Azure Functions Contracts with Work from Home Options

Azure Functions
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 274 325 379
Rank change year-on-year +51 +54 -53
Contract jobs citing Azure Functions 73 144 257
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.48% 0.57% 0.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.34% 1.45% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 100 195
10th Percentile £400 £450 £409
25th Percentile £463 £500 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £579 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.25% +5.18% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £636 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £590 £550
% change year-on-year -11.02% +7.27% +4.76%
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 - - -
UK median hourly rate - £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +16.67%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,438 9,928 18,314
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.02% 39.52% 41.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,910 7,301 13,707
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 126 169
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £14.85
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.08 £19.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +66.15% -17.72%
75th Percentile £50.25 £70.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +59.09% -2.22%

Azure Functions
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure Functions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure Functions trend for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Functions
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure Functions.

Azure Functions daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Functions
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Azure Functions over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Azure Functions daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Functions
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure Functions.

Azure Functions hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Functions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (4.11%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (2.74%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.74%) ArcGIS
2 2 (2.74%) NServiceBus
2 2 (2.74%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.37%) CMS
3 1 (1.37%) Confluence
3 1 (1.37%) Drupal
3 1 (1.37%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (1.37%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 73 (100.00%) Azure
1 73 (100.00%) Serverless
2 42 (57.53%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (32.88%) Azure Logic Apps
4 21 (28.77%) Azure Service Bus
4 21 (28.77%) Power Platform
5 19 (26.03%) Azure Data Factory
6 16 (21.92%) Azure API Management
7 13 (17.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 12 (16.44%) Azure Key Vault
9 10 (13.70%) Azure Monitor
9 10 (13.70%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (13.70%) PowerApps
10 9 (12.33%) GitHub
10 9 (12.33%) PaaS
11 8 (10.96%) Azure Storage
11 8 (10.96%) Power Automate
12 7 (9.59%) Azure App Service
13 6 (8.22%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (8.22%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.74%) Firewall
1 2 (2.74%) FTP
2 1 (1.37%) HTTP
2 1 (1.37%) SSL
2 1 (1.37%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (43.84%) Azure SQL Database
2 28 (38.36%) SQL Server
3 10 (13.70%) Data Lake
4 9 (12.33%) Power BI
5 8 (10.96%) NoSQL
5 8 (10.96%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (8.22%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (8.22%) Redis
7 5 (6.85%) Big Data
7 5 (6.85%) InterSystems Cache
8 4 (5.48%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 4 (5.48%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 4 (5.48%) OLTP
8 4 (5.48%) Power Query
8 4 (5.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (4.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (2.74%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (2.74%) MongoDB
10 2 (2.74%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (27.40%) Git
2 9 (12.33%) Visual Studio
3 5 (6.85%) Visual Studio Team System
4 3 (4.11%) JIRA
5 2 (2.74%) NUnit
5 2 (2.74%) Postman
5 2 (2.74%) Selenium
6 1 (1.37%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.37%) git-flow
6 1 (1.37%) GitLab
6 1 (1.37%) JMeter
6 1 (1.37%) Moq
6 1 (1.37%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (19.18%) Social Skills
2 11 (15.07%) Public Sector
3 9 (12.33%) Finance
4 2 (2.74%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.74%) Banking
4 2 (2.74%) Electronics
4 2 (2.74%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.74%) Marketing
4 2 (2.74%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.37%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.37%) Front Office
5 1 (1.37%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.37%) Law
5 1 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.37%) Publishing
5 1 (1.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (57.53%) Developer
2 16 (21.92%) Azure Developer
3 11 (15.07%) Lead
4 10 (13.70%) Full Stack Developer
5 9 (12.33%) Data Engineer
5 9 (12.33%) Integration Developer
6 8 (10.96%) C# Developer
7 7 (9.59%) .NET Developer
8 5 (6.85%) Architect
8 5 (6.85%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (6.85%) Node.js Developer
9 4 (5.48%) Applications Developer
9 4 (5.48%) Azure Data Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) C# .NET Developer
9 4 (5.48%) Lead Developer
10 3 (4.11%) Cloud Developer
10 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Developer
10 3 (4.11%) SQL Developer
11 2 (2.74%) Power Platform Developer
11 2 (2.74%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (34.25%) .NET
2 11 (15.07%) ARM Templates
3 10 (13.70%) .NET Core
4 9 (12.33%) .NET Framework
5 8 (10.96%) JSON
5 8 (10.96%) XML
6 7 (9.59%) REST
7 6 (8.22%) Node.js
7 6 (8.22%) Swagger
8 5 (6.85%) Entity Framework
8 5 (6.85%) React
8 5 (6.85%) SignalR
8 5 (6.85%) YAML
9 4 (5.48%) AngularJS
9 4 (5.48%) ASP.NET
9 4 (5.48%) ASP.NET MVC
10 3 (4.11%) OAuth
10 3 (4.11%) OpenID
10 3 (4.11%) SOAP
10 3 (4.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.22%) Cloud Native
1 6 (8.22%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.11%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.37%) BYOD
4 1 (1.37%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.37%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.37%) Machine to Machine
4 1 (1.37%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.11%) Windows
2 2 (2.74%) Linux
3 1 (1.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (65.75%) DevOps
2 41 (56.16%) CI/CD
3 34 (46.58%) Agile
4 18 (24.66%) Full Stack Development
5 17 (23.29%) TDD
6 13 (17.81%) Microservices
6 13 (17.81%) Scrum
7 12 (16.44%) Test Automation
8 11 (15.07%) Business Intelligence
9 10 (13.70%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (13.70%) Migration
10 9 (12.33%) API Management
10 9 (12.33%) ETL
11 8 (10.96%) Data Engineering
11 8 (10.96%) Technical Leadership
12 7 (9.59%) Analytics
12 7 (9.59%) Continuous Deployment
12 7 (9.59%) Data Migration
12 7 (9.59%) SOLID
12 7 (9.59%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 32 (43.84%) C#
1 32 (43.84%) SQL
2 22 (30.14%) Python
3 15 (20.55%) JavaScript
4 14 (19.18%) PowerShell
5 5 (6.85%) Java
6 4 (5.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (4.11%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.74%) Bash
8 2 (2.74%) Bicep
8 2 (2.74%) C++
8 2 (2.74%) Go
8 2 (2.74%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.74%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (5.48%) SC Cleared
1 4 (5.48%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.11%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.11%) Accessibility
1 3 (4.11%) WCAG
2 2 (2.74%) QA
System Software
1 5 (6.85%) Active Directory
1 5 (6.85%) Docker
2 3 (4.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (19.18%) Terraform
2 8 (10.96%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.37%) Ansible
3 1 (1.37%) Argo
3 1 (1.37%) Packer
3 1 (1.37%) Puppet
3 1 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (39.73%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.96%) Databricks
3 3 (4.11%) Oracle
4 2 (2.74%) MuleSoft
4 2 (2.74%) SAP
5 1 (1.37%) Ab Initio
5 1 (1.37%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.37%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.37%) Google
5 1 (1.37%) Sitecore