Azure Functions Contracts

Azure Functions
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 394 410 387
Rank change year-on-year +16 -23 +55
Contract jobs citing Azure Functions 129 188 356
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.43% 0.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.17% 1.34% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 125 226
10th Percentile £397 £363 £450
25th Percentile £429 £425 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £517 £590
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -12.37% +7.27%
75th Percentile £633 £625 £669
90th Percentile £775 £688 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £600 £586
% change year-on-year -16.50% +2.39% +23.37%
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 excluding London median hourly rate - - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

All Cloud 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 11,034 14,064 21,949
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.61% 32.33% 36.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,650 9,986 15,862
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £631 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 348 345
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.00 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £48.00 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £61.60 £77.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £17.71 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.21% -28.09% +31.31%

Azure Functions
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Azure Functions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Functions in the UK

Azure Functions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Functions in the UK

Azure Functions
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Functions over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Functions in the UK

Azure Functions
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Functions.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Functions in the UK

Azure Functions
Top 13 Contract 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 2 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
England -7 113 £550 +6.38% 119
London +10 74 £550 +10.00% 66
Work from Home +24 49 £501 -2.34% 69
UK excluding London +24 31 £501 -16.50% 79
South East +25 11 £625 +4.17% 33
North of England +20 6 £425 -26.09% 23
Midlands +8 6 £400 - 9
West Midlands +5 5 - - 6
South West +46 4 £600 -11.11% 5
North West +14 4 £426 -10.37% 15
Wales - 3 £525 - 5
Yorkshire +4 2 £425 -29.17% 6
East of England +29 1 £675 - 1

Azure Functions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 18 (13.95%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.88%) BizTalk Server
3 4 (3.10%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.10%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.33%) Confluence
5 1 (0.78%) Apache
5 1 (0.78%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.78%) CMS
5 1 (0.78%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (3.88%) InfoPath
1 5 (3.88%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 21 (16.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.78%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 129 (100.00%) Azure
1 129 (100.00%) Serverless
2 55 (42.64%) Azure Logic Apps
3 46 (35.66%) Power Platform
4 35 (27.13%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (23.26%) Azure Service Bus
6 29 (22.48%) Dynamics 365
7 27 (20.93%) PowerApps
8 26 (20.16%) Azure Data Factory
8 26 (20.16%) Power Automate
9 19 (14.73%) Azure API Management
10 18 (13.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 17 (13.18%) Azure AKS
12 16 (12.40%) Entra ID
12 16 (12.40%) Microsoft 365
13 15 (11.63%) Azure Monitor
14 13 (10.08%) Azure Storage
14 13 (10.08%) PaaS
15 12 (9.30%) AWS
15 12 (9.30%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.10%) Firewall
2 1 (0.78%) Network Security
2 1 (0.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (20.16%) Power BI
2 22 (17.05%) SQL Server
3 16 (12.40%) NoSQL
4 14 (10.85%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (6.20%) MongoDB
5 8 (6.20%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (5.43%) Relational Database
7 6 (4.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (3.88%) RDBMS
9 3 (2.33%) Big Data
9 3 (2.33%) Data Lake
9 3 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (2.33%) Hadoop
9 3 (2.33%) MySQL
10 2 (1.55%) Redis
10 2 (1.55%) Tableau
11 1 (0.78%) Adabas
11 1 (0.78%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.78%) HBase
11 1 (0.78%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 13 (10.08%) Git
2 6 (4.65%) JIRA
3 5 (3.88%) Selenium
3 5 (3.88%) Visual Studio Code
4 3 (2.33%) GitLab
4 3 (2.33%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.55%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.55%) JMeter
5 2 (1.55%) Postman
5 2 (1.55%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.78%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.78%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.78%) Jenkins
General
1 25 (19.38%) Social Skills
2 18 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (13.95%) Public Sector
3 15 (11.63%) Finance
4 4 (3.10%) Banking
4 4 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (2.33%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.55%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.55%) Front Office
6 2 (1.55%) Retail
6 2 (1.55%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.78%) Aviation
7 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.78%) Electronics
7 1 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.78%) Marketing
7 1 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 49 (37.98%) Developer
2 40 (31.01%) Architect
3 15 (11.63%) Azure Engineer
3 15 (11.63%) Solutions Architect
4 14 (10.85%) Azure Architect
4 14 (10.85%) Full-Stack Developer
5 13 (10.08%) Lead
5 13 (10.08%) Senior
6 11 (8.53%) .NET Developer
7 10 (7.75%) Azure Developer
8 8 (6.20%) Python Developer
8 8 (6.20%) Senior Developer
9 7 (5.43%) React Developer
10 6 (4.65%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 6 (4.65%) CRM Architect
10 6 (4.65%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (4.65%) Full-Stack Python Developer
10 6 (4.65%) Lead Developer
11 5 (3.88%) Consultant
11 5 (3.88%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (38.76%) .NET
2 22 (17.05%) .NET Framework
3 17 (13.18%) .NET Core
4 15 (11.63%) HTML5 Canvas
5 13 (10.08%) CSS
5 13 (10.08%) HTML
5 13 (10.08%) RESTful
6 12 (9.30%) React
7 11 (8.53%) JSON
8 10 (7.75%) ARM Templates
9 9 (6.98%) ASP.NET
9 9 (6.98%) REST
10 8 (6.20%) OAuth
10 8 (6.20%) XML
11 7 (5.43%) AngularJS
11 7 (5.43%) ASP.NET Web API
11 7 (5.43%) WCF
12 6 (4.65%) ASP.NET MVC
12 6 (4.65%) Entity Framework
12 6 (4.65%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.30%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.53%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.88%) Enterprise Cloud
3 5 (3.88%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (3.88%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.88%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.10%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.33%) Low-Code
5 3 (2.33%) TWAP
5 3 (2.33%) VWAP
6 2 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.55%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.55%) IoT
6 2 (1.55%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.55%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.55%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.78%) Clustering
7 1 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.78%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.43%) Windows
2 1 (0.78%) Android
2 1 (0.78%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.78%) Linux
2 1 (0.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (44.96%) DevOps
2 54 (41.86%) CI/CD
3 36 (27.91%) Agile
4 30 (23.26%) Full-Stack Development
5 28 (21.71%) Microservices
6 26 (20.16%) Business Intelligence
7 22 (17.05%) CRM
8 20 (15.50%) API Management
9 18 (13.95%) Containerisation
9 18 (13.95%) Event-Driven
10 15 (11.63%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (10.85%) SDLC
12 13 (10.08%) Workflow
13 12 (9.30%) Analytics
13 12 (9.30%) Data Engineering
13 12 (9.30%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 12 (9.30%) Migration
13 12 (9.30%) Software Engineering
14 11 (8.53%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 44 (34.11%) C#
2 38 (29.46%) SQL
3 32 (24.81%) JavaScript
4 30 (23.26%) Python
5 21 (16.28%) PowerShell
6 14 (10.85%) TypeScript
7 10 (7.75%) Java
8 9 (6.98%) Bicep
9 5 (3.88%) Bash
9 5 (3.88%) C++
9 5 (3.88%) Go
9 5 (3.88%) PL/SQL
9 5 (3.88%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.55%) Scala
11 1 (0.78%) Natural
11 1 (0.78%) Perl
11 1 (0.78%) PHP
11 1 (0.78%) R
11 1 (0.78%) Ruby
11 1 (0.78%) XPath
Qualifications
1 26 (20.16%) Security Cleared
2 23 (17.83%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.43%) Azure Certification
4 6 (4.65%) Degree
5 4 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.78%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.43%) QA
2 4 (3.10%) GDPR
3 3 (2.33%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.33%) HL7
3 3 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.78%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.78%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.78%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.78%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (13.95%) Docker
2 17 (13.18%) Active Directory
3 9 (6.98%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.78%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 30 (23.26%) Kubernetes
2 23 (17.83%) Terraform
3 2 (1.55%) Ansible
3 2 (1.55%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.55%) Puppet
Vendors
1 55 (42.64%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.98%) Databricks
3 8 (6.20%) Oracle
4 7 (5.43%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.88%) MuleSoft
6 4 (3.10%) SAP
7 3 (2.33%) Google
8 2 (1.55%) Brio
8 2 (1.55%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.55%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (1.55%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.78%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.78%) Cognizant
9 1 (0.78%) IBM
9 1 (0.78%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.78%) Splunk
9 1 (0.78%) StreamSets
9 1 (0.78%) Virgin Media