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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 630 685 681
Rank change year-on-year +55 -4 +288
Permanent jobs citing Azure Stack 41 65 61
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.077% 0.096% 0.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.23% 0.29% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 37 43 47
10th Percentile £50,350 £42,415 £36,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £51,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.40% +4.17% -11.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £69,375
90th Percentile £87,200 £87,500 £99,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £52,250 £60,799
% change year-on-year +48.33% -14.06% +1.33%

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 17,768 22,140 22,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.54% 32.57% 42.93%
Number of salaries quoted 11,332 13,359 19,033
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.80% -2.73%

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 15 November 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 15 November 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 +77 37 £70,000 +12.00% 21
UK excluding London +71 28 £77,500 +48.33% 8
Work from Home +69 21 £80,000 +23.08% 6
South West +35 16 £80,000 +39.74% 1
Midlands +51 12 £80,000 +53.85% 2
London +48 10 £58,500 -30.56% 12
West Midlands +39 8 £80,000 +53.85% 1
Wales - 8 £80,000 -
North of England +36 7 £67,500 +17.39% 1
East Midlands +25 4 £65,000 +50.59% 1
North East - 4 £67,500 -
North West +42 3 £66,000 +14.78% 1
Scotland +3 1 £87,500 +66.67%

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 7 (17.07%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.88%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (9.76%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 41 (100.00%) Azure
2 19 (46.34%) Power Platform
3 11 (26.83%) Entra ID
4 9 (21.95%) PaaS
4 9 (21.95%) SaaS
5 8 (19.51%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (17.07%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (17.07%) IaaS
7 6 (14.63%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (7.32%) GCP
8 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (4.88%) Azure AKS
9 2 (4.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (4.88%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (4.88%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (4.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (2.44%) Azure Functions
10 1 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (2.44%) Serverless
10 1 (2.44%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) Firewall
1 2 (4.88%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (29.27%) Power BI
2 4 (9.76%) Tableau
3 3 (7.32%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (7.32%) BigQuery
3 3 (7.32%) Data Lake
3 3 (7.32%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.88%) Delta Lake
4 2 (4.88%) Metadata
5 1 (2.44%) Big Data
5 1 (2.44%) Data Mining
5 1 (2.44%) Metabase
5 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.44%) Spark SQL
5 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Git
General
1 13 (31.71%) Social Skills
2 12 (29.27%) Public Sector
3 7 (17.07%) Legal
4 5 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.32%) Finance
5 3 (7.32%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.44%) Advertising
6 1 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (34.15%) Architect
2 10 (24.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (19.51%) Azure Architect
3 8 (19.51%) IT Engineer
3 8 (19.51%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (14.63%) Cloud Architect
4 6 (14.63%) Data Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Senior
6 4 (9.76%) Data Architect
6 4 (9.76%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
6 4 (9.76%) Strategy Architect
6 4 (9.76%) Technical Architect
6 4 (9.76%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
7 3 (7.32%) Analyst
7 3 (7.32%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Data Analyst
7 3 (7.32%) Data Quality Analyst
7 3 (7.32%) Quality Analyst
7 3 (7.32%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.32%) PySpark
2 1 (2.44%) .NET
2 1 (2.44%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.44%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 12 (29.27%) Onboarding
2 8 (19.51%) Data Centre
2 8 (19.51%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (17.07%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (7.32%) Cloud Native
4 3 (7.32%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (4.88%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (2.44%) EPoS
6 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.44%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (34.15%) Windows
2 8 (19.51%) Linux
2 8 (19.51%) Rocky
2 8 (19.51%) Windows Server
2 8 (19.51%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (4.88%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (29.27%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (24.39%) Analytics
2 10 (24.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (21.95%) Data Management
3 9 (21.95%) Data Modelling
3 9 (21.95%) DevOps
4 8 (19.51%) Containerisation
4 8 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (17.07%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (17.07%) Machine Learning
6 6 (14.63%) Data Architecture
6 6 (14.63%) Data Governance
6 6 (14.63%) Data Visualisation
6 6 (14.63%) Roadmaps
6 6 (14.63%) Visualisation
7 5 (12.20%) AI
7 5 (12.20%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (9.76%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (9.76%) Technical Architecture
8 4 (9.76%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 19 (46.34%) SQL
2 7 (17.07%) Python
3 4 (9.76%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.44%) Bash
4 1 (2.44%) Bicep
4 1 (2.44%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (21.95%) Azure Certification
2 8 (19.51%) BPSS Clearance
2 8 (19.51%) DV Cleared
2 8 (19.51%) Network+ Certification
2 8 (19.51%) SC Cleared
2 8 (19.51%) Security Cleared
3 4 (9.76%) TOGAF Certification
4 3 (7.32%) DBS Check
4 3 (7.32%) Degree
5 2 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (2.44%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.20%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.32%) GDPR
3 2 (4.88%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.88%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (29.27%) Active Directory
2 9 (21.95%) Hyper-V
3 2 (4.88%) Docker
4 1 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (26.83%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.32%) Terraform
3 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 23 (56.10%) Microsoft
2 9 (21.95%) Dell
3 7 (17.07%) Databricks
4 4 (9.76%) Extreme Networks
4 4 (9.76%) Juniper
5 1 (2.44%) VMware