Azure Functions Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Azure Functions
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Azure Functions skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure Functions 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.42% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.35% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £505 - -
25th Percentile £508 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 - -
75th Percentile £558 - -
90th Percentile £568 - -
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -8.33%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 296 150 269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 30.80% 26.46% 33.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 91 212
10th Percentile £190 £206 £181
25th Percentile £338 £356 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £530 £530 £530
90th Percentile £608 £588 £624
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 16
10th Percentile £12.95 £18.27 £11.39
25th Percentile £13.24 £26.30 £13.69
Median hourly rate £16.50 £39.68 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.42% +183.43% -9.68%
75th Percentile £24.56 £47.34 £20.00
90th Percentile £27.25 £51.94 £26.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +27.27% +22.22% -10.00%

Azure Functions
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure Functions relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Azure Functions job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Azure Functions
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Azure Functions.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Azure Functions

Azure Functions
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Functions within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Lincolnshire - 4 £528 -
Azure Functions
England

Azure Functions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (50.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Serverless
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (75.00%) Power Automate
2 3 (75.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (75.00%) PowerApps
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (25.00%) Big Data
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Integration Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Express.js
1 1 (25.00%) MERN Stack
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
1 1 (25.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Data Fabric
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Log Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) CRM
4 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Data Science
4 1 (25.00%) ERP
4 1 (25.00%) Micro Frontends
4 1 (25.00%) Microservices
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Presales
4 1 (25.00%) Product Management
4 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) T-SQL
2 3 (75.00%) X++
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks