Azure Contracts in Warrington

Microsoft Azure
Cheshire > Warrington

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Warrington requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 4 7
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 13 14 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Warrington 18.84% 22.95% 21.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 52.00% 82.35% 65.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 17
10th Percentile - £363 £325
25th Percentile £230 £386 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -2.70% +2.78%
75th Percentile £450 £488 £525
90th Percentile £503 £680 £558
Cheshire median daily rate £475 £489 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% -6.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.75 - -
Median hourly rate £66.50 - -
75th Percentile £67.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £66.50 - £65.50
% change year-on-year - - +182.21%

All Cloud Skills
Warrington

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Warrington.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 25 17 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Warrington 36.23% 27.87% 33.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 13 28
10th Percentile £201 £221 £188
25th Percentile £214 £363 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £229 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -49.17% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £409 £488 £502
90th Percentile £501 £642 £603
Cheshire median daily rate £421 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -6.39% -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £12.82 - -
75th Percentile £40.04 - -
90th Percentile £67.25 - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £12.82 - £22.53
% change year-on-year - - +3.44%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Warrington

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Warrington.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Warrington

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Warrington

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in Warrington.

Daily rate trend for Azure in Warrington

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Daily Rate Histogram in Warrington

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Warrington over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Warrington

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Warrington

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in Warrington.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Warrington

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Warrington 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 (23.08%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (23.08%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (38.46%) Entra ID
3 4 (30.77%) SaaS
4 3 (23.08%) AWS
5 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (7.69%) Power Automate
5 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.69%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) Firewall
2 3 (23.08%) TCP/IP
3 2 (15.38%) BGP
3 2 (15.38%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (15.38%) DNS
3 2 (15.38%) LAN
3 2 (15.38%) Network Security
3 2 (15.38%) NX-OS
3 2 (15.38%) WAN
3 2 (15.38%) WLAN
4 1 (7.69%) iSCSI
4 1 (7.69%) SAN
4 1 (7.69%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) MSI
General
1 3 (23.08%) Japanese Language
1 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.69%) Military
3 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (15.38%) Network Engineer
1 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
1 2 (15.38%) Support Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Angular Developer
2 1 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) C# Developer
2 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Developer
2 1 (7.69%) IT Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Security Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Senior
2 1 (7.69%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Server Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) .NET
1 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
1 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
1 1 (7.69%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Windows
2 3 (23.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Agile
1 5 (38.46%) Migration
2 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (23.08%) ITIL
3 3 (23.08%) ITSM
3 3 (23.08%) Service Delivery
4 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (15.38%) Task Automation
5 1 (7.69%) Analytics
5 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (7.69%) Decision-Making
5 1 (7.69%) DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (7.69%) Log Analytics
5 1 (7.69%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 1 (7.69%) RBAC
5 1 (7.69%) Security Operations
5 1 (7.69%) SOAR
5 1 (7.69%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
2 2 (15.38%) Perl
2 2 (15.38%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) C#
3 1 (7.69%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) SC Cleared
1 8 (61.54%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) CCDP
2 2 (15.38%) CCNP
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (61.54%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (7.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (7.69%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (69.23%) Microsoft
2 3 (23.08%) Cisco
2 3 (23.08%) SolarWinds
3 2 (15.38%) F5
3 2 (15.38%) Meraki
3 2 (15.38%) Palo Alto
4 1 (7.69%) Dell
4 1 (7.69%) LogRhythm
4 1 (7.69%) NetApp
4 1 (7.69%) Veeam
4 1 (7.69%) VMware