Azure Functions Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Azure Functions
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Azure Functions skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 545 498 456
Rank change year-on-year -47 -42 -27
Permanent jobs citing Azure Functions 101 52 222
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.15% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.56% 0.55% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 85 42 80
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,625 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £54,250
Median % change year-on-year - +10.60% -5.65%
75th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £86,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% -7.14% +3.70%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

Azure Functions falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 18,042 9,371 17,026
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.46% 27.06% 28.62%
Number of salaries quoted 11,901 6,548 11,898
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,500 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% -1.82%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -5.51%

Azure Functions
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure Functions relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Azure Functions job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Azure Functions
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Azure Functions.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Azure Functions

Azure Functions
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Functions in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Functions in the UK excluding London

Azure Functions
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Functions within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 August 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -26 34 £70,000 +14.29% 6
South East -20 20 £60,500 +15.24% 14
Yorkshire -23 20 £82,500 +37.50% 1
Midlands -32 15 £52,500 -32.26% 5
West Midlands -26 14 £52,500 -32.26% 5
South West -57 14 £48,240 -17.54% 7
North West -8 13 £60,000 -14.29% 5
East of England -23 7 £55,000 -33.33% 5
Wales -49 7 £53,171 +2.25% 1
Scotland +12 4 £70,000 +41.41% 1
East Midlands -22 1 - -
North East - 1 £51,000 -
Azure Functions
UK

Azure Functions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (11.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (4.95%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.99%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (15.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.98%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 101 (100.00%) Azure
1 101 (100.00%) Serverless
2 58 (57.43%) Azure DevOps
3 41 (40.59%) Azure Logic Apps
4 33 (32.67%) Azure Monitor
5 32 (31.68%) Power Platform
6 31 (30.69%) Azure Service Bus
7 25 (24.75%) Power Automate
8 21 (20.79%) Dynamics 365
9 20 (19.80%) GitHub
9 20 (19.80%) IaaS
9 20 (19.80%) PaaS
10 19 (18.81%) PowerApps
11 18 (17.82%) Azure Key Vault
12 15 (14.85%) SaaS
13 12 (11.88%) Azure Data Factory
13 12 (11.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 12 (11.88%) Entra ID
14 11 (10.89%) Azure AKS
15 7 (6.93%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 13 (12.87%) VPN
2 2 (1.98%) HTTP
3 1 (0.99%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (25.74%) SQL Server
2 18 (17.82%) Azure SQL Database
3 14 (13.86%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (10.89%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (8.91%) Spark SQL
6 8 (7.92%) Power BI
7 7 (6.93%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.98%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.98%) MySQL
8 2 (1.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.99%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.99%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 34 (33.66%) Git
2 2 (1.98%) ERwin
2 2 (1.98%) git-flow
2 2 (1.98%) NUnit
2 2 (1.98%) Terragrunt
2 2 (1.98%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 47 (46.53%) Social Skills
2 13 (12.87%) Finance
2 13 (12.87%) Law
3 12 (11.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (5.94%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.97%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.98%) Aviation
6 2 (1.98%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.98%) Legal
6 2 (1.98%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (51.49%) Developer
2 18 (17.82%) Senior
3 16 (15.84%) .NET Developer
3 16 (15.84%) Lead
4 14 (13.86%) Analyst
4 14 (13.86%) Azure Engineer
4 14 (13.86%) Software Developer
5 13 (12.87%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 11 (10.89%) Architect
6 11 (10.89%) Data Engineer
7 10 (9.90%) Senior Developer
8 9 (8.91%) Azure Developer
8 9 (8.91%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 9 (8.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 9 (8.91%) Lead Data Engineer
8 9 (8.91%) Platform Engineer
8 9 (8.91%) Software Engineer
9 8 (7.92%) Azure Architect
10 7 (6.93%) Enterprise Architect
10 7 (6.93%) Microsoft Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (42.57%) .NET
2 24 (23.76%) REST
3 17 (16.83%) ARM Templates
4 10 (9.90%) ASP.NET
5 9 (8.91%) ASP.NET Core
5 9 (8.91%) HTML5 Canvas
5 9 (8.91%) PySpark
6 7 (6.93%) .NET Core
6 7 (6.93%) Blazor
7 6 (5.94%) .NET Framework
7 6 (5.94%) ASP.NET Web API
8 5 (4.95%) Entity Framework
9 4 (3.96%) SOAP
10 3 (2.97%) EDI
11 2 (1.98%) Dapper ORM
11 2 (1.98%) OAuth
11 2 (1.98%) OAuth2
11 2 (1.98%) Semantic Kernel
11 2 (1.98%) Web Services
11 2 (1.98%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (16.83%) Cloud Native
2 12 (11.88%) Podcast
2 12 (11.88%) Public Cloud
2 12 (11.88%) Security Posture
3 8 (7.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (6.93%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.96%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.96%) Low-Code
5 4 (3.96%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.97%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.98%) IoT
7 2 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.98%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.98%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.99%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.99%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (11.88%) VMS
1 12 (11.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (65.35%) CI/CD
2 64 (63.37%) DevOps
3 42 (41.58%) Agile
4 36 (35.64%) Continuous Improvement
5 35 (34.65%) Computer Science
5 35 (34.65%) Infrastructure as Code
6 30 (29.70%) Cloud Security
7 28 (27.72%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (26.73%) API Management
9 25 (24.75%) AI
10 23 (22.77%) Observability
10 23 (22.77%) Software Engineering
11 22 (21.78%) Cost Optimisation
12 21 (20.79%) Scrum
13 19 (18.81%) CRM
13 19 (18.81%) Roadmaps
14 18 (17.82%) Platform Engineering
15 16 (15.84%) Analytics
16 15 (14.85%) Data Integration
17 14 (13.86%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 53 (52.48%) C#
2 48 (47.52%) SQL
3 30 (29.70%) Python
4 22 (21.78%) Bicep
4 22 (21.78%) JavaScript
5 14 (13.86%) Bash
5 14 (13.86%) PowerShell
6 13 (12.87%) Kusto Query Language
7 11 (10.89%) TypeScript
8 5 (4.95%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.99%) C++
9 1 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.99%) VB
Qualifications
1 25 (24.75%) Microsoft Certification
2 24 (23.76%) Azure Certification
2 24 (23.76%) Degree
3 16 (15.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.98%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (17.82%) GDPR
2 9 (8.91%) QA
3 4 (3.96%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 4 (3.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.98%) PMO
5 1 (0.99%) Data Quality
System Software
1 22 (21.78%) Active Directory
2 12 (11.88%) Virtual Desktop
2 12 (11.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (11.88%) vSphere
3 11 (10.89%) Docker
4 1 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 34 (33.66%) Terraform
2 4 (3.96%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.99%) Grafana
Vendors
1 61 (60.40%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.88%) ScienceLogic
2 12 (11.88%) VMware
3 11 (10.89%) Databricks
4 10 (9.90%) Oracle
5 2 (1.98%) BiZZdesign
5 2 (1.98%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.98%) Sparx
6 1 (0.99%) Sage