Azure Functions Contracts in England

Azure Functions
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Azure Functions skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure Functions over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 370 370 365
Rank change year-on-year 0 -5 +77
Contract jobs citing Azure Functions 115 174 319
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.47% 0.47% 0.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.27% 1.47% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 114 202
10th Percentile £400 £363 £450
25th Percentile £425 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £519 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.08% -13.58% +9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £675
90th Percentile £779 £688 £800
UK median daily rate £545 £517 £590
% change year-on-year +5.42% -12.37% +7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

All Cloud Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 9,062 11,852 18,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.21% 31.87% 36.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,341 8,544 13,518
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 321 311
10th Percentile £15.03 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.85 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%
75th Percentile £40.50 £32.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £73.38 £61.60 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Azure Functions
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Functions in England

Azure Functions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Functions in England.

Daily rate trend for Azure Functions in England

Azure Functions
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Functions in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Functions in England

Azure Functions
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Functions in England.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Functions in England

Azure Functions
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +8 75 £545 +9.00% 51
South East +27 13 £500 -16.67% 31
North of England +16 6 £425 -26.09% 23
Midlands +11 6 £400 - 9
West Midlands +4 5 - - 6
South West +49 4 £600 -11.11% 4
North West +17 4 £426 -10.37% 15
Yorkshire +5 2 £425 -29.17% 6
East of England +30 1 £675 - 1
Azure Functions
UK

Azure Functions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 17 (14.78%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.35%) BizTalk Server
3 4 (3.48%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.61%) Confluence
5 1 (0.87%) Apache
5 1 (0.87%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.87%) CMS
5 1 (0.87%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (4.35%) InfoPath
1 5 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 20 (17.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.87%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 115 (100.00%) Azure
1 115 (100.00%) Serverless
2 52 (45.22%) Azure Logic Apps
3 45 (39.13%) Power Platform
4 29 (25.22%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (24.35%) Dynamics 365
6 27 (23.48%) PowerApps
7 26 (22.61%) Power Automate
8 25 (21.74%) Azure Service Bus
9 23 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
10 17 (14.78%) Azure AKS
10 17 (14.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 16 (13.91%) Entra ID
12 15 (13.04%) Microsoft 365
13 14 (12.17%) Azure API Management
14 12 (10.43%) Azure Monitor
14 12 (10.43%) Azure Storage
15 10 (8.70%) AWS
15 10 (8.70%) PaaS
16 9 (7.83%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.61%) Firewall
2 1 (0.87%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (21.74%) Power BI
2 22 (19.13%) SQL Server
3 14 (12.17%) Azure SQL Database
3 14 (12.17%) NoSQL
4 7 (6.09%) MongoDB
4 7 (6.09%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (6.09%) Relational Database
5 6 (5.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (4.35%) RDBMS
7 4 (3.48%) Redis
8 3 (2.61%) Big Data
8 3 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.61%) Hadoop
8 3 (2.61%) MySQL
9 2 (1.74%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.74%) Tableau
10 1 (0.87%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.87%) HBase
10 1 (0.87%) HDInsight
10 1 (0.87%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 10 (8.70%) Git
2 5 (4.35%) JIRA
2 5 (4.35%) Selenium
3 4 (3.48%) Visual Studio Code
4 3 (2.61%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.74%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.74%) GitLab
5 2 (1.74%) JMeter
5 2 (1.74%) Postman
5 2 (1.74%) SonarQube
General
1 23 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 17 (14.78%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (13.91%) Public Sector
4 14 (12.17%) Finance
5 4 (3.48%) Banking
5 4 (3.48%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.61%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.61%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.74%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.74%) Front Office
7 2 (1.74%) Retail
8 1 (0.87%) Aviation
8 1 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.87%) Electronics
8 1 (0.87%) Marketing
8 1 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 44 (38.26%) Developer
2 36 (31.30%) Architect
3 14 (12.17%) Solutions Architect
4 13 (11.30%) Lead
4 13 (11.30%) Senior
5 12 (10.43%) Azure Engineer
6 11 (9.57%) Azure Architect
6 11 (9.57%) Full-Stack Developer
7 10 (8.70%) Azure Developer
8 9 (7.83%) .NET Developer
9 8 (6.96%) Senior Developer
10 7 (6.09%) Python Developer
11 6 (5.22%) CRM Architect
11 6 (5.22%) Lead Developer
11 6 (5.22%) React Developer
12 5 (4.35%) Full-Stack Python Developer
12 5 (4.35%) Microsoft 365 Architect
12 5 (4.35%) Software Engineer
13 4 (3.48%) Consultant
13 4 (3.48%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (40.00%) .NET
2 22 (19.13%) .NET Framework
3 15 (13.04%) HTML5 Canvas
4 14 (12.17%) .NET Core
5 13 (11.30%) CSS
5 13 (11.30%) HTML
6 11 (9.57%) React
6 11 (9.57%) RESTful
7 10 (8.70%) JSON
8 9 (7.83%) ARM Templates
9 7 (6.09%) ASP.NET
9 7 (6.09%) ASP.NET Web API
9 7 (6.09%) WCF
9 7 (6.09%) XML
10 6 (5.22%) AngularJS
10 6 (5.22%) ASP.NET MVC
10 6 (5.22%) Entity Framework
10 6 (5.22%) OAuth
11 5 (4.35%) REST
11 5 (4.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.57%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.83%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.35%) Enterprise Cloud
3 5 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.48%) Algorithms
4 4 (3.48%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.48%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.61%) Low-Code
5 3 (2.61%) TWAP
5 3 (2.61%) VWAP
6 2 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.74%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.74%) IoT
6 2 (1.74%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.74%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.87%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.87%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.87%) Solar Panel
7 1 (0.87%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.09%) Windows
2 1 (0.87%) Android
2 1 (0.87%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.87%) Linux
2 1 (0.87%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (45.22%) DevOps
2 47 (40.87%) CI/CD
3 28 (24.35%) Agile
3 28 (24.35%) Full-Stack Development
4 25 (21.74%) Business Intelligence
5 24 (20.87%) Microservices
6 21 (18.26%) CRM
7 17 (14.78%) API Management
8 16 (13.91%) Containerisation
9 15 (13.04%) Event-Driven
10 13 (11.30%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (11.30%) SDLC
11 12 (10.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 12 (10.43%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (10.43%) Software Engineering
11 12 (10.43%) Workflow
12 11 (9.57%) Analytics
12 11 (9.57%) Data Engineering
13 10 (8.70%) Front End Development
13 10 (8.70%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 41 (35.65%) C#
2 34 (29.57%) SQL
3 31 (26.96%) JavaScript
4 27 (23.48%) Python
5 19 (16.52%) PowerShell
6 14 (12.17%) TypeScript
7 8 (6.96%) Java
8 6 (5.22%) Bicep
9 5 (4.35%) C++
9 5 (4.35%) Go
9 5 (4.35%) PL/SQL
9 5 (4.35%) T-SQL
10 4 (3.48%) Bash
11 2 (1.74%) Scala
12 1 (0.87%) Perl
12 1 (0.87%) PHP
12 1 (0.87%) R
Qualifications
1 23 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (17.39%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.09%) Azure Certification
4 5 (4.35%) Degree
5 3 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.87%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.87%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.22%) QA
2 4 (3.48%) GDPR
3 3 (2.61%) HL7
3 3 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.87%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.87%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.87%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.87%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.87%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (14.78%) Active Directory
2 16 (13.91%) Docker
3 8 (6.96%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.87%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 27 (23.48%) Kubernetes
2 20 (17.39%) Terraform
3 2 (1.74%) Ansible
3 2 (1.74%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.74%) Puppet
Vendors
1 54 (46.96%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.96%) Databricks
3 7 (6.09%) Oracle
4 5 (4.35%) MuleSoft
4 5 (4.35%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.61%) Google
5 3 (2.61%) SAP
6 2 (1.74%) Brio
6 2 (1.74%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.74%) LogicMonitor
6 2 (1.74%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.87%) Cognizant
7 1 (0.87%) IBM
7 1 (0.87%) Splunk
7 1 (0.87%) StreamSets
7 1 (0.87%) Virgin Media