Azure Functions Contracts

Azure Functions
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Azure Functions skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Functions over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 410 394 442
Rank change year-on-year -16 +48 -82
Contract jobs citing Azure Functions 183 354 481
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.60% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.31% 1.63% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 224 341
10th Percentile £363 £450 £413
25th Percentile £425 £506 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £590 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.02% +7.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £650
90th Percentile £688 £793 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £600 £475
% change year-on-year - +26.32% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £52.50 £48.75
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -

All Cloud Skills
UK

Azure Functions is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,935 21,778 34,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.29% 36.82% 38.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,906 15,726 24,913
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 343 351 422
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.42
25th Percentile £15.95 £18.25 £15.27
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -6.52%
75th Percentile £34.38 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £62.00 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.69 £24.62 £19.00
% change year-on-year -28.15% +29.58% -5.00%

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 4 May 2024.

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 15 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 4 May 2024. 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 -12 171 £523 -12.92% 51
London +46 102 £500 -16.67% 21
Work from Home +56 71 £521 -9.94% 40
UK excluding London -16 67 £600 - 24
South East -4 32 £600 - 6
Midlands +32 17 £400 -11.11% 2
West Midlands +27 15 £400 -11.11% 2
North of England -8 9 £575 +15.00% 7
Northern Ireland - 6 £600 -
Yorkshire +7 5 £600 +20.00% 1
North West -1 4 £475 -7.32% 6
East Midlands - 2 £468 -
Scotland +31 1 - - 1
South West +7 1 £675 +1.89% 4
East of England +7 1 - - 3

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 13 (7.10%) SharePoint
2 10 (5.46%) BizTalk Server
3 9 (4.92%) Confluence
4 3 (1.64%) ArcGIS
5 2 (1.09%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.09%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.55%) CMS
6 1 (0.55%) Drupal
6 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.55%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (0.55%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.55%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.55%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.55%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.55%) InfoPath
1 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (3.28%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 183 (100.00%) Azure
1 183 (100.00%) Serverless
2 76 (41.53%) Azure DevOps
3 59 (32.24%) Azure Logic Apps
4 51 (27.87%) Power Platform
5 50 (27.32%) Azure Data Factory
6 49 (26.78%) Azure Service Bus
7 48 (26.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 37 (20.22%) Azure Monitor
8 37 (20.22%) GitHub
9 33 (18.03%) Azure API Management
10 25 (13.66%) Azure Key Vault
11 24 (13.11%) Azure Storage
11 24 (13.11%) Power Automate
12 23 (12.57%) Entra ID
12 23 (12.57%) PowerApps
13 20 (10.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 17 (9.29%) AWS Lambda
14 17 (9.29%) PaaS
15 16 (8.74%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.83%) Firewall
2 3 (1.64%) HTTP
2 3 (1.64%) VPN
3 2 (1.09%) FTP
4 1 (0.55%) SSH
4 1 (0.55%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (30.60%) Azure SQL Database
2 51 (27.87%) SQL Server
3 35 (19.13%) NoSQL
4 32 (17.49%) Power BI
5 22 (12.02%) Data Lake
6 19 (10.38%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (7.10%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (6.01%) Redis
9 10 (5.46%) MongoDB
10 9 (4.92%) Big Data
11 7 (3.83%) InterSystems Cache
11 7 (3.83%) OLTP
11 7 (3.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (2.19%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 4 (2.19%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 4 (2.19%) Power Query
12 4 (2.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 3 (1.64%) Geospatial Data
13 3 (1.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 40 (21.86%) Git
2 15 (8.20%) Visual Studio
3 13 (7.10%) JIRA
4 12 (6.56%) GitLab
5 10 (5.46%) Cypress.io
6 9 (4.92%) JMeter
6 9 (4.92%) Visual Studio Team System
7 4 (2.19%) NUnit
7 4 (2.19%) Selenium
8 3 (1.64%) Jenkins
8 3 (1.64%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.09%) Maven
9 2 (1.09%) Moq
9 2 (1.09%) Postman
10 1 (0.55%) Gradle
10 1 (0.55%) Hudson
10 1 (0.55%) Mockito
10 1 (0.55%) Subversion
10 1 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.55%) TeamCity
General
1 39 (21.31%) Social Skills
2 25 (13.66%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (9.29%) Public Sector
4 16 (8.74%) Finance
5 10 (5.46%) Banking
6 6 (3.28%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.64%) Retail
9 2 (1.09%) Electronics
9 2 (1.09%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.09%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.09%) Marketing
10 1 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.55%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.55%) Front Office
10 1 (0.55%) Law
10 1 (0.55%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 99 (54.10%) Developer
2 37 (20.22%) Azure Developer
3 29 (15.85%) Full Stack Developer
4 19 (10.38%) Data Engineer
5 17 (9.29%) Azure Engineer
5 17 (9.29%) Lead
6 16 (8.74%) Applications Developer
7 14 (7.65%) Architect
8 13 (7.10%) C# Developer
9 10 (5.46%) .NET Developer
9 10 (5.46%) Azure Data Engineer
9 10 (5.46%) Power Apps Developer
10 9 (4.92%) Integration Developer
11 8 (4.37%) Azure Architect
11 8 (4.37%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (4.37%) Python Developer
11 8 (4.37%) Software Engineer
12 7 (3.83%) Technical Architect
13 6 (3.28%) Consultant
13 6 (3.28%) Full Stack Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (31.15%) .NET
2 37 (20.22%) React
3 25 (13.66%) .NET Core
4 22 (12.02%) Node.js
5 21 (11.48%) ARM Templates
5 21 (11.48%) XML
6 20 (10.93%) JSON
7 15 (8.20%) REST
8 14 (7.65%) .NET Framework
9 11 (6.01%) Kafka
10 9 (4.92%) OAuth
10 9 (4.92%) RESTful
11 8 (4.37%) Blazor
12 7 (3.83%) AngularJS
12 7 (3.83%) Microsoft Graph
12 7 (3.83%) SignalR
12 7 (3.83%) SOAP
12 7 (3.83%) Swagger
13 6 (3.28%) ASP.NET
13 6 (3.28%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (12.57%) Product Ownership
2 19 (10.38%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.92%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (3.83%) Machine to Machine
5 5 (2.73%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.73%) Smart Meter
6 3 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.09%) Solar Panel
8 1 (0.55%) Augmented Reality
8 1 (0.55%) BYOD
8 1 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.55%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.55%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.55%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.55%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.55%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.55%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.55%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 21 (11.48%) Windows
2 15 (8.20%) Linux
3 6 (3.28%) Unix
4 1 (0.55%) CentOS
4 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.55%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (56.83%) DevOps
2 94 (51.37%) CI/CD
3 84 (45.90%) Agile
4 47 (25.68%) Full Stack Development
5 44 (24.04%) Microservices
6 31 (16.94%) Business Intelligence
6 31 (16.94%) SDLC
7 30 (16.39%) API Management
8 27 (14.75%) Analytics
9 26 (14.21%) Scrum
9 26 (14.21%) Software Engineering
10 25 (13.66%) TDD
10 25 (13.66%) Test Automation
11 21 (11.48%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (10.38%) ETL
12 19 (10.38%) Unit Testing
13 18 (9.84%) Data Engineering
14 17 (9.29%) Technical Leadership
15 16 (8.74%) Migration
16 15 (8.20%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (35.52%) SQL
2 62 (33.88%) C#
3 56 (30.60%) Python
4 38 (20.77%) PowerShell
5 28 (15.30%) JavaScript
6 14 (7.65%) Java
7 11 (6.01%) T-SQL
8 10 (5.46%) C++
8 10 (5.46%) Go
9 9 (4.92%) PL/SQL
10 6 (3.28%) Bicep
11 5 (2.73%) TypeScript
12 4 (2.19%) Bash
12 4 (2.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (1.09%) C
13 2 (1.09%) Scala
14 1 (0.55%) Perl
14 1 (0.55%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.55%) X++
Qualifications
1 10 (5.46%) Degree
2 9 (4.92%) Security Cleared
3 8 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (4.37%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.73%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.09%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.28%) QA
2 5 (2.73%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.19%) GDPR
3 4 (2.19%) WCAG
4 3 (1.64%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.09%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (12.57%) Active Directory
1 23 (12.57%) Docker
2 7 (3.83%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.73%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.55%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 32 (17.49%) Terraform
2 31 (16.94%) Kubernetes
3 9 (4.92%) Argo
4 5 (2.73%) SysTrack
5 2 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.55%) Ansible
6 1 (0.55%) Packer
6 1 (0.55%) Puppet
6 1 (0.55%) yum
Vendors
1 66 (36.07%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.38%) Oracle
3 16 (8.74%) Databricks
4 9 (4.92%) MuleSoft
5 5 (2.73%) Ab Initio
5 5 (2.73%) Citrix
5 5 (2.73%) New Relic
5 5 (2.73%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.09%) SAP
7 1 (0.55%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.55%) Cisco
7 1 (0.55%) Google
7 1 (0.55%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (0.55%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.55%) Sybase
7 1 (0.55%) Virgin Media