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 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 118 112
Rank change year-on-year -6 -6 +6
Contract jobs citing Azure Functions 10 4 18
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.41% 0.22% 0.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.07% 0.52% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 10
10th Percentile £377 £354 £469
25th Percentile £413 £397 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -11.36% -30.16%
75th Percentile £545 £572 £614
90th Percentile £686 £611 £703
Central London median daily rate £488 £488 £550
% change year-on-year - -11.36% -30.16%

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 936 773 886
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.36% 42.54% 41.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 644 499 618
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £456 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £751 £764
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 14 6
10th Percentile £19.48 £24.02 £12.75
25th Percentile £24.62 £25.18 £14.88
Median hourly rate £44.47 £38.58 £24.75
Median % change year-on-year +15.28% +55.86% -63.33%
75th Percentile £63.68 £63.37 £27.00
90th Percentile £75.18 £96.63 £38.63
Central London median hourly rate £54.60 £34.65 £24.75
% change year-on-year +57.58% +40.00% -52.86%

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 5 July 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 2 (20.00%) Palantir Foundry
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
1 10 (100.00%) Serverless
2 5 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 5 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 4 (40.00%) GitHub
4 3 (30.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (30.00%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (20.00%) Azure API Management
5 2 (20.00%) Azure Event Grid
5 2 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (20.00%) Power Automate
5 2 (20.00%) PowerApps
6 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Stack
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Storage
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Power BI
2 2 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (10.00%) MySQL
3 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (10.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Jasmine
2 1 (10.00%) JUnit
2 1 (10.00%) Karma Test Runner
2 1 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Marketing
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Angular Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) CRM Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) CRM Developer
3 1 (10.00%) CRM Technical Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) .NET
2 2 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (20.00%) CSS
2 2 (20.00%) HTML
2 2 (20.00%) OAuth
2 2 (20.00%) PySpark
2 2 (20.00%) REST
2 2 (20.00%) RESTful
3 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET Web Forms
3 1 (10.00%) Bootstrap
3 1 (10.00%) CSS3
3 1 (10.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (10.00%) HTML5
3 1 (10.00%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (10.00%) NgRx
3 1 (10.00%) OAuth2
3 1 (10.00%) OpenID
3 1 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (10.00%) React
3 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (20.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (10.00%) IoT
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) DevOps
2 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (50.00%) Analytics
4 3 (30.00%) Agile
4 3 (30.00%) API Management
4 3 (30.00%) Customer Service
4 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
5 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (20.00%) CRM
5 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis
5 2 (20.00%) Data Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Front End Development
5 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (20.00%) Observability
5 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) RBAC
5 2 (20.00%) Scrum
5 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) C#
3 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (20.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (10.00%) Bicep
4 1 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) Korn
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Terraform
2 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (10.00%) Grafana
3 1 (10.00%) Istio
3 1 (10.00%) Kustomize
3 1 (10.00%) linkerd
3 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Databricks
3 2 (20.00%) Foundry
3 2 (20.00%) Palantir
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle
4 1 (10.00%) SAP