Azure Functions Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Azure Functions
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Azure Functions skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 47 118
Rank change year-on-year -56 +71 +3
Contract jobs citing Azure Functions 10 61 9
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.68% 4.02% 0.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.71% 12.82% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 45 8
10th Percentile £403 £403 £500
25th Percentile £408 £450 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £493 £650 £638
90th Percentile £556 £652 £679
South East median daily rate £491 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -21.40% +4.17% -

All Cloud Skills
Berkshire

Azure Functions falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 585 476 574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 39.77% 31.34% 33.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 298 379
10th Percentile £267 £365 £323
25th Percentile £406 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.72% +3.68% +1.66%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £650 £663 £700
South East median daily rate £485 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -5.83% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 11 11
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.30 £18.95
25th Percentile £17.26 £27.00 £42.76
Median hourly rate £57.72 £42.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.81% -32.54% +186.36%
75th Percentile £92.75 £54.24 £79.78
90th Percentile £98.75 £64.73 £90.25
South East median hourly rate £20.00 £28.50 £29.66
% change year-on-year -29.82% -3.91% +48.30%

Azure Functions
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure Functions relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Azure Functions job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Azure Functions
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Azure Functions.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Azure Functions

Azure Functions
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Functions in Berkshire over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Functions in Berkshire

Azure Functions
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 18 December 2025. 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
Reading -36 6 £419 -33.00%
Wokingham -25 2 £508 - 1
Azure Functions
South East

Azure Functions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (10.00%) CMS
1 1 (10.00%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
1 10 (100.00%) Serverless
2 6 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (50.00%) Azure API Management
3 5 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
3 5 (50.00%) GitHub
3 5 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (40.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
6 2 (20.00%) Azure AKS
6 2 (20.00%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (20.00%) Azure Storage
6 2 (20.00%) PaaS
7 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (10.00%) Copilot Studio
7 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (10.00%) Data Vault
2 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (10.00%) MySQL
2 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (30.00%) Git
3 2 (20.00%) Postman
3 2 (20.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Billing
3 1 (10.00%) Automotive
3 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Senior
2 4 (40.00%) Senior DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Active Directory Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Architect
3 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Architect
4 2 (20.00%) Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) .NET
2 7 (70.00%) .NET Core
3 5 (50.00%) GraphQL
3 5 (50.00%) REST
4 4 (40.00%) .NET Framework
5 3 (30.00%) ARM Templates
5 3 (30.00%) OAuth
5 3 (30.00%) OAuth2
5 3 (30.00%) OpenID
5 3 (30.00%) RESTful
5 3 (30.00%) SAML
6 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
6 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (20.00%) SOAP
6 2 (20.00%) Swagger
6 2 (20.00%) WSDL
6 2 (20.00%) XSLT
7 1 (10.00%) Entity Framework
7 1 (10.00%) Kafka
7 1 (10.00%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) AI
1 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (60.00%) DevOps
2 5 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 5 (50.00%) DevSecOps
3 4 (40.00%) Analytics
3 4 (40.00%) Log Analytics
3 4 (40.00%) User Experience
4 3 (30.00%) API Management
4 3 (30.00%) B2C
4 3 (30.00%) Identity Management
4 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (30.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 3 (30.00%) MLOps
4 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (30.00%) RBAC
4 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (30.00%) Validation
5 2 (20.00%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) C#
2 7 (70.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (50.00%) Bash
3 5 (50.00%) PHP
3 5 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 5 (50.00%) Python
4 2 (20.00%) Java
5 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
2 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Databricks
2 1 (10.00%) OpenAI