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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 416 374 459
Rank change year-on-year -42 +85 -82
Contract jobs citing Azure Functions 185 357 449
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.64% 0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.32% 1.76% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 227 316
10th Percentile £353 £450 £409
25th Percentile £442 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £653
90th Percentile £688 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £575 £475
% change year-on-year +4.35% +21.05% -
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 14,031 20,309 33,859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.41% 36.46% 38.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,917 14,688 24,753
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 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 350 329 386
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.89
25th Percentile £16.06 £20.00 £15.34
Median hourly rate £21.50 £39.55 £22.20
Median % change year-on-year -45.64% +78.15% +1.56%
75th Percentile £43.75 £70.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £68.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £27.83 £19.25
% change year-on-year -31.73% +44.59% -3.76%

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 8 June 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 15 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 8 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
England -17 174 £550 -8.33% 64
London +17 99 £517 -18.90% 33
UK excluding London -40 72 £600 +4.35% 34
Work from Home +38 69 £525 -10.26% 54
South East -25 36 £625 +4.17% 5
Midlands +21 14 £400 -11.11% 5
West Midlands +11 12 £400 -11.11% 2
North of England -7 11 £600 +26.32% 11
North West -3 6 £513 +2.50% 9
Yorkshire +4 5 £600 +26.32%
Northern Ireland - 5 £638 -
South West +4 3 £413 -37.74% 6
Scotland +29 2 £427 -15.75% 4
East Midlands - 2 £468 - 3
East of England +4 1 - - 2

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 14 (7.57%) SharePoint
2 8 (4.32%) Confluence
3 6 (3.24%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (1.08%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.08%) ArcGIS
4 2 (1.08%) Mendix
4 2 (1.08%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.54%) CMS
5 1 (0.54%) Drupal
5 1 (0.54%) IIS
5 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.54%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.54%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.54%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.54%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.54%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.54%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) InfoPath
1 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (4.32%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 185 (100.00%) Azure
1 185 (100.00%) Serverless
2 74 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 55 (29.73%) Azure Logic Apps
4 52 (28.11%) Power Platform
5 50 (27.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 50 (27.03%) Azure Data Factory
6 48 (25.95%) Azure Service Bus
7 41 (22.16%) Azure Monitor
8 34 (18.38%) GitHub
9 32 (17.30%) Entra ID
10 29 (15.68%) Azure API Management
11 26 (14.05%) PowerApps
12 25 (13.51%) Power Automate
13 24 (12.97%) Azure Key Vault
14 22 (11.89%) Azure Storage
15 20 (10.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 18 (9.73%) PaaS
17 17 (9.19%) Dynamics 365
18 14 (7.57%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.32%) Firewall
2 3 (1.62%) VPN
3 2 (1.08%) HTTP
4 1 (0.54%) SSH
4 1 (0.54%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (28.65%) Azure SQL Database
2 46 (24.86%) SQL Server
3 37 (20.00%) NoSQL
4 30 (16.22%) Power BI
5 22 (11.89%) Data Lake
6 15 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (5.95%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (5.95%) Redis
8 9 (4.86%) Big Data
9 8 (4.32%) MongoDB
10 7 (3.78%) InterSystems Cache
10 7 (3.78%) OLTP
11 4 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (2.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (2.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (1.62%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.62%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 3 (1.62%) Power Query
12 3 (1.62%) Relational Database
13 2 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 44 (23.78%) Git
2 13 (7.03%) Visual Studio
3 11 (5.95%) Selenium
4 10 (5.41%) Cypress.io
4 10 (5.41%) GitLab
4 10 (5.41%) JIRA
5 9 (4.86%) JMeter
6 7 (3.78%) Visual Studio Team System
7 5 (2.70%) NUnit
8 4 (2.16%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.62%) Jenkins
9 3 (1.62%) Moq
9 3 (1.62%) Postman
10 2 (1.08%) Maven
10 2 (1.08%) MLflow
10 2 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.54%) git-flow
11 1 (0.54%) Serilog
11 1 (0.54%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 37 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 28 (15.14%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (9.73%) Public Sector
4 16 (8.65%) Finance
5 11 (5.95%) Banking
6 4 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (2.16%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.08%) Legal
8 1 (0.54%) Back Office
8 1 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.54%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.54%) Front Office
8 1 (0.54%) Law
8 1 (0.54%) Police
8 1 (0.54%) Publishing
8 1 (0.54%) Retail
8 1 (0.54%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 102 (55.14%) Developer
2 38 (20.54%) Azure Developer
3 34 (18.38%) Full Stack Developer
4 19 (10.27%) Data Engineer
5 17 (9.19%) Applications Developer
5 17 (9.19%) Architect
6 16 (8.65%) Azure Engineer
7 15 (8.11%) Lead
8 14 (7.57%) Python Developer
9 12 (6.49%) .NET Developer
9 12 (6.49%) Senior
10 11 (5.95%) Full Stack Python Developer
10 11 (5.95%) Power Apps Developer
11 10 (5.41%) C# Developer
12 9 (4.86%) Azure Architect
12 9 (4.86%) Azure Data Engineer
13 8 (4.32%) DevOps Engineer
13 8 (4.32%) Technical Architect
14 7 (3.78%) Integration Developer
14 7 (3.78%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (28.65%) .NET
2 43 (23.24%) React
3 22 (11.89%) .NET Core
3 22 (11.89%) ARM Templates
3 22 (11.89%) Node.js
4 17 (9.19%) XML
5 14 (7.57%) JSON
6 13 (7.03%) .NET Framework
7 12 (6.49%) REST
8 10 (5.41%) Kafka
8 10 (5.41%) OAuth
8 10 (5.41%) RESTful
9 8 (4.32%) ASP.NET
9 8 (4.32%) Web Services
10 7 (3.78%) Microsoft Graph
10 7 (3.78%) SignalR
10 7 (3.78%) SOAP
11 6 (3.24%) Blazor
11 6 (3.24%) OpenID
11 6 (3.24%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 26 (14.05%) Product Ownership
2 13 (7.03%) Cloud Native
3 7 (3.78%) Machine to Machine
4 6 (3.24%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.70%) Smart Meter
6 4 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.16%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.62%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.08%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.54%) Augmented Reality
9 1 (0.54%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.54%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.54%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.54%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.54%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.54%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 17 (9.19%) Windows
2 14 (7.57%) Linux
3 6 (3.24%) Unix
4 2 (1.08%) Android
5 1 (0.54%) CentOS
5 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.54%) VMS
5 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (55.68%) DevOps
2 90 (48.65%) CI/CD
3 80 (43.24%) Agile
4 50 (27.03%) Full Stack Development
5 43 (23.24%) Microservices
6 33 (17.84%) Test Automation
7 31 (16.76%) Analytics
7 31 (16.76%) SDLC
8 29 (15.68%) API Management
9 27 (14.59%) Business Intelligence
10 26 (14.05%) Scrum
11 22 (11.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 22 (11.89%) Software Engineering
11 22 (11.89%) TDD
12 21 (11.35%) Data Engineering
12 21 (11.35%) Unit Testing
13 18 (9.73%) Migration
14 17 (9.19%) Change Management
14 17 (9.19%) Technical Leadership
15 16 (8.65%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 61 (32.97%) Python
1 61 (32.97%) SQL
2 55 (29.73%) C#
3 39 (21.08%) PowerShell
4 28 (15.14%) JavaScript
5 21 (11.35%) Java
6 10 (5.41%) T-SQL
7 6 (3.24%) C++
7 6 (3.24%) Go
7 6 (3.24%) PL/SQL
7 6 (3.24%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.70%) Bicep
9 3 (1.62%) Bash
9 3 (1.62%) C
9 3 (1.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.08%) R
10 2 (1.08%) Scala
11 1 (0.54%) Perl
11 1 (0.54%) X++
Qualifications
1 11 (5.95%) Degree
2 9 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (4.32%) Security Cleared
4 7 (3.78%) Azure Certification
4 7 (3.78%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.08%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.70%) GDPR
1 5 (2.70%) QA
2 4 (2.16%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.62%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.08%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.08%) SLA
4 2 (1.08%) WCAG
5 1 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 33 (17.84%) Active Directory
2 22 (11.89%) Docker
3 7 (3.78%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.70%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.54%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 29 (15.68%) Kubernetes
1 29 (15.68%) Terraform
2 9 (4.86%) Argo
3 5 (2.70%) SysTrack
4 2 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.54%) Ansible
5 1 (0.54%) yum
Vendors
1 67 (36.22%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.19%) Databricks
3 15 (8.11%) Oracle
4 5 (2.70%) Ab Initio
4 5 (2.70%) Citrix
4 5 (2.70%) MuleSoft
4 5 (2.70%) New Relic
4 5 (2.70%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.62%) Google
6 2 (1.08%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.54%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.54%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.54%) Cisco
7 1 (0.54%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (0.54%) SAP
7 1 (0.54%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.54%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.54%) Sybase
7 1 (0.54%) Virgin Media