Microsoft Job Trends in Knutsford

Microsoft
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Knutsford requiring knowledge or experience of Microsoft products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft over the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within the Microsoft Corporation.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 10 10
Rank change year-on-year -8 0 -3
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 2 8 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Knutsford 2.86% 13.33% 8.70%
As % of the Vendors category 7.69% 53.33% 50.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61,250 £25,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £26,000 £26,000
Median % change year-on-year +140.38% - -58.40%
75th Percentile £63,750 £26,688 -
90th Percentile - £27,025 -
Cheshire median annual salary £35,500 £47,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -25.26% +11.76% +21.43%

All Vendors
Knutsford

Microsoft falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Knutsford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 26 15 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Knutsford 37.14% 25.00% 17.39%
Number of salaries quoted 15 7 3
10th Percentile - - £27,050
25th Percentile £25,087 £25,500 £28,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,750 £26,500 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +125.47% -18.46% -40.91%
75th Percentile £74,000 £90,625 £50,000
90th Percentile £85,500 £112,200 £59,750
Cheshire median annual salary £36,500 £47,500 £43,800
% change year-on-year -23.16% +8.45% -2.67%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microsoft relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Knutsford.

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Microsoft
Salary Trend in Knutsford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Microsoft.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
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%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Life Science
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Maintenance
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Logistics
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 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
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform