Azure Functions Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Azure Functions
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Azure Functions skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 80 105
Rank change year-on-year -40 +25 +14
Contract jobs citing Azure Functions 9 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.47% 0.20% 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.12% 0.55% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile £230 - £541
25th Percentile £475 £413 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £588
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -27.66% +11.90%
75th Percentile - £438 £622
90th Percentile £523 - £624
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -8.33%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 807 363 579
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 41.73% 37.15% 31.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 576 243 429
10th Percentile £216 £271 £250
25th Percentile £400 £405 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £600
90th Percentile £624 £700 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 8 5
10th Percentile £14.25 £22.07 -
25th Percentile £17.25 £26.25 -
Median hourly rate £54.50 £36.91 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.68% +146.03% -47.83%
75th Percentile £57.25 £97.98 -
90th Percentile £72.13 £102.00 £43.20
England median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £23.61
% change year-on-year +9.09% +16.48% +1.86%

Azure Functions
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure Functions relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Azure Functions job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Azure Functions
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Azure Functions.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Azure Functions

Azure Functions
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Functions in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 25 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Functions in Yorkshire

Azure Functions
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 25 January 2026. 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
West Yorkshire -15 7 £488 +14.71% 2
South Yorkshire - 2 £525 -
Azure Functions
England

Azure Functions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
1 9 (100.00%) Serverless
2 6 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) Azure AKS
4 2 (22.22%) AWS
4 2 (22.22%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (22.22%) Azure Storage
4 2 (22.22%) GCP
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (11.11%) GitHub
5 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (11.11%) IaaS
5 1 (11.11%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Health Technology
2 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (22.22%) Legal
4 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) .NET Software Engineer
1 6 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Python Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) .NET
2 4 (44.44%) React
3 3 (33.33%) .NET Core
3 3 (33.33%) ARM Templates
3 3 (33.33%) FHIR
3 3 (33.33%) RESTful
4 2 (22.22%) WCF
5 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
5 1 (11.11%) Blazor
5 1 (11.11%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) NHS
2 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) DevOps
2 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 5 (55.56%) Agile
3 5 (55.56%) Clean Code
3 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
4 4 (44.44%) Unit Testing
5 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (33.33%) Data Integration
5 3 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 3 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
5 3 (33.33%) Microservices
6 2 (22.22%) Analytics
6 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (22.22%) Software Delivery
6 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) C#
2 3 (33.33%) Bicep
2 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 2 (22.22%) Bash
3 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 2 (22.22%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) HL7
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
2 2 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) Brio
3 2 (22.22%) Alibaba
3 2 (22.22%) Google
3 2 (22.22%) OpenAI
4 1 (11.11%) Splunk