Azure Stack Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Azure Stack
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Azure Stack skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 576 497 537
Rank change year-on-year -79 +40 +129
Contract jobs citing Azure Stack 27 47 65
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.074% 0.14% 0.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.19% 0.38% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 36 49
10th Percentile £413 £463 £413
25th Percentile £525 £500 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £583 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.15% +5.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £675
90th Percentile £704 £721 £717
UK excluding London median daily rate £700 £700 £538
% change year-on-year - +30.23% -18.87%

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 13,965 12,404 15,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.04% 36.24% 34.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,538 8,241 11,066
10th Percentile £309 £313 £300
25th Percentile £408 £419 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 175 273
10th Percentile £14.88 £18.30 £14.39
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.87 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.40 £29.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.97% +16.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £55.00 £46.18 £58.00
90th Percentile £76.96 £69.73 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £27.13 £21.00
% change year-on-year -7.83% +29.17% +7.69%

Azure Stack
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Azure Stack job vacancy trend in the UK

Azure Stack
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Azure Stack

Azure Stack
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Stack over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Stack in the UK

Azure Stack
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Azure Stack.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Azure Stack

Azure Stack
Top 10 Contract Job 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 16 December 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 -60 24 £625 +7.30% 9
London -29 13 £575 +4.55%
UK excluding London -52 11 £700 - 10
West Midlands -28 8 £700 -
Midlands -35 8 £700 - 1
South West -6 7 £700 - 3
Work from Home -3 6 £525 -22.22% 3
North West -32 1 £550 - 3
North of England -42 1 £550 - 3
Scotland - 1 £350 - 2

Azure Stack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 1 (3.70%) Apache
1 1 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 27 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (40.74%) Entra ID
3 9 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (22.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 6 (22.22%) Power Platform
5 5 (18.52%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (11.11%) Azure AKS
6 3 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (11.11%) PaaS
6 3 (11.11%) Power Automate
6 3 (11.11%) PowerApps
7 2 (7.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (7.41%) Azure Functions
7 2 (7.41%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (7.41%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (7.41%) GCP
7 2 (7.41%) IaaS
7 2 (7.41%) Serverless
7 2 (7.41%) Snowflake
8 1 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) VPN
2 1 (3.70%) MQTT
2 1 (3.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) Power BI
2 4 (14.81%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (14.81%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (11.11%) Data Lake
4 2 (7.41%) Big Data
5 1 (3.70%) BigQuery
5 1 (3.70%) Data Vault
5 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Git
1 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Finance
3 2 (7.41%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.70%) Banking
4 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (48.15%) Azure Engineer
2 8 (29.63%) Architect
3 7 (25.93%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (25.93%) Senior
4 6 (22.22%) Data Engineer
4 6 (22.22%) IT Engineer
4 6 (22.22%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (22.22%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (22.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (22.22%) Senior IT Engineer
5 4 (14.81%) Azure Architect
6 3 (11.11%) Azure Data Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) Dynamics 365 Architect
6 3 (11.11%) Platform Architect
6 3 (11.11%) Power Platform Architect
7 2 (7.41%) Azure Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (7.41%) Data Architect
7 2 (7.41%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) .NET
2 1 (3.70%) .NET Core
2 1 (3.70%) ARM Templates
2 1 (3.70%) ASP.NET
2 1 (3.70%) Celery
2 1 (3.70%) JSON
2 1 (3.70%) PySpark
2 1 (3.70%) XML
2 1 (3.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 3 (11.11%) Replication
3 2 (7.41%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.70%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.70%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (3.70%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (3.70%) IoT
4 1 (3.70%) Life Science
4 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.70%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.70%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.70%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (3.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Windows
1 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (29.63%) CI/CD
1 8 (29.63%) DevOps
2 7 (25.93%) Analytics
2 7 (25.93%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure Management
3 5 (18.52%) Data Modelling
3 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (14.81%) Cloud Security
4 4 (14.81%) Data Migration
4 4 (14.81%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (14.81%) Decision-Making
4 4 (14.81%) ETL
4 4 (14.81%) Migration
5 3 (11.11%) Customer Engagement
5 3 (11.11%) Data Architecture
5 3 (11.11%) Data Engineering
5 3 (11.11%) Data Governance
5 3 (11.11%) Machine Learning
5 3 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) SQL
2 6 (22.22%) Python
3 4 (14.81%) Bicep
4 2 (7.41%) C#
4 2 (7.41%) Scala
5 1 (3.70%) C++
5 1 (3.70%) Java
5 1 (3.70%) R
5 1 (3.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (25.93%) Azure Certification
2 6 (22.22%) Network+ Certification
3 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 3 (11.11%) Security Cleared
4 2 (7.41%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (7.41%) Degree
5 1 (3.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.70%) CCNA
5 1 (3.70%) CCSP
5 1 (3.70%) CISM
5 1 (3.70%) CISSP
5 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.70%) Server+ Certification
5 1 (3.70%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.70%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.70%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) Terraform
2 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.70%) Grafana
3 1 (3.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (37.04%) Databricks
2 8 (29.63%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.41%) Oracle
4 1 (3.70%) Cisco
4 1 (3.70%) Informatica
4 1 (3.70%) SAP