Azure Functions Contracts in England

Azure Functions
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Azure Functions skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Functions over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 367 372 431
Rank change year-on-year +5 +59 -47
Contract jobs citing Azure Functions 169 318 377
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.46% 0.63% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.44% 1.72% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 201 269
10th Percentile £363 £450 £412
25th Percentile £425 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.83% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £638
90th Percentile £688 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £590 £550
% change year-on-year -12.75% +7.27% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £52.50 £48.75
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -21.05%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +16.67%

All Cloud Skills
England

Azure Functions is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,773 18,509 27,357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.85% 36.62% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,477 13,536 20,079
10th Percentile £290 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 316 348
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £32.50 £65.75 £42.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £64.83
UK median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -5.54%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 +38 103 £500 -16.67% 29
South East +2 31 £600 - 6
Midlands +26 17 £400 -11.11% 8
West Midlands +32 15 £400 -11.11% 4
North of England -3 8 £600 +20.00% 10
Yorkshire +5 5 £600 +23.08% 2
North West -5 3 £475 -7.32% 7
East Midlands - 2 £468 - 4
South West +6 1 £675 +1.89% 5
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 11 (6.51%) SharePoint
2 10 (5.92%) BizTalk Server
3 9 (5.33%) Confluence
4 3 (1.78%) ArcGIS
5 2 (1.18%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.59%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.59%) CMS
6 1 (0.59%) Drupal
6 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.59%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.59%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.59%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (3.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.78%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 169 (100.00%) Azure
1 169 (100.00%) Serverless
2 76 (44.97%) Azure DevOps
3 56 (33.14%) Azure Logic Apps
4 50 (29.59%) Azure Service Bus
5 46 (27.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 46 (27.22%) Azure Data Factory
6 44 (26.04%) Power Platform
7 39 (23.08%) GitHub
8 35 (20.71%) Azure Monitor
9 28 (16.57%) Azure API Management
10 24 (14.20%) Power Automate
11 23 (13.61%) Azure Key Vault
11 23 (13.61%) Azure Storage
12 20 (11.83%) PowerApps
13 19 (11.24%) Entra ID
14 18 (10.65%) PaaS
15 16 (9.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 16 (9.47%) Dynamics 365
16 12 (7.10%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.55%) Firewall
2 2 (1.18%) FTP
2 2 (1.18%) HTTP
2 2 (1.18%) VPN
3 1 (0.59%) SSH
3 1 (0.59%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (31.95%) Azure SQL Database
2 52 (30.77%) SQL Server
3 33 (19.53%) Power BI
4 32 (18.93%) NoSQL
5 19 (11.24%) Data Lake
6 18 (10.65%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (7.10%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (6.51%) Redis
9 10 (5.92%) MongoDB
10 8 (4.73%) Big Data
11 7 (4.14%) InterSystems Cache
11 7 (4.14%) OLTP
11 7 (4.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (2.37%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (2.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 4 (2.37%) Power Query
12 4 (2.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 3 (1.78%) Geospatial Data
14 2 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 37 (21.89%) Git
2 14 (8.28%) JIRA
2 14 (8.28%) Visual Studio
3 11 (6.51%) Visual Studio Team System
4 10 (5.92%) Cypress.io
4 10 (5.92%) GitLab
5 9 (5.33%) JMeter
6 4 (2.37%) NUnit
6 4 (2.37%) Selenium
7 3 (1.78%) Jenkins
7 3 (1.78%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.18%) Maven
8 2 (1.18%) Moq
8 2 (1.18%) Postman
9 1 (0.59%) git-flow
9 1 (0.59%) Gradle
9 1 (0.59%) Hudson
9 1 (0.59%) Mockito
9 1 (0.59%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.59%) TeamCity
General
1 30 (17.75%) Social Skills
2 22 (13.02%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (10.06%) Finance
4 16 (9.47%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.33%) Banking
6 6 (3.55%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.37%) Retail
8 3 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.18%) Electronics
9 2 (1.18%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.18%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.18%) Marketing
10 1 (0.59%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.59%) Front Office
10 1 (0.59%) Law
10 1 (0.59%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 94 (55.62%) Developer
2 35 (20.71%) Azure Developer
3 29 (17.16%) Full Stack Developer
4 17 (10.06%) Azure Engineer
5 16 (9.47%) Data Engineer
6 14 (8.28%) Applications Developer
7 13 (7.69%) C# Developer
8 12 (7.10%) Architect
9 10 (5.92%) .NET Developer
9 10 (5.92%) Azure Data Engineer
10 9 (5.33%) Lead
11 8 (4.73%) Integration Developer
11 8 (4.73%) Power Apps Developer
11 8 (4.73%) Python Developer
12 7 (4.14%) Consultant
12 7 (4.14%) DevOps Engineer
13 6 (3.55%) Azure Architect
13 6 (3.55%) Full Stack Python Developer
13 6 (3.55%) Senior
13 6 (3.55%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (32.54%) .NET
2 34 (20.12%) React
3 24 (14.20%) .NET Core
4 22 (13.02%) Node.js
5 21 (12.43%) JSON
5 21 (12.43%) XML
6 19 (11.24%) ARM Templates
7 15 (8.88%) .NET Framework
7 15 (8.88%) REST
8 11 (6.51%) Kafka
9 9 (5.33%) Blazor
10 7 (4.14%) AngularJS
10 7 (4.14%) Entity Framework
10 7 (4.14%) Microsoft Graph
10 7 (4.14%) OAuth
10 7 (4.14%) RESTful
10 7 (4.14%) SignalR
10 7 (4.14%) SOAP
10 7 (4.14%) Swagger
10 7 (4.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.61%) Product Ownership
2 19 (11.24%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.92%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (4.14%) Machine to Machine
5 5 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.96%) Smart Meter
6 2 (1.18%) BYOD
6 2 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.18%) Solar Panel
7 1 (0.59%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (0.59%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.59%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.59%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.59%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.59%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.59%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.59%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 21 (12.43%) Windows
2 15 (8.88%) Linux
3 6 (3.55%) Unix
4 1 (0.59%) CentOS
4 1 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.59%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (61.54%) DevOps
2 88 (52.07%) CI/CD
3 76 (44.97%) Agile
4 47 (27.81%) Full Stack Development
5 43 (25.44%) Microservices
6 32 (18.93%) Business Intelligence
7 29 (17.16%) SDLC
8 26 (15.38%) API Management
8 26 (15.38%) Scrum
9 25 (14.79%) TDD
9 25 (14.79%) Test Automation
10 24 (14.20%) Software Engineering
11 22 (13.02%) Analytics
12 19 (11.24%) Continuous Improvement
13 18 (10.65%) ETL
14 16 (9.47%) Unit Testing
15 15 (8.88%) Data Engineering
15 15 (8.88%) Migration
16 14 (8.28%) Change Management
17 13 (7.69%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 67 (39.64%) SQL
2 60 (35.50%) C#
3 53 (31.36%) Python
4 35 (20.71%) PowerShell
5 24 (14.20%) JavaScript
6 14 (8.28%) Java
7 11 (6.51%) T-SQL
8 10 (5.92%) C++
8 10 (5.92%) Go
9 9 (5.33%) PL/SQL
10 4 (2.37%) Bash
10 4 (2.37%) Bicep
10 4 (2.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (2.37%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.18%) C
12 1 (0.59%) Perl
12 1 (0.59%) Scala
12 1 (0.59%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.59%) X++
Qualifications
1 8 (4.73%) Degree
2 6 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (3.55%) SC Cleared
2 6 (3.55%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.37%) Azure Certification
4 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.18%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.14%) QA
2 5 (2.96%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.37%) GDPR
3 4 (2.37%) WCAG
4 2 (1.18%) SLA
5 1 (0.59%) Data Quality
System Software
1 20 (11.83%) Active Directory
1 20 (11.83%) Docker
2 5 (2.96%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.59%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 29 (17.16%) Terraform
2 28 (16.57%) Kubernetes
3 9 (5.33%) Argo
4 5 (2.96%) SysTrack
5 2 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.59%) Ansible
6 1 (0.59%) Packer
6 1 (0.59%) Puppet
6 1 (0.59%) yum
Vendors
1 59 (34.91%) Microsoft
2 19 (11.24%) Oracle
3 11 (6.51%) Databricks
4 9 (5.33%) MuleSoft
5 5 (2.96%) Ab Initio
5 5 (2.96%) Citrix
5 5 (2.96%) New Relic
5 5 (2.96%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.18%) SAP
7 1 (0.59%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.59%) Cisco
7 1 (0.59%) Google
7 1 (0.59%) JDA
7 1 (0.59%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (0.59%) RedPrairie
7 1 (0.59%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.59%) Sybase
7 1 (0.59%) Virgin Media