Azure Functions Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Azure Functions
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 254 272 329
Rank change year-on-year +18 +57 +44
Contract jobs citing Azure Functions 50 73 149
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.50% 0.48% 0.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.27% 1.31% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 58 101
10th Percentile £365 £400 £450
25th Percentile £412 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% -10.48% +9.52%
75th Percentile £604 £625 £650
90th Percentile £693 - £706
UK median daily rate £545 £517 £590
% change year-on-year +5.42% -12.37% +7.27%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,940 5,557 10,236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.78% 36.21% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,887 3,982 7,514
10th Percentile £351 £350 £373
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 89 125
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £25.25 £17.00 £21.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -52.73% +83.33%
75th Percentile £70.63 £50.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £64.37 £78.40
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Azure Functions
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Azure Functions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure Functions trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Azure Functions
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Azure Functions.

Azure Functions daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Functions
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Azure Functions over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Azure Functions daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Functions
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Azure Functions.

Azure Functions hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Functions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (4.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.00%) ArcGIS
2 1 (2.00%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (2.00%) CMS
2 1 (2.00%) Confluence
2 1 (2.00%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) InfoPath
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (8.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.00%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 50 (100.00%) Azure
1 50 (100.00%) Serverless
2 21 (42.00%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (28.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 11 (22.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 9 (18.00%) Azure AKS
5 9 (18.00%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (16.00%) Power Platform
7 7 (14.00%) Azure API Management
7 7 (14.00%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (12.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 6 (12.00%) Azure Event Grid
8 6 (12.00%) Power Automate
8 6 (12.00%) PowerApps
9 5 (10.00%) Azure Storage
9 5 (10.00%) Entra ID
9 5 (10.00%) PaaS
10 4 (8.00%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (6.00%) GCP
11 3 (6.00%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.00%) Firewall
2 1 (2.00%) Network Security
2 1 (2.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (14.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (14.00%) NoSQL
2 7 (14.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (6.00%) MongoDB
3 3 (6.00%) Power BI
4 2 (4.00%) Redis
4 2 (4.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.00%) Adabas
5 1 (2.00%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.00%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.00%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (2.00%) MySQL
5 1 (2.00%) QlikView
5 1 (2.00%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.00%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (10.00%) Git
2 2 (4.00%) Artifactory
2 2 (4.00%) GitLab
2 2 (4.00%) JIRA
2 2 (4.00%) JMeter
2 2 (4.00%) Selenium
2 2 (4.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.00%) Postman
3 1 (2.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (18.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.00%) Public Sector
3 6 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (10.00%) Finance
5 2 (4.00%) Banking
5 2 (4.00%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.00%) Aviation
6 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (48.00%) Developer
2 9 (18.00%) .NET Developer
2 9 (18.00%) Architect
2 9 (18.00%) Azure Engineer
3 7 (14.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (10.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Azure Architect
5 4 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.00%) Backend Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Consultant
6 3 (6.00%) Data Architect
6 3 (6.00%) Node.js Developer
7 2 (4.00%) Azure Developer
7 2 (4.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Lead
7 2 (4.00%) Machine Learning Developer
7 2 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (38.00%) .NET
2 8 (16.00%) .NET Framework
3 7 (14.00%) RESTful
4 6 (12.00%) .NET Core
4 6 (12.00%) REST
5 5 (10.00%) AngularJS
5 5 (10.00%) ASP.NET
6 4 (8.00%) ARM Templates
6 4 (8.00%) CSS
6 4 (8.00%) HTML
6 4 (8.00%) Node.js
6 4 (8.00%) YAML
7 3 (6.00%) GraphQL
7 3 (6.00%) OpenAPI
7 3 (6.00%) Swagger
8 2 (4.00%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (4.00%) Entity Framework
8 2 (4.00%) Kafka
8 2 (4.00%) Spring Boot
8 2 (4.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (4.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.00%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.00%) Clustering
3 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.00%) TWAP
3 1 (2.00%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (58.00%) DevOps
2 25 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 16 (32.00%) Agile
4 13 (26.00%) Containerisation
5 11 (22.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 10 (20.00%) Event-Driven
7 9 (18.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (18.00%) Microservices
8 8 (16.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 8 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (14.00%) Analytics
9 7 (14.00%) API Management
10 5 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
10 5 (10.00%) Data Modelling
10 5 (10.00%) Migration
10 5 (10.00%) Workflow
11 4 (8.00%) CRM
11 4 (8.00%) Performance Optimisation
11 4 (8.00%) Scrum
11 4 (8.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (34.00%) C#
2 13 (26.00%) SQL
3 9 (18.00%) JavaScript
3 9 (18.00%) Python
4 7 (14.00%) PowerShell
5 5 (10.00%) TypeScript
6 4 (8.00%) Bicep
7 3 (6.00%) Bash
7 3 (6.00%) Java
8 1 (2.00%) C++
8 1 (2.00%) Go
8 1 (2.00%) Natural
8 1 (2.00%) PHP
8 1 (2.00%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.00%) Ruby
8 1 (2.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (18.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.00%) Degree
4 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.00%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (2.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (6.00%) GDPR
1 3 (6.00%) HL7
1 3 (6.00%) QA
2 2 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (24.00%) Docker
2 4 (8.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (30.00%) Terraform
2 14 (28.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.00%) Ansible
3 2 (4.00%) Progress Chef
3 2 (4.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (32.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.00%) Dynatrace
2 2 (4.00%) Google
2 2 (4.00%) LogicMonitor
2 2 (4.00%) OpenAI
2 2 (4.00%) Oracle
3 1 (2.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.00%) Databricks
3 1 (2.00%) IBM
3 1 (2.00%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.00%) Splunk