Azure Stack Contracts in England

Microsoft Azure Stack
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Azure Stack skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Stack over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 459 530 691
Rank change year-on-year +71 +161 -118
Contract jobs citing Azure Stack 79 125 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.25% 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.67% 0.68% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 104 70
10th Percentile £460 £474 £413
25th Percentile £463 £538 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £663 £588
Median % change year-on-year -24.53% +12.77% +18.39%
75th Percentile £575 £723 £697
90th Percentile £650 £756 £789
UK median daily rate £500 £663 £575
% change year-on-year -24.53% +15.22% +15.87%

All Cloud Skills
England

Azure Stack is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,769 18,488 27,314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.83% 36.63% 38.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,478 13,522 20,053
10th Percentile £290 £325 £339
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 311 348
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £32.50 £65.75 £42.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £64.83
UK median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -6.30%

Azure Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Stack in England

Azure Stack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Stack in England

Azure Stack
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Stack in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Stack in England

Azure Stack
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Stack within the England region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South West -18 42 £495 -25.28% 1
London +113 20 £581 +16.25% 7
North of England +37 8 £550 +8.91% 2
North West +29 8 £550 +1.85% 1
South East +19 6 £775 +5.80% 1
Yorkshire +24 2 - - 1
North East - 2 - -
East of England +7 1 £500 -23.08% 2
Azure Stack
UK

Azure Stack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 36 (45.57%) Confluence
1 36 (45.57%) SharePoint
2 34 (43.04%) SharePoint Server
3 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.27%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.27%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 79 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (13.92%) Microsoft Purview
3 9 (11.39%) Power Platform
4 8 (10.13%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (5.06%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (3.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (3.80%) Entra ID
6 3 (3.80%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.80%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.53%) AWS
7 2 (2.53%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (2.53%) IaaS
7 2 (2.53%) OneDrive
7 2 (2.53%) PaaS
8 1 (1.27%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.27%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.27%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.27%) GitHub
8 1 (1.27%) Serverless
8 1 (1.27%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 35 (44.30%) Firewall
2 34 (43.04%) BGP
3 2 (2.53%) DNS
3 2 (2.53%) SAN
4 1 (1.27%) DHCP
4 1 (1.27%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (22.78%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (13.92%) Snowflake Schema
3 9 (11.39%) Power BI
4 4 (5.06%) Big Data
5 3 (3.80%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.53%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.53%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.53%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.27%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.27%) MySQL
7 1 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.27%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 39 (49.37%) JIRA
2 3 (3.80%) Git
3 2 (2.53%) GitLab
4 1 (1.27%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.27%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.27%) Vagrant
General
1 39 (49.37%) Social Skills
2 17 (21.52%) Organisational Skills
3 12 (15.19%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.06%) Finance
5 3 (3.80%) Police
6 2 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.53%) Law
7 1 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 20 (25.32%) Architect
2 17 (21.52%) Microsoft Engineer
3 12 (15.19%) Analyst
3 12 (15.19%) Data Engineer
4 11 (13.92%) Data Architect
5 7 (8.86%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (7.59%) Azure Architect
6 6 (7.59%) Azure Data Engineer
7 5 (6.33%) Service Analyst
7 5 (6.33%) Service Management Analyst
8 3 (3.80%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (3.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (3.80%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.53%) Developer
9 2 (2.53%) DevOps Engineer
9 2 (2.53%) Infrastructure Architect
9 2 (2.53%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
9 2 (2.53%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.53%) Python Data Engineer
9 2 (2.53%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.92%) JSON
1 11 (13.92%) REST
1 11 (13.92%) XML
2 5 (6.33%) PySpark
3 2 (2.53%) YAML
4 1 (1.27%) .NET
4 1 (1.27%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.27%) Keycloak
4 1 (1.27%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 37 (46.84%) Private Cloud
2 11 (13.92%) Data Structures
2 11 (13.92%) Reference Data
3 10 (12.66%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.53%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.53%) PKI
5 1 (1.27%) Clustering
5 1 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.27%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.27%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.27%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 38 (48.10%) Windows
2 2 (2.53%) Linux
3 1 (1.27%) CentOS
3 1 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.27%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.27%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.27%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (48.10%) ITIL
2 36 (45.57%) Service Management
3 35 (44.30%) Capacity Management
3 35 (44.30%) Network Management
3 35 (44.30%) Security Monitoring
4 27 (34.18%) ITSM
5 22 (27.85%) Analytics
6 18 (22.78%) Data Modelling
7 17 (21.52%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (20.25%) Agile
8 16 (20.25%) Data Governance
9 12 (15.19%) Data Protection
9 12 (15.19%) Value Proposition
10 11 (13.92%) Event-Driven
10 11 (13.92%) GAP Analysis
10 11 (13.92%) Microservices
11 10 (12.66%) Backlog Management
11 10 (12.66%) Change Management
11 10 (12.66%) Knowledge Transfer
12 9 (11.39%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 13 (16.46%) SQL
2 9 (11.39%) Python
3 5 (6.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.27%) Bash
4 1 (1.27%) C#
4 1 (1.27%) Groovy
4 1 (1.27%) Korn
4 1 (1.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (53.16%) Security Cleared
2 34 (43.04%) DV Cleared
3 8 (10.13%) Degree
3 8 (10.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (43.04%) Government Security Classifications
2 13 (16.46%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.27%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (7.59%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.53%) Hyper-V
2 2 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.27%) Docker
3 1 (1.27%) KVM
3 1 (1.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 26 (32.91%) SCOM
2 4 (5.06%) Terraform
3 3 (3.80%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.53%) Ansible
4 2 (2.53%) SCCM
5 1 (1.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.27%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.27%) Nessus
5 1 (1.27%) Packer
5 1 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 52 (65.82%) Microsoft
2 34 (43.04%) Atlassian
3 11 (13.92%) Databricks
4 4 (5.06%) VMware
5 2 (2.53%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.27%) Informatica
6 1 (1.27%) Meraki
6 1 (1.27%) Oracle
6 1 (1.27%) Proofpoint
6 1 (1.27%) Sophos
6 1 (1.27%) Sybase