Azure Functions Job Trends

Azure Functions
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Azure Functions skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 535 459 485
Rank change year-on-year -76 +26 -17
Permanent jobs citing Azure Functions 119 303 231
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.49% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.61% 1.40% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 83 111 185
10th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £90,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £94,750 £102,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +13.04% - -4.17%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 19,352 21,649 21,597
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.31% 34.85% 42.79%
Number of salaries quoted 11,203 13,206 18,135
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.80% -2.73%

Azure Functions
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Azure Functions job vacancy trend in the UK

Azure Functions
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Azure Functions

Azure Functions
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Functions over the 6 months to 10 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure Functions in the UK

Azure Functions
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 10 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -72 108 £65,000 +4.00% 136
London +68 59 £68,000 -28.42% 30
UK excluding London -90 50 £65,000 +13.04% 112
Work from Home +36 30 £60,000 +0.73% 71
Midlands +27 15 £62,500 +25.00% 17
North of England +17 14 £72,500 +31.82% 35
North West +39 13 £75,000 +27.66% 19
West Midlands +33 13 £60,000 +14.29% 7
South East +25 8 £70,000 +12.00% 34
Northern Ireland - 4 £95,000 - 1
East of England +3 3 £86,250 +81.58% 14
South West -88 3 £55,000 +4.09% 9
East Midlands +7 2 £65,000 +30.00% 10
Wales - 2 £60,500 - 2
Scotland +1 1 £49,500 -24.43% 2
Yorkshire -14 1 £60,000 +16.50% 13

Azure Functions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 21 (17.65%) SharePoint
2 6 (5.04%) Confluence
3 4 (3.36%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (5.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.68%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 119 (100.00%) Azure
1 119 (100.00%) Serverless
2 71 (59.66%) Azure Logic Apps
3 44 (36.97%) Azure DevOps
4 43 (36.13%) Power Platform
5 35 (29.41%) Azure Service Bus
5 35 (29.41%) Power Automate
6 28 (23.53%) PowerApps
7 27 (22.69%) Azure App Service
8 26 (21.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 26 (21.85%) Azure Monitor
8 26 (21.85%) PaaS
9 23 (19.33%) GitHub
10 21 (17.65%) SaaS
11 18 (15.13%) Entra ID
12 15 (12.61%) Azure AKS
13 14 (11.76%) Dynamics 365
14 12 (10.08%) Microsoft 365
15 11 (9.24%) Azure Key Vault
16 10 (8.40%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.04%) Firewall
2 4 (3.36%) Network Security
2 4 (3.36%) VPN
2 4 (3.36%) WAN
3 1 (0.84%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (18.49%) SQL Server
2 20 (16.81%) Power BI
3 14 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
4 12 (10.08%) NoSQL
5 5 (4.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (3.36%) Big Data
6 4 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.52%) Delta Lake
7 3 (2.52%) Hadoop
7 3 (2.52%) Power Query
7 3 (2.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.68%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.84%) HDInsight
9 1 (0.84%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.84%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.84%) MySQL
9 1 (0.84%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (15.13%) Git
2 4 (3.36%) JIRA
2 4 (3.36%) NUnit
2 4 (3.36%) Postman
3 3 (2.52%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.52%) JMeter
3 3 (2.52%) MSTest
3 3 (2.52%) Selenium
3 3 (2.52%) Visual Studio
3 3 (2.52%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (1.68%) GitLab
5 1 (0.84%) Moq
5 1 (0.84%) NSubstitute
5 1 (0.84%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 20 (16.81%) Finance
2 16 (13.45%) Social Skills
3 14 (11.76%) Law
4 11 (9.24%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.72%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.04%) Legal
7 5 (4.20%) Retail
8 3 (2.52%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.68%) Advertising
9 2 (1.68%) Banking
9 2 (1.68%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.84%) Marketing
10 1 (0.84%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 58 (48.74%) Developer
2 29 (24.37%) Senior
3 23 (19.33%) Senior Developer
4 16 (13.45%) Lead
5 14 (11.76%) Azure Engineer
6 13 (10.92%) .NET Developer
6 13 (10.92%) Power Platform Developer
7 7 (5.88%) Analyst
7 7 (5.88%) Architect
7 7 (5.88%) Data Analyst
7 7 (5.88%) Data Engineer
7 7 (5.88%) Monitoring Analyst
8 6 (5.04%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (5.04%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (5.04%) Lead Developer
8 6 (5.04%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (4.20%) Azure Developer
9 5 (4.20%) Senior .NET Developer
9 5 (4.20%) Support Engineer
10 4 (3.36%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (46.22%) .NET
2 31 (26.05%) React
3 24 (20.17%) .NET Framework
4 21 (17.65%) CSS
4 21 (17.65%) HTML
5 19 (15.97%) REST
6 18 (15.13%) .NET Core
7 13 (10.92%) ARM Templates
8 12 (10.08%) AngularJS
9 10 (8.40%) RESTful
10 7 (5.88%) Node.js
10 7 (5.88%) Vue
10 7 (5.88%) YAML
11 6 (5.04%) ASP.NET
12 5 (4.20%) Entity Framework
12 5 (4.20%) OAuth
13 4 (3.36%) ASP.NET Web API
13 4 (3.36%) Blazor
13 4 (3.36%) GraphQL
13 4 (3.36%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 11 (9.24%) Mobile App
3 6 (5.04%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.36%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.36%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.52%) IoT
6 2 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.68%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.68%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.68%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.84%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.84%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.84%) Derivative
7 1 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.84%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.84%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.84%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.36%) VMS
2 1 (0.84%) Linux
2 1 (0.84%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (64.71%) DevOps
2 50 (42.02%) CI/CD
3 48 (40.34%) Agile
4 37 (31.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 29 (24.37%) Analytics
6 28 (23.53%) Mentoring
7 27 (22.69%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (21.01%) Infrastructure as Code
9 22 (18.49%) AI
10 19 (15.97%) Full-Stack Development
11 18 (15.13%) User Experience
12 17 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
13 15 (12.61%) API Development
13 15 (12.61%) Front End Development
13 15 (12.61%) Log Analytics
13 15 (12.61%) Microservices
14 14 (11.76%) Coaching
15 13 (10.92%) High Availability
15 13 (10.92%) Machine Learning
15 13 (10.92%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 60 (50.42%) C#
2 44 (36.97%) JavaScript
3 35 (29.41%) SQL
4 28 (23.53%) Python
5 21 (17.65%) PowerShell
6 18 (15.13%) Bicep
6 18 (15.13%) TypeScript
7 11 (9.24%) Kusto Query Language
8 5 (4.20%) T-SQL
9 4 (3.36%) Java
10 3 (2.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (2.52%) PHP
11 2 (1.68%) Bash
12 1 (0.84%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.84%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (17.65%) Azure Certification
2 12 (10.08%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (9.24%) Security Cleared
4 5 (4.20%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.36%) Degree
6 2 (1.68%) MCP
7 1 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.84%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.56%) QA
2 5 (4.20%) GDPR
2 5 (4.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.36%) SOC 2
4 3 (2.52%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.52%) WCAG
5 1 (0.84%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.84%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.84%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (13.45%) Active Directory
2 14 (11.76%) Docker
3 9 (7.56%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (23.53%) Terraform
2 13 (10.92%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.20%) Ansible
4 2 (1.68%) Grafana
4 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.68%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 64 (53.78%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.56%) Databricks
3 5 (4.20%) Splunk
4 4 (3.36%) Palo Alto
4 4 (3.36%) Zscaler
5 3 (2.52%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.68%) Intapp
6 2 (1.68%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.84%) Foundry
7 1 (0.84%) Mercator
7 1 (0.84%) Oracle
7 1 (0.84%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.84%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.84%) VMware