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 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 109 97
Rank change year-on-year -3 -12 +67
Contract jobs citing Azure Functions 5 18 44
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.30% 0.85% 1.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.72% 2.13% 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 14 14
10th Percentile £354 £490 £575
25th Percentile £397 £539 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £584 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.49% -2.71% +14.29%
75th Percentile £572 £669 £679
90th Percentile £611 £727 £718
Central London median daily rate £400 £584 £600
% change year-on-year -31.48% -2.71% +14.29%

All Cloud 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 698 844 1,166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.50% 39.92% 40.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 544 795
10th Percentile £331 £400 £359
25th Percentile £438 £463 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £773 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 8
10th Percentile £21.58 £32.05 £15.58
25th Percentile £26.00 £39.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £56.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -39.29% +169.88% +1.22%
75th Percentile £58.96 £76.13 £40.69
90th Percentile £72.53 £85.95 £49.88
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% +1.22%

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 24 October 2025.

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 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Serverless
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Storage
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Airbyte
2 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (20.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (20.00%) Metadata
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Integration Developer
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Applications Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Data Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Principal Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) FastAPI
1 2 (40.00%) OAuth
1 2 (40.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (40.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (20.00%) Next.js
2 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Data Fabric
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) API Design
2 2 (40.00%) API Integration
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Requirements Workshops
2 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (20.00%) Data Discovery
3 1 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (20.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Python
3 2 (40.00%) C#
4 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks