Azure Functions Contracts in the Midlands

Azure Functions
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Azure Functions skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Functions over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 148 196
Rank change year-on-year +26 +48 -53
Contract jobs citing Azure Functions 17 14 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.62% 0.41% 0.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.51% 1.14% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 11
10th Percentile £305 £445 £356
25th Percentile £326 - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -5.26% -6.86%
75th Percentile £472 - £511
90th Percentile £563 £494 £538
England median daily rate £517 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -13.83% +9.09% -4.35%

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 676 1,230 1,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 24.78% 35.76% 33.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 880 1,225
10th Percentile £199 £213 £204
25th Percentile £325 £370 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +1.05% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £575 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 34
10th Percentile - £14.76 £13.95
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £16.10
Median hourly rate £23.75 £18.86 £17.30
Median % change year-on-year +25.93% +9.00% +15.35%
75th Percentile £27.25 £24.47 £20.88
90th Percentile £50.04 £26.48 £23.75
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%

Azure Functions
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Azure Functions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Functions in the Midlands

Azure Functions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Functions in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Azure Functions in the Midlands

Azure Functions
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Functions in the Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Functions in the Midlands

Azure Functions
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Functions within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
West Midlands +32 15 £400 -11.11% 4
East Midlands - 2 £468 - 4
Azure Functions
England

Azure Functions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) Azure
1 17 (100.00%) Serverless
2 10 (58.82%) Power Platform
3 6 (35.29%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (35.29%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (23.53%) Apigee
4 4 (23.53%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (23.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (23.53%) GCP
4 4 (23.53%) Power Automate
5 3 (17.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (17.65%) PaaS
6 2 (11.76%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (11.76%) PowerApps
6 2 (11.76%) SonarCloud
7 1 (5.88%) Azure AKS
7 1 (5.88%) Azure App Service
7 1 (5.88%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (5.88%) GitHub
7 1 (5.88%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) FTP
1 1 (5.88%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (52.94%) Power BI
2 6 (35.29%) SQL Server
3 4 (23.53%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (23.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (11.76%) Data Lake
5 1 (5.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Git
2 2 (11.76%) Moq
2 2 (11.76%) NUnit
3 1 (5.88%) Hudson
3 1 (5.88%) JIRA
3 1 (5.88%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 4 (23.53%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Electronics
3 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
3 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.88%) Marketing
3 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Applications Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 2 (11.76%) C# Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Lead
3 2 (11.76%) Lead Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Power Apps Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Power BI Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Applications Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Power Apps Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior SQL Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior SQL Server Developer
3 2 (11.76%) SQL Developer
3 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) .NET
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Graph
2 3 (17.65%) .NET Framework
3 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET
3 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (11.76%) JSON
4 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
4 1 (5.88%) Entity Framework
4 1 (5.88%) GraphQL
4 1 (5.88%) LDAP
4 1 (5.88%) REST
4 1 (5.88%) SAML
4 1 (5.88%) SOAP
4 1 (5.88%) Swagger
4 1 (5.88%) XML
4 1 (5.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (5.88%) Hedge funds
1 1 (5.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) DevOps
1 9 (52.94%) Runbook
2 7 (41.18%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (35.29%) Analytics
4 5 (29.41%) Artificial Intelligence
4 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
4 5 (29.41%) CRM
4 5 (29.41%) Incident Management
4 5 (29.41%) ITIL
4 5 (29.41%) Problem Management
4 5 (29.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (23.53%) E-Discovery
5 4 (23.53%) ETL
5 4 (23.53%) Virtual Environments
6 3 (17.65%) Computer Science
6 3 (17.65%) Data Science
6 3 (17.65%) TDD
6 3 (17.65%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (11.76%) Business Analysis
7 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) SQL
2 6 (35.29%) C#
2 6 (35.29%) PowerShell
3 2 (11.76%) Python
4 1 (5.88%) Bash
4 1 (5.88%) Bicep
4 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.88%) T-SQL
4 1 (5.88%) X++
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (17.65%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) SysTrack
2 1 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Citrix
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
1 5 (29.41%) New Relic
1 5 (29.41%) OpenAI
2 1 (5.88%) Atlassian
2 1 (5.88%) LogicMonitor
2 1 (5.88%) SAP