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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 640 705 705
Rank change year-on-year +65 0 +269
Permanent jobs citing Azure Stack 36 91 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.073% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.23% 0.37% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 33 71 43
10th Percentile £48,250 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,250 £55,000 £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - -3.70% +5.47%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £88,125
90th Percentile - £93,750 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +17.39%

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 15,669 24,694 25,570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.68% 31.62% 42.43%
Number of salaries quoted 10,603 15,772 21,307
10th Percentile £29,750 £34,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £45,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

Azure Stack
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Azure Stack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Stack 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 September 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 18 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +54 32 £66,250 +1.92% 20
Work from Home +51 24 £55,000 -15.38% 14
UK excluding London +76 23 £67,500 +3.85% 15
South West +77 12 £80,000 +28.00% 3
Midlands +35 12 £80,000 +23.08% 2
London +46 9 £54,500 -22.14% 11
West Midlands +30 8 £80,000 +23.08% 2
Wales - 8 £80,000 - 1
North of England +14 7 £52,500 -4.55% 2
East Midlands +33 4 £65,000 -15.12%
Yorkshire +18 4 £52,500 -4.55% 1
North West +9 2 £66,000 -
North East - 1 £67,500 - 1

Azure Stack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 36 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (30.56%) Entra ID
2 11 (30.56%) Power Platform
3 5 (13.89%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (13.89%) PaaS
3 5 (13.89%) SaaS
4 4 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (8.33%) GCP
5 3 (8.33%) IaaS
5 3 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (2.78%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.78%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.78%) Serverless
7 1 (2.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) Firewall
1 2 (5.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.22%) Power BI
2 5 (13.89%) SQL Server
3 4 (11.11%) Tableau
4 3 (8.33%) BigQuery
5 2 (5.56%) Data Lake
5 2 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.78%) Big Data
6 1 (2.78%) Delta Lake
6 1 (2.78%) Metabase
6 1 (2.78%) Metadata
6 1 (2.78%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.78%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Git
1 1 (2.78%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 11 (30.56%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.33%) Finance
4 3 (8.33%) Legal
4 3 (8.33%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.78%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 10 (27.78%) Architect
1 10 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (22.22%) IT Engineer
2 8 (22.22%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Developer
4 4 (11.11%) Azure Architect
4 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
4 4 (11.11%) Senior
4 4 (11.11%) SQL Developer
4 4 (11.11%) Strategy Architect
4 4 (11.11%) Technical Architect
4 4 (11.11%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (8.33%) Analytics Manager
5 3 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
5 3 (8.33%) Data Analyst
5 3 (8.33%) Data Architect
5 3 (8.33%) Data Quality Analyst
5 3 (8.33%) Quality Analyst
5 3 (8.33%) Senior Analytics Manager
5 3 (8.33%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) PySpark
2 1 (2.78%) .NET
2 1 (2.78%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 12 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 8 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 8 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (5.56%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.78%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 14 (38.89%) Windows
2 8 (22.22%) Linux
2 8 (22.22%) Rocky
2 8 (22.22%) Windows Server
2 8 (22.22%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (5.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (27.78%) Data Management
1 10 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (22.22%) Analytics
2 8 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (22.22%) Containerisation
2 8 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (22.22%) Visualisation
3 7 (19.44%) Data Modelling
3 7 (19.44%) DevOps
4 6 (16.67%) Machine Learning
5 5 (13.89%) Artificial Intelligence
5 5 (13.89%) Data Governance
5 5 (13.89%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (13.89%) Roadmaps
6 4 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (11.11%) Conversational UI
6 4 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
6 4 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (11.11%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 18 (50.00%) SQL
2 5 (13.89%) T-SQL
3 4 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 3 (8.33%) Python
5 2 (5.56%) C#
6 1 (2.78%) Bash
6 1 (2.78%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 9 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 8 (22.22%) BPSS Clearance
2 8 (22.22%) DV Cleared
2 8 (22.22%) Network+ Certification
2 8 (22.22%) SC Cleared
2 8 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 4 (11.11%) TOGAF Certification
4 3 (8.33%) DBS Check
5 2 (5.56%) Degree
6 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 3 (8.33%) GDPR
2 2 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.56%) NIST
3 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (30.56%) Active Directory
2 8 (22.22%) Hyper-V
3 2 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (27.78%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 8 (22.22%) Dell
3 6 (16.67%) Databricks
4 4 (11.11%) Extreme Networks
4 4 (11.11%) Juniper