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 24 October 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 56 53
Rank change year-on-year -39 -3 +60
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 2 18 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheshire 0.25% 1.94% 1.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 2.04% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1 11 4
10th Percentile - - £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 £50,625 £70,000
90th Percentile - £55,000 £74,500
North West median annual salary £62,750 £50,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +25.50% -23.49% +18.82%

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 666 881 466
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 84.20% 95.04% 97.49%
Number of salaries quoted 362 518 346
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £23,850
25th Percentile £32,125 £37,500 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,048 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -6.15% +6.67%
75th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £66,646
90th Percentile £77,500 £65,000 £77,500
North West median annual salary £48,990 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.02% -9.09% +4.76%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Azure Engineer job vacancy trend 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 24 October 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 & Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 24 October 2025, Azure Engineer 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 permanent job ads across the Cheshire region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (50.00%) OneDrive
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving

Azure Engineer Skill Set
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:

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%) AI
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