Azure Functions Contracts in the South East

Azure Functions
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 157 152 229
Rank change year-on-year -5 +77 -35
Contract jobs citing Azure Functions 35 65 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.64% 1.14% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.66% 3.81% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 61 29
10th Percentile £448 £500 £409
25th Percentile £502 £525 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% +14.94%
75th Percentile £647 £675 £550
90th Percentile £688 £750 £590
England median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
England median hourly rate - £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -20.15%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,314 1,708 2,404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 23.86% 30.02% 31.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 902 1,242 1,763
10th Percentile £251 £253 £201
25th Percentile £406 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £635 £612
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 56 60
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.51 £13.27
25th Percentile £17.80 £18.22 £14.00
Median hourly rate £23.22 £23.08 £21.28
Median % change year-on-year +0.61% +8.46% +1.07%
75th Percentile £54.75 £65.25 £37.50
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.00 £62.15
England median hourly rate £21.00 £32.30 £21.40
% change year-on-year -34.98% +50.93% +1.06%

Azure Functions
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Functions in the South East

Azure Functions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Functions in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Azure Functions in the South East

Azure Functions
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Functions in the South East over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Functions in the South East

Azure Functions
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Functions in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Functions in the South East

Azure Functions
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South East region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
Thames Valley -5 30 £600 - 1
Berkshire -6 27 £625 +4.17% 1
Buckinghamshire +11 3 £600 -7.69%
Hampshire -11 2 £500 -9.09% 2
Surrey +18 1 - - 4
East Sussex +7 1 £450 -30.77%
Azure Functions
England

Azure Functions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (2.86%) ArcGIS
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 35 (100.00%) Azure
1 35 (100.00%) Serverless
2 28 (80.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 19 (54.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 19 (54.29%) Azure Monitor
4 14 (40.00%) Entra ID
5 11 (31.43%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (28.57%) Azure Logic Apps
7 8 (22.86%) Azure API Management
8 6 (17.14%) Azure Key Vault
8 6 (17.14%) Power Platform
9 4 (11.43%) PaaS
10 3 (8.57%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (8.57%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (2.86%) GitHub
11 1 (2.86%) Power Automate
11 1 (2.86%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (48.57%) NoSQL
2 13 (37.14%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (20.00%) SQL Server
4 5 (14.29%) Power BI
5 4 (11.43%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (8.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (5.71%) Relational Database
8 1 (2.86%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (2.86%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 16 (45.71%) Git
2 6 (17.14%) Visual Studio
3 5 (14.29%) Selenium
4 2 (5.71%) Postman
5 1 (2.86%) NUnit
5 1 (2.86%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 12 (34.29%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (11.43%) Telecoms
3 2 (5.71%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Banking
4 1 (2.86%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 27 (77.14%) Developer
2 20 (57.14%) Azure Developer
3 15 (42.86%) Full Stack Developer
4 10 (28.57%) Python Developer
5 8 (22.86%) Full Stack Python Developer
6 4 (11.43%) Azure Data Engineer
6 4 (11.43%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (11.43%) Data Engineer
6 4 (11.43%) Integration Developer
7 2 (5.71%) C# Developer
7 2 (5.71%) Cloud Developer
7 2 (5.71%) SQL Developer
8 1 (2.86%) .NET Architect
8 1 (2.86%) Applications Architect
8 1 (2.86%) Applications Support
8 1 (2.86%) Architect
8 1 (2.86%) Lead Designer
8 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Developer
8 1 (2.86%) Senior Developer
8 1 (2.86%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (42.86%) React
2 7 (20.00%) XML
3 6 (17.14%) .NET
4 5 (14.29%) ARM Templates
5 4 (11.43%) REST
6 3 (8.57%) JSON
6 3 (8.57%) OAuth
6 3 (8.57%) OpenAPI
6 3 (8.57%) OpenID
6 3 (8.57%) SOAP
6 3 (8.57%) Swagger
7 2 (5.71%) .NET Core
7 2 (5.71%) AngularJS
7 2 (5.71%) Django
7 2 (5.71%) Node.js
8 1 (2.86%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 16 (45.71%) Product Ownership
2 5 (14.29%) Smart Meter
3 1 (2.86%) Augmented Reality
3 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.43%) Linux
1 4 (11.43%) Unix
1 4 (11.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (77.14%) DevOps
2 24 (68.57%) CI/CD
3 18 (51.43%) Full Stack Development
4 14 (40.00%) Agile
4 14 (40.00%) Microservices
5 13 (37.14%) Change Management
5 13 (37.14%) SDLC
6 12 (34.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (34.29%) Unit Testing
7 10 (28.57%) Product Backlog
8 8 (22.86%) Test Automation
9 7 (20.00%) Scrum
10 6 (17.14%) ETL
10 6 (17.14%) OO
11 5 (14.29%) B2C
11 5 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
11 5 (14.29%) Data Modelling
11 5 (14.29%) ETL Development
11 5 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
11 5 (14.29%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (48.57%) Python
2 11 (31.43%) SQL
3 7 (20.00%) C#
4 6 (17.14%) Java
5 5 (14.29%) PowerShell
6 3 (8.57%) C
7 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.86%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (2.86%) Degree
1 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) GDPR
2 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.86%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (40.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (17.14%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.29%) Ab Initio