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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 118 110
Rank change year-on-year -5 -8 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure Functions 16 2 17
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.73% 0.11% 0.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.76% 0.28% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 1 13
10th Percentile £407 - £485
25th Percentile £419 £325 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £350 £575
Median % change year-on-year +41.57% -39.13% -4.17%
75th Percentile £559 £375 £614
90th Percentile £572 - £701
Central London median daily rate £498 £350 £575
% change year-on-year +42.14% -39.13% -4.17%

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 908 702 833
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.18% 40.34% 39.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 647 499 543
10th Percentile £350 £332 £388
25th Percentile £456 £443 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% +1.26%
75th Percentile £660 £666 £675
90th Percentile £763 £752 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 3
10th Percentile £18.33 £23.03 -
25th Percentile £20.25 £28.06 -
Median hourly rate £23.58 £38.25 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.35% +41.67% +30.12%
75th Percentile £38.69 £63.37 £59.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £89.88 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £30.00 £38.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.57% +9.29% +68.67%

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 3 October 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 (12.50%) CMS
1 2 (12.50%) SharePoint
1 2 (12.50%) Umbraco
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (12.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) Azure
1 16 (100.00%) Serverless
2 12 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 8 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 8 (50.00%) Power Platform
4 7 (43.75%) Power Automate
4 7 (43.75%) PowerApps
5 6 (37.50%) GitHub
6 5 (31.25%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (25.00%) Azure API Management
8 3 (18.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (18.75%) Copilot Studio
8 3 (18.75%) Entra ID
9 2 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (12.50%) OneDrive
10 1 (6.25%) Amazon Bedrock
10 1 (6.25%) IBM Watson
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Power BI
1 3 (18.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
2 1 (6.25%) MySQL
2 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.25%) Parquet
2 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) Visual Studio
2 2 (12.50%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (6.25%) Jasmine
3 1 (6.25%) JUnit
3 1 (6.25%) Karma Test Runner
3 1 (6.25%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Marketing
2 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
3 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Power Platform Developer
4 2 (12.50%) .NET Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Configuration Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Power Platform Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior
4 2 (12.50%) Software Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Angular Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) CRM Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) CRM Developer
5 1 (6.25%) CRM Technical Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Integration Specialist
5 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (56.25%) .NET
2 6 (37.50%) REST
3 3 (18.75%) HTML5 Canvas
3 3 (18.75%) Middleware
3 3 (18.75%) RESTful
4 2 (12.50%) .NET Framework
4 2 (12.50%) AngularJS
4 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (12.50%) CSS
4 2 (12.50%) GraphQL
4 2 (12.50%) HTML
4 2 (12.50%) JSON
4 2 (12.50%) XML
5 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (6.25%) NgRx
5 1 (6.25%) PySpark
5 1 (6.25%) React
5 1 (6.25%) Semantic Kernel
5 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Cloud Native
2 3 (18.75%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (18.75%) Low-Code
3 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
3 2 (12.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (6.25%) AI Agents
4 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) DevOps
2 10 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 9 (56.25%) Agile
4 6 (37.50%) Event-Driven
5 5 (31.25%) API Integration
5 5 (31.25%) Customer Service
5 5 (31.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (31.25%) Scrum
6 4 (25.00%) Analytics
6 4 (25.00%) CRM
6 4 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
6 4 (25.00%) Microservices
6 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
7 3 (18.75%) API Management
7 3 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (18.75%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) C#
2 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (25.00%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) SQL
2 4 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (6.25%) Bicep
3 1 (6.25%) C
3 1 (6.25%) Java
3 1 (6.25%) Korn
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) QA
2 3 (18.75%) Accessibility
3 2 (12.50%) Data Quality
4 1 (6.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Adyen
2 2 (12.50%) Databricks
2 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.25%) Foundry
3 1 (6.25%) Google
3 1 (6.25%) IBM
3 1 (6.25%) OpenAI
3 1 (6.25%) UiPath