Azure Functions Contracts in the North West

Azure Functions
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 130 171
Rank change year-on-year -1 +41 -40
Contract jobs citing Azure Functions 4 24 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.15% 0.76% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.46% 2.04% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 7
10th Percentile - - £320
25th Percentile £463 £463 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +7.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £531 £586 £569
90th Percentile £558 £593 £638
England median daily rate £513 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -14.58% +9.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48.75
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -20.15%

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 North West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 869 1,179 1,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.93% 37.18% 34.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 628 874 1,075
10th Percentile £284 £313 £213
25th Percentile £384 £419 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £570 £586 £594
90th Percentile £638 £675 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 32 42
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.19 £14.25
25th Percentile - £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £16.06 £31.25 £18.84
Median % change year-on-year -48.61% +65.85% +8.45%
75th Percentile £20.00 £65.00 £28.75
90th Percentile £43.75 £70.00 £59.88
England median hourly rate £20.77 £30.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year -31.90% +45.24% -2.33%

Azure Functions
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Functions in the North West

Azure Functions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Functions in the North West

Azure Functions
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 2 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
Cheshire -5 2 £475 -18.94%
Merseyside - 2 £550 - 1
Azure Functions
England

Azure Functions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Serverless
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) AWS
4 1 (25.00%) Azure App Service
4 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (25.00%) GCP
4 1 (25.00%) Power Automate
4 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (25.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead C# Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Low-Code Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Power Apps Developer
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) .NET Core
1 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (50.00%) Entity Framework
1 2 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (25.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (50.00%) Full Stack Development
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) OO
2 2 (50.00%) OOD
2 2 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
2 2 (50.00%) SOLID
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (25.00%) User Experience
3 1 (25.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft