Azure Functions Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Azure Functions
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Azure Functions skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 81 86
Rank change year-on-year -9 +5 +51
Contract jobs citing Azure Functions 1 2 14
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.087% 0.18% 0.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.21% 0.50% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £350 £575
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -39.13% +15.00%
75th Percentile £538 - £638
90th Percentile - - £643
North West median daily rate £450 £350 £538
% change year-on-year +28.57% -34.88% +7.50%

All Cloud Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 476 401 662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 41.18% 36.62% 42.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 271 522
10th Percentile £313 £324 £285
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £639 £675 £650
North West median daily rate £448 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.79% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 16
10th Percentile £19.13 £29.15 £15.74
25th Percentile £21.46 £29.38 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.33 £44.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% +151.13% -72.74%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.94 £36.25
90th Percentile £73.38 £66.23 £78.13
North West median hourly rate £40.00 £31.00 £23.61
% change year-on-year +29.03% +31.30% -22.35%

Azure Functions
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Azure Functions job vacancy trend in Manchester

Azure Functions
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Azure Functions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (100.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) PowerApps
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5 Canvas
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft