Azure Stack Job Trends

Microsoft Azure Stack
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Azure Stack skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 653 643 740
Rank change year-on-year -10 +97 +111
Permanent jobs citing Azure Stack 19 38 58
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.028% 0.077% 0.078%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.084% 0.21% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 17 24 50
10th Percentile £66,000 £33,625 £36,250
25th Percentile £68,500 £48,875 £46,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.00% +4.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £88,750 £96,250 £71,082
90th Percentile £89,250 £106,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +34.78% -11.54% +1.96%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 22,608 18,303 28,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.30% 37.21% 38.43%
Number of salaries quoted 12,219 10,901 23,698
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

Azure Stack
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Azure Stack job vacancy trend in the UK

Azure Stack
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Azure Stack.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Azure Stack

Azure Stack
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Stack over the 6 months to 18 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Stack in the UK

Azure Stack
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Stack within the UK over the 6 months to 18 February 2026. 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
UK excluding London +3 18 £77,500 +34.78% 8
England +19 16 £77,500 +34.78% 9
South West +9 9 £77,500 +101.30%
Work from Home +30 4 £85,000 +47.83% 5
North of England -22 4 £72,500 +52.63% 3
Scotland -6 3 £87,500 -10.26% 1
North East - 3 £72,500 - 2
South East +16 2 £72,500 +100.00% 3
London +16 1 £70,000 -20.00% 2
West Midlands +11 1 £80,000 +28.00%
Midlands +7 1 £80,000 +28.00% 1
North West +3 1 - -
Wales - 1 £80,000 -

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 5 (26.32%) SharePoint
2 2 (10.53%) Apache Spark
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (63.16%) Power Platform
3 8 (42.11%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (31.58%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (31.58%) SaaS
5 4 (21.05%) IaaS
5 4 (21.05%) PaaS
6 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (10.53%) Azure AKS
7 2 (10.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
8 1 (5.26%) Azure Functions
8 1 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (5.26%) OneDrive
8 1 (5.26%) Serverless
8 1 (5.26%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) Power BI
2 3 (15.79%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (10.53%) Data Lake
3 2 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (10.53%) Metadata
4 1 (5.26%) Data Mining
4 1 (5.26%) Delta Lake
4 1 (5.26%) Spark SQL
4 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Git
2 2 (10.53%) GitLab
2 2 (10.53%) JIRA
General
1 4 (21.05%) Legal
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Data Engineer
2 6 (31.58%) Architect
3 5 (26.32%) Azure Architect
4 4 (21.05%) Lead
4 4 (21.05%) Lead Data Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (10.53%) Azure Data Architect
6 2 (10.53%) Data Architect
6 2 (10.53%) Site Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365 Architect
7 1 (5.26%) Principal Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Security Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Senior
7 1 (5.26%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.26%) .NET
2 1 (5.26%) Kafka
2 1 (5.26%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.53%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.26%) EPoS
3 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.26%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Windows
1 4 (21.05%) Windows Server
2 3 (15.79%) Linux
3 2 (10.53%) CentOS
3 2 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (10.53%) Ubuntu
3 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (5.26%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (36.84%) Data Architecture
2 7 (36.84%) Data Modelling
2 7 (36.84%) DevOps
3 6 (31.58%) Analytics
4 5 (26.32%) Architectural Patterns
4 5 (26.32%) Data Engineering
4 5 (26.32%) Data Strategy
4 5 (26.32%) Data Visualisation
4 5 (26.32%) Visualisation
5 4 (21.05%) Agile
5 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
5 4 (21.05%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (15.79%) Computer Science
6 3 (15.79%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 3 (15.79%) Decision-Making
6 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (10.53%) Observability
7 2 (10.53%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 10 (52.63%) SQL
2 9 (47.37%) Python
3 4 (21.05%) PowerShell
4 3 (15.79%) Bash
5 1 (5.26%) Bicep
5 1 (5.26%) C#
5 1 (5.26%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Degree
2 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.26%) Master's Degree
4 1 (5.26%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) Data Quality
2 2 (10.53%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Active Directory
1 3 (15.79%) Docker
2 2 (10.53%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.79%) Terraform
3 2 (10.53%) Ansible
3 2 (10.53%) Nagios
4 1 (5.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (5.26%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (5.26%) Forefront Identity Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (5.26%) Podman
Vendors
1 12 (63.16%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Dell
2 2 (10.53%) Splunk
3 1 (5.26%) Databricks
3 1 (5.26%) Proofpoint
3 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.26%) VMware