Azure Functions Contract Job Trends in London

Azure Functions
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Azure Functions skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 257 264
Rank change year-on-year -17 +7 +61
Contract jobs citing Azure Functions 118 96 128
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.77% 0.71% 0.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.75% 1.72% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 72 72
10th Percentile £400 £263 £383
25th Percentile £415 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £528 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% +0.48% -19.23%
75th Percentile £588 £647 £629
90th Percentile £677 £775 £738
England median daily rate £500 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -8.33%

All Cloud Computing Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,731 5,593 6,919
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.15% 41.52% 37.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,614 3,741 5,109
10th Percentile £350 £355 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 49 78
10th Percentile £18.20 £22.07 £17.55
25th Percentile £21.84 £23.80 £21.44
Median hourly rate £34.00 £31.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.94% +3.28% -10.29%
75th Percentile £52.96 £55.75 £53.69
90th Percentile £70.50 £68.75 £62.88
England median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.30
% change year-on-year +34.55% +23.32% -10.80%

Azure Functions
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Azure Functions job vacancy trend in London

Azure Functions
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Azure Functions.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Azure Functions

Azure Functions
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Functions in London over the 6 months to 16 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Functions in London

Azure Functions
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Azure Functions.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Azure Functions

Azure Functions
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 16 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
Central London -10 10 £425 -32.00% 5
South London -6 5 £500 - 2
Azure Functions
England

Azure Functions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 15 (12.71%) SharePoint
2 10 (8.47%) HCL Notes
3 9 (7.63%) Mendix
4 2 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.69%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.69%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.85%) Apache
5 1 (0.85%) SharePoint 2013
Business Applications
1 17 (14.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.85%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 118 (100.00%) Azure
1 118 (100.00%) Serverless
2 70 (59.32%) Azure Logic Apps
3 54 (45.76%) Power Platform
4 53 (44.92%) Azure DevOps
5 44 (37.29%) Azure Service Bus
6 36 (30.51%) Power Automate
7 27 (22.88%) PowerApps
8 26 (22.03%) Dynamics 365
9 24 (20.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 24 (20.34%) GitHub
10 22 (18.64%) Azure Monitor
11 19 (16.10%) Azure App Service
11 19 (16.10%) Azure Data Factory
11 19 (16.10%) Entra ID
12 18 (15.25%) Azure AKS
13 15 (12.71%) AWS
13 15 (12.71%) Azure Cognitive Services
14 14 (11.86%) Azure Key Vault
14 14 (11.86%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.08%) SMS
2 5 (4.24%) Network Security
3 4 (3.39%) HTTP
4 2 (1.69%) Firewall
4 2 (1.69%) LAN
4 2 (1.69%) MPLS
4 2 (1.69%) VPN
4 2 (1.69%) WAN
5 1 (0.85%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (24.58%) Power BI
2 17 (14.41%) Data Lake
3 13 (11.02%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (8.47%) Oracle Database
5 6 (5.08%) NoSQL
6 5 (4.24%) Delta Lake
6 5 (4.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (3.39%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.54%) Power Query
8 3 (2.54%) Redis
8 3 (2.54%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (2.54%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.69%) Metadata
9 2 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.69%) Tableau
10 1 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.85%) Data Mart
10 1 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.85%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.85%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 19 (16.10%) Git
2 4 (3.39%) Postman
3 3 (2.54%) JIRA
3 3 (2.54%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (1.69%) JMeter
4 2 (1.69%) JUnit
4 2 (1.69%) Liquibase
4 2 (1.69%) Locust
4 2 (1.69%) MLflow
4 2 (1.69%) Mockito
4 2 (1.69%) Selenium
4 2 (1.69%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.85%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.85%) TestRail
General
1 25 (21.19%) Finance
2 21 (17.80%) Social Skills
3 17 (14.41%) Public Sector
4 15 (12.71%) Marketing
5 13 (11.02%) Banking
6 9 (7.63%) Financial Institution
7 8 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.54%) Retail
9 1 (0.85%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.85%) Law
9 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 55 (46.61%) Developer
2 18 (15.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 15 (12.71%) Power Platform Developer
4 12 (10.17%) Architect
4 12 (10.17%) Azure Developer
5 11 (9.32%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 10 (8.47%) Consultant
7 9 (7.63%) Azure Engineer
8 7 (5.93%) .NET Developer
8 7 (5.93%) Azure Architect
8 7 (5.93%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
8 7 (5.93%) Senior
9 6 (5.08%) Technical Consultant
10 5 (4.24%) Administrator
10 5 (4.24%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 5 (4.24%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
10 5 (4.24%) Data Engineer
10 5 (4.24%) Integration Developer
11 4 (3.39%) Azure Administrator
11 4 (3.39%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (40.68%) .NET
2 19 (16.10%) REST
3 18 (15.25%) React
4 15 (12.71%) Node.js
5 14 (11.86%) .NET Core
5 14 (11.86%) RESTful
6 11 (9.32%) JSON
7 10 (8.47%) HTML5 Canvas
8 9 (7.63%) A2A Protocol
8 9 (7.63%) Microsoft Graph
8 9 (7.63%) Model Context Protocol
8 9 (7.63%) PyTorch
9 8 (6.78%) ASP.NET Web API
9 8 (6.78%) LangChain
9 8 (6.78%) LangGraph
10 7 (5.93%) ASP.NET
10 7 (5.93%) TensorFlow
11 6 (5.08%) ARM Templates
11 6 (5.08%) Kafka
11 6 (5.08%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.25%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.47%) Low-Code
3 9 (7.63%) AI Agents
4 8 (6.78%) Product Ownership
5 7 (5.93%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (5.08%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.54%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.69%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.69%) Data Fabric
8 2 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.69%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.69%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.69%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.85%) Digital Media
9 1 (0.85%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.85%) Pricing Data
9 1 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.85%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.69%) Windows
2 1 (0.85%) Linux
2 1 (0.85%) Unix
2 1 (0.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (60.17%) DevOps
2 70 (59.32%) CI/CD
3 33 (27.97%) AI
4 29 (24.58%) Agile
4 29 (24.58%) Business Intelligence
5 26 (22.03%) Analytics
5 26 (22.03%) API Management
6 23 (19.49%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (18.64%) Data Modelling
8 20 (16.95%) CRM
9 19 (16.10%) Microservices
10 18 (15.25%) Infrastructure as Code
10 18 (15.25%) LLM
10 18 (15.25%) Mentoring
10 18 (15.25%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
11 16 (13.56%) Event-Driven
11 16 (13.56%) Generative AI
11 16 (13.56%) Machine Learning
12 15 (12.71%) Integration Patterns
12 15 (12.71%) Prompt Engineering
Programming Languages
1 61 (51.69%) C#
2 50 (42.37%) SQL
3 38 (32.20%) Python
4 32 (27.12%) JavaScript
5 16 (13.56%) Bicep
6 15 (12.71%) TypeScript
7 10 (8.47%) Formula Language
7 10 (8.47%) LotusScript
8 9 (7.63%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (3.39%) Java
10 3 (2.54%) Bash
11 2 (1.69%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.85%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.85%) Go
12 1 (0.85%) Korn
12 1 (0.85%) Scala
12 1 (0.85%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.85%) X++
Qualifications
1 24 (20.34%) Security Cleared
2 14 (11.86%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.63%) Azure Certification
3 9 (7.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 7 (5.93%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (5.93%) Degree
5 3 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.69%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.32%) GDPR
2 5 (4.24%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.54%) QA
4 2 (1.69%) EU AI Act
4 2 (1.69%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.69%) NIST
5 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
System Software
1 14 (11.86%) Docker
2 13 (11.02%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (22.03%) Terraform
2 14 (11.86%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.69%) Grafana
4 1 (0.85%) Argo
4 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 63 (53.39%) Microsoft
2 24 (20.34%) OpenAI
3 19 (16.10%) Databricks
4 10 (8.47%) Lotus
4 10 (8.47%) Oracle
5 9 (7.63%) Kofax
6 7 (5.93%) Foundry
7 2 (1.69%) New Relic
7 2 (1.69%) Palantir
7 2 (1.69%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.85%) Brio
8 1 (0.85%) Google
8 1 (0.85%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.85%) Sparx