Azure Functions Contracts in the UK excluding London

Azure Functions
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 307 324 293
Rank change year-on-year +17 -31 +129
Contract jobs citing Azure Functions 28 69 157
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.34% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.68% 1.31% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 48 126
10th Percentile £378 £413 £450
25th Percentile £434 £495 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £600 £586
Median % change year-on-year -16.58% +2.39% +23.37%
75th Percentile £566 £638 £666
90th Percentile £668 £688 £691
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £590
% change year-on-year -1.90% -11.02% +7.27%
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 - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

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 4,110 5,262 7,815
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.91% 25.69% 33.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,890 3,730 5,780
10th Percentile £235 £213 £250
25th Percentile £385 £370 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 157 258 231
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.00 £16.38
Median hourly rate £21.39 £17.69 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +20.92% -28.15% +29.58%
75th Percentile £32.75 £26.50 £64.75
90th Percentile £69.75 £62.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.43 £21.19 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.45% -39.47% +59.09%

Azure Functions
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Azure Functions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Functions in the UK excluding London

Azure Functions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Functions in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Azure Functions in the UK excluding London

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 10 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Functions in the UK excluding London

Azure Functions
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Functions in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Functions in the UK excluding London

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 10 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
Midlands +5 9 £504 +25.94% 14
West Midlands +9 8 £513 +28.13% 9
North of England +15 6 £425 -26.09% 16
South East +14 6 £500 -16.67% 36
South West +43 4 £600 -11.11% 8
North West +14 4 £426 -10.37% 11
Yorkshire +9 2 £425 -29.17% 3
Wales - 2 £501 - 13
East of England +30 1 £675 - 8
Azure Functions
UK

Azure Functions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (17.86%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.57%) CMS
2 1 (3.57%) Confluence
2 1 (3.57%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (17.86%) InfoPath
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 28 (100.00%) Azure
1 28 (100.00%) Serverless
2 12 (42.86%) Azure Logic Apps
3 9 (32.14%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (28.57%) Power Platform
5 7 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (25.00%) Azure Event Grid
5 7 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
5 7 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (21.43%) Azure Service Bus
7 5 (17.86%) Azure API Management
7 5 (17.86%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (17.86%) Power Automate
7 5 (17.86%) PowerApps
8 4 (14.29%) AWS
8 4 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (7.14%) Azure Storage
9 2 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (7.14%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (35.71%) SQL Server
2 8 (28.57%) Power BI
2 8 (28.57%) Relational Database
3 5 (17.86%) RDBMS
4 3 (10.71%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (10.71%) NoSQL
4 3 (10.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (7.14%) MongoDB
5 2 (7.14%) MySQL
5 2 (7.14%) Tableau
6 1 (3.57%) Adabas
6 1 (3.57%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (3.57%) Apache Hive
6 1 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (3.57%) Big Data
6 1 (3.57%) Hadoop
6 1 (3.57%) HBase
6 1 (3.57%) Impala
6 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (3.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Git
1 4 (14.29%) JIRA
2 2 (7.14%) Postman
2 2 (7.14%) Selenium
2 2 (7.14%) Visual Studio
3 1 (3.57%) Artifactory
3 1 (3.57%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.57%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.57%) JMeter
3 1 (3.57%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (17.86%) Public Sector
2 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Finance
3 2 (7.14%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.57%) Electronics
4 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.57%) Marketing
4 1 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 12 (42.86%) Developer
2 9 (32.14%) Architect
3 5 (17.86%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (14.29%) .NET Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Automation Architect
4 4 (14.29%) Azure Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Integration Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Lead
5 3 (10.71%) Python Developer
5 3 (10.71%) React Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Consultant
6 2 (7.14%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Specialist
7 1 (3.57%) Backend Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Cloud Consultant
7 1 (3.57%) Power Platform Architect
7 1 (3.57%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (57.14%) .NET
2 8 (28.57%) .NET Framework
3 6 (21.43%) ASP.NET
4 5 (17.86%) ASP.NET MVC
4 5 (17.86%) CSS
4 5 (17.86%) Entity Framework
4 5 (17.86%) HTML
4 5 (17.86%) HTML5 Canvas
4 5 (17.86%) RESTful
5 4 (14.29%) React
6 3 (10.71%) ARM Templates
6 3 (10.71%) OpenAPI
6 3 (10.71%) REST
6 3 (10.71%) Swagger
6 3 (10.71%) Web Services
7 2 (7.14%) AngularJS
8 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET Web API
8 1 (3.57%) GraphQL
8 1 (3.57%) Prisma
8 1 (3.57%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Enterprise Cloud
1 5 (17.86%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 2 (7.14%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) IoT
4 1 (3.57%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Windows
2 1 (3.57%) Linux
2 1 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (60.71%) DevOps
2 11 (39.29%) CI/CD
3 9 (32.14%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (28.57%) Analytics
4 8 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (25.00%) CRM
5 7 (25.00%) Migration
6 6 (21.43%) API Design
6 6 (21.43%) ETL
6 6 (21.43%) Workflow
7 5 (17.86%) API Management
7 5 (17.86%) Microservices
7 5 (17.86%) MVC
8 4 (14.29%) Agile
8 4 (14.29%) Log Analytics
8 4 (14.29%) Software Engineering
9 3 (10.71%) API Development
9 3 (10.71%) Decision-Making
9 3 (10.71%) Full-Stack Development
9 3 (10.71%) Product Backlog
Programming Languages
1 16 (57.14%) C#
2 9 (32.14%) SQL
3 8 (28.57%) JavaScript
4 4 (14.29%) Python
5 2 (7.14%) Java
5 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.57%) Bash
6 1 (3.57%) Natural
6 1 (3.57%) Perl
6 1 (3.57%) R
6 1 (3.57%) Ruby
6 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.57%) Degree
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.57%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (10.71%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.71%) Docker
3 1 (3.57%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) Terraform
2 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.57%) Ansible
3 1 (3.57%) Progress Chef
3 1 (3.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) Databricks
3 2 (7.14%) Brio
4 1 (3.57%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.57%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.57%) Google
4 1 (3.57%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (3.57%) SAP
4 1 (3.57%) StreamSets