Azure Functions Contracts in the North West

Azure Functions
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 16 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 144 168
Rank change year-on-year +13 +24 -38
Contract jobs citing Azure Functions 3 23 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.11% 0.70% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.34% 1.84% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 12 8
10th Percentile - - £359
25th Percentile £463 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +13.89% -14.29%
75th Percentile £488 £586 £534
90th Percentile - £593 £638
England median daily rate £513 £600 £540
% change year-on-year -14.58% +11.11% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48.75
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -21.05%

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 892 1,248 1,354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.45% 37.97% 34.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 653 931 1,039
10th Percentile £287 £304 £213
25th Percentile £400 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £569 £592 £588
90th Percentile £638 £675 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 34 44
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.18 £14.25
25th Percentile - £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £16.06 £37.30 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.94% +101.62% +5.93%
75th Percentile £21.13 £65.00 £24.83
90th Percentile £43.75 £70.00 £59.63
England median hourly rate £20.77 £27.50 £20.95
% change year-on-year -24.47% +31.30% -4.80%

Azure Functions
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Functions in the North West

Azure Functions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Functions in the North West

Azure Functions
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 16 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
Cheshire -1 2 £475 -18.94%
Merseyside - 1 - -
Azure Functions
England

Azure Functions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure App Service
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead C# Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Developer
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Core
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
1 2 (66.67%) Entity Framework
1 2 (66.67%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Clean Code
1 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Deployment
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Full Stack Development
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
1 2 (66.67%) OO
1 2 (66.67%) OOD
1 2 (66.67%) Pair Programming
1 2 (66.67%) SDLC
1 2 (66.67%) SOLID
1 2 (66.67%) TDD
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google