Azure Functions Contracts in England

Azure Functions
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Azure Functions skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Functions over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 369 360 451
Rank change year-on-year -9 +91 -88
Contract jobs citing Azure Functions 176 315 353
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.48% 0.65% 0.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.51% 1.79% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 211 254
10th Percentile £363 £450 £409
25th Percentile £426 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -0.90%
75th Percentile £626 £672 £650
90th Percentile £688 £800 £770
UK median daily rate £525 £590 £550
% change year-on-year -11.02% +7.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £52.50 £48.75
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -20.15%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +16.67%

All Cloud Skills
England

Azure Functions is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,649 17,595 26,956
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.02% 36.52% 38.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,405 12,904 19,935
10th Percentile £300 £325 £335
25th Percentile £418 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 294 337
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.95
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £32.40 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.19% +50.70% +0.76%
75th Percentile £35.00 £67.13 £52.50
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%

Azure Functions
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Azure Functions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Functions in England

Azure Functions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Functions in England.

Daily rate trend for Azure Functions in England

Azure Functions
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Functions in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Functions in England

Azure Functions
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Functions in England.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Functions in England

Azure Functions
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
London +57 104 £500 -16.67% 17
South East -17 36 £600 - 6
Midlands +30 16 £400 -11.11% 7
West Midlands +28 14 £400 -11.11% 3
North of England -11 9 £575 +17.95% 5
Yorkshire -2 5 £600 +26.32%
North West -2 4 £475 -5.00% 5
East Midlands - 2 £468 - 4
East of England +7 1 - - 4
Azure Functions
UK

Azure Functions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 13 (7.39%) SharePoint
2 11 (6.25%) BizTalk Server
3 9 (5.11%) Confluence
4 3 (1.70%) ArcGIS
5 2 (1.14%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.14%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.57%) CMS
6 1 (0.57%) Drupal
6 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.57%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.57%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (0.57%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.57%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.57%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.57%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) InfoPath
1 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (3.41%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 176 (100.00%) Azure
1 176 (100.00%) Serverless
2 71 (40.34%) Azure DevOps
3 59 (33.52%) Azure Logic Apps
4 53 (30.11%) Azure Data Factory
5 51 (28.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 49 (27.84%) Azure Service Bus
7 45 (25.57%) Power Platform
8 41 (23.30%) Azure Monitor
9 36 (20.45%) GitHub
10 31 (17.61%) Azure API Management
11 26 (14.77%) Entra ID
12 25 (14.20%) Azure Storage
12 25 (14.20%) Power Automate
13 24 (13.64%) PowerApps
14 23 (13.07%) Azure Key Vault
15 18 (10.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 17 (9.66%) PaaS
17 16 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
18 13 (7.39%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.41%) Firewall
2 2 (1.14%) HTTP
2 2 (1.14%) VPN
3 1 (0.57%) SSH
3 1 (0.57%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (30.68%) Azure SQL Database
2 48 (27.27%) SQL Server
3 38 (21.59%) NoSQL
4 32 (18.18%) Power BI
5 18 (10.23%) Data Lake
5 18 (10.23%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (7.39%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (6.25%) MongoDB
7 11 (6.25%) Redis
8 9 (5.11%) Big Data
9 7 (3.98%) InterSystems Cache
9 7 (3.98%) OLTP
9 7 (3.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.70%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.70%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 3 (1.70%) Power Query
11 3 (1.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 41 (23.30%) Git
2 15 (8.52%) Visual Studio
3 13 (7.39%) JIRA
4 11 (6.25%) GitLab
5 10 (5.68%) Cypress.io
6 9 (5.11%) JMeter
6 9 (5.11%) Visual Studio Team System
7 8 (4.55%) Selenium
8 5 (2.84%) NUnit
9 4 (2.27%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.70%) Jenkins
10 3 (1.70%) Moq
11 2 (1.14%) Maven
11 2 (1.14%) Postman
11 2 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.57%) git-flow
12 1 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.57%) Serilog
12 1 (0.57%) Subversion
12 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 35 (19.89%) Social Skills
2 27 (15.34%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 15 (8.52%) Finance
5 10 (5.68%) Banking
6 5 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.27%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.70%) Retail
9 2 (1.14%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.57%) Back Office
10 1 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.57%) Front Office
10 1 (0.57%) Law
10 1 (0.57%) Publishing
10 1 (0.57%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 102 (57.95%) Developer
2 36 (20.45%) Azure Developer
3 34 (19.32%) Full Stack Developer
4 19 (10.80%) Data Engineer
5 16 (9.09%) Applications Developer
6 15 (8.52%) Azure Engineer
7 14 (7.95%) Architect
8 12 (6.82%) Python Developer
9 11 (6.25%) C# Developer
10 10 (5.68%) Power Apps Developer
11 9 (5.11%) .NET Developer
11 9 (5.11%) Azure Data Engineer
11 9 (5.11%) Full Stack Python Developer
11 9 (5.11%) Lead
12 8 (4.55%) Integration Developer
12 8 (4.55%) Senior
13 7 (3.98%) Azure Architect
13 7 (3.98%) DevOps Engineer
14 6 (3.41%) Microsoft Developer
14 6 (3.41%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (31.82%) .NET
2 41 (23.30%) React
3 25 (14.20%) .NET Core
4 21 (11.93%) Node.js
5 20 (11.36%) XML
6 19 (10.80%) ARM Templates
6 19 (10.80%) JSON
7 13 (7.39%) REST
8 12 (6.82%) .NET Framework
9 10 (5.68%) Blazor
9 10 (5.68%) Kafka
10 8 (4.55%) OAuth
10 8 (4.55%) RESTful
11 7 (3.98%) Microsoft Graph
11 7 (3.98%) SignalR
11 7 (3.98%) SOAP
12 6 (3.41%) ASP.NET
12 6 (3.41%) OpenID
12 6 (3.41%) PySpark
12 6 (3.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 26 (14.77%) Product Ownership
2 19 (10.80%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.68%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (3.98%) Machine to Machine
5 5 (2.84%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.84%) Smart Meter
6 2 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.14%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.14%) Solar Panel
7 1 (0.57%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (0.57%) BYOD
7 1 (0.57%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.57%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.57%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.57%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.57%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.57%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.57%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (12.50%) Windows
2 14 (7.95%) Linux
3 6 (3.41%) Unix
4 1 (0.57%) CentOS
4 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (57.95%) DevOps
2 92 (52.27%) CI/CD
3 77 (43.75%) Agile
4 51 (28.98%) Full Stack Development
5 47 (26.70%) Microservices
6 34 (19.32%) SDLC
7 30 (17.05%) Test Automation
8 29 (16.48%) Business Intelligence
9 28 (15.91%) API Management
10 26 (14.77%) Analytics
11 24 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (13.07%) Scrum
12 23 (13.07%) TDD
13 22 (12.50%) Software Engineering
14 19 (10.80%) Unit Testing
15 18 (10.23%) Data Engineering
15 18 (10.23%) ETL
16 17 (9.66%) Change Management
17 15 (8.52%) Front End Development
17 15 (8.52%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 65 (36.93%) SQL
2 62 (35.23%) Python
3 58 (32.95%) C#
4 38 (21.59%) PowerShell
5 31 (17.61%) JavaScript
6 18 (10.23%) Java
7 12 (6.82%) T-SQL
8 11 (6.25%) C++
8 11 (6.25%) Go
9 10 (5.68%) PL/SQL
10 4 (2.27%) Bicep
11 3 (1.70%) Bash
11 3 (1.70%) C
11 3 (1.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.70%) TypeScript
12 2 (1.14%) Scala
13 1 (0.57%) Perl
13 1 (0.57%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.57%) X++
Qualifications
1 10 (5.68%) Degree
2 8 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (3.98%) Security Cleared
4 6 (3.41%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.84%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.41%) QA
2 4 (2.27%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.27%) GDPR
3 3 (1.70%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.70%) WCAG
4 2 (1.14%) SLA
5 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 26 (14.77%) Active Directory
2 19 (10.80%) Docker
3 5 (2.84%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.57%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 29 (16.48%) Kubernetes
2 26 (14.77%) Terraform
3 9 (5.11%) Argo
4 5 (2.84%) SysTrack
5 2 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.57%) yum
Vendors
1 61 (34.66%) Microsoft
2 20 (11.36%) Oracle
3 15 (8.52%) Databricks
4 10 (5.68%) MuleSoft
5 5 (2.84%) Ab Initio
5 5 (2.84%) Citrix
5 5 (2.84%) New Relic
5 5 (2.84%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.57%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.57%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.57%) Cisco
6 1 (0.57%) Google
6 1 (0.57%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (0.57%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.57%) Sybase
6 1 (0.57%) Virgin Media