Azure Stack Job Trends in the South West

Microsoft Azure Stack
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Azure Stack skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 185 202
Rank change year-on-year +18 +17 +77
Permanent jobs citing Azure Stack 15 6 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.30% 0.14% 0.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.28% 0.43% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 15 5 10
10th Percentile £63,750 £35,400 £23,500
25th Percentile £71,125 £51,000 £29,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £52,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% +38.67% -9.09%
75th Percentile £81,250 £53,000 £58,438
90th Percentile £88,750 £63,950 £70,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +34.78% +4.55% -21.43%

All Cloud Computing 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 permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,168 1,395 1,829
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 23.13% 31.97% 41.41%
Number of salaries quoted 776 778 1,479
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,886 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

Azure Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure Stack relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Azure Stack job vacancy trend in the South West

Azure Stack
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Azure Stack.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Azure Stack

Azure Stack
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Stack in the South West over the 6 months to 28 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure Stack in the South West

Azure Stack
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Stack within the South West region over the 6 months to 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bristol +15 6 £82,500 +78.38% 1
Gloucestershire - 5 £80,000 -
Devon - 4 £68,250 -
Azure Stack
England

Azure Stack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (26.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (60.00%) Power Platform
3 5 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 5 (33.33%) SaaS
4 4 (26.67%) IaaS
4 4 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (26.67%) PaaS
5 2 (13.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (6.67%) Azure AKS
6 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Functions
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) Power BI
2 2 (13.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (13.33%) Data Lake
2 2 (13.33%) Metadata
General
1 5 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 4 (26.67%) Legal
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Architect
1 6 (40.00%) Azure Architect
2 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) IT Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Cloud Architect
4 3 (20.00%) Data Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Azure Data Architect
5 2 (13.33%) Data Architect
5 2 (13.33%) Lead
5 2 (13.33%) Lead Data Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Principal Data Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) .NET
1 1 (6.67%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 5 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 5 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 4 (26.67%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (13.33%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Linux
1 5 (33.33%) Rocky
1 5 (33.33%) Windows
1 5 (33.33%) Windows Server
1 5 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 5 (33.33%) Data Architecture
1 5 (33.33%) Data Modelling
1 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (26.67%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (20.00%) Analytics
3 3 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 3 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 3 (20.00%) Data Strategy
3 3 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
3 3 (20.00%) DevOps
3 3 (20.00%) Visualisation
4 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
4 2 (13.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 2 (13.33%) Decision-Making
4 2 (13.33%) Roadmaps
4 2 (13.33%) Strategic Roadmap
5 1 (6.67%) Agile
5 1 (6.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) SQL
2 3 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (6.67%) Bash
3 1 (6.67%) Bicep
3 1 (6.67%) C#
3 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 5 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 5 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 5 (33.33%) Network+ Certification
1 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (13.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (13.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 5 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (33.33%) Dell