Azure Functions Contracts with Work from Home Options

Azure Functions
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 269 319 372
Rank change year-on-year +50 +53 -36
Contract jobs citing Azure Functions 70 149 262
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.47% 0.60% 0.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.30% 1.53% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 108 196
10th Percentile £400 £446 £409
25th Percentile £463 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £579 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.25% +5.18% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £631 £645
90th Percentile £626 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -10.71% +6.91% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48.75
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +16.67%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,401 9,763 18,222
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.42% 39.49% 41.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,889 7,216 13,633
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 124 175
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.00 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +50.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £50.94 £70.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.06 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%

Azure Functions
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure Functions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure Functions trend for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Functions
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure Functions.

Azure Functions daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Functions
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Azure Functions over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Azure Functions daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Functions
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure Functions.

Azure Functions hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Functions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (4.29%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (2.86%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.86%) ArcGIS
2 2 (2.86%) NServiceBus
2 2 (2.86%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.43%) CMS
3 1 (1.43%) Confluence
3 1 (1.43%) Drupal
3 1 (1.43%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (1.43%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 70 (100.00%) Azure
1 70 (100.00%) Serverless
2 38 (54.29%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (34.29%) Azure Logic Apps
4 22 (31.43%) Azure Service Bus
5 20 (28.57%) Power Platform
6 18 (25.71%) Azure Data Factory
7 16 (22.86%) Azure API Management
8 13 (18.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 12 (17.14%) Azure Key Vault
10 10 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
10 10 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
10 10 (14.29%) PowerApps
11 9 (12.86%) PaaS
12 8 (11.43%) Azure Storage
12 8 (11.43%) GitHub
12 8 (11.43%) Power Automate
13 6 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (7.14%) AWS
14 5 (7.14%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.86%) Firewall
2 1 (1.43%) HTTP
2 1 (1.43%) SSL
2 1 (1.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (44.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 25 (35.71%) SQL Server
3 8 (11.43%) NoSQL
3 8 (11.43%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (11.43%) Power BI
4 7 (10.00%) Data Lake
5 6 (8.57%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (8.57%) Redis
6 5 (7.14%) Big Data
6 5 (7.14%) InterSystems Cache
7 4 (5.71%) OLTP
8 3 (4.29%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 3 (4.29%) Power Query
8 3 (4.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (4.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (2.86%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (2.86%) MongoDB
9 2 (2.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (24.29%) Git
2 9 (12.86%) Visual Studio
3 5 (7.14%) Visual Studio Team System
4 3 (4.29%) JIRA
5 2 (2.86%) NUnit
5 2 (2.86%) Postman
5 2 (2.86%) Selenium
6 1 (1.43%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.43%) git-flow
6 1 (1.43%) GitLab
6 1 (1.43%) JMeter
6 1 (1.43%) Moq
6 1 (1.43%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (18.57%) Social Skills
2 10 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 7 (10.00%) Finance
4 2 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.86%) Banking
5 1 (1.43%) Back Office
5 1 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.43%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.43%) Front Office
5 1 (1.43%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.43%) Law
5 1 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.43%) Publishing
5 1 (1.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (55.71%) Developer
2 13 (18.57%) Azure Developer
3 11 (15.71%) Lead
4 9 (12.86%) Full Stack Developer
4 9 (12.86%) Integration Developer
5 8 (11.43%) Data Engineer
6 6 (8.57%) C# Developer
7 5 (7.14%) .NET Developer
7 5 (7.14%) Architect
7 5 (7.14%) Node.js Developer
8 4 (5.71%) Applications Developer
8 4 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (5.71%) Lead Developer
9 3 (4.29%) Azure Data Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) Cloud Developer
9 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Developer
9 3 (4.29%) Senior
9 3 (4.29%) SQL Developer
10 2 (2.86%) Full Stack Python Developer
10 2 (2.86%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (32.86%) .NET
2 11 (15.71%) ARM Templates
3 10 (14.29%) .NET Core
4 8 (11.43%) JSON
4 8 (11.43%) XML
5 7 (10.00%) .NET Framework
5 7 (10.00%) REST
6 6 (8.57%) Node.js
7 5 (7.14%) React
7 5 (7.14%) SignalR
8 4 (5.71%) ASP.NET
8 4 (5.71%) ASP.NET MVC
8 4 (5.71%) Swagger
9 3 (4.29%) Entity Framework
9 3 (4.29%) OAuth
9 3 (4.29%) OpenID
9 3 (4.29%) RESTful
9 3 (4.29%) SOAP
9 3 (4.29%) Web Services
9 3 (4.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.71%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.29%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.43%) BYOD
5 1 (1.43%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.43%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.43%) Machine to Machine
5 1 (1.43%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.86%) Windows
2 1 (1.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (62.86%) DevOps
2 37 (52.86%) CI/CD
3 31 (44.29%) Agile
4 17 (24.29%) Full Stack Development
5 14 (20.00%) TDD
6 13 (18.57%) Microservices
7 12 (17.14%) Test Automation
8 10 (14.29%) Migration
8 10 (14.29%) Scrum
9 9 (12.86%) API Management
10 8 (11.43%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (11.43%) ETL
10 8 (11.43%) Technical Leadership
11 7 (10.00%) Analytics
11 7 (10.00%) Continuous Deployment
11 7 (10.00%) Data Engineering
11 7 (10.00%) Data Migration
11 7 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
11 7 (10.00%) OO
11 7 (10.00%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 31 (44.29%) SQL
2 30 (42.86%) C#
3 21 (30.00%) Python
4 15 (21.43%) JavaScript
5 14 (20.00%) PowerShell
6 5 (7.14%) Java
7 3 (4.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (4.29%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.86%) Bicep
8 2 (2.86%) C++
8 2 (2.86%) Go
8 2 (2.86%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.43%) Bash
9 1 (1.43%) Scala
9 1 (1.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (4.29%) Azure Certification
1 3 (4.29%) SC Cleared
1 3 (4.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.86%) Accessibility
1 2 (2.86%) QA
1 2 (2.86%) WCAG
2 1 (1.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.71%) Docker
3 3 (4.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (15.71%) Terraform
2 8 (11.43%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.43%) Argo
3 1 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.00%) Databricks
3 3 (4.29%) Oracle
4 2 (2.86%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.43%) Ab Initio
5 1 (1.43%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.43%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.43%) Google
5 1 (1.43%) Sitecore