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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 - 64
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure Functions 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.36% - 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.22% - 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £501 - £340
25th Percentile £502 - £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 - £468
75th Percentile £613 - £556
90th Percentile £635 - £605
England median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -12.50%

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 328 155 210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 29.52% 28.44% 27.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 116 147
10th Percentile £195 £250 £163
25th Percentile £357 £358 £299
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.97% +8.82% -4.49%
75th Percentile £543 £511 £525
90th Percentile £600 £548 £655
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.52% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 6 13
10th Percentile £13.07 £13.34 -
25th Percentile £13.25 £14.09 £14.00
Median hourly rate £16.50 £17.05 £16.63
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% +2.50% -11.82%
75th Percentile £19.03 £20.92 £27.50
90th Percentile £25.09 £22.20 £32.10
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £20.77
% change year-on-year +70.13% +27.35% -31.90%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Functions in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 7 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Functions in the East Midlands

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 7 May 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
Nottinghamshire - 3 £600 -
Lincolnshire - 1 £505 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Serverless
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Storage
2 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (25.00%) Big Data
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Agriculture
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Node.js
2 2 (50.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) Express.js
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) MERN Stack
3 1 (25.00%) PySpark
3 1 (25.00%) React
3 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
4 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Programming
4 1 (25.00%) Product Management
4 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bicep
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
1 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) BPSS Clearance
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
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Databricks