Azure Functions Contracts in the UK excluding London

Azure Functions
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 315 305 415
Rank change year-on-year -10 +110 -43
Contract jobs citing Azure Functions 70 152 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.34% 0.65% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.33% 1.94% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 122 78
10th Percentile £413 £450 £367
25th Percentile £495 £500 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £586 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% +23.37% +5.56%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £550
90th Percentile £688 £703 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £590 £550
% change year-on-year -11.02% +7.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £52.50 £48.75
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -
75th Percentile - £57.50 £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +16.67%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,280 7,819 9,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.73% 33.27% 32.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,735 5,787 7,266
10th Percentile £213 £250 £207
25th Percentile £368 £406 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £673
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 227 282
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.69 £25.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.24% +31.58% -3.80%
75th Percentile £26.50 £65.00 £25.19
90th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +59.09% -2.22%

Azure Functions
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Functions in the UK excluding London

Azure Functions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Functions in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Azure Functions in the UK excluding London

Azure Functions
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Functions in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Functions in the UK excluding London

Azure Functions
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Functions in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Functions in the UK excluding London

Azure Functions
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
South East -17 35 £600 - 6
Midlands +35 17 £400 -11.11% 7
West Midlands +29 15 £400 -11.11% 3
North of England -5 9 £575 +15.00% 7
Northern Ireland - 6 £600 -
Yorkshire +13 5 £600 +20.00% 1
North West +4 4 £475 -7.32% 6
East Midlands - 2 £468 - 4
Scotland +33 1 - - 1
South West +3 1 £675 +1.89% 4
East of England +2 1 - - 4
Azure Functions
UK

Azure Functions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (2.86%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.43%) ArcGIS
2 1 (1.43%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (1.43%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (1.43%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 3 (4.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 70 (100.00%) Azure
1 70 (100.00%) Serverless
2 32 (45.71%) Azure Data Factory
3 25 (35.71%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (35.71%) Azure Monitor
4 24 (34.29%) Power Platform
5 22 (31.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 15 (21.43%) Azure Logic Apps
6 15 (21.43%) Entra ID
7 9 (12.86%) Azure API Management
8 8 (11.43%) Azure Service Bus
8 8 (11.43%) GCP
8 8 (11.43%) GitHub
9 7 (10.00%) PaaS
9 7 (10.00%) Power Automate
10 6 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (8.57%) Azure Key Vault
11 5 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (5.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (5.71%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.43%) Firewall
1 1 (1.43%) FTP
1 1 (1.43%) HTTP
1 1 (1.43%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (25.71%) NoSQL
2 17 (24.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 15 (21.43%) Power BI
3 15 (21.43%) SQL Server
4 7 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (8.57%) Redis
6 5 (7.14%) InterSystems Cache
7 4 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (4.29%) Relational Database
9 2 (2.86%) Data Lake
9 2 (2.86%) GIS
10 1 (1.43%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (1.43%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 24 (34.29%) Git
2 7 (10.00%) Visual Studio
3 5 (7.14%) Selenium
4 3 (4.29%) NUnit
5 2 (2.86%) GitLab
5 2 (2.86%) JIRA
5 2 (2.86%) Moq
5 2 (2.86%) Postman
6 1 (1.43%) Hudson
6 1 (1.43%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.43%) Subversion
6 1 (1.43%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 12 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (12.86%) Public Sector
3 8 (11.43%) Social Skills
4 5 (7.14%) Telecoms
5 4 (5.71%) Finance
6 1 (1.43%) Banking
6 1 (1.43%) Electronics
6 1 (1.43%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.43%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.43%) Marketing
6 1 (1.43%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 45 (64.29%) Developer
2 25 (35.71%) Azure Developer
3 16 (22.86%) Full Stack Developer
4 11 (15.71%) Lead
5 10 (14.29%) Python Developer
6 8 (11.43%) Full Stack Python Developer
7 5 (7.14%) Applications Developer
7 5 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (7.14%) C# Developer
7 5 (7.14%) Data Engineer
7 5 (7.14%) SQL Developer
8 4 (5.71%) Azure Data Engineer
8 4 (5.71%) Integration Developer
9 3 (4.29%) Lead Developer
9 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Developer
9 3 (4.29%) Node.js Developer
9 3 (4.29%) Power Apps Developer
9 3 (4.29%) Senior
9 3 (4.29%) Senior Developer
9 3 (4.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (25.71%) React
2 14 (20.00%) .NET
3 9 (12.86%) XML
4 8 (11.43%) REST
5 7 (10.00%) Node.js
6 6 (8.57%) JSON
7 5 (7.14%) .NET Core
7 5 (7.14%) .NET Framework
7 5 (7.14%) ARM Templates
7 5 (7.14%) SignalR
8 4 (5.71%) Microsoft Graph
8 4 (5.71%) OAuth
8 4 (5.71%) SOAP
8 4 (5.71%) Swagger
9 3 (4.29%) AngularJS
9 3 (4.29%) Entity Framework
9 3 (4.29%) OpenAPI
9 3 (4.29%) OpenID
10 2 (2.86%) HTML5 Canvas
10 2 (2.86%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 18 (25.71%) Product Ownership
2 5 (7.14%) Smart Meter
3 3 (4.29%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.86%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.43%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.43%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.43%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.43%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (15.71%) Windows
2 5 (7.14%) Linux
3 4 (5.71%) Unix
4 1 (1.43%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (64.29%) DevOps
2 37 (52.86%) CI/CD
3 31 (44.29%) Agile
4 26 (37.14%) Full Stack Development
5 17 (24.29%) Microservices
6 15 (21.43%) SDLC
7 14 (20.00%) Unit Testing
8 13 (18.57%) Business Intelligence
8 13 (18.57%) Change Management
9 12 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (15.71%) Analytics
11 10 (14.29%) ETL
11 10 (14.29%) Product Backlog
11 10 (14.29%) Test Automation
12 9 (12.86%) Runbook
12 9 (12.86%) Technical Leadership
13 8 (11.43%) Incident Management
13 8 (11.43%) Infrastructure as Code
13 8 (11.43%) SOLID
13 8 (11.43%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 22 (31.43%) Python
2 20 (28.57%) SQL
3 17 (24.29%) C#
4 12 (17.14%) PowerShell
5 10 (14.29%) JavaScript
6 6 (8.57%) Java
7 3 (4.29%) C
8 2 (2.86%) Bash
9 1 (1.43%) Bicep
9 1 (1.43%) C++
9 1 (1.43%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.43%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.43%) X++
Qualifications
1 5 (7.14%) Degree
2 4 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (5.71%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.29%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.43%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.71%) GDPR
2 2 (2.86%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.86%) SLA
2 2 (2.86%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (22.86%) Active Directory
2 5 (7.14%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (5.71%) Docker
4 1 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (7.14%) SysTrack
2 4 (5.71%) Terraform
3 1 (1.43%) Ansible
3 1 (1.43%) Packer
3 1 (1.43%) Puppet
3 1 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (27.14%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.14%) Ab Initio
2 5 (7.14%) Citrix
2 5 (7.14%) New Relic
2 5 (7.14%) OpenAI
3 1 (1.43%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.43%) Google
3 1 (1.43%) LogicMonitor
3 1 (1.43%) SAP