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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 396 372 459
Rank change year-on-year -24 +87 -104
Contract jobs citing Azure Functions 186 361 465
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.63% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.34% 1.72% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 236 326
10th Percentile £363 £450 £409
25th Percentile £426 £511 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £590 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.02% +7.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £626 £669 £662
90th Percentile £688 £775 £766
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £586 £475
% change year-on-year +2.39% +23.37% -
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 13,842 21,041 34,006
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.54% 36.74% 38.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,846 15,232 24,816
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 £748 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 332 411
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £18.50 £15.35
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +59.09% -2.22%
75th Percentile £38.13 £66.00 £53.88
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £25.00 £19.25
% change year-on-year -29.12% +29.89% -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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -5 175 £525 -12.50% 54
London +51 101 £500 -16.67% 18
Work from Home +38 73 £525 -9.79% 35
UK excluding London -37 70 £600 +2.39% 34
South East -9 37 £600 - 6
Midlands +22 16 £400 -11.11% 7
West Midlands +24 14 £400 -11.11% 2
North of England -8 9 £575 +15.00% 7
Northern Ireland - 6 £600 -
Yorkshire +3 5 £600 +26.32%
North West -6 4 £475 -5.00% 7
East Midlands - 2 £468 - 5
East of England +8 1 - - 4
South West -6 1 £450 -32.08% 8

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 12 (6.45%) SharePoint
2 9 (4.84%) BizTalk Server
3 8 (4.30%) Confluence
4 3 (1.61%) ArcGIS
5 2 (1.08%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.08%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.54%) CMS
6 1 (0.54%) Drupal
6 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.54%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.54%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (0.54%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.54%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.54%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.54%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) InfoPath
1 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (3.76%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 186 (100.00%) Azure
1 186 (100.00%) Serverless
2 74 (39.78%) Azure DevOps
3 58 (31.18%) Azure Logic Apps
4 53 (28.49%) Azure Data Factory
5 51 (27.42%) Power Platform
6 50 (26.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 50 (26.88%) Azure Service Bus
7 41 (22.04%) Azure Monitor
8 35 (18.82%) GitHub
9 32 (17.20%) Azure API Management
10 27 (14.52%) Entra ID
11 25 (13.44%) Azure Key Vault
11 25 (13.44%) Power Automate
12 24 (12.90%) Azure Storage
12 24 (12.90%) PowerApps
13 19 (10.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 17 (9.14%) Dynamics 365
14 17 (9.14%) PaaS
15 16 (8.60%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.76%) Firewall
2 3 (1.61%) VPN
3 2 (1.08%) HTTP
4 1 (0.54%) SSH
4 1 (0.54%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (29.57%) Azure SQL Database
2 47 (25.27%) SQL Server
3 37 (19.89%) NoSQL
4 31 (16.67%) Power BI
5 19 (10.22%) Data Lake
6 17 (9.14%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (6.99%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (5.91%) Redis
9 9 (4.84%) Big Data
9 9 (4.84%) MongoDB
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
12 3 (1.61%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.61%) Geospatial Data
12 3 (1.61%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 3 (1.61%) Power Query
12 3 (1.61%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 42 (22.58%) Git
2 15 (8.06%) Visual Studio
3 12 (6.45%) JIRA
4 10 (5.38%) Cypress.io
4 10 (5.38%) GitLab
5 9 (4.84%) JMeter
5 9 (4.84%) Visual Studio Team System
6 8 (4.30%) Selenium
7 5 (2.69%) NUnit
8 4 (2.15%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.61%) Jenkins
9 3 (1.61%) Moq
10 2 (1.08%) Maven
10 2 (1.08%) Postman
10 2 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.54%) git-flow
11 1 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.54%) Serilog
11 1 (0.54%) Subversion
11 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 36 (19.35%) Social Skills
2 26 (13.98%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (8.60%) Public Sector
4 14 (7.53%) Finance
5 9 (4.84%) Banking
6 4 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (2.15%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.61%) Retail
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%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.54%) Law
8 1 (0.54%) Publishing
8 1 (0.54%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 102 (54.84%) Developer
2 38 (20.43%) Azure Developer
3 33 (17.74%) Full Stack Developer
4 19 (10.22%) Data Engineer
5 16 (8.60%) Applications Developer
5 16 (8.60%) Azure Engineer
5 16 (8.60%) Lead
6 15 (8.06%) Architect
7 12 (6.45%) Python Developer
8 11 (5.91%) C# Developer
9 10 (5.38%) .NET Developer
9 10 (5.38%) Power Apps Developer
10 9 (4.84%) Azure Data Engineer
10 9 (4.84%) Full Stack Python Developer
10 9 (4.84%) Integration Developer
11 8 (4.30%) Azure Architect
11 8 (4.30%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (4.30%) Senior
12 7 (3.76%) Software Engineer
12 7 (3.76%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (29.57%) .NET
2 41 (22.04%) React
3 23 (12.37%) .NET Core
4 21 (11.29%) ARM Templates
4 21 (11.29%) Node.js
5 20 (10.75%) XML
6 19 (10.22%) JSON
7 14 (7.53%) REST
8 12 (6.45%) .NET Framework
9 10 (5.38%) Kafka
10 9 (4.84%) Blazor
11 8 (4.30%) OAuth
11 8 (4.30%) RESTful
12 7 (3.76%) Microsoft Graph
12 7 (3.76%) SignalR
12 7 (3.76%) SOAP
13 6 (3.23%) ASP.NET
13 6 (3.23%) OpenID
13 6 (3.23%) PySpark
13 6 (3.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 26 (13.98%) Product Ownership
2 17 (9.14%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.30%) 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%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.08%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.54%) Augmented Reality
8 1 (0.54%) BYOD
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%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.54%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.54%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.54%) Replication
8 1 (0.54%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.75%) Windows
2 14 (7.53%) Linux
3 6 (3.23%) Unix
4 1 (0.54%) CentOS
4 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (56.45%) DevOps
2 93 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 80 (43.01%) Agile
4 49 (26.34%) Full Stack Development
5 46 (24.73%) Microservices
6 32 (17.20%) SDLC
7 31 (16.67%) Test Automation
8 29 (15.59%) API Management
9 28 (15.05%) Business Intelligence
10 27 (14.52%) Analytics
11 23 (12.37%) Continuous Improvement
11 23 (12.37%) Scrum
11 23 (12.37%) Software Engineering
11 23 (12.37%) TDD
12 20 (10.75%) Unit Testing
13 18 (9.68%) Data Engineering
13 18 (9.68%) ETL
14 17 (9.14%) Change Management
14 17 (9.14%) Technical Leadership
15 16 (8.60%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 67 (36.02%) SQL
2 61 (32.80%) Python
3 60 (32.26%) C#
4 38 (20.43%) PowerShell
5 30 (16.13%) JavaScript
6 18 (9.68%) Java
7 10 (5.38%) T-SQL
8 9 (4.84%) C++
8 9 (4.84%) Go
9 8 (4.30%) PL/SQL
10 6 (3.23%) Bicep
11 4 (2.15%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.61%) Bash
12 3 (1.61%) C
12 3 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (1.08%) Scala
14 1 (0.54%) Perl
14 1 (0.54%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.54%) X++
Qualifications
1 10 (5.38%) Degree
2 8 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (4.30%) Security Cleared
3 7 (3.76%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.23%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.08%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.23%) QA
2 4 (2.15%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.15%) GDPR
3 3 (1.61%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.61%) WCAG
4 2 (1.08%) SLA
5 1 (0.54%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (14.52%) Active Directory
2 21 (11.29%) Docker
3 7 (3.76%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.69%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.54%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 30 (16.13%) Kubernetes
2 29 (15.59%) Terraform
3 9 (4.84%) Argo
4 5 (2.69%) SysTrack
5 2 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.54%) yum
Vendors
1 67 (36.02%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.14%) Oracle
3 16 (8.60%) Databricks
4 8 (4.30%) MuleSoft
5 5 (2.69%) Ab Initio
5 5 (2.69%) Citrix
5 5 (2.69%) New Relic
5 5 (2.69%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.54%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.54%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.54%) Cisco
6 1 (0.54%) Google
6 1 (0.54%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (0.54%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.54%) Sybase
6 1 (0.54%) Virgin Media