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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 116 102
Rank change year-on-year -5 -14 +25
Contract jobs citing Azure Functions 9 7 22
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.39% 0.40% 1.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.00% 0.92% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 9
10th Percentile £408 £489 £403
25th Percentile £413 £613 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £901 £525
Median % change year-on-year -52.83% +71.62% -34.38%
75th Percentile £609 - £550
90th Percentile £703 - £608
Central London median daily rate £475 £901 £525
% change year-on-year -47.28% +71.62% -34.38%

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 904 761 854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.30% 43.31% 39.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 627 488 606
10th Percentile £350 £375 £363
25th Percentile £450 £462 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £674
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £533
% change year-on-year - +3.29% -7.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 6
10th Percentile £20.67 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.81 £29.64 £14.88
Median hourly rate £40.64 £42.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.38% +88.89% -73.24%
75th Percentile £57.83 £74.38 £26.19
90th Percentile £75.18 £135.00 £38.63
Central London median hourly rate £39.00 £34.83 £22.50
% change year-on-year +11.99% +54.78% -72.73%

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 6 May 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 (22.22%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
1 9 (100.00%) Serverless
2 5 (55.56%) GitHub
3 4 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) Azure Key Vault
4 3 (33.33%) Azure AKS
4 3 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (33.33%) Power Platform
5 2 (22.22%) Azure App Service
5 2 (22.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (22.22%) Azure Event Grid
5 2 (22.22%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (22.22%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (22.22%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (22.22%) Azure Storage
5 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
6 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (11.11%) Azure Stack
6 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Power BI
2 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
2 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (11.11%) Delta Lake
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
General
1 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
1 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Python Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365 Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) PySpark
2 2 (22.22%) Django
2 2 (22.22%) FastAPI
2 2 (22.22%) Flask
2 2 (22.22%) Next.js
2 2 (22.22%) React
3 1 (11.11%) OAuth
3 1 (11.11%) OAuth2
3 1 (11.11%) OpenID
3 1 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (11.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) AI Agents
1 2 (22.22%) Public Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) IoT
2 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
2 1 (11.11%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 4 (44.44%) Analytics
3 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (44.44%) Observability
4 3 (33.33%) AI
4 3 (33.33%) Data Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) API Management
5 2 (22.22%) Cloud Operations
5 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Culture
5 2 (22.22%) Data Analysis
5 2 (22.22%) Data Transformation
5 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (22.22%) Human-in-the-Loop
5 2 (22.22%) LLM
5 2 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 2 (22.22%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) SQL
2 4 (44.44%) Python
3 3 (33.33%) Bicep
4 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
4 2 (22.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
1 1 (11.11%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Terraform
2 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 1 (11.11%) Grafana
3 1 (11.11%) Istio
3 1 (11.11%) Kustomize
3 1 (11.11%) linkerd
3 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Databricks
2 2 (22.22%) Foundry
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) OpenAI
2 2 (22.22%) Palantir
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) SAP