Azure Engineer Job Trends in Cheshire

Microsoft Azure Engineer
North West > Cheshire

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer salary in Cheshire is £56,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 58 57
Rank change year-on-year -34 -1 +60
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 2 20 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.27% 1.78% 1.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 1.85% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1 11 4
10th Percentile - £42,500 £55,500
25th Percentile £53,000 £46,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £47,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.89% -26.92% -
75th Percentile £59,000 £51,250 £70,000
90th Percentile - £53,750 £74,500
North West median annual salary £65,000 £52,500 £67,675
% change year-on-year +23.81% -22.42% +23.05%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cheshire. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Cheshire with a recognized job title 616 1,080 471
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 81.91% 95.91% 92.53%
Number of salaries quoted 307 695 344
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,250 £23,850
25th Percentile £34,878 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £66,063
90th Percentile £80,000 £65,000 £79,450
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings that featured Azure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in Cheshire

Azure Engineer
Salary Trend in Cheshire

Salary distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in Cheshire.

Salary distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in Cheshire

Azure Engineer
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Engineer within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 17 September 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
Ellesmere Port - 1 £56,000 -
Knutsford - 1 - -
Azure Engineer
North West

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 17 September 2025, Azure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Cheshire region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) OneDrive
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft