Azure Functions Contracts

Azure Functions
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 416 385 442
Rank change year-on-year -31 +57 -82
Contract jobs citing Azure Functions 186 361 489
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.60% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.32% 1.64% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 229 348
10th Percentile £363 £450 £413
25th Percentile £425 £506 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £590 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.12% +7.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £650
90th Percentile £688 £780 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £586 £475
% change year-on-year +2.39% +23.37% +6.15%
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% +16.67%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,092 22,029 34,235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.32% 36.91% 38.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,003 15,924 24,905
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 348 350 427
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.05 £18.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -5.54%
75th Percentile £35.00 £66.00 £49.46
90th Percentile £62.00 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £24.62 £18.75
% change year-on-year -28.03% +31.31% -5.06%

Azure Functions
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Functions in the UK

Azure Functions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Functions in the UK

Azure Functions
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Functions over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Functions in the UK

Azure Functions
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure Functions in the UK

Azure Functions
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 29 April 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
England -16 172 £520 -13.33% 70
London +47 104 £500 -16.67% 33
Work from Home +43 73 £515 -10.48% 53
UK excluding London -12 66 £600 +2.39% 34
South East -5 32 £600 - 6
Midlands +31 17 £400 -11.11% 8
West Midlands +30 15 £400 -11.11% 4
North of England -6 9 £575 +15.00% 10
Northern Ireland - 6 £600 - 1
Yorkshire +8 5 £600 +23.08% 2
North West +4 4 £475 -7.32% 7
East Midlands - 2 £468 - 4
Scotland +27 1 - - 2
South West -4 1 £675 +1.89% 5

Azure Functions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (6.99%) SharePoint
2 10 (5.38%) BizTalk Server
3 9 (4.84%) Confluence
4 3 (1.61%) ArcGIS
5 2 (1.08%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.54%) CMS
6 1 (0.54%) Drupal
6 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.54%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.54%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.54%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (3.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.15%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 186 (100.00%) Azure
1 186 (100.00%) Serverless
2 81 (43.55%) Azure DevOps
3 58 (31.18%) Azure Logic Apps
4 53 (28.49%) Power Platform
5 51 (27.42%) Azure Service Bus
6 48 (25.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 48 (25.81%) Azure Data Factory
7 39 (20.97%) GitHub
8 36 (19.35%) Azure Monitor
9 31 (16.67%) Azure API Management
10 28 (15.05%) Power Automate
11 25 (13.44%) Azure Key Vault
12 24 (12.90%) Azure Storage
13 22 (11.83%) Entra ID
13 22 (11.83%) PowerApps
14 19 (10.22%) Dynamics 365
15 18 (9.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 18 (9.68%) PaaS
16 17 (9.14%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.76%) Firewall
2 3 (1.61%) HTTP
2 3 (1.61%) VPN
3 2 (1.08%) FTP
4 1 (0.54%) SSH
4 1 (0.54%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (30.65%) Azure SQL Database
2 52 (27.96%) SQL Server
3 35 (18.82%) NoSQL
3 35 (18.82%) Power BI
4 21 (11.29%) Data Lake
5 19 (10.22%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (5.91%) Redis
8 10 (5.38%) MongoDB
9 8 (4.30%) Big Data
10 7 (3.76%) InterSystems Cache
10 7 (3.76%) OLTP
10 7 (3.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (2.15%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.15%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 4 (2.15%) Power Query
11 4 (2.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 3 (1.61%) Geospatial Data
12 3 (1.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 42 (22.58%) Git
2 14 (7.53%) JIRA
2 14 (7.53%) Visual Studio
3 11 (5.91%) GitLab
3 11 (5.91%) Visual Studio Team System
4 10 (5.38%) Cypress.io
5 9 (4.84%) JMeter
6 4 (2.15%) NUnit
6 4 (2.15%) Selenium
7 3 (1.61%) Jenkins
7 3 (1.61%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.08%) Maven
8 2 (1.08%) Moq
8 2 (1.08%) Postman
9 1 (0.54%) Gradle
9 1 (0.54%) Hudson
9 1 (0.54%) Mockito
9 1 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.54%) TeamCity
General
1 36 (19.35%) Social Skills
2 24 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (9.14%) Finance
3 17 (9.14%) Public Sector
4 9 (4.84%) Banking
5 6 (3.23%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.15%) Retail
7 3 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.08%) Electronics
8 2 (1.08%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.08%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.08%) Marketing
9 1 (0.54%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.54%) Front Office
9 1 (0.54%) Law
9 1 (0.54%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 100 (53.76%) Developer
2 37 (19.89%) Azure Developer
3 30 (16.13%) Full Stack Developer
4 18 (9.68%) Azure Engineer
5 17 (9.14%) Data Engineer
6 16 (8.60%) Lead
7 15 (8.06%) Applications Developer
8 13 (6.99%) Architect
8 13 (6.99%) C# Developer
9 10 (5.38%) .NET Developer
9 10 (5.38%) Azure Data Engineer
10 9 (4.84%) Integration Developer
10 9 (4.84%) Power Apps Developer
11 8 (4.30%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (4.30%) Python Developer
11 8 (4.30%) Software Engineer
12 7 (3.76%) Azure Architect
12 7 (3.76%) Consultant
13 6 (3.23%) Senior
13 6 (3.23%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (30.11%) .NET
2 37 (19.89%) React
3 25 (13.44%) .NET Core
4 22 (11.83%) JSON
4 22 (11.83%) Node.js
4 22 (11.83%) XML
5 21 (11.29%) ARM Templates
6 16 (8.60%) REST
7 15 (8.06%) .NET Framework
8 11 (5.91%) Kafka
9 9 (4.84%) Blazor
9 9 (4.84%) RESTful
10 8 (4.30%) OAuth
11 7 (3.76%) AngularJS
11 7 (3.76%) Entity Framework
11 7 (3.76%) Microsoft Graph
11 7 (3.76%) SignalR
11 7 (3.76%) SOAP
11 7 (3.76%) Swagger
11 7 (3.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (12.37%) Product Ownership
2 19 (10.22%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.38%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (3.76%) Machine to Machine
5 5 (2.69%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.69%) Smart Meter
6 3 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.08%) BYOD
7 2 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.08%) Solar Panel
8 1 (0.54%) Augmented Reality
8 1 (0.54%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.54%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.54%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.54%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.54%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.54%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.54%) Replication
8 1 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (11.29%) Windows
2 15 (8.06%) Linux
3 6 (3.23%) Unix
4 1 (0.54%) CentOS
4 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.54%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.54%) VMS
4 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (59.68%) DevOps
2 95 (51.08%) CI/CD
3 86 (46.24%) Agile
4 48 (25.81%) Full Stack Development
5 45 (24.19%) Microservices
6 34 (18.28%) Business Intelligence
7 31 (16.67%) SDLC
8 28 (15.05%) API Management
9 27 (14.52%) Scrum
10 26 (13.98%) Software Engineering
10 26 (13.98%) Test Automation
11 25 (13.44%) TDD
12 24 (12.90%) Analytics
13 20 (10.75%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (10.22%) Unit Testing
15 18 (9.68%) ETL
16 17 (9.14%) Technical Leadership
17 16 (8.60%) Data Engineering
17 16 (8.60%) Migration
18 15 (8.06%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 72 (38.71%) SQL
2 63 (33.87%) C#
3 55 (29.57%) Python
4 36 (19.35%) PowerShell
5 28 (15.05%) JavaScript
6 14 (7.53%) Java
7 11 (5.91%) T-SQL
8 10 (5.38%) C++
8 10 (5.38%) Go
9 9 (4.84%) PL/SQL
10 6 (3.23%) Bicep
10 6 (3.23%) TypeScript
11 4 (2.15%) Bash
11 4 (2.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (1.08%) C
13 1 (0.54%) Perl
13 1 (0.54%) Scala
13 1 (0.54%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.54%) X++
Qualifications
1 9 (4.84%) Degree
2 8 (4.30%) Security Cleared
3 7 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (3.76%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.69%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.08%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.76%) QA
2 5 (2.69%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.15%) GDPR
3 4 (2.15%) WCAG
4 2 (1.08%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.08%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (12.37%) Active Directory
1 23 (12.37%) Docker
2 7 (3.76%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.69%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.54%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 32 (17.20%) Terraform
2 31 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 9 (4.84%) Argo
4 5 (2.69%) SysTrack
5 2 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.54%) Ansible
6 1 (0.54%) Packer
6 1 (0.54%) Puppet
6 1 (0.54%) yum
Vendors
1 68 (36.56%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.22%) Oracle
3 13 (6.99%) Databricks
4 9 (4.84%) MuleSoft
5 5 (2.69%) Ab Initio
5 5 (2.69%) Citrix
5 5 (2.69%) New Relic
5 5 (2.69%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.08%) SAP
7 1 (0.54%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.54%) Cisco
7 1 (0.54%) Google
7 1 (0.54%) JDA
7 1 (0.54%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (0.54%) RedPrairie
7 1 (0.54%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.54%) Sybase
7 1 (0.54%) Virgin Media