Azure Stack Contracts in the North West

Microsoft Azure Stack
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 158 183
Rank change year-on-year +28 +25 -42
Contract jobs citing Azure Stack 8 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.29% 0.093% 0.050%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.89% 0.24% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £413 £506 £453
25th Percentile £455 £511 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £625
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -13.60% +21.95%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £738
90th Percentile - £602 £798
England median daily rate £500 £663 £575
% change year-on-year -24.53% +15.22% +15.00%

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 894 1,227 1,361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.52% 38.06% 33.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 654 916 1,047
10th Percentile £300 £305 £213
25th Percentile £400 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £594
90th Percentile £638 £675 £672
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 34 44
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.20 £14.25
25th Percentile - £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £16.06 £37.30 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.94% +101.62% +5.93%
75th Percentile £21.13 £65.00 £24.83
90th Percentile £43.75 £70.00 £59.63
England median hourly rate £20.87 £28.33 £20.70
% change year-on-year -26.33% +36.86% -5.91%

Azure Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Azure Stack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Stack in the North West

Azure Stack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Stack in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Azure Stack in the North West

Azure Stack
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Stack in the North West over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Stack in the North West

Azure Stack
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 19 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
Manchester +20 4 £550 -4.35% 1
Cheshire +5 3 £390 -
Azure Stack
England

Azure Stack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (75.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (12.50%) OneDrive
4 1 (12.50%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) DHCP
2 1 (12.50%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (75.00%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Architect
1 6 (75.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) JSON
1 6 (75.00%) REST
1 6 (75.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Data Structures
1 6 (75.00%) Product Ownership
1 6 (75.00%) Reference Data
2 1 (12.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Change Management
2 6 (75.00%) Agile
2 6 (75.00%) Analytics
2 6 (75.00%) Data Architecture
2 6 (75.00%) Data Governance
2 6 (75.00%) Data Lineage
2 6 (75.00%) Data Management
2 6 (75.00%) Data Mapping
2 6 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 6 (75.00%) Data Protection
2 6 (75.00%) Data Strategy
2 6 (75.00%) Event-Driven
2 6 (75.00%) GAP Analysis
2 6 (75.00%) Microservices
2 6 (75.00%) Value Proposition
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) SFIA
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (12.50%) SCCM
1 1 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Proofpoint
2 1 (12.50%) Sophos
2 1 (12.50%) VMware