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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 494 558 753
Rank change year-on-year +64 +195 -136
Contract jobs citing Azure Stack 85 136 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.24% 0.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.61% 0.65% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 113 76
10th Percentile £460 £463 £419
25th Percentile £463 £538 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £663 £575
Median % change year-on-year -24.53% +15.22% +15.00%
75th Percentile £575 £723 £652
90th Percentile £650 £775 £750
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 13,842 21,041 34,006
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.54% 36.74% 38.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,846 15,232 24,816
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 £748 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 332 411
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £18.50 £15.35
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +59.09% -2.22%
75th Percentile £38.13 £66.00 £53.88
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £25.00 £19.25
% change year-on-year -29.12% +29.89% -3.76%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +79 80 £500 -24.53% 20
UK excluding London -3 52 £495 -25.28% 13
South West -21 42 £495 -25.28% 2
Work from Home +118 39 £498 -26.30% 15
London +110 23 £575 +15.00% 9
North of England +35 7 £550 +12.24% 1
North West +22 7 £550 +8.91% 1
South East +19 6 £775 +2.82%
Yorkshire +20 2 - -
North East - 2 - -
East of England +9 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 36 (42.35%) Confluence
1 36 (42.35%) SharePoint
2 34 (40.00%) SharePoint Server
3 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.35%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.18%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (3.53%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 85 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (15.29%) Microsoft Purview
3 8 (9.41%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (9.41%) Power Platform
4 4 (4.71%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (3.53%) Azure Functions
5 3 (3.53%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (3.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (3.53%) Serverless
6 2 (2.35%) AWS
6 2 (2.35%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.35%) IaaS
6 2 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.35%) OneDrive
6 2 (2.35%) PaaS
6 2 (2.35%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.18%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.18%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.18%) GitHub
7 1 (1.18%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 35 (41.18%) Firewall
2 34 (40.00%) BGP
3 2 (2.35%) SAN
4 1 (1.18%) DNS
4 1 (1.18%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (28.24%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (18.82%) Snowflake Schema
3 8 (9.41%) Power BI
4 5 (5.88%) Big Data
5 3 (3.53%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.35%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.35%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.35%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.18%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.18%) MySQL
7 1 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.18%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 39 (45.88%) JIRA
2 3 (3.53%) Git
3 2 (2.35%) GitLab
4 1 (1.18%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.18%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.18%) Vagrant
General
1 37 (43.53%) Social Skills
2 17 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
3 16 (18.82%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.71%) Finance
5 2 (2.35%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.35%) Police
6 1 (1.18%) Legal
6 1 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 25 (29.41%) Architect
2 17 (20.00%) Microsoft Engineer
3 16 (18.82%) Data Architect
4 12 (14.12%) Analyst
5 11 (12.94%) Data Engineer
6 6 (7.06%) Azure Architect
6 6 (7.06%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (5.88%) Azure Data Engineer
7 5 (5.88%) Developer
7 5 (5.88%) Service Analyst
7 5 (5.88%) Service Management Analyst
8 3 (3.53%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
8 3 (3.53%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (3.53%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.35%) DevOps Engineer
9 2 (2.35%) Infrastructure Architect
9 2 (2.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (2.35%) Python Data Engineer
9 2 (2.35%) Python Engineer
9 2 (2.35%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (18.82%) JSON
1 16 (18.82%) REST
1 16 (18.82%) XML
2 7 (8.24%) PySpark
3 2 (2.35%) YAML
4 1 (1.18%) .NET
4 1 (1.18%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.18%) Keycloak
4 1 (1.18%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 37 (43.53%) Private Cloud
2 16 (18.82%) Data Structures
3 13 (15.29%) Reference Data
4 12 (14.12%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.53%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.35%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.35%) PKI
7 1 (1.18%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.18%) Clustering
7 1 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.18%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.18%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 37 (43.53%) Windows
2 2 (2.35%) Linux
3 1 (1.18%) CentOS
3 1 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.18%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.18%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.18%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (1.18%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (1.18%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (43.53%) ITIL
2 36 (42.35%) Service Management
3 35 (41.18%) Capacity Management
3 35 (41.18%) Network Management
3 35 (41.18%) Security Monitoring
4 27 (31.76%) ITSM
5 24 (28.24%) Analytics
6 21 (24.71%) Data Modelling
7 18 (21.18%) Agile
8 17 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (20.00%) Data Governance
8 17 (20.00%) Data Protection
9 16 (18.82%) Event-Driven
9 16 (18.82%) Microservices
10 14 (16.47%) Value Proposition
11 13 (15.29%) GAP Analysis
12 11 (12.94%) Change Management
12 11 (12.94%) Data Architecture
12 11 (12.94%) Data Management
12 11 (12.94%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 14 (16.47%) SQL
2 11 (12.94%) Python
3 5 (5.88%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.18%) Bash
4 1 (1.18%) C#
4 1 (1.18%) Groovy
4 1 (1.18%) Korn
4 1 (1.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (48.24%) Security Cleared
2 34 (40.00%) DV Cleared
3 8 (9.41%) Degree
4 7 (8.24%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.53%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (40.00%) Government Security Classifications
2 15 (17.65%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.18%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.18%) Docker
3 1 (1.18%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.18%) KVM
Systems Management
1 26 (30.59%) SCOM
2 4 (4.71%) Terraform
3 3 (3.53%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.35%) Ansible
4 2 (2.35%) SCCM
5 1 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.18%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.18%) Nessus
5 1 (1.18%) Packer
5 1 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 50 (58.82%) Microsoft
2 34 (40.00%) Atlassian
3 12 (14.12%) Databricks
4 4 (4.71%) VMware
5 2 (2.35%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.18%) Informatica
6 1 (1.18%) Meraki
6 1 (1.18%) Oracle
6 1 (1.18%) Proofpoint
6 1 (1.18%) Sophos
6 1 (1.18%) Sybase