Azure Functions Contracts in the North of England

Azure Functions
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 160 176 176
Rank change year-on-year +16 0 +43
Contract jobs citing Azure Functions 6 9 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.18% 0.19% 0.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.54% 0.64% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 32
10th Percentile £369 £463 £450
25th Percentile £397 £478 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% +15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £457 £625 £600
90th Percentile £492 - -
England median daily rate £550 £519 £600
% change year-on-year +6.08% -13.58% +9.09%

All Cloud Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,111 1,408 2,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.72% 29.53% 36.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 999 1,595
10th Percentile £248 £263 £300
25th Percentile £385 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £643 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 79 37
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.00 £16.22
25th Percentile £26.72 £15.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.91 £16.06 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year +92.43% -59.44% +111.93%
75th Percentile £73.44 £20.77 £65.00
90th Percentile £97.98 £43.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

Azure Functions
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Functions in the North of England

Azure Functions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Functions in the North of England

Azure Functions
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Functions in the North of England

Azure Functions
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
North West +17 4 £426 -10.37% 15
Yorkshire +5 2 £425 -29.17% 6
Azure Functions
England

Azure Functions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (16.67%) CMS
1 1 (16.67%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) Serverless
2 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) NuGet
3 2 (33.33%) PaaS
3 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (16.67%) Azure API Management
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Pipelines
4 1 (16.67%) Cloudflare
4 1 (16.67%) Sumo Logic
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (33.33%) MySQL
2 2 (33.33%) Power BI
2 2 (33.33%) Tableau
3 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
3 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Artifactory
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
1 2 (33.33%) JMeter
1 2 (33.33%) Selenium
1 2 (33.33%) SonarQube
1 2 (33.33%) Visual Studio
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) Postman
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Backend Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) ADO
1 1 (16.67%) ARM Templates
1 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
1 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) Shiny
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 2 (33.33%) Data Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
3 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (33.33%) Data Science
3 2 (33.33%) Data Transformation
3 2 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 2 (33.33%) ETL
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Project Management
3 2 (33.33%) Visualisation
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) Ansible
2 2 (33.33%) Progress Chef
2 2 (33.33%) Puppet
3 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Brio
1 2 (33.33%) Databricks
1 2 (33.33%) Dynatrace
1 2 (33.33%) LogicMonitor
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft