Azure Functions Contracts in the Thames Valley

Azure Functions
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 89 118 117
Rank change year-on-year +29 -1 +29
Contract jobs citing Azure Functions 13 27 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.86% 1.01% 1.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.54% 3.58% 4.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 25 32
10th Percentile - £447 £544
25th Percentile £409 £506 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -7.69% +23.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £717
90th Percentile £640 £688 £750
South East median daily rate £500 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +20.00%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 511 755 844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 33.82% 28.11% 28.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 515 615
10th Percentile £304 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £606 £608 £625
90th Percentile £663 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 30 20
10th Percentile £20.96 £15.99 £18.42
25th Percentile £28.05 £19.37 £21.49
Median hourly rate £32.05 £42.50 £30.23
Median % change year-on-year -24.59% +40.59% +43.95%
75th Percentile £47.15 £59.95 £59.25
90th Percentile £76.51 £61.60 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.50 £22.36 £24.50
% change year-on-year +27.47% -8.74% +16.39%

Azure Functions
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Functions in the Thames Valley

Azure Functions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Functions in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Azure Functions in the Thames Valley

Azure Functions
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Functions in the Thames Valley

Azure Functions
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +20 13 £500 -16.67% 1
Azure Functions
South East

Azure Functions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (7.69%) Apache Spark
1 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) Azure
1 13 (100.00%) Serverless
2 9 (69.23%) Azure Data Factory
3 8 (61.54%) Azure Monitor
4 7 (53.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 5 (38.46%) Entra ID
6 4 (30.77%) Azure AKS
7 1 (7.69%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (7.69%) AWS
7 1 (7.69%) Azure API Management
7 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (7.69%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (7.69%) Azure Storage
7 1 (7.69%) PaaS
7 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) NoSQL
2 4 (30.77%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (30.77%) Redis
3 1 (7.69%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (7.69%) Apache Hive
3 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (7.69%) Big Data
3 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
3 1 (7.69%) HBase
3 1 (7.69%) HDInsight
3 1 (7.69%) Impala
3 1 (7.69%) Metadata
3 1 (7.69%) Power BI
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Git
2 3 (23.08%) Selenium
3 1 (7.69%) JIRA
3 1 (7.69%) Postman
General
1 5 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
3 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (84.62%) Developer
2 8 (61.54%) Azure Developer
2 8 (61.54%) Full-Stack Developer
3 6 (46.15%) Python Developer
4 5 (38.46%) Full-Stack Python Developer
4 5 (38.46%) React Developer
5 3 (23.08%) Backend Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Architect
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Architect
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Consultant
6 1 (7.69%) Consultant
6 1 (7.69%) Integration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (61.54%) React
2 5 (38.46%) RESTful
3 4 (30.77%) GraphQL
3 4 (30.77%) Prisma
4 2 (15.38%) Node.js
5 1 (7.69%) .NET
5 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
5 1 (7.69%) ARM Templates
5 1 (7.69%) Kafka
5 1 (7.69%) PySpark
5 1 (7.69%) SOAP
5 1 (7.69%) TanStack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) IoT
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Unix
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Microservices
2 11 (84.62%) CI/CD
2 11 (84.62%) DevOps
3 10 (76.92%) Full-Stack Development
4 6 (46.15%) Product Backlog
4 6 (46.15%) SDLC
5 5 (38.46%) API Design
5 5 (38.46%) Event-Driven
6 4 (30.77%) Code Quality
6 4 (30.77%) Containerisation
6 4 (30.77%) Cost Management
6 4 (30.77%) Cost Optimisation
6 4 (30.77%) Design Patterns
6 4 (30.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 4 (30.77%) Front End Development
6 4 (30.77%) Performance Optimisation
6 4 (30.77%) Unit Testing
7 3 (23.08%) Agile
7 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (15.38%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Python
2 4 (30.77%) TypeScript
3 3 (23.08%) Java
4 2 (15.38%) C#
5 1 (7.69%) Perl
5 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) Active Directory
2 4 (30.77%) Docker
3 1 (7.69%) Apache Flume
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Databricks
2 1 (7.69%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) StreamSets