Azure Functions Contract Job Trends in the North East

Azure Functions
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Azure Functions skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 - 32
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure Functions 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.25% - 1.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.61% - 4.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £380
25th Percentile £438 - £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £458
75th Percentile £613 - £502
90th Percentile - - £525
England median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -5.74%

All Cloud Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 164 106 73
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 41.41% 35.10% 28.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 60 52
10th Percentile £232 £312 £163
25th Percentile £385 £361 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £481 £405
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% +18.83% -29.57%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £525
90th Percentile £700 £629 £580
England median daily rate £500 £536 £525
% change year-on-year -6.76% +2.14% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 4
10th Percentile £39.40 - £15.73
25th Percentile £44.50 - £16.06
Median hourly rate £52.50 £46.18 £31.84
Median % change year-on-year +13.69% +45.04% +41.51%
75th Percentile £55.00 - £46.18
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £27.21 £30.00 £23.24
% change year-on-year -9.30% +29.09% +3.29%

Azure Functions
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Azure Functions job vacancy trend in the North East

Azure Functions
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

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

Azure Functions
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Tyne and Wear - 1 £525 - 1
Azure Functions
England

Azure Functions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (100.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks