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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 478 485 544
Rank change year-on-year +7 +59 +162
Contract jobs citing Azure Stack 34 40 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.12% 0.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.33% 0.35% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 36 57
10th Percentile £400 £431 £420
25th Percentile £438 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £498 £650
Median % change year-on-year +20.60% -23.46% +18.18%
75th Percentile £700 £578 £675
90th Percentile £778 £644 £730
UK median daily rate £600 £498 £650
% change year-on-year +20.60% -23.46% +18.18%

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 10,238 11,296 16,453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.11% 33.71% 36.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,943 8,025 12,089
10th Percentile £310 £313 £313
25th Percentile £406 £425 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 235 298
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £15.00
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.15 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.50 £33.90
Median % change year-on-year +11.78% -33.62% +57.66%
75th Percentile £43.75 £54.38 £69.69
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £79.43
UK median hourly rate £27.38 £23.80 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.02% -32.00% +59.09%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 +4 21 £575 +4.55% 10
South West +18 7 £700 +47.37% 2
West Midlands - 7 £700 - 2
Midlands - 7 £700 - 2
South East +24 2 £394 -26.74% 6
North of England -8 2 £525 +34.62% 7
North West -2 1 £500 +28.21% 1
Yorkshire - 1 £550 - 4
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 1 (2.94%) Apache
1 1 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 34 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (17.65%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (14.71%) Entra ID
3 5 (14.71%) Power Platform
3 5 (14.71%) SaaS
4 4 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (11.76%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (11.76%) Power Automate
4 4 (11.76%) PowerApps
5 3 (8.82%) IaaS
5 3 (8.82%) PaaS
6 2 (5.88%) AWS
6 2 (5.88%) GCP
6 2 (5.88%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.94%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.94%) Azure Storage
7 1 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.94%) iPaaS
7 1 (2.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) Firewall
2 1 (2.94%) DHCP
2 1 (2.94%) DNS
2 1 (2.94%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.71%) Power BI
2 2 (5.88%) Data Lake
2 2 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.88%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.94%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.94%) Data Vault
3 1 (2.94%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (2.94%) CMake
1 1 (2.94%) Git
1 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 11 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.82%) Finance
2 3 (8.82%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.88%) Law
3 2 (5.88%) Marketing
4 1 (2.94%) Banking
4 1 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.94%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (32.35%) Senior
2 9 (26.47%) Architect
2 9 (26.47%) Azure Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) Data Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Analyst
5 4 (11.76%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Dynamics 365 Architect
5 4 (11.76%) IT Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Platform Architect
5 4 (11.76%) Power Platform Architect
5 4 (11.76%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
5 4 (11.76%) Senior IT Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Test Analyst
6 3 (8.82%) Azure Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.82%) PySpark
2 2 (5.88%) .NET
2 2 (5.88%) JSON
2 2 (5.88%) XML
3 1 (2.94%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.94%) Celery
3 1 (2.94%) Middleware
3 1 (2.94%) Murex Flex
3 1 (2.94%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (8.82%) Security Posture
3 2 (5.88%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.88%) NHS
3 2 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.88%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.94%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.82%) Linux
1 3 (8.82%) Windows
1 3 (8.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (23.53%) CI/CD
2 7 (20.59%) DevOps
3 6 (17.65%) Agile
3 6 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (14.71%) Analytics
4 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (11.76%) Customer Engagement
5 4 (11.76%) Customer Service
5 4 (11.76%) Data Engineering
5 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure Management
5 4 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (8.82%) ETL
6 3 (8.82%) Incident Response
6 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (8.82%) Integration Testing
6 3 (8.82%) Network Segmentation
6 3 (8.82%) Project Management
6 3 (8.82%) System Integration Testing
6 3 (8.82%) TDD
7 2 (5.88%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 7 (20.59%) Python
2 6 (17.65%) SQL
3 3 (8.82%) C#
4 2 (5.88%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.94%) Bicep
5 1 (2.94%) C++
5 1 (2.94%) Scala
5 1 (2.94%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (23.53%) SC Cleared
1 8 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.76%) Azure Certification
2 4 (11.76%) DV Cleared
2 4 (11.76%) Network+ Certification
3 2 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (5.88%) Degree
3 2 (5.88%) ISEB
3 2 (5.88%) ISTQB
3 2 (5.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (5.88%) PMP
4 1 (2.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (2.94%) CCSP
4 1 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.94%) CISM
4 1 (2.94%) CISSP
4 1 (2.94%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (8.82%) NIST
2 2 (5.88%) GDPR
2 2 (5.88%) HIPAA
2 2 (5.88%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.94%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (8.82%) Hyper-V
1 3 (8.82%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.88%) SCOM
2 1 (2.94%) Grafana
2 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (47.06%) Microsoft
2 7 (20.59%) Databricks
3 2 (5.88%) Oracle
3 2 (5.88%) VMware
4 1 (2.94%) Murex
4 1 (2.94%) Quark
4 1 (2.94%) SAP