Azure Functions Contract Job Trends in the North West

Azure Functions
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Azure Functions skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 131 118
Rank change year-on-year -40 -13 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure Functions 8 3 6
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.20% 0.14% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.65% 0.42% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile £501 - -
25th Percentile £503 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% -12.20% -6.82%
75th Percentile £528 £500 £591
90th Percentile £534 £515 £619
England median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -12.50%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,230 708 720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.26% 32.08% 29.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 524 494
10th Percentile £250 £313 £300
25th Percentile £400 £375 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £575
90th Percentile £692 £635 £650
England median daily rate £525 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 28 14
10th Percentile £18.85 £12.82 £13.22
25th Percentile £25.38 £18.50 £18.08
Median hourly rate £45.50 £40.83 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.45% +21.87% +34.73%
75th Percentile £76.00 £67.25 £55.05
90th Percentile £80.50 £74.50 £70.98
England median hourly rate £34.38 £26.30 £28.25
% change year-on-year +30.70% -6.90% -14.39%

Azure Functions
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Azure Functions job vacancy trend in the North West

Azure Functions
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

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 28 August 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
Manchester - 4 £513 - 8
Cheshire - 3 - -
Merseyside - 1 - -
Azure Functions
England

Azure Functions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
1 8 (100.00%) Serverless
2 4 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 4 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) GitHub
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (25.00%) Power Automate
4 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (25.00%) PowerApps
5 1 (12.50%) Azure API Management
5 1 (12.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Storage
5 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
5 1 (12.50%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Applications Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Applications Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Power Platform Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (12.50%) .NET
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Core
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
3 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
3 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
3 1 (12.50%) Entity Framework
3 1 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (12.50%) React
3 1 (12.50%) RESTful
3 1 (12.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) AI Agents
2 1 (12.50%) Driving Licence
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) Containerisation
3 4 (50.00%) API Management
3 4 (50.00%) Data Protection
3 4 (50.00%) DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) Microservices
4 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
4 3 (37.50%) DevSecOps
4 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Incident Response
5 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (25.00%) Observability
6 1 (12.50%) Business Strategy
6 1 (12.50%) Clean Code
6 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
6 1 (12.50%) FinOps
6 1 (12.50%) Log Analytics
6 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) Bicep
2 2 (25.00%) C#
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) New Relic
2 1 (12.50%) Splunk