Azure Stack Contracts

Microsoft Azure Stack
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Azure Stack skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Stack over the 6 months to 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 516 557 725
Rank change year-on-year +41 +168 -114
Contract jobs citing Azure Stack 74 131 121
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.23% 0.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.53% 0.64% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 110 82
10th Percentile £457 £449 £407
25th Percentile £463 £528 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £555
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +17.12% +11.00%
75th Percentile £575 £719 £638
90th Percentile £650 £753 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £663 £600
% change year-on-year -25.28% +10.42% +26.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £41.92
25th Percentile - - £42.18
Median hourly rate - - £46.32
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £46.32

All Cloud Skills
UK

Azure Stack is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,077 20,332 33,878
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.38% 36.46% 38.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,953 14,710 24,762
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 351 332 387
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £19.98 £15.33
Median hourly rate £21.50 £39.55 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.64% +79.77% +0.64%
75th Percentile £43.75 £70.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £68.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £28.16 £19.09
% change year-on-year -32.53% +47.51% -4.55%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Stack.

Daily rate trend for Azure Stack in the UK

Azure Stack
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Stack over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Stack in the UK

Azure Stack
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Stack.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Stack in the UK

Azure Stack
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Stack within the UK over the 6 months to 7 June 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +46 69 £500 -23.08% 18
UK excluding London +5 43 £495 -25.28% 15
Work from Home +121 33 £498 -24.19% 10
South West -18 33 £495 -25.28% 5
London +83 21 £575 -11.54% 4
North West +25 7 £550 +8.91% 3
North of England +24 7 £550 +12.24% 4
South East +12 6 £538 -28.69% 1
Yorkshire +16 2 - - 1
North East - 2 - -
East of England +8 1 £500 -23.08% 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 29 (39.19%) Confluence
1 29 (39.19%) SharePoint
2 27 (36.49%) SharePoint Server
3 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.70%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.35%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (4.05%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 74 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (17.57%) Microsoft Purview
3 8 (10.81%) Power Platform
4 5 (6.76%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (6.76%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (6.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (4.05%) Azure Functions
5 3 (4.05%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (4.05%) Serverless
6 2 (2.70%) AWS
6 2 (2.70%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.70%) OneDrive
6 2 (2.70%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.35%) GitHub
7 1 (1.35%) IaaS
7 1 (1.35%) PaaS
7 1 (1.35%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 28 (37.84%) Firewall
2 27 (36.49%) BGP
3 2 (2.70%) SAN
4 1 (1.35%) DNS
4 1 (1.35%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (31.08%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (21.62%) Snowflake Schema
3 8 (10.81%) Power BI
4 3 (4.05%) Big Data
5 2 (2.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.70%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.70%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.35%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.35%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.35%) MySQL
6 1 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.35%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (40.54%) JIRA
2 3 (4.05%) Git
3 2 (2.70%) GitLab
4 1 (1.35%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.35%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.35%) Vagrant
General
1 29 (39.19%) Social Skills
2 16 (21.62%) Public Sector
3 13 (17.57%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (4.05%) Finance
5 2 (2.70%) Police
6 1 (1.35%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.35%) Legal
6 1 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 23 (31.08%) Architect
2 16 (21.62%) Data Architect
3 14 (18.92%) Microsoft Engineer
4 11 (14.86%) Analyst
5 9 (12.16%) Data Engineer
6 6 (8.11%) Developer
7 5 (6.76%) Service Analyst
7 5 (6.76%) Service Management Analyst
8 4 (5.41%) Azure Architect
8 4 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (4.05%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
9 3 (4.05%) Azure Data Engineer
10 2 (2.70%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 2 (2.70%) DevOps Engineer
10 2 (2.70%) Infrastructure Architect
10 2 (2.70%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
10 2 (2.70%) Power BI Developer
10 2 (2.70%) Python Data Engineer
10 2 (2.70%) Python Engineer
10 2 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (21.62%) JSON
1 16 (21.62%) REST
1 16 (21.62%) XML
2 5 (6.76%) PySpark
3 2 (2.70%) YAML
4 1 (1.35%) .NET
4 1 (1.35%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.35%) Keycloak
4 1 (1.35%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 29 (39.19%) Private Cloud
2 16 (21.62%) Data Structures
3 13 (17.57%) Reference Data
4 12 (16.22%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.05%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.70%) PKI
7 1 (1.35%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.35%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.35%) Clustering
7 1 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.35%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.35%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.35%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 30 (40.54%) Windows
2 2 (2.70%) Linux
3 1 (1.35%) CentOS
3 1 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.35%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.35%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (40.54%) ITIL
2 29 (39.19%) Service Management
3 28 (37.84%) Capacity Management
3 28 (37.84%) Network Management
3 28 (37.84%) Security Monitoring
4 24 (32.43%) ITSM
5 21 (28.38%) Analytics
6 20 (27.03%) Data Modelling
7 17 (22.97%) Agile
7 17 (22.97%) Data Governance
7 17 (22.97%) Data Protection
8 16 (21.62%) Event-Driven
8 16 (21.62%) Microservices
9 14 (18.92%) Value Proposition
10 13 (17.57%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (17.57%) GAP Analysis
11 11 (14.86%) Change Management
11 11 (14.86%) Data Architecture
11 11 (14.86%) Data Management
11 11 (14.86%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 14 (18.92%) SQL
2 9 (12.16%) Python
3 5 (6.76%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.35%) Bash
4 1 (1.35%) C#
4 1 (1.35%) Groovy
4 1 (1.35%) Korn
4 1 (1.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (45.95%) Security Cleared
2 27 (36.49%) DV Cleared
3 6 (8.11%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.05%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.05%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (36.49%) Government Security Classifications
2 15 (20.27%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.35%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (6.76%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.35%) Docker
3 1 (1.35%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.35%) KVM
Systems Management
1 19 (25.68%) SCOM
2 4 (5.41%) Terraform
3 3 (4.05%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.70%) Ansible
4 2 (2.70%) SCCM
5 1 (1.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.35%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.35%) Nessus
5 1 (1.35%) Packer
5 1 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (54.05%) Microsoft
2 27 (36.49%) Atlassian
3 10 (13.51%) Databricks
4 4 (5.41%) VMware
5 2 (2.70%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.35%) Informatica
6 1 (1.35%) Meraki
6 1 (1.35%) Oracle
6 1 (1.35%) Proofpoint
6 1 (1.35%) Sophos
6 1 (1.35%) Sybase