Azure Functions Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Azure Functions
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Azure Functions skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 56 137
Rank change year-on-year -62 +81 +25
Contract jobs citing Azure Functions 11 64 11
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.52% 3.24% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.39% 9.40% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 48 10
10th Percentile £404 £404 £493
25th Percentile £409 £440 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £556 £650 £625
90th Percentile £660 £651 £676
South East median daily rate £491 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -21.40% +4.17% -

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 791 681 756
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 37.70% 34.45% 30.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 540 447 521
10th Percentile £262 £320 £200
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £638
90th Percentile £650 £666 £700
South East median daily rate £485 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -5.37% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 14 18
10th Percentile £14.75 £18.50 £16.66
25th Percentile £17.79 £20.10 £19.25
Median hourly rate £40.44 £28.75 £33.66
Median % change year-on-year +40.64% -14.59% +60.29%
75th Percentile £90.50 £43.75 £70.13
90th Percentile £98.50 £64.73 £82.92
South East median hourly rate £20.00 £28.50 £29.66
% change year-on-year -29.82% -3.91% +48.30%

Azure Functions
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Azure Functions job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Azure Functions
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Azure Functions.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Azure Functions

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 20 December 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 20 December 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 -50 10 £425 -32.00% 2
Oxfordshire - 1 £750 - 2
Azure Functions
South East

Azure Functions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
1 1 (9.09%) CMS
1 1 (9.09%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Azure
1 11 (100.00%) Serverless
2 6 (54.55%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (45.45%) Azure API Management
3 5 (45.45%) Azure Logic Apps
3 5 (45.45%) Azure Monitor
3 5 (45.45%) GitHub
3 5 (45.45%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (27.27%) Entra ID
5 2 (18.18%) Azure AKS
5 2 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (18.18%) Azure Event Grid
5 2 (18.18%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (18.18%) Azure Storage
5 2 (18.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) PaaS
6 1 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (9.09%) Lucidchart
6 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 2 (18.18%) Data Lake
2 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (9.09%) Data Vault
3 1 (9.09%) Metadata
3 1 (9.09%) MySQL
3 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
3 1 (9.09%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Jenkins
2 3 (27.27%) Git
3 2 (18.18%) Postman
3 2 (18.18%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Billing
3 1 (9.09%) Automotive
3 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (45.45%) Senior
2 4 (36.36%) Architect
2 4 (36.36%) Senior DevOps
2 4 (36.36%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Active Directory Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Data Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (72.73%) .NET
2 7 (63.64%) .NET Core
3 5 (45.45%) GraphQL
3 5 (45.45%) REST
4 4 (36.36%) .NET Framework
5 3 (27.27%) ARM Templates
5 3 (27.27%) OAuth
5 3 (27.27%) OAuth2
5 3 (27.27%) OpenID
5 3 (27.27%) RESTful
5 3 (27.27%) SAML
6 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET
6 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (18.18%) SOAP
6 2 (18.18%) Swagger
6 2 (18.18%) WSDL
6 2 (18.18%) XSLT
7 1 (9.09%) Entity Framework
7 1 (9.09%) Kafka
7 1 (9.09%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Data Fabric
2 1 (9.09%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) AI
1 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
1 6 (54.55%) Data Governance
1 6 (54.55%) DevOps
2 5 (45.45%) Analytics
2 5 (45.45%) DevSecOps
3 4 (36.36%) Log Analytics
3 4 (36.36%) User Experience
4 3 (27.27%) API Management
4 3 (27.27%) B2C
4 3 (27.27%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (27.27%) Knowledge Transfer
4 3 (27.27%) MLOps
4 3 (27.27%) Observability
4 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) RBAC
4 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
4 3 (27.27%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) C#
2 7 (63.64%) JavaScript
3 6 (54.55%) Python
4 5 (45.45%) Bash
4 5 (45.45%) PHP
4 5 (45.45%) PowerShell
5 2 (18.18%) Java
5 2 (18.18%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Terraform
2 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Databricks
3 1 (9.09%) OpenAI