Azure Functions Contracts in the UK excluding London

Azure Functions
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 329 282 415
Rank change year-on-year -47 +133 -20
Contract jobs citing Azure Functions 72 149 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.34% 0.66% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.32% 2.01% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 121 78
10th Percentile £409 £450 £367
25th Percentile £463 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +18.42% -
75th Percentile £638 £657 £550
90th Percentile £688 £700 £625
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £55.00 -

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,466 7,412 9,987
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.63% 32.66% 32.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,807 5,454 7,397
10th Percentile £220 £238 £210
25th Percentile £375 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £594
90th Percentile £674 £694 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 216 273
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.57 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.15 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.00 £27.35 £19.09
Median % change year-on-year -26.87% +43.27% -4.55%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.19 £29.38
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.63 £64.60
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%

Azure Functions
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Azure Functions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Functions in the UK excluding London

Azure Functions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Functions in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Azure Functions in the UK excluding London

Azure Functions
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Functions in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Functions in the UK excluding London

Azure Functions
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Functions in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Functions in the UK excluding London

Azure Functions
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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
South East -18 35 £625 +4.17% 7
Midlands +20 14 £400 -11.11% 5
West Midlands +20 12 £400 -11.11% 2
North of England -14 11 £600 +26.32% 14
North West -6 6 £513 +2.50% 12
Yorkshire +4 5 £600 +26.32%
Northern Ireland - 5 £638 -
South West -6 4 £413 -37.74% 6
Scotland +39 2 £427 -15.75% 4
East Midlands - 2 £468 - 3
East of England +3 1 - - 2
Azure Functions
UK

Azure Functions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (6.94%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.17%) Mendix
3 1 (1.39%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (1.39%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (1.39%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 4 (5.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 72 (100.00%) Azure
1 72 (100.00%) Serverless
2 28 (38.89%) Azure Data Factory
3 25 (34.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 25 (34.72%) Power Platform
4 24 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
5 20 (27.78%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (26.39%) Entra ID
7 15 (20.83%) Azure Logic Apps
8 9 (12.50%) GitHub
9 8 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
9 8 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (11.11%) Power Automate
10 7 (9.72%) GCP
10 7 (9.72%) PowerApps
11 6 (8.33%) AWS
11 6 (8.33%) PaaS
12 5 (6.94%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (6.94%) Azure Key Vault
13 4 (5.56%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.78%) Firewall
2 1 (1.39%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (23.61%) NoSQL
2 14 (19.44%) Azure SQL Database
2 14 (19.44%) Power BI
3 12 (16.67%) SQL Server
4 6 (8.33%) Redis
5 5 (6.94%) InterSystems Cache
5 5 (6.94%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.78%) GIS
7 2 (2.78%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.39%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.39%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (34.72%) Git
2 9 (12.50%) Selenium
3 4 (5.56%) Postman
3 4 (5.56%) Visual Studio
4 3 (4.17%) NUnit
5 2 (2.78%) JIRA
5 2 (2.78%) Moq
6 1 (1.39%) GitLab
6 1 (1.39%) Hudson
6 1 (1.39%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.39%) Subversion
6 1 (1.39%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 13 (18.06%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (13.89%) Public Sector
2 10 (13.89%) Social Skills
3 4 (5.56%) Telecoms
4 3 (4.17%) Finance
5 1 (1.39%) Banking
5 1 (1.39%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.39%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 45 (62.50%) Developer
2 24 (33.33%) Azure Developer
3 18 (25.00%) Full Stack Developer
4 13 (18.06%) Python Developer
5 11 (15.28%) Full Stack Python Developer
6 10 (13.89%) Lead
7 5 (6.94%) Applications Developer
7 5 (6.94%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (6.94%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) .NET Developer
8 4 (5.56%) Azure Data Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) Power Platform Developer
8 4 (5.56%) SQL Developer
9 3 (4.17%) C# Developer
9 3 (4.17%) Cloud Developer
9 3 (4.17%) Lead Developer
9 3 (4.17%) Microsoft Developer
9 3 (4.17%) Node.js Developer
9 3 (4.17%) Power Apps Developer
9 3 (4.17%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (27.78%) React
2 12 (16.67%) .NET
3 8 (11.11%) Node.js
4 6 (8.33%) .NET Framework
5 5 (6.94%) .NET Core
5 5 (6.94%) Microsoft Graph
5 5 (6.94%) OAuth
5 5 (6.94%) REST
5 5 (6.94%) SignalR
5 5 (6.94%) XML
6 4 (5.56%) ARM Templates
6 4 (5.56%) Entity Framework
7 3 (4.17%) CSS
7 3 (4.17%) jQuery
7 3 (4.17%) OpenAPI
7 3 (4.17%) SOAP
7 3 (4.17%) Swagger
8 2 (2.78%) JSON
8 2 (2.78%) WCF
8 2 (2.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.94%) Smart Meter
3 4 (5.56%) Low-Code
4 3 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (4.17%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.39%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.39%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.39%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (13.89%) Windows
2 4 (5.56%) Linux
2 4 (5.56%) Unix
3 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (58.33%) DevOps
2 34 (47.22%) CI/CD
3 32 (44.44%) Agile
4 28 (38.89%) Full Stack Development
5 19 (26.39%) Microservices
6 16 (22.22%) SDLC
6 16 (22.22%) Test Automation
7 14 (19.44%) Unit Testing
8 13 (18.06%) Analytics
8 13 (18.06%) Change Management
8 13 (18.06%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (15.28%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (15.28%) Product Backlog
9 11 (15.28%) Scrum
10 7 (9.72%) API Integration
10 7 (9.72%) Artificial Intelligence
10 7 (9.72%) CRM
10 7 (9.72%) Data Modelling
10 7 (9.72%) ETL
10 7 (9.72%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 28 (38.89%) Python
2 16 (22.22%) SQL
3 13 (18.06%) C#
3 13 (18.06%) PowerShell
4 10 (13.89%) Java
4 10 (13.89%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.17%) C
5 3 (4.17%) T-SQL
5 3 (4.17%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.39%) Bash
6 1 (1.39%) Bicep
6 1 (1.39%) C++
6 1 (1.39%) X++
Qualifications
1 6 (8.33%) Degree
2 4 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.78%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.39%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.39%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.56%) GDPR
2 2 (2.78%) SLA
3 1 (1.39%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.39%) QA
System Software
1 21 (29.17%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.94%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (2.78%) Docker
4 1 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (6.94%) SysTrack
2 1 (1.39%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (26.39%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.94%) Ab Initio
2 5 (6.94%) Citrix
2 5 (6.94%) New Relic
2 5 (6.94%) OpenAI
3 2 (2.78%) Google
4 1 (1.39%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.39%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (1.39%) OutSystems
4 1 (1.39%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.39%) UiPath