Azure Data Factory Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure Data Factory
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Azure Data Factory skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Data Factory over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 243 262 283
Rank change year-on-year +19 +21 +37
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 144 205 240
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.70% 0.87% 0.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.73% 2.62% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 161 177
10th Percentile £405 £410 £410
25th Percentile £453 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £560 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.02% +6.67% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £35.00
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £56.88
% change year-on-year - -38.46% +15.48%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

Azure Data Factory is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,280 7,819 9,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.73% 33.27% 32.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,735 5,787 7,266
10th Percentile £213 £250 £207
25th Percentile £368 £406 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £673
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 227 282
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.69 £25.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.24% +31.58% -3.80%
75th Percentile £26.50 £65.00 £25.19
90th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +59.09% -2.22%

Azure Data Factory
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Data Factory in the UK excluding London

Azure Data Factory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Data Factory in the UK excluding London

Azure Data Factory
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Data Factory in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Data Factory in the UK excluding London

Azure Data Factory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure Data Factory in the UK excluding London

Azure Data Factory
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 Data Factory within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
South East -20 49 £625 +4.17% 19
North of England +16 28 £490 -18.33% 18
Midlands +23 23 £524 +10.26% 21
South West +15 21 £538 +4.88% 12
North West +22 16 £513 -19.61% 9
West Midlands +25 15 £550 -4.35% 17
Yorkshire +21 12 £475 -20.83% 8
Scotland +34 9 £475 -4.04% 5
East Midlands +13 8 £444 -1.39% 4
Wales +21 7 £550 +27.54% 1
East of England +4 7 £410 -3.53% 10
Azure Data Factory
UK

Azure Data Factory
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 7 (4.86%) Confluence
2 6 (4.17%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.08%) Apache
4 1 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.69%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (4.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.69%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.69%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 144 (100.00%) Azure
2 69 (47.92%) Power Platform
3 35 (24.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 32 (22.22%) Azure Functions
4 32 (22.22%) Serverless
5 30 (20.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 25 (17.36%) Azure Monitor
7 20 (13.89%) Entra ID
8 17 (11.81%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (7.64%) Azure Logic Apps
10 10 (6.94%) Snowflake
11 8 (5.56%) Azure API Management
11 8 (5.56%) Power Automate
11 8 (5.56%) PowerApps
12 7 (4.86%) Azure Key Vault
13 6 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
14 5 (3.47%) GCP
15 4 (2.78%) Apigee
16 3 (2.08%) AWS
16 3 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.39%) DNS
2 1 (0.69%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (45.83%) Power BI
2 33 (22.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 31 (21.53%) SQL Server
4 30 (20.83%) Data Lake
5 28 (19.44%) NoSQL
6 24 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
7 22 (15.28%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (13.19%) Tableau
9 18 (12.50%) Relational Database
10 14 (9.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 13 (9.03%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 7 (4.86%) Big Data
12 7 (4.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (4.17%) Delta Lake
14 5 (3.47%) Power Query
15 4 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
16 3 (2.08%) QlikView
17 2 (1.39%) DTS
17 2 (1.39%) Hadoop
17 2 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (15.28%) Git
2 11 (7.64%) JIRA
3 5 (3.47%) Selenium
3 5 (3.47%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.39%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.39%) Postman
General
1 35 (24.31%) Analytical Skills
2 24 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 13 (9.03%) Finance
4 5 (3.47%) Pharmaceutical
4 5 (3.47%) Public Sector
4 5 (3.47%) Telecoms
5 4 (2.78%) Marketing
6 3 (2.08%) Legal
6 3 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.39%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.69%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.69%) Law
8 1 (0.69%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 50 (34.72%) Data Engineer
2 47 (32.64%) Developer
3 28 (19.44%) Azure Engineer
4 24 (16.67%) Azure Developer
5 22 (15.28%) Architect
6 21 (14.58%) Azure Data Engineer
7 19 (13.19%) Full Stack Developer
8 12 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 12 (8.33%) Data Architect
9 11 (7.64%) Azure Architect
9 11 (7.64%) Consultant
10 10 (6.94%) Power BI Developer
10 10 (6.94%) Python Developer
11 9 (6.25%) Senior
12 8 (5.56%) Full Stack Python Developer
13 7 (4.86%) Analyst
13 7 (4.86%) Data Analyst
14 5 (3.47%) Infrastructure Architect
14 5 (3.47%) Infrastructure Consultant
14 5 (3.47%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (14.58%) React
2 10 (6.94%) XML
3 8 (5.56%) PySpark
4 7 (4.86%) ARM Templates
5 5 (3.47%) .NET
6 4 (2.78%) Microsoft Graph
7 3 (2.08%) JSON
7 3 (2.08%) NumPy
7 3 (2.08%) OAuth
7 3 (2.08%) OpenID
7 3 (2.08%) Pandas
7 3 (2.08%) REST
7 3 (2.08%) SOAP
8 2 (1.39%) Django
8 2 (1.39%) OpenAPI
8 2 (1.39%) Swagger
9 1 (0.69%) Apache NiFi
9 1 (0.69%) Kafka
9 1 (0.69%) Oracle Fusion
9 1 (0.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (15.28%) Product Ownership
2 7 (4.86%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.17%) Smart Meter
4 5 (3.47%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.08%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.39%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.39%) NHS
7 1 (0.69%) FMCG
7 1 (0.69%) IoT
7 1 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.69%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.78%) Linux
1 4 (2.78%) Unix
1 4 (2.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (46.53%) Business Intelligence
2 54 (37.50%) ETL
3 50 (34.72%) Data Modelling
4 44 (30.56%) Analytics
4 44 (30.56%) DevOps
5 32 (22.22%) Agile
6 29 (20.14%) CI/CD
7 23 (15.97%) Data Pipeline
8 22 (15.28%) Full Stack Development
9 21 (14.58%) Microservices
10 20 (13.89%) Data Engineering
11 18 (12.50%) SDLC
11 18 (12.50%) Visualisation
12 17 (11.81%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (11.81%) Translating Business Requirements
13 15 (10.42%) Performance Optimisation
13 15 (10.42%) Product Backlog
13 15 (10.42%) Unit Testing
14 14 (9.72%) Continuous Improvement
15 13 (9.03%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 88 (61.11%) SQL
2 53 (36.81%) Python
3 19 (13.19%) T-SQL
4 14 (9.72%) PowerShell
5 7 (4.86%) C#
6 6 (4.17%) Java
7 5 (3.47%) Scala
8 3 (2.08%) C
8 3 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.39%) Bicep
9 2 (1.39%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.69%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (9.03%) Security Cleared
2 8 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.08%) Degree
4 3 (2.08%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.69%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.69%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.42%) QA
2 5 (3.47%) GDPR
3 4 (2.78%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.69%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.69%) GxP
System Software
1 20 (13.89%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.08%) Docker
3 1 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (4.17%) Terraform
2 4 (2.78%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.69%) Ansible
3 1 (0.69%) Kibana
Vendors
1 43 (29.86%) Databricks
2 27 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.17%) Ab Initio
4 4 (2.78%) Informatica
5 3 (2.08%) Oracle
6 2 (1.39%) JD Edwards
6 2 (1.39%) QAD
7 1 (0.69%) BMC
7 1 (0.69%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.69%) Remedy
7 1 (0.69%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.69%) StreamSets
7 1 (0.69%) Talend