Azure Functions Contracts in Reading

Azure Functions
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 48 67 70
Rank change year-on-year +19 +3 +11
Contract jobs citing Azure Functions 12 24 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.01% 2.01% 1.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.97% 6.50% 5.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 22 15
10th Percentile - £482 £525
25th Percentile £409 £506 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £750
90th Percentile £641 £688 -
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +14.29%

All Cloud Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 201 369 320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 33.67% 30.96% 30.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 275 247
10th Percentile £343 £381 £413
25th Percentile £444 £484 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £675 £688 £725
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 7
10th Percentile £33.82 £56.50 £38.59
25th Percentile £41.05 £56.58 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £58.30 £75.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% -22.78% +211.34%
75th Percentile £65.14 £59.95 £79.19
90th Percentile £72.37 £60.61 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.05 £58.30 £33.50
% change year-on-year -45.03% +74.03% +53.85%

Azure Functions
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Azure Functions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Functions in Reading

Azure Functions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Functions in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Azure Functions in Reading

Azure Functions
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Functions in Reading

Azure Functions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (8.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) Azure
1 12 (100.00%) Serverless
2 8 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 7 (58.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 7 (58.33%) Azure Monitor
4 5 (41.67%) Entra ID
5 4 (33.33%) Azure AKS
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (8.33%) AWS
6 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (8.33%) Azure Storage
6 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) NoSQL
2 4 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (33.33%) Redis
3 1 (8.33%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (8.33%) Apache Hive
3 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (8.33%) Big Data
3 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (8.33%) Hadoop
3 1 (8.33%) HBase
3 1 (8.33%) HDInsight
3 1 (8.33%) Impala
3 1 (8.33%) Metadata
3 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Git
2 3 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (91.67%) Developer
2 8 (66.67%) Azure Developer
2 8 (66.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 6 (50.00%) Python Developer
4 5 (41.67%) Full-Stack Python Developer
4 5 (41.67%) React Developer
5 3 (25.00%) Backend Developer
6 1 (8.33%) Architect
6 1 (8.33%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (66.67%) React
2 4 (33.33%) GraphQL
2 4 (33.33%) Prisma
2 4 (33.33%) RESTful
3 2 (16.67%) Node.js
4 1 (8.33%) ARM Templates
4 1 (8.33%) Kafka
4 1 (8.33%) PySpark
4 1 (8.33%) TanStack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) IoT
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Unix
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Microservices
2 11 (91.67%) CI/CD
2 11 (91.67%) DevOps
3 10 (83.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 6 (50.00%) Product Backlog
4 6 (50.00%) SDLC
5 5 (41.67%) Event-Driven
6 4 (33.33%) API Design
6 4 (33.33%) Code Quality
6 4 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 4 (33.33%) Cost Management
6 4 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
6 4 (33.33%) Design Patterns
6 4 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 4 (33.33%) Front End Development
6 4 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
6 4 (33.33%) Unit Testing
7 3 (25.00%) Agile
7 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (16.67%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Python
2 4 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 3 (25.00%) Java
4 1 (8.33%) C#
4 1 (8.33%) Perl
4 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (33.33%) Docker
3 1 (8.33%) Apache Flume
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Databricks
2 1 (8.33%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) StreamSets