Azure Functions Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Azure Functions
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Azure Functions skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure Functions 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.23% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.52% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £425 £600
% change year-on-year +14.71% -29.17% +9.09%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 387 80 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 44.23% 29.85% 23.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 60 85
10th Percentile £332 £396 £250
25th Percentile £413 £470 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.24% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £541 £600 £595
90th Percentile £624 £650 £638
Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.05% -2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £13.50
Median hourly rate - - £14.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -30.00%
75th Percentile - - £14.50
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £56.50 £32.81 £15.00
% change year-on-year +72.20% +118.73% -53.85%

Azure Functions
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Azure Functions job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Azure Functions
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure Functions.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure Functions

Azure Functions
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 4 February 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
Sheffield - 2 £525 - 2
Azure Functions
Yorkshire

Azure Functions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Storage
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Bicep
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Alibaba
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAI
2 1 (50.00%) Splunk