Azure Functions Contracts in the West Midlands

Azure Functions
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 96 126
Rank change year-on-year +4 +30 +40
Contract jobs citing Azure Functions 5 15 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.37% 0.77% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.15% 3.20% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 8
10th Percentile - £323 £443
25th Percentile - £356 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% -
75th Percentile - £441 -
90th Percentile - £469 £471
England median daily rate £550 £519 £600
% change year-on-year +6.08% -13.58% +9.09%

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 434 469 917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.27% 24.09% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 364 648
10th Percentile £200 £213 £300
25th Percentile £393 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £457 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.53% -8.75% +2.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £690 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 9 4
10th Percentile £15.24 £14.08 £15.54
25th Percentile £16.38 £19.95 £15.98
Median hourly rate £18.07 £26.00 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year -30.52% +28.46% +15.66%
75th Percentile £19.93 £26.50 £24.47
90th Percentile £35.45 £55.00 £25.31
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

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
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 1 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
Warwickshire - 4 - -
Birmingham +7 1 - - 4
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (80.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (80.00%) InfoPath
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 5 (100.00%) Serverless
2 4 (80.00%) Dynamics 365
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (80.00%) Power Automate
2 4 (80.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (80.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Power BI
1 4 (80.00%) RDBMS
1 4 (80.00%) Relational Database
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Architect
2 4 (80.00%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (60.00%) Automation Architect
4 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (20.00%) Lead
4 1 (20.00%) Lead Architect
4 1 (20.00%) Lead Enterprise Architect
4 1 (20.00%) Platform Architect
4 1 (20.00%) Power Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) .NET
1 4 (80.00%) .NET Framework
1 4 (80.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (80.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 4 (80.00%) CSS
1 4 (80.00%) Entity Framework
1 4 (80.00%) HTML
1 4 (80.00%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Enterprise Cloud
1 4 (80.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) CRM
1 4 (80.00%) Migration
1 4 (80.00%) MVC
1 4 (80.00%) Workflow
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) C#
1 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft