Azure Functions Contracts in the South East

Azure Functions
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 148 163
Rank change year-on-year -12 +15 +82
Contract jobs citing Azure Functions 5 42 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.15% 0.76% 0.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.48% 3.20% 3.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 34 52
10th Percentile £417 £450 £513
25th Percentile £441 £506 £548
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -23.60% +4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £525 £650 £699
90th Percentile £570 £671 £750
England median daily rate £550 £531 £600
% change year-on-year +3.53% -11.46% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £55.00

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,044 1,311 1,689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.49% 23.82% 29.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 673 901 1,220
10th Percentile £250 £300 £250
25th Percentile £380 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.20% -4.57% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £615 £638
90th Percentile £651 £675 £713
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 46 50
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.69 £15.47
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.80 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.82 £23.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.76% -12.04% +35.00%
75th Percentile £32.12 £59.50 £64.31
90th Percentile £47.95 £60.83 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £21.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +16.98% -38.57% +60.70%

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 19 July 2025.

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 19 July 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
Berkshire -8 5 £478 -23.60% 1
Thames Valley -13 5 £478 -23.60% 4
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 (20.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (20.00%) CMS
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
1 1 (20.00%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Serverless
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (20.00%) Azure API Management
4 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Copilot Studio
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (20.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (20.00%) Data Vault
2 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (20.00%) MySQL
2 1 (20.00%) Redis
2 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) Postman
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Automotive
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Integration Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) RESTful
2 2 (40.00%) .NET
2 2 (40.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (20.00%) Entity Framework
3 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (20.00%) Kafka
3 1 (20.00%) Node.js
3 1 (20.00%) Prisma
3 1 (20.00%) React
3 1 (20.00%) SOAP
3 1 (20.00%) TanStack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Analytics
1 2 (40.00%) API Design
1 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (40.00%) Log Analytics
1 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (20.00%) API Integration
2 1 (20.00%) Change Data Capture
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (20.00%) Inmon Methodology
2 1 (20.00%) Kimball Methodology
2 1 (20.00%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) OpenAI