Azure Functions Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Azure Functions
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure Functions skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 93 -
Rank change year-on-year +6 - -
Contract jobs citing Azure Functions 3 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.23% 0.20% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.86% 1.10% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £381 - -
25th Percentile £426 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 - -
75th Percentile £598 - -
90th Percentile £652 - -
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -

All Cloud Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 350 273 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 27.20% 18.08% 25.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 157 322
10th Percentile £220 £213 £191
25th Percentile £406 £300 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £425 £470
Median % change year-on-year +18.82% -9.57% -6.00%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £588
90th Percentile £688 £638 £700
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 28 27
10th Percentile £14.99 - £14.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £14.16 £14.75
Median hourly rate £31.64 £16.30 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.11% -22.38% +35.48%
75th Percentile £46.18 £21.37 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £23.96 £73.16
England median hourly rate £26.30 £31.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -15.16% -6.06% +53.49%

Azure Functions
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Azure Functions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Functions in the East of England

Azure Functions
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Azure Functions
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Functions in the East of England over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Functions in the East of England

Azure Functions
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 15 September 2025. 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
Cambridgeshire +3 2 £513 -
Essex - 1 £505 -
Azure Functions
England

Azure Functions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) CMS
1 1 (33.33%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Event Grid
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
General
1 1 (33.33%) Agriculture
1 1 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
1 1 (33.33%) Entity Framework
1 1 (33.33%) Express.js
1 1 (33.33%) MERN Stack
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) API Integration
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 1 (33.33%) Content Management
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) Critical Thinking
1 1 (33.33%) CRM
1 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
1 1 (33.33%) Data Science
1 1 (33.33%) ERP
1 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
1 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
1 1 (33.33%) Microservices
1 1 (33.33%) MVC
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) Product Management
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (33.33%) User Experience
1 1 (33.33%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft