Azure Functions Contracts in the West Midlands

Azure Functions
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 128 165
Rank change year-on-year +34 +37 -50
Contract jobs citing Azure Functions 15 13 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.78% 0.54% 0.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.24% 1.41% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 8
10th Percentile £323 £443 £343
25th Percentile £356 - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £441 - £519
90th Percentile £469 £471 £549
England median daily rate £517 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -13.83% +9.09% -4.35%

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

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 advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 463 924 1,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 23.99% 38.31% 34.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 359 647 905
10th Percentile £213 £313 £228
25th Percentile £350 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £505 £490
Median % change year-on-year -10.89% +3.06% +15.29%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £585
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 17
10th Percentile £14.08 £15.64 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.95 £16.23 £15.04
Median hourly rate £26.00 £17.72 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.73% +1.26% +12.90%
75th Percentile £26.50 £24.00 £20.51
90th Percentile £55.00 £25.13 £23.75
England median hourly rate £20.99 £30.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -30.05% +42.86% -2.33%

Azure Functions
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Azure Functions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Functions in the West Midlands

Azure Functions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Functions in the West Midlands

Azure Functions
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Functions in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Functions in the West Midlands

Azure Functions
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 April 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
Birmingham +19 11 £350 -25.33% 3
Coventry +15 3 £475 -
Worcestershire +3 1 £400 -11.11%
Azure Functions
England

Azure Functions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) Azure
1 15 (100.00%) Serverless
2 9 (60.00%) Power Platform
3 6 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
4 5 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (26.67%) Apigee
5 4 (26.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (26.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (26.67%) GCP
5 4 (26.67%) Power Automate
6 3 (20.00%) PaaS
7 2 (13.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (13.33%) PowerApps
7 2 (13.33%) SonarCloud
8 1 (6.67%) Azure AKS
8 1 (6.67%) Azure App Service
8 1 (6.67%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (6.67%) GitHub
8 1 (6.67%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) FTP
1 1 (6.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (60.00%) Power BI
2 6 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 4 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (26.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (13.33%) Data Lake
6 1 (6.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Git
2 2 (13.33%) Moq
2 2 (13.33%) NUnit
3 1 (6.67%) Hudson
3 1 (6.67%) JIRA
3 1 (6.67%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 3 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Electronics
2 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
2 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (6.67%) Marketing
2 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Applications Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 2 (13.33%) C# Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Lead
3 2 (13.33%) Lead Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Power Apps Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Power BI Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Applications Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Power Apps Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior SQL Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior SQL Server Developer
3 2 (13.33%) SQL Developer
3 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Desktop Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) JIRA Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) .NET
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Graph
2 3 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET
3 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
4 1 (6.67%) Entity Framework
4 1 (6.67%) GraphQL
4 1 (6.67%) JSON
4 1 (6.67%) LDAP
4 1 (6.67%) SAML
4 1 (6.67%) Swagger
4 1 (6.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (6.67%) Hedge funds
1 1 (6.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Runbook
2 8 (53.33%) DevOps
3 7 (46.67%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (40.00%) Analytics
5 5 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
5 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 5 (33.33%) CRM
5 5 (33.33%) Incident Management
5 5 (33.33%) ITIL
5 5 (33.33%) Problem Management
5 5 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (26.67%) E-Discovery
6 4 (26.67%) ETL
6 4 (26.67%) Virtual Environments
7 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
7 3 (20.00%) Data Science
7 3 (20.00%) TDD
7 3 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
8 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (13.33%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 6 (40.00%) SQL
2 4 (26.67%) C#
3 2 (13.33%) Python
4 1 (6.67%) Bash
4 1 (6.67%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) SysTrack
2 1 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Citrix
1 5 (33.33%) New Relic
1 5 (33.33%) OpenAI
2 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Atlassian
3 1 (6.67%) LogicMonitor
3 1 (6.67%) SAP