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 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 672 630 766
Rank change year-on-year -42 +136 +95
Permanent jobs citing Azure Stack 18 24 61
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.024% 0.057% 0.071%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.074% 0.15% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 15 21 53
10th Percentile £67,500 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £42,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.00% -3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £88,750 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £89,500 £106,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +34.78% -11.54% -

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 24,261 15,718 32,192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.19% 37.15% 37.65%
Number of salaries quoted 12,981 10,985 25,829
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
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 20 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Stack in the UK

Azure Stack
Top 10 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 20 March 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 -29 16 £77,500 +34.78% 6
England -35 15 £76,250 +27.08% 6
North of England -44 5 £75,000 +94.81% 2
South West - 5 £87,500 -
North East - 4 £75,000 - 1
Work from Home +14 3 £90,000 +56.52% 4
South East -18 3 £72,500 +100.00% 2
Scotland -19 3 £87,500 -10.26% 1
London -9 2 £70,000 -20.00% 2
North West -21 1 - - 1

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 (27.78%) SharePoint
2 2 (11.11%) Apache Spark
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (55.56%) Power Platform
3 6 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (27.78%) SaaS
5 4 (22.22%) IaaS
5 4 (22.22%) PaaS
6 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (5.56%) Azure AKS
7 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
7 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (5.56%) OneDrive
7 1 (5.56%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) Power BI
2 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (5.56%) Data Mining
3 1 (5.56%) Delta Lake
3 1 (5.56%) Spark SQL
3 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Git
2 3 (16.67%) GitLab
2 3 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Legal
3 3 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Data Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Architect
3 4 (22.22%) Lead
3 4 (22.22%) Lead Data Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Azure Architect
4 3 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
4 3 (16.67%) Site Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior
6 1 (5.56%) Angular Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Java Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365 Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Principal Data Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.56%) .NET
2 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.56%) Kafka
2 1 (5.56%) PySpark
2 1 (5.56%) Spring
2 1 (5.56%) Spring Boot
2 1 (5.56%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) EPoS
2 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Windows
1 4 (22.22%) Windows Server
2 3 (16.67%) CentOS
2 3 (16.67%) Linux
2 3 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (16.67%) Ubuntu
3 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (33.33%) Analytics
2 6 (33.33%) DevOps
3 5 (27.78%) Agile
3 5 (27.78%) Architectural Patterns
3 5 (27.78%) Data Architecture
3 5 (27.78%) Data Engineering
3 5 (27.78%) Data Modelling
3 5 (27.78%) Data Strategy
3 5 (27.78%) Data Visualisation
3 5 (27.78%) Visualisation
4 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 4 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (16.67%) Observability
5 3 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (11.11%) Mentoring
6 2 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (11.11%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) Python
2 8 (44.44%) SQL
3 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
4 3 (16.67%) Bash
5 1 (5.56%) Java
5 1 (5.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) Degree
3 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Docker
2 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 3 (16.67%) Ansible
2 3 (16.67%) Nagios
2 3 (16.67%) Terraform
3 1 (5.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (5.56%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (5.56%) Forefront Identity Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.56%) Podman
Vendors
1 12 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) Splunk
3 1 (5.56%) Databricks
3 1 (5.56%) Dell
3 1 (5.56%) Proofpoint
3 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.56%) VMware