Azure Stack Contracts in England

Microsoft Azure Stack
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Azure Stack skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure Stack over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 449 463 528
Rank change year-on-year +14 +65 +160
Contract jobs citing Azure Stack 36 79 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.21% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.40% 0.67% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 62 104
10th Percentile £389 £460 £474
25th Percentile £463 £463 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £663
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -24.53% +15.22%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £723
90th Percentile £696 £650 £756
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £663
% change year-on-year +10.00% -24.53% +15.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £74.00 - -
75th Percentile £75.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £74.00 - -

All Cloud Skills
England

Azure Stack 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 9,062 11,852 18,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.21% 31.87% 36.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,341 8,544 13,518
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 321 311
10th Percentile £15.03 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.85 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%
75th Percentile £40.50 £32.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £73.38 £61.60 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Stack in England

Azure Stack
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +45 27 £550 -5.38% 7
South East +46 6 £394 -49.19% 9
West Midlands - 2 £700 - 1
Midlands - 2 £700 - 1
North of England +12 1 £550 - 4
Yorkshire +7 1 £550 - 2
South West +5 1 £700 +41.41% 1
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:

Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 36 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (25.00%) SaaS
3 4 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (11.11%) Tricentis Tosca
4 2 (5.56%) AWS
4 2 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (5.56%) Entra ID
4 2 (5.56%) IaaS
4 2 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (5.56%) PaaS
5 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) Data Lake
1 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (2.78%) Power BI
1 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Cypress.io
1 2 (5.56%) Git
1 2 (5.56%) Moq
1 2 (5.56%) Visual Studio
1 2 (5.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.33%) Finance
4 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Electronics
4 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.78%) Law
4 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.78%) Marketing
4 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (30.56%) Architect
2 10 (27.78%) Senior
3 7 (19.44%) Data Engineer
3 7 (19.44%) Infrastructure Architect
4 6 (16.67%) Developer
4 6 (16.67%) Operations Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) Data Analytics Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) DataOps Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) Senior Developer
6 4 (11.11%) Analyst
6 4 (11.11%) Azure Architect
6 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
6 4 (11.11%) Test Analyst
6 4 (11.11%) VMware Architect
7 3 (8.33%) Applications Developer
7 3 (8.33%) Azure Developer
7 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) Senior Applications Developer
8 2 (5.56%) Azure Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.67%) .NET
2 3 (8.33%) JSON
2 3 (8.33%) XML
3 2 (5.56%) .NET Core
3 2 (5.56%) AngularJS
3 2 (5.56%) ASP.NET
3 2 (5.56%) CSS
3 2 (5.56%) HTML
3 2 (5.56%) PySpark
3 2 (5.56%) RESTful
3 2 (5.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (5.56%) NHS
2 2 (5.56%) Private Cloud
2 2 (5.56%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.78%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 11 (30.56%) Windows
1 11 (30.56%) Windows Server
2 3 (8.33%) Linux
3 1 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.78%) Rocky
3 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (30.56%) CI/CD
2 10 (27.78%) Agile
3 8 (22.22%) Data Science
4 7 (19.44%) Machine Learning
4 7 (19.44%) MLOps
5 6 (16.67%) Analytics
5 6 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 6 (16.67%) DataOps
5 6 (16.67%) DevOps
5 6 (16.67%) Product Strategy
5 6 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 5 (13.89%) Data Governance
6 5 (13.89%) Refactoring
7 4 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
7 4 (11.11%) Software Engineering
8 3 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (8.33%) ITIL
8 3 (8.33%) System Integration Testing
8 3 (8.33%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 12 (33.33%) SQL
2 10 (27.78%) Python
3 7 (19.44%) Scala
4 5 (13.89%) C#
5 2 (5.56%) ActionScript
5 2 (5.56%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.56%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 10 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.33%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.56%) Degree
4 2 (5.56%) ISEB
4 2 (5.56%) ISTQB
4 2 (5.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.78%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.78%) QA
2 1 (2.78%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.78%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (19.44%) VxRail
2 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.78%) SCOM
Vendors
1 13 (36.11%) Microsoft
2 9 (25.00%) VMware
3 8 (22.22%) Oracle
4 7 (19.44%) Red Hat
5 5 (13.89%) EMC
6 2 (5.56%) Databricks
6 2 (5.56%) Infor
7 1 (2.78%) Dell
7 1 (2.78%) Murex
7 1 (2.78%) SAP
7 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow