Azure Stack Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure Stack
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 327 346 348
Rank change year-on-year +19 +2 +122
Contract jobs citing Azure Stack 9 53 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.070% 0.26% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.22% 0.97% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 42 98
10th Percentile £387 £460 £525
25th Percentile £395 £463 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £663
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -25.28% +10.42%
75th Percentile £588 £563 £723
90th Percentile £655 £575 £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
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,086 5,443 8,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.01% 26.20% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,896 3,840 5,946
10th Percentile £236 £213 £240
25th Percentile £388 £375 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 259 231
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.00 £16.69
Median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%
75th Percentile £33.45 £26.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.25 £61.52 £75.00
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Azure Stack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Stack in the UK excluding London

Azure Stack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Stack in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Azure Stack in the UK excluding London

Azure Stack
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Stack in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Stack in the UK excluding London

Azure Stack
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Stack in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Stack in the UK excluding London

Azure Stack
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
South East +46 6 £394 -49.19% 10
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
Wales - 1 £700 -
Azure Stack
UK

Azure Stack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) SaaS
3 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Tricentis Tosca
4 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Cypress.io
1 2 (22.22%) Git
1 2 (22.22%) Moq
1 2 (22.22%) Visual Studio
1 2 (22.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Senior
2 3 (33.33%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Test Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Analytics Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Automation Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Automation Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Data Analytics Manager
4 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) .NET
2 2 (22.22%) .NET Core
2 2 (22.22%) AngularJS
2 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET
2 2 (22.22%) CSS
2 2 (22.22%) HTML
2 2 (22.22%) JSON
2 2 (22.22%) RESTful
2 2 (22.22%) XML
2 2 (22.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Rocky
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Design Patterns
3 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (22.22%) Insurtech
3 2 (22.22%) OO
3 2 (22.22%) OWASP
3 2 (22.22%) Product Backlog
3 2 (22.22%) Progressive Web App
3 2 (22.22%) Scrum
3 2 (22.22%) SOLID
3 2 (22.22%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (22.22%) Sprint Retrospective
3 2 (22.22%) Technical Debt
3 2 (22.22%) User Experience
3 2 (22.22%) UX Design
3 2 (22.22%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) C#
2 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 2 (22.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
4 1 (11.11%) Degree
4 1 (11.11%) ISEB
4 1 (11.11%) ISTQB
4 1 (11.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (11.11%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Dell