Azure Functions Contract Job Trends

Azure Functions
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Azure Functions skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 477 424 346
Rank change year-on-year -53 -78 +19
Contract jobs citing Azure Functions 211 134 222
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.40% 0.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.12% 1.06% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 78 156
10th Percentile £375 £389 £269
25th Percentile £430 £426 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -6.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £594 £587 £638
90th Percentile £678 £688 £652
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £501 £625
% change year-on-year -1.10% -19.92% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £36.63 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £38.25 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 18,872 12,667 13,115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.63% 38.19% 34.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,527 8,448 8,687
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £715 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 633 288 184
10th Percentile £15.27 £15.43 £16.30
25th Percentile £17.60 £18.87 £22.38
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -28.14% +6.06%
75th Percentile £67.50 £43.84 £65.04
90th Percentile £78.95 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.00 £33.93
% change year-on-year +57.89% -44.00% +46.00%

Azure Functions
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Azure Functions job vacancy trend in the UK

Azure Functions
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Azure Functions
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Functions over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Functions in the UK

Azure Functions
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Azure Functions
Top 14 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 October 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
England -39 192 £508 -0.98% 143
London -57 109 £525 - 84
UK excluding London -57 79 £495 -1.10% 77
Work from Home -54 56 £503 -4.29% 91
Midlands -23 31 £413 -22.35% 11
West Midlands -20 29 £410 -20.00% 10
South East -47 18 £609 +20.00% 21
North of England -61 14 £500 +8.11% 21
South West -22 10 £600 +60.00% 2
Yorkshire -34 8 £490 +3.16% 6
East of England -33 6 £550 +9.45% 5
North West -47 6 £513 +13.89% 13
East Midlands -23 2 £459 -16.59% 1
Scotland - 1 £420 - 7

Azure Functions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 35 (16.59%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.84%) CMS
2 6 (2.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.90%) Apache
3 4 (1.90%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.42%) nginx
5 2 (0.95%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.47%) Camunda
6 1 (0.47%) Confluence
6 1 (0.47%) Drupal
6 1 (0.47%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.47%) Mendix
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.90%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 34 (16.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.37%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.47%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.47%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 211 (100.00%) Azure
1 211 (100.00%) Serverless
2 107 (50.71%) Azure DevOps
3 80 (37.91%) Azure Logic Apps
4 79 (37.44%) Power Platform
5 67 (31.75%) Azure Service Bus
6 65 (30.81%) Power Automate
7 60 (28.44%) Dynamics 365
7 60 (28.44%) GitHub
8 46 (21.80%) Entra ID
9 40 (18.96%) PowerApps
10 35 (16.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 33 (15.64%) Azure Key Vault
11 33 (15.64%) Azure Monitor
12 32 (15.17%) Azure API Management
13 30 (14.22%) Azure Storage
14 29 (13.74%) Azure Data Factory
15 25 (11.85%) Azure AI
15 25 (11.85%) Microsoft Copilot
16 24 (11.37%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.79%) DNS
2 6 (2.84%) Firewall
2 6 (2.84%) VPN
3 5 (2.37%) WAN
4 4 (1.90%) Network Security
5 3 (1.42%) HTTP
5 3 (1.42%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.95%) DHCP
6 2 (0.95%) SAN
6 2 (0.95%) VLAN
6 2 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.47%) AMQP
7 1 (0.47%) Internet
7 1 (0.47%) IPsec
7 1 (0.47%) LoRaWAN
7 1 (0.47%) Modbus
7 1 (0.47%) MQTT
7 1 (0.47%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.47%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (12.80%) Azure SQL Database
2 26 (12.32%) Power BI
2 26 (12.32%) SQL Server
3 22 (10.43%) Data Lake
4 9 (4.27%) Metadata
4 9 (4.27%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.79%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (2.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.90%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.90%) Spark SQL
8 3 (1.42%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.42%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (1.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.95%) Big Data
9 2 (0.95%) InfluxDB
9 2 (0.95%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.95%) MySQL
9 2 (0.95%) Redis
Development Applications
1 53 (25.12%) Git
2 13 (6.16%) Selenium
3 9 (4.27%) Cucumber
3 9 (4.27%) Postman
4 8 (3.79%) Cypress.io
4 8 (3.79%) Visual Studio
4 8 (3.79%) WebDriver
5 4 (1.90%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (1.42%) JUnit
6 3 (1.42%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.95%) Chocolatey
7 2 (0.95%) Jasmine
7 2 (0.95%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.95%) JIRA
7 2 (0.95%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.47%) GitLab
8 1 (0.47%) MSTest
8 1 (0.47%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.47%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.47%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 53 (25.12%) Finance
2 51 (24.17%) Social Skills
3 45 (21.33%) Public Sector
4 27 (12.80%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (8.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.32%) Marketing
7 6 (2.84%) Banking
8 5 (2.37%) Aerospace
8 5 (2.37%) Military
9 4 (1.90%) Retail
10 3 (1.42%) Law
10 3 (1.42%) Local Government
11 2 (0.95%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.95%) Police
12 1 (0.47%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.47%) Back Office
12 1 (0.47%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.47%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 84 (39.81%) Developer
2 49 (23.22%) Senior
3 39 (18.48%) Architect
4 27 (12.80%) Lead
5 25 (11.85%) Azure Engineer
6 21 (9.95%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 17 (8.06%) Azure Developer
7 17 (8.06%) Data Engineer
7 17 (8.06%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (6.16%) Senior Developer
9 12 (5.69%) Platform Engineer
10 11 (5.21%) DevOps Engineer
11 10 (4.74%) Lead Developer
12 9 (4.27%) .NET Developer
12 9 (4.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 9 (4.27%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 9 (4.27%) Microsoft Developer
12 9 (4.27%) Power Platform Developer
12 9 (4.27%) Technical Architect
13 8 (3.79%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (32.23%) .NET
2 59 (27.96%) REST
3 42 (19.91%) Terraform
4 30 (14.22%) JSON
5 21 (9.95%) Microsoft Graph
6 19 (9.00%) React
6 19 (9.00%) XML
7 17 (8.06%) ARM Templates
8 16 (7.58%) RESTful
9 15 (7.11%) Middleware
10 13 (6.16%) .NET Core
10 13 (6.16%) OAuth
11 12 (5.69%) Node.js
12 10 (4.74%) XSLT
13 9 (4.27%) .NET Framework
13 9 (4.27%) OpenID
14 8 (3.79%) Gherkin
14 8 (3.79%) Kafka
14 8 (3.79%) YAML
15 7 (3.32%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 46 (21.80%) Cloud Native
2 20 (9.48%) Management Information System
3 16 (7.58%) AI Agents
4 15 (7.11%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (6.16%) Low-Code
5 13 (6.16%) Product Ownership
6 10 (4.74%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (4.74%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (4.27%) Taxonomies
8 7 (3.32%) Data Structures
8 7 (3.32%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (2.84%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.84%) NHS
10 5 (2.37%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (2.37%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.90%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (1.90%) IoT
11 4 (1.90%) Life Science
11 4 (1.90%) Virtual Team
12 3 (1.42%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.90%) Linux
2 3 (1.42%) VMS
2 3 (1.42%) Windows
3 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (58.77%) DevOps
2 118 (55.92%) CI/CD
3 83 (39.34%) Agile
4 69 (32.70%) AI
5 48 (22.75%) Infrastructure as Code
6 46 (21.80%) API Management
7 45 (21.33%) Event-Driven
8 44 (20.85%) Problem-Solving
9 41 (19.43%) Analytics
10 39 (18.48%) Stakeholder Management
11 38 (18.01%) Data Modelling
12 37 (17.54%) CRM
12 37 (17.54%) Test Automation
13 36 (17.06%) Continuous Improvement
14 35 (16.59%) Technical Leadership
15 34 (16.11%) Roadmaps
16 32 (15.17%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 31 (14.69%) Microservices
18 30 (14.22%) Business Intelligence
18 30 (14.22%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 98 (46.45%) C#
2 67 (31.75%) SQL
3 63 (29.86%) Python
4 59 (27.96%) JavaScript
5 30 (14.22%) Bicep
5 30 (14.22%) TypeScript
6 20 (9.48%) PowerShell
7 12 (5.69%) Java
8 11 (5.21%) Bash
9 5 (2.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (2.37%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (2.37%) X++
10 2 (0.95%) Rust
10 2 (0.95%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.47%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.47%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (0.47%) C
11 1 (0.47%) Korn
11 1 (0.47%) VB
11 1 (0.47%) VBA
Qualifications
1 38 (18.01%) Security Cleared
2 30 (14.22%) Microsoft Certification
3 28 (13.27%) SC Cleared
4 26 (12.32%) Degree
5 20 (9.48%) Azure Certification
6 12 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (4.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (3.79%) ISTQB
8 8 (3.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 5 (2.37%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.95%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.95%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.47%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.47%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.85%) QA
2 23 (10.90%) Accessibility
3 21 (9.95%) GDPR
4 19 (9.00%) Data Quality
4 19 (9.00%) WCAG
5 4 (1.90%) NIST
6 3 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.95%) SLA
8 1 (0.47%) GLBA
8 1 (0.47%) HL7
8 1 (0.47%) IEC 62304
8 1 (0.47%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.47%) NCSC
8 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.47%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 27 (12.80%) Docker
2 19 (9.00%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.32%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.37%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 33 (15.64%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.27%) Grafana
3 8 (3.79%) Ansible
4 5 (2.37%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.42%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.95%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.95%) SCCM
Vendors
1 165 (78.20%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.95%) OpenAI
3 20 (9.48%) Databricks
4 12 (5.69%) Foundry
5 7 (3.32%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.37%) Dynatrace
6 5 (2.37%) Google
6 5 (2.37%) UiPath
7 4 (1.90%) Adyen
7 4 (1.90%) IBM
7 4 (1.90%) Oracle
8 3 (1.42%) Aprimo
8 3 (1.42%) OneTrust
8 3 (1.42%) Optimizely
8 3 (1.42%) Splunk
8 3 (1.42%) Workday
9 2 (0.95%) Brio
9 2 (0.95%) Kofax
9 2 (0.95%) SAP
9 2 (0.95%) VMware