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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 103 94
Rank change year-on-year -12 -9 +38
Contract jobs citing Azure Functions 8 13 34
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.42% 0.70% 1.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.04% 1.72% 3.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 11
10th Percentile £404 £525 £413
25th Percentile £409 £563 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £488 £819 £678
90th Percentile £578 £901 £725
Central London median daily rate £425 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -32.00% +4.17% +4.35%

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 770 756 915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.76% 40.62% 38.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 575 477 658
10th Percentile £332 £400 £363
25th Percentile £418 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 12
10th Percentile £26.66 - £13.18
25th Percentile £34.19 £46.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.64 £47.50 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -14.44% +128.92% -17.00%
75th Percentile £46.11 £48.75 £40.69
90th Percentile £49.83 - £50.10
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -27.23% +68.67% -11.70%

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 February 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 (25.00%) Palantir Foundry
2 1 (12.50%) Apache
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
1 8 (100.00%) Serverless
2 5 (62.50%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) GitHub
3 3 (37.50%) Azure Key Vault
3 3 (37.50%) Azure Storage
3 3 (37.50%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
4 2 (25.00%) Azure AKS
4 2 (25.00%) Azure App Service
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
5 1 (12.50%) AWS
5 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Power BI
2 2 (25.00%) Delta Lake
3 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
3 1 (12.50%) Metadata
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (12.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Applications Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Data Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Integration Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Principal Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Next.js
1 3 (37.50%) PySpark
2 2 (25.00%) Django
2 2 (25.00%) FastAPI
2 2 (25.00%) Flask
2 2 (25.00%) React
3 1 (12.50%) .NET
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) AI Agents
1 2 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Data Fabric
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Analytics
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) Data Engineering
3 3 (37.50%) Data Governance
3 3 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (25.00%) AI
4 2 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
4 2 (25.00%) Data Analysis
4 2 (25.00%) Data Transformation
4 2 (25.00%) ETL
4 2 (25.00%) Human-in-the-Loop
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (25.00%) LLM
4 2 (25.00%) Observability
4 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Test Strategy
4 2 (25.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
2 5 (62.50%) Python
3 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
4 2 (25.00%) Bicep
4 2 (25.00%) C#
4 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Databricks
2 2 (25.00%) Foundry
2 2 (25.00%) OpenAI
2 2 (25.00%) Palantir
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft