Azure Stack Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Microsoft Azure Stack
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Azure Stack skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 106 120
Rank change year-on-year -3 +14 +60
Contract jobs citing Azure Stack 11 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.63% 0.16% 0.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.02% 0.57% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 4
10th Percentile £613 £540 -
25th Percentile - £600 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £700 £688
Median % change year-on-year - +1.82% +31.58%
75th Percentile - - £728
90th Percentile £900 - £734
England median daily rate £625 £500 £650
% change year-on-year +25.00% -23.08% +18.18%

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 545 522 773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 31.29% 27.40% 36.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 352 362 562
10th Percentile £301 £226 £210
25th Percentile £413 £352 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% - -4.04%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 6
10th Percentile £31.94 £15.48 £17.63
25th Percentile £34.16 £19.94 £17.75
Median hourly rate £35.49 £32.21 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.19% +69.51% +15.15%
75th Percentile £52.69 £34.20 £22.94
90th Percentile £59.44 £41.00 £24.94
England median hourly rate £26.15 £30.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -12.83% -9.09% +53.49%

Azure Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Stack in the West Midlands

Azure Stack
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Azure Stack
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Stack in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 2 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Stack in the West Midlands

Azure Stack
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 September 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
Herefordshire - 9 £700 -
Worcestershire +3 8 £700 -
Solihull - 1 £625 - 1
Warwickshire - 1 - -
Azure Stack
England

Azure Stack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 11 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (63.64%) Entra ID
3 2 (18.18%) IaaS
3 2 (18.18%) PaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
4 1 (9.09%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Power BI
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Azure Engineer
1 7 (63.64%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 7 (63.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (54.55%) IT Engineer
2 6 (54.55%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (54.55%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (54.55%) Senior
2 6 (54.55%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (54.55%) Senior IT Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Chief Technology Officer
4 1 (9.09%) Analytics Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Data Analytics Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Data Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Data Scientist
4 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (81.82%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (27.27%) Onboarding
2 3 (27.27%) Private Cloud
3 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
4 1 (9.09%) Algorithms
4 1 (9.09%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (9.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
1 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 7 (63.64%) Infrastructure Management
2 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (18.18%) Analytics
3 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (18.18%) Data Science
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (9.09%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (9.09%) Computer Science
4 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (9.09%) Decision-Making
4 1 (9.09%) High Availability
4 1 (9.09%) Linear Algebra
4 1 (9.09%) Machine Learning
4 1 (9.09%) Mathematics
4 1 (9.09%) Naive Bayes
4 1 (9.09%) Predictive Modelling
4 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
4 1 (9.09%) Statistical Modelling
4 1 (9.09%) Support Vector Machines
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) C++
1 1 (9.09%) Java
1 1 (9.09%) Python
1 1 (9.09%) R
1 1 (9.09%) Scala
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Azure Certification
1 6 (54.55%) Network+ Certification
2 3 (27.27%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (27.27%) DV Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) CCNA
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) Server+ Certification
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Hyper-V
1 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
1 2 (18.18%) VMware
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco
2 1 (9.09%) Databricks