Azure Stack Contracts in the South West

Microsoft Azure Stack
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 133 112
Rank change year-on-year +27 -21 +54
Contract jobs citing Azure Stack 6 19 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.32% 0.61% 1.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.07% 2.34% 4.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 19 42
10th Percentile - - £416
25th Percentile £700 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 £475 £623
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -23.69% -0.40%
75th Percentile £859 £498 £669
90th Percentile £900 £525 £736
England median daily rate £600 £500 £633
% change year-on-year +20.00% -21.01% +15.09%

All Cloud Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 563 811 1,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 29.77% 26.18% 31.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 400 578 829
10th Percentile £225 £247 £313
25th Percentile £355 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £657
90th Percentile £675 £675 £725
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 48 64
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.52 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £26.06 £21.86
Median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £52.93
Median % change year-on-year -73.04% +32.26% +137.87%
75th Percentile £27.38 - £76.13
90th Percentile £37.50 - £78.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £21.75 £34.90
% change year-on-year +15.63% -37.67% +60.23%

Azure Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Stack in the South West

Azure Stack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Stack in the South West

Azure Stack
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Stack in the South West over the 6 months to 20 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Stack in the South West

Azure Stack
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 20 July 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
Gloucestershire - 6 £713 - 2
Azure Stack
England

Azure Stack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (50.00%) IaaS
2 3 (50.00%) PaaS
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) IT Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Senior
1 3 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Senior IT Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Chief Technology Officer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 2 (33.33%) Private Cloud
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 1 (16.67%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (50.00%) Network+ Certification
2 2 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (16.67%) CCSP
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (16.67%) CISM
3 1 (16.67%) CISSP
3 1 (16.67%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle