Azure Stack Contracts

Microsoft Azure Stack
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 482 516 568
Rank change year-on-year +34 +52 +166
Contract jobs citing Azure Stack 37 84 145
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.19% 0.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.34% 0.60% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 65 119
10th Percentile £389 £460 £473
25th Percentile £463 £463 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £663
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -24.53% +15.22%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £721
90th Percentile £696 £650 £760
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £663
% change year-on-year -4.04% -25.28% +10.42%
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 excluding London median hourly rate £74.00 - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 10,997 14,094 22,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.61% 32.33% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,640 10,005 15,924
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £634 £650
90th Percentile £734 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 348 350
10th Percentile £15.28 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.05 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.43 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.60% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £48.56 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £62.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.53 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.47% -28.03% +31.31%

Azure Stack
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Azure Stack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Stack in the UK

Azure Stack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Stack in the UK

Azure Stack
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Stack over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Stack in the UK

Azure Stack
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Stack.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Stack in the UK

Azure Stack
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +20 36 £550 +10.00% 17
London +42 27 £550 -5.38% 4
UK excluding London +10 9 £475 -4.04% 12
Work from Home +19 7 £600 +21.21% 13
South East +43 6 £394 -49.19% 6
Midlands - 2 £700 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £700 - 1
North of England +21 1 £550 - 4
Yorkshire +14 1 £550 - 2
South West +4 1 £700 +41.41% 1
Wales - 1 £700 -

Azure Stack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 37 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (24.32%) SaaS
3 5 (13.51%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (10.81%) Tricentis Tosca
5 2 (5.41%) AWS
5 2 (5.41%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (5.41%) Entra ID
5 2 (5.41%) IaaS
5 2 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (5.41%) PaaS
6 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
1 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (2.70%) Power BI
1 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Cypress.io
1 2 (5.41%) Git
1 2 (5.41%) Moq
1 2 (5.41%) Visual Studio
1 2 (5.41%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 10 (27.03%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.81%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.11%) Finance
4 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Electronics
4 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.70%) Law
4 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.70%) Marketing
4 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (29.73%) Architect
2 10 (27.03%) Senior
3 7 (18.92%) Data Engineer
3 7 (18.92%) Infrastructure Architect
4 6 (16.22%) Developer
4 6 (16.22%) Operations Engineer
5 5 (13.51%) Data Analytics Engineer
5 5 (13.51%) DataOps Engineer
5 5 (13.51%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 5 (13.51%) Senior Developer
6 4 (10.81%) Analyst
6 4 (10.81%) Azure Architect
6 4 (10.81%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
6 4 (10.81%) Test Analyst
6 4 (10.81%) VMware Architect
7 3 (8.11%) Applications Developer
7 3 (8.11%) Azure Developer
7 3 (8.11%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (8.11%) Senior Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.22%) .NET
2 3 (8.11%) JSON
2 3 (8.11%) XML
3 2 (5.41%) .NET Core
3 2 (5.41%) AngularJS
3 2 (5.41%) ASP.NET
3 2 (5.41%) CSS
3 2 (5.41%) HTML
3 2 (5.41%) PySpark
3 2 (5.41%) RESTful
3 2 (5.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.92%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (5.41%) NHS
2 2 (5.41%) Private Cloud
2 2 (5.41%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.70%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 11 (29.73%) Windows
1 11 (29.73%) Windows Server
2 3 (8.11%) Linux
3 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.70%) Rocky
3 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (29.73%) CI/CD
2 10 (27.03%) Agile
3 8 (21.62%) Data Science
4 7 (18.92%) DevOps
4 7 (18.92%) Machine Learning
4 7 (18.92%) MLOps
5 6 (16.22%) Analytics
5 6 (16.22%) Containerisation
5 6 (16.22%) DataOps
5 6 (16.22%) Product Strategy
5 6 (16.22%) Test Automation
6 5 (13.51%) Data Governance
6 5 (13.51%) Refactoring
7 4 (10.81%) Knowledge Transfer
7 4 (10.81%) Software Engineering
8 3 (8.11%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (8.11%) Data Engineering
8 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (8.11%) ITIL
8 3 (8.11%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 12 (32.43%) SQL
2 10 (27.03%) Python
3 7 (18.92%) Scala
4 5 (13.51%) C#
5 2 (5.41%) ActionScript
5 2 (5.41%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.41%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (32.43%) Security Cleared
2 10 (27.03%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.11%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.41%) Azure Certification
4 2 (5.41%) Degree
4 2 (5.41%) ISEB
4 2 (5.41%) ISTQB
4 2 (5.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.70%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.70%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (16.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (10.81%) Hyper-V
3 3 (8.11%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.70%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (18.92%) VxRail
2 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.70%) SCOM
Vendors
1 14 (37.84%) Microsoft
2 9 (24.32%) VMware
3 8 (21.62%) Oracle
4 7 (18.92%) Red Hat
5 5 (13.51%) EMC
6 2 (5.41%) Databricks
6 2 (5.41%) Infor
7 1 (2.70%) Dell
7 1 (2.70%) Murex
7 1 (2.70%) SAP
7 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow