £12.50
Median hourly rate £16.00 - £22.50
75th Percentile £21.00 - £26.66
90th Percentile £23.89 - £34.08
Cheshire median hourly rate £22.85 £35.20 £21.04
% change year-on-year -35.09% +67.34% -2.16%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Warrington

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Azure Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Warrington.

Azure Engineer job vacancy trend in Warrington

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Warrington

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in Warrington.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in Warrington

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Warrington

For the 6 months to 17 March 2026, Azure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Warrington region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (75.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (50.00%) Firewall
3 2 (50.00%) JSON
3 2 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (50.00%) Log Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) LogRhythm
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 2 (50.00%) NIST
3 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) Security Operations
3 2 (50.00%) SIEM
3 2 (50.00%) SOAR
3 2 (50.00%) Threat Detection

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Warrington 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%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) IaaS
3 1 (25.00%) PaaS
3 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
3 1 (25.00%) DHCP
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (25.00%) Military
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) VMS
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (50.00%) Log Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 2 (50.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (50.00%) SIEM
1 2 (50.00%) SOAR
1 2 (50.00%) Threat Detection
1 2 (50.00%) Use Case
1 2 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) CA Single Sign-On
2 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) LogRhythm
3 1 (25.00%) VMware