Azure Functions Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Azure Functions
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Azure Functions skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 125 114
Rank change year-on-year +5 -11 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure Functions 11 4 16
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.46% 0.21% 0.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.16% 0.51% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 11
10th Percentile £413 £354 £475
25th Percentile £418 £397 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -11.36% -29.03%
75th Percentile £543 £572 £614
90th Percentile £681 £611 £688
Central London median daily rate £488 £488 £550
% change year-on-year - -11.36% -29.03%

All Cloud Computing Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 946 781 851
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.70% 41.70% 41.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 654 513 594
10th Percentile £363 £363 £375
25th Percentile £461 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £653 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £759 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 13 3
10th Percentile £19.48 £23.93 -
25th Percentile £22.67 £24.66 -
Median hourly rate £33.75 £34.65 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% +28.33% -36.47%
75th Percentile £63.68 £65.57 £59.75
90th Percentile £75.18 £97.75 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £37.50 £34.33 £27.00
% change year-on-year +9.25% +27.13% -22.86%

Azure Functions
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Azure Functions job vacancy trend in the City of London

Azure Functions
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Azure Functions.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Azure Functions

Azure Functions
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Functions in the City of London over the 6 months to 4 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Functions in the City of London

Azure Functions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Azure
1 11 (100.00%) Serverless
2 7 (63.64%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (63.64%) Azure Logic Apps
3 5 (45.45%) Azure Service Bus
3 5 (45.45%) Power Platform
4 4 (36.36%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (36.36%) Entra ID
4 4 (36.36%) Power Automate
4 4 (36.36%) PowerApps
5 3 (27.27%) Azure API Management
5 3 (27.27%) GitHub
6 2 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (18.18%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (18.18%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (18.18%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (18.18%) IaaS
6 2 (18.18%) PaaS
6 2 (18.18%) SaaS
7 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (18.18%) Power BI
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 1 (9.09%) MySQL
2 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) Jasmine
2 1 (9.09%) JUnit
2 1 (9.09%) Karma Test Runner
2 1 (9.09%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (9.09%) Visual Studio
2 1 (9.09%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
1 2 (18.18%) Marketing
1 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Dynamics 365 Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Configuration Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) CRM Developer
3 1 (9.09%) CRM Technical Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365 Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Integration Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Power Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) .NET
1 4 (36.36%) REST
2 2 (18.18%) AngularJS
2 2 (18.18%) CSS
2 2 (18.18%) HTML
2 2 (18.18%) HTML5 Canvas
2 2 (18.18%) OAuth
2 2 (18.18%) RESTful
3 1 (9.09%) .NET Framework
3 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET Web Forms
3 1 (9.09%) Bootstrap
3 1 (9.09%) CSS3
3 1 (9.09%) HTML5
3 1 (9.09%) JSON
3 1 (9.09%) OAuth2
3 1 (9.09%) OpenID
3 1 (9.09%) React
3 1 (9.09%) Spring
3 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (9.09%) IoT
2 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Low-Code
2 1 (9.09%) Mobile App
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 1 (9.09%) Replication
2 1 (9.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) DevOps
2 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
3 5 (45.45%) Agile
4 4 (36.36%) Analytics
4 4 (36.36%) Customer Service
4 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (27.27%) API Integration
5 3 (27.27%) API Management
5 3 (27.27%) CRM
5 3 (27.27%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (27.27%) Integration Patterns
5 3 (27.27%) RBAC
5 3 (27.27%) Scrum
5 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
6 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
6 2 (18.18%) Front End Development
6 2 (18.18%) Migration
6 2 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (18.18%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) C#
2 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
2 3 (27.27%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) TypeScript
3 2 (18.18%) Bicep
4 1 (9.09%) Java
4 1 (9.09%) Korn
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
3 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 1 (9.09%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
1 3 (27.27%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Grafana
2 1 (9.09%) Istio
2 1 (9.09%) Kustomize
2 1 (9.09%) linkerd
2 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Databricks
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) SAP
2 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow