Azure Stack Contract Job Trends in London

Microsoft Azure Stack
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Azure Stack skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 315 378
Rank change year-on-year -72 +63 +112
Contract jobs citing Azure Stack 30 33 19
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.17% 0.26% 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.40% 0.61% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 23 15
10th Percentile £496 £400 £490
25th Percentile £500 £488 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +17.50%
75th Percentile £596 £613 £650
90th Percentile £625 £680 £665
England median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -24.53%

All Cloud Computing Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 7,520 5,393 6,747
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.37% 42.58% 37.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,177 3,742 4,948
10th Percentile £350 £356 £331
25th Percentile £425 £440 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 52 78
10th Percentile £19.68 £22.27 £17.55
25th Percentile £25.42 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -25.71%
75th Percentile £52.56 £54.13 £40.72
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.13 £60.75
England median hourly rate £45.23 £26.81 £20.77
% change year-on-year +68.69% +29.09% -24.47%

Azure Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure Stack relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Azure Stack job vacancy trend in London

Azure Stack
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Azure Stack.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Azure Stack

Azure Stack
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Stack in London over the 6 months to 17 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Stack in London

Azure Stack
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 17 April 2026. 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
Central London 0 8 £550 -8.33%
Azure Stack
England

Azure Stack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 3 (10.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 30 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (30.00%) Power Platform
3 6 (20.00%) Power Automate
3 6 (20.00%) PowerApps
4 4 (13.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 4 (13.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (10.00%) Azure Functions
5 3 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (10.00%) Entra ID
5 3 (10.00%) Serverless
6 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (6.67%) Copilot Studio
6 2 (6.67%) GitHub
6 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 7 (23.33%) Software-Defined Networking
2 5 (16.67%) Firewall
3 4 (13.33%) VLAN
3 4 (13.33%) VPN
3 4 (13.33%) VSAN
4 3 (10.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (23.33%) Power BI
2 3 (10.00%) Data Lake
2 3 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.33%) Delta Lake
3 1 (3.33%) Spark SQL
3 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (3.33%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Git
General
1 6 (20.00%) Finance
2 3 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (53.33%) Azure Engineer
2 6 (20.00%) Architect
3 5 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Migration Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Dynamics 365 Architect
5 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Platform Architect
5 3 (10.00%) Power Platform Architect
5 3 (10.00%) Power Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) SIEM Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Data Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Data Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) SharePoint Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) REST
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (3.33%) JSON
3 1 (3.33%) OAuth
3 1 (3.33%) OAuth2
3 1 (3.33%) PySpark
3 1 (3.33%) RESTful
3 1 (3.33%) XML
3 1 (3.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Replication
2 4 (13.33%) Clustering
2 4 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.33%) Low-Code
5 1 (3.33%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.67%) Windows
2 4 (13.33%) Linux
2 4 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (13.33%) SUSE
3 3 (10.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 10 (33.33%) RBAC
2 9 (30.00%) Validation
3 7 (23.33%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (20.00%) Converged Infrastructure
5 5 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 5 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (13.33%) Data Engineering
6 4 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (13.33%) High Availability
6 4 (13.33%) Migration
6 4 (13.33%) Remediation Plan
6 4 (13.33%) Runbook
7 3 (10.00%) Agile
7 3 (10.00%) AI
7 3 (10.00%) Analytics
7 3 (10.00%) Customer Engagement
7 3 (10.00%) DevOps
7 3 (10.00%) ETL
7 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (43.33%) PowerShell
2 6 (20.00%) Bicep
3 4 (13.33%) SQL
4 3 (10.00%) Python
5 2 (6.67%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (6.67%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.33%) C#
6 1 (3.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 12 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 5 (16.67%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 12 (40.00%) Hyper-V
2 4 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (13.33%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (13.33%) vSphere
3 3 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (10.00%) Firmware
3 3 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (33.33%) Terraform
2 4 (13.33%) Failover Clustering
2 4 (13.33%) vCenter Server
2 4 (13.33%) VxRail
3 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 15 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.33%) Dell
2 4 (13.33%) VMware
3 2 (6.67%) Databricks
3 2 (6.67%) OpenAI