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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 612 655 652
Rank change year-on-year +43 -3 +224
Permanent jobs citing Azure Stack 35 59 53
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.059% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.17% 0.29% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 32 40 40
10th Percentile £52,500 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £51,000 £40,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +24.00% +8.70% -17.86%
75th Percentile £82,688 £86,406 £66,427
90th Percentile £88,750 £100,625 £77,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £52,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +49.04% +15.56% -25.00%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 20,668 20,294 20,972
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.63% 36.17% 41.82%
Number of salaries quoted 11,331 12,131 17,256
10th Percentile £28,750 £34,404 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +0.81% -4.62%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £101,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 25 December 2025.

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 25 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
England +62 29 £77,500 +29.17% 14
UK excluding London +47 27 £77,500 +49.04% 9
South West +21 15 £80,000 +53.85% 1
Work from Home +74 14 £80,000 +23.08% 5
Midlands +22 8 £80,000 +53.85% 2
North of England +14 6 £72,500 +26.09% 3
London +50 5 £66,250 -22.06% 4
West Midlands +26 5 £80,000 +53.85% 2
Wales - 5 £80,000 -
North East - 4 £67,500 -
Scotland +2 3 £87,500 -10.26%
East Midlands -7 3 £65,000 +50.59%
North West +19 2 £82,000 +42.61% 3

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 8 (22.86%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.71%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 35 (100.00%) Azure
2 20 (57.14%) Power Platform
3 9 (25.71%) Azure Data Factory
3 9 (25.71%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (25.71%) SaaS
4 7 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 7 (20.00%) IaaS
4 7 (20.00%) PaaS
5 6 (17.14%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (8.57%) GCP
6 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (5.71%) Azure AKS
7 2 (5.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (2.86%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.86%) OneDrive
8 1 (2.86%) Serverless
8 1 (2.86%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (37.14%) Power BI
2 3 (8.57%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (8.57%) BigQuery
2 3 (8.57%) Data Lake
2 3 (8.57%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (8.57%) Tableau
3 2 (5.71%) Delta Lake
3 2 (5.71%) Metadata
4 1 (2.86%) Big Data
4 1 (2.86%) Data Mining
4 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.86%) Spark SQL
4 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Git
General
1 11 (31.43%) Social Skills
2 8 (22.86%) Public Sector
3 7 (20.00%) Legal
4 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.71%) Finance
6 1 (2.86%) Advertising
6 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (40.00%) Architect
2 8 (22.86%) Azure Architect
2 8 (22.86%) Data Engineer
3 6 (17.14%) Cloud Architect
4 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) IT Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Data Architect
5 4 (11.43%) Lead
5 4 (11.43%) Lead Data Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Senior
6 3 (8.57%) Analytics Manager
6 3 (8.57%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
6 3 (8.57%) Senior Analytics Manager
6 3 (8.57%) Senior Manager
6 3 (8.57%) Strategy Architect
6 3 (8.57%) Technical Architect
6 3 (8.57%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (5.71%) Azure Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) PySpark
2 1 (2.86%) .NET
2 1 (2.86%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.86%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.86%) Onboarding
2 7 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (17.14%) Data Centre
4 5 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (8.57%) Cloud Native
5 3 (8.57%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (5.71%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (2.86%) EPoS
7 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
7 1 (2.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (25.71%) Windows
2 6 (17.14%) Windows Server
3 5 (14.29%) Linux
3 5 (14.29%) Rocky
3 5 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 11 (31.43%) Analytics
3 10 (28.57%) Data Modelling
4 9 (25.71%) Data Architecture
5 8 (22.86%) Data Visualisation
5 8 (22.86%) DevOps
5 8 (22.86%) Visualisation
6 7 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (17.14%) Architectural Patterns
7 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (14.29%) Containerisation
8 5 (14.29%) Data Engineering
8 5 (14.29%) Data Management
8 5 (14.29%) Data Strategy
8 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (14.29%) Machine Learning
8 5 (14.29%) Roadmaps
9 4 (11.43%) AI
9 4 (11.43%) CI/CD
9 4 (11.43%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 17 (48.57%) SQL
2 9 (25.71%) Python
3 3 (8.57%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.86%) Bash
4 1 (2.86%) Bicep
4 1 (2.86%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (17.14%) Azure Certification
2 5 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (14.29%) DV Cleared
2 5 (14.29%) Network+ Certification
2 5 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 5 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 4 (11.43%) Degree
4 3 (8.57%) DBS Check
4 3 (8.57%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (2.86%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.14%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.71%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.86%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (22.86%) Active Directory
2 6 (17.14%) Hyper-V
3 2 (5.71%) Docker
4 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (22.86%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.71%) Terraform
3 1 (2.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (2.86%) Forefront Identity Manager
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 22 (62.86%) Microsoft
2 6 (17.14%) Dell
3 4 (11.43%) Databricks
4 3 (8.57%) Extreme Networks
4 3 (8.57%) Juniper
5 1 (2.86%) Proofpoint
5 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.86%) VMware