Azure Functions Contracts in the Thames Valley

Azure Functions
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Azure Functions skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure Functions over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 100 157
Rank change year-on-year -7 +57 -19
Contract jobs citing Azure Functions 30 48 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.12% 1.67% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.02% 5.71% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 45 16
10th Percentile £458 £525 £431
25th Percentile £541 £575 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £601 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.99% +20.20% -9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £706 £541
90th Percentile £688 £750 £588
South East median daily rate £625 £600 £475
% change year-on-year +4.17% +26.32% +0.64%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 746 841 1,106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 27.82% 29.23% 31.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 509 607 860
10th Percentile £305 £313 £205
25th Percentile £413 £425 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £602
90th Percentile £670 £706 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 20 14
10th Percentile £16.75 £17.15 £17.38
25th Percentile £20.56 £18.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £50.25 £26.58 £21.03
Median % change year-on-year +89.05% +26.42% -0.12%
75th Percentile £60.44 £58.50 £46.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £79.19 £76.53
South East median hourly rate £30.00 £32.30 £20.50
% change year-on-year -7.12% +57.56% -2.61%

Azure Functions
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Azure Functions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Functions in the Thames Valley

Azure Functions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Functions in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Azure Functions in the Thames Valley

Azure Functions
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Functions in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Functions in the Thames Valley

Azure Functions
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Berkshire -15 28 £625 +4.17% 4
Buckinghamshire +15 2 £513 -21.15% 1
Azure Functions
South East

Azure Functions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 30 (100.00%) Azure
1 30 (100.00%) Serverless
2 26 (86.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 21 (70.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 18 (60.00%) Azure Monitor
5 16 (53.33%) Entra ID
6 5 (16.67%) Power Platform
7 4 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (10.00%) Azure API Management
8 3 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (3.33%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (56.67%) NoSQL
2 8 (26.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (16.67%) Power BI
4 4 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (10.00%) SQL Server
6 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (56.67%) Git
2 9 (30.00%) Selenium
3 2 (6.67%) Visual Studio
4 1 (3.33%) Postman
General
1 13 (43.33%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (13.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (76.67%) Developer
2 19 (63.33%) Azure Developer
3 18 (60.00%) Full Stack Developer
4 13 (43.33%) Python Developer
5 11 (36.67%) Full Stack Python Developer
6 4 (13.33%) Azure Data Engineer
6 4 (13.33%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (13.33%) Data Engineer
7 3 (10.00%) Cloud Developer
8 2 (6.67%) Integration Developer
8 2 (6.67%) React Developer
9 1 (3.33%) Active Directory Engineer
9 1 (3.33%) C# Developer
9 1 (3.33%) Designer
9 1 (3.33%) Lead
9 1 (3.33%) Lead Designer
9 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Developer
9 1 (3.33%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (60.00%) React
2 4 (13.33%) XML
3 2 (6.67%) ARM Templates
3 2 (6.67%) Django
3 2 (6.67%) Node.js
4 1 (3.33%) .NET
4 1 (3.33%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.33%) OpenAPI
4 1 (3.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 16 (53.33%) Product Ownership
2 5 (16.67%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.33%) Linux
1 4 (13.33%) Unix
1 4 (13.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (70.00%) DevOps
2 20 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 19 (63.33%) Full Stack Development
4 16 (53.33%) Microservices
5 14 (46.67%) Agile
6 13 (43.33%) Change Management
6 13 (43.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (43.33%) SDLC
6 13 (43.33%) Unit Testing
7 11 (36.67%) Product Backlog
8 10 (33.33%) Test Automation
9 5 (16.67%) Analytics
9 5 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (16.67%) Data Modelling
9 5 (16.67%) ETL
9 5 (16.67%) ETL Development
9 5 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
9 5 (16.67%) Scrum
10 4 (13.33%) Data Science
10 4 (13.33%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 20 (66.67%) Python
2 9 (30.00%) Java
3 6 (20.00%) SQL
4 3 (10.00%) C
4 3 (10.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (3.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 17 (56.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Ab Initio
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow