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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 83 103
Rank change year-on-year -45 +20 +20
Contract jobs citing Azure Functions 9 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.48% 0.18% 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.16% 0.48% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile £483 £433 £509
25th Percentile £494 £463 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £544
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.45% -1.14%
75th Percentile £513 £588 £589
90th Percentile £535 £618 £603
England median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -6.12%

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 774 413 566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 40.93% 37.79% 31.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 549 273 418
10th Percentile £219 £275 £250
25th Percentile £375 £400 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.21% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £567 £600
90th Percentile £618 £700 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 8 3
10th Percentile - £18.04 £18.80
25th Percentile £14.25 £24.81 £19.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £34.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.39% +71.25% -20.00%
75th Percentile £57.25 £97.98 £41.00
90th Percentile £71.20 £102.00 £53.60
England median hourly rate £27.50 £28.41 £23.61
% change year-on-year -3.20% +20.33% +4.33%

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
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 1 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 -9 9 £500 +17.65% 12
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 5 (55.56%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) Azure AKS
4 2 (22.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (22.22%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (22.22%) GitHub
4 2 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (22.22%) PaaS
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Service Fabric
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Public Sector
3 3 (33.33%) Health Technology
4 1 (11.11%) Finance
4 1 (11.11%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) .NET Software Engineer
1 8 (88.89%) Software Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) .NET
2 5 (55.56%) .NET Core
2 5 (55.56%) React
3 4 (44.44%) FHIR
4 3 (33.33%) RESTful
5 2 (22.22%) AngularJS
5 2 (22.22%) ARM Templates
5 2 (22.22%) Blazor
5 2 (22.22%) WCF
6 1 (11.11%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) NHS
2 3 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Software Engineering
2 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 6 (66.67%) Clean Code
2 6 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 6 (66.67%) DevOps
2 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (55.56%) Agile
3 5 (55.56%) Unit Testing
4 4 (44.44%) Microservices
5 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (33.33%) Data Integration
5 3 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 3 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
5 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (22.22%) Secure Coding
7 1 (11.11%) Cloud Operations
7 1 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) C#
2 4 (44.44%) SQL
3 3 (33.33%) Bicep
3 3 (33.33%) TypeScript
4 1 (11.11%) VB
4 1 (11.11%) VB6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) HL7
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Terraform
2 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) Brio