Azure Functions Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Azure Functions
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Azure Functions skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 263 343
Rank change year-on-year -93 +80 +52
Contract jobs citing Azure Functions 54 91 65
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.61% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.93% 1.96% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 65 50
10th Percentile £409 £400 £425
25th Percentile £425 £413 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £576 £645 £638
90th Percentile £663 £651 £711
UK median daily rate £500 £524 £525
% change year-on-year -4.53% -0.24% -12.50%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,830 4,653 6,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.22% 31.11% 31.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,021 3,045 4,436
10th Percentile £240 £243 £219
25th Percentile £380 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -0.10%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £679
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 113 191
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.33 £20.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £27.13 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +29.17% +7.69%
75th Percentile £52.06 £43.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £69.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.40 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -8.97% +16.00% +11.11%

Azure Functions
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Azure Functions job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Azure Functions
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Azure Functions.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Azure Functions

Azure Functions
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Functions in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Functions in the UK excluding London

Azure Functions
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Azure Functions.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Azure Functions

Azure Functions
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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
South East -67 14 £491 -21.40% 7
North of England -33 13 £463 +8.82% 13
Midlands -37 13 £506 +1.10% 1
East of England -13 12 £528 - 3
Yorkshire -36 9 £488 -7.14% 3
West Midlands -34 8 £500 - 1
East Midlands - 5 £550 -
North West -30 4 £450 +28.57% 9
Scotland - 2 £520 -
Wales -4 1 £488 -2.50%
Azure Functions
UK

Azure Functions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.85%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.85%) ArcGIS
2 1 (1.85%) CMS
2 1 (1.85%) Confluence
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.85%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (5.56%) MS Visio
2 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.85%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 54 (100.00%) Azure
1 54 (100.00%) Serverless
2 20 (37.04%) Azure Logic Apps
3 18 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (29.63%) Azure AKS
4 16 (29.63%) GitHub
5 14 (25.93%) Azure Monitor
5 14 (25.93%) PaaS
6 11 (20.37%) Azure API Management
6 11 (20.37%) Azure Service Bus
6 11 (20.37%) Power Automate
7 10 (18.52%) Power Platform
7 10 (18.52%) PowerApps
8 9 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
8 9 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (12.96%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (12.96%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (12.96%) GitHub Copilot
10 6 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (9.26%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.41%) Firewall
2 2 (3.70%) SSL
3 1 (1.85%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.96%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.70%) Data Lake
3 2 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.70%) Metadata
3 2 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.70%) Power BI
3 2 (3.70%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.85%) Big Data
4 1 (1.85%) Data Vault
4 1 (1.85%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.85%) MySQL
4 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.85%) Redis
4 1 (1.85%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 12 (22.22%) Git
2 6 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.70%) Postman
3 2 (3.70%) SonarQube
3 2 (3.70%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.85%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.85%) GitLab
4 1 (1.85%) JIRA
4 1 (1.85%) JMeter
4 1 (1.85%) Selenium
General
1 14 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.81%) Public Sector
3 5 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.70%) Billing
4 2 (3.70%) Finance
4 2 (3.70%) Health Technology
4 2 (3.70%) Local Government
5 1 (1.85%) Agriculture
5 1 (1.85%) Automotive
5 1 (1.85%) Aviation
5 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (35.19%) Developer
2 9 (16.67%) Senior
3 7 (12.96%) .NET Software Engineer
3 7 (12.96%) Architect
3 7 (12.96%) Azure Engineer
3 7 (12.96%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (12.96%) Software Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) Azure Developer
4 5 (9.26%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (7.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Senior Developer
5 4 (7.41%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (7.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Active Directory Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 3 (5.56%) Integration Developer
6 3 (5.56%) Software Developer
7 2 (3.70%) Lead
7 2 (3.70%) Power Apps Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Power Platform Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (53.70%) .NET
2 16 (29.63%) RESTful
3 13 (24.07%) REST
4 11 (20.37%) .NET Core
5 7 (12.96%) ARM Templates
5 7 (12.96%) PyTorch
5 7 (12.96%) React
5 7 (12.96%) Semantic Kernel
5 7 (12.96%) TensorFlow
6 6 (11.11%) GraphQL
7 5 (9.26%) OAuth
8 4 (7.41%) .NET Framework
8 4 (7.41%) FastAPI
8 4 (7.41%) Flask
8 4 (7.41%) Pandas
8 4 (7.41%) SOAP
9 3 (5.56%) FHIR
9 3 (5.56%) OAuth2
9 3 (5.56%) SAML
9 3 (5.56%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 17 (31.48%) Cloud Native
2 7 (12.96%) Algorithms
3 4 (7.41%) Data Fabric
4 3 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (5.56%) NHS
4 3 (5.56%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.70%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.85%) IoT
6 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.85%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.85%) Linux
1 1 (1.85%) Windows
1 1 (1.85%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (55.56%) DevOps
2 24 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 21 (38.89%) Software Engineering
4 19 (35.19%) Agile
5 17 (31.48%) API Management
6 16 (29.63%) AI
6 16 (29.63%) Analytics
6 16 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (22.22%) Containerisation
7 12 (22.22%) Data Governance
7 12 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (22.22%) Test Automation
8 11 (20.37%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (20.37%) Log Analytics
9 9 (16.67%) Data Privacy
9 9 (16.67%) Machine Learning
10 8 (14.81%) LLM
10 8 (14.81%) Performance Tuning
10 8 (14.81%) Prompt Engineering
11 7 (12.96%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 25 (46.30%) C#
2 20 (37.04%) Python
3 18 (33.33%) SQL
4 11 (20.37%) JavaScript
4 11 (20.37%) PowerShell
5 6 (11.11%) Bash
6 5 (9.26%) Bicep
6 5 (9.26%) PHP
6 5 (9.26%) T-SQL
6 5 (9.26%) TypeScript
7 3 (5.56%) X++
8 2 (3.70%) Java
9 1 (1.85%) VB
9 1 (1.85%) VB6
9 1 (1.85%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 7 (12.96%) MCP
3 5 (9.26%) SC Cleared
4 4 (7.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (3.70%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.70%) Degree
6 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.85%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.96%) EU AI Act
2 6 (11.11%) NIST
3 4 (7.41%) Data Quality
4 3 (5.56%) Accessibility
4 3 (5.56%) HL7
5 1 (1.85%) QA
System Software
1 10 (18.52%) Docker
2 3 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (31.48%) Terraform
2 10 (18.52%) Kubernetes
3 5 (9.26%) Ansible
4 3 (5.56%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.70%) Grafana
5 2 (3.70%) Progress Chef
5 2 (3.70%) Puppet
6 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.85%) SCCM
Vendors
1 35 (64.81%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.96%) Foundry
3 3 (5.56%) Databricks
4 2 (3.70%) Brio
5 1 (1.85%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.85%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (1.85%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.85%) Splunk
5 1 (1.85%) Veeam
5 1 (1.85%) Virgin Media
5 1 (1.85%) Zscaler