Azure Functions Contracts

Azure Functions
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 417 396 443
Rank change year-on-year -21 +47 -74
Contract jobs citing Azure Functions 183 356 488
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.60% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.31% 1.61% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 226 350
10th Percentile £363 £450 £413
25th Percentile £425 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £590 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.75% +7.27% +3.77%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £650
90th Percentile £688 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £600 £475
% change year-on-year - +26.32% +6.15%
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% +16.67%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,989 22,053 34,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.31% 36.87% 38.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,925 15,944 24,923
10th Percentile £300 £325 £353
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 355 426
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.39
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -5.54%
75th Percentile £34.69 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £24.62 £18.75
% change year-on-year -28.09% +31.31% -6.25%

Azure Functions
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Functions in the UK

Azure Functions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Functions in the UK

Azure Functions
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Functions in the UK

Azure Functions
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure Functions in the UK

Azure Functions
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 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
England +5 169 £517 -13.83% 64
London +38 103 £500 -16.67% 29
Work from Home +57 73 £515 -10.48% 49
UK excluding London -13 64 £600 - 35
South East +2 31 £600 - 6
Midlands +26 17 £400 -11.11% 8
West Midlands +32 15 £400 -11.11% 4
North of England -3 8 £600 +20.00% 10
Northern Ireland - 6 £600 - 1
Yorkshire +5 5 £600 +23.08% 2
North West -5 3 £475 -7.32% 7
East Midlands - 2 £468 - 4
Scotland +28 1 - - 2
South West +6 1 £675 +1.89% 5

Azure Functions
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 12 (6.56%) SharePoint
2 10 (5.46%) BizTalk Server
3 9 (4.92%) Confluence
4 3 (1.64%) ArcGIS
5 2 (1.09%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.55%) CMS
6 1 (0.55%) Drupal
6 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.55%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.55%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.55%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (3.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.19%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 183 (100.00%) Azure
1 183 (100.00%) Serverless
2 81 (44.26%) Azure DevOps
3 58 (31.69%) Azure Logic Apps
4 52 (28.42%) Power Platform
5 51 (27.87%) Azure Service Bus
6 47 (25.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 46 (25.14%) Azure Data Factory
8 39 (21.31%) GitHub
9 35 (19.13%) Azure Monitor
10 30 (16.39%) Azure API Management
11 27 (14.75%) Power Automate
12 25 (13.66%) Azure Key Vault
13 24 (13.11%) Azure Storage
14 21 (11.48%) PowerApps
15 20 (10.93%) Entra ID
16 18 (9.84%) Dynamics 365
16 18 (9.84%) PaaS
17 17 (9.29%) AWS Lambda
17 17 (9.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.83%) Firewall
2 3 (1.64%) HTTP
2 3 (1.64%) VPN
3 2 (1.09%) FTP
4 1 (0.55%) SSH
4 1 (0.55%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (31.15%) Azure SQL Database
2 52 (28.42%) SQL Server
3 34 (18.58%) NoSQL
3 34 (18.58%) Power BI
4 20 (10.93%) Data Lake
5 19 (10.38%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (6.56%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (6.01%) Redis
8 10 (5.46%) MongoDB
9 8 (4.37%) Big Data
10 7 (3.83%) InterSystems Cache
10 7 (3.83%) OLTP
10 7 (3.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (2.19%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.19%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 4 (2.19%) Power Query
11 4 (2.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 3 (1.64%) Geospatial Data
12 3 (1.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 40 (21.86%) Git
2 14 (7.65%) JIRA
2 14 (7.65%) Visual Studio
3 11 (6.01%) GitLab
3 11 (6.01%) Visual Studio Team System
4 10 (5.46%) Cypress.io
5 9 (4.92%) JMeter
6 4 (2.19%) NUnit
6 4 (2.19%) Selenium
7 3 (1.64%) Jenkins
7 3 (1.64%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.09%) Maven
8 2 (1.09%) Moq
8 2 (1.09%) Postman
9 1 (0.55%) Gradle
9 1 (0.55%) Hudson
9 1 (0.55%) Mockito
9 1 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.55%) TeamCity
General
1 34 (18.58%) Social Skills
2 22 (12.02%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (9.29%) Finance
4 16 (8.74%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.92%) Banking
6 6 (3.28%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.19%) Retail
8 3 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.09%) Electronics
9 2 (1.09%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.09%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.09%) Marketing
10 1 (0.55%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.55%) Front Office
10 1 (0.55%) Law
10 1 (0.55%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 98 (53.55%) Developer
2 36 (19.67%) Azure Developer
3 29 (15.85%) Full Stack Developer
4 18 (9.84%) Azure Engineer
5 16 (8.74%) Data Engineer
5 16 (8.74%) Lead
6 14 (7.65%) Applications Developer
7 13 (7.10%) Architect
7 13 (7.10%) C# Developer
8 10 (5.46%) .NET Developer
8 10 (5.46%) Azure Data Engineer
9 9 (4.92%) Integration Developer
10 8 (4.37%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (4.37%) Power Apps Developer
10 8 (4.37%) Python Developer
10 8 (4.37%) Software Engineer
11 7 (3.83%) Azure Architect
11 7 (3.83%) Consultant
12 6 (3.28%) Full Stack Python Developer
12 6 (3.28%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (30.60%) .NET
2 36 (19.67%) React
3 25 (13.66%) .NET Core
4 22 (12.02%) JSON
4 22 (12.02%) Node.js
4 22 (12.02%) XML
5 21 (11.48%) ARM Templates
6 16 (8.74%) REST
7 15 (8.20%) .NET Framework
8 11 (6.01%) Kafka
9 9 (4.92%) Blazor
9 9 (4.92%) RESTful
10 8 (4.37%) OAuth
11 7 (3.83%) AngularJS
11 7 (3.83%) Entity Framework
11 7 (3.83%) Microsoft Graph
11 7 (3.83%) SignalR
11 7 (3.83%) SOAP
11 7 (3.83%) Swagger
11 7 (3.83%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (12.57%) Product Ownership
2 19 (10.38%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.46%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (3.83%) Machine to Machine
5 5 (2.73%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.73%) Smart Meter
6 3 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.09%) BYOD
7 2 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.09%) Solar Panel
8 1 (0.55%) Augmented Reality
8 1 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.55%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.55%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.55%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.55%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.55%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.55%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (11.48%) Windows
2 15 (8.20%) Linux
3 6 (3.28%) Unix
4 1 (0.55%) CentOS
4 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.55%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.55%) VMS
4 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (59.56%) DevOps
2 92 (50.27%) CI/CD
3 84 (45.90%) Agile
4 47 (25.68%) Full Stack Development
5 44 (24.04%) Microservices
6 33 (18.03%) Business Intelligence
7 29 (15.85%) SDLC
8 27 (14.75%) API Management
8 27 (14.75%) Scrum
9 26 (14.21%) Software Engineering
9 26 (14.21%) Test Automation
10 25 (13.66%) TDD
11 23 (12.57%) Analytics
12 19 (10.38%) Continuous Improvement
13 18 (9.84%) ETL
14 17 (9.29%) Technical Leadership
14 17 (9.29%) Unit Testing
15 16 (8.74%) Migration
16 15 (8.20%) Data Engineering
16 15 (8.20%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 72 (39.34%) SQL
2 63 (34.43%) C#
3 54 (29.51%) Python
4 36 (19.67%) PowerShell
5 27 (14.75%) JavaScript
6 14 (7.65%) Java
7 11 (6.01%) T-SQL
8 10 (5.46%) C++
8 10 (5.46%) Go
9 9 (4.92%) PL/SQL
10 6 (3.28%) Bicep
10 6 (3.28%) TypeScript
11 4 (2.19%) Bash
11 4 (2.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (1.09%) C
13 1 (0.55%) Perl
13 1 (0.55%) Scala
13 1 (0.55%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.55%) X++
Qualifications
1 8 (4.37%) Degree
2 7 (3.83%) SC Cleared
2 7 (3.83%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (2.73%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.09%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.83%) QA
2 5 (2.73%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.19%) GDPR
3 4 (2.19%) WCAG
4 2 (1.09%) SLA
5 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
System Software
1 23 (12.57%) Docker
2 21 (11.48%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.83%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.73%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.55%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 32 (17.49%) Terraform
2 31 (16.94%) Kubernetes
3 9 (4.92%) Argo
4 5 (2.73%) SysTrack
5 2 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.55%) Ansible
6 1 (0.55%) Packer
6 1 (0.55%) Puppet
6 1 (0.55%) yum
Vendors
1 67 (36.61%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.38%) Oracle
3 12 (6.56%) Databricks
4 9 (4.92%) MuleSoft
5 5 (2.73%) Ab Initio
5 5 (2.73%) Citrix
5 5 (2.73%) New Relic
5 5 (2.73%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.09%) SAP
7 1 (0.55%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.55%) Cisco
7 1 (0.55%) Google
7 1 (0.55%) JDA
7 1 (0.55%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (0.55%) RedPrairie
7 1 (0.55%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.55%) Sybase
7 1 (0.55%) Virgin Media