Azure Data Factory Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Azure Data Factory
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 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 213 220 213
Rank change year-on-year +7 -7 +3
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 137 276 560
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.91% 1.10% 1.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.52% 2.78% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 227 413
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £475 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +7.32%
75th Percentile £638 £666 £625
90th Percentile £688 £738 £714
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.75
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £56.88
% change year-on-year - -38.46% +15.48%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,438 9,928 18,314
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.02% 39.52% 41.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,910 7,301 13,707
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
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 89 126 169
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £14.85
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.08 £19.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +66.15% -17.72%
75th Percentile £50.25 £70.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +59.09% -2.22%

Azure Data Factory
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Azure Data Factory trend for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Data Factory
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 Data Factory.

Azure Data Factory daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Data Factory
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Azure Data Factory over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Azure Data Factory daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Data Factory
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 10 (7.30%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.38%) Confluence
3 4 (2.92%) Luigi
4 3 (2.19%) Apache
5 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.73%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (3.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.73%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.73%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.73%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 137 (100.00%) Azure
2 52 (37.96%) Power Platform
3 42 (30.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 33 (24.09%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (17.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 23 (16.79%) Serverless
7 21 (15.33%) Azure Monitor
8 19 (13.87%) Azure Functions
8 19 (13.87%) Azure Logic Apps
9 13 (9.49%) PowerApps
10 11 (8.03%) Azure API Management
10 11 (8.03%) Azure Key Vault
10 11 (8.03%) Azure Service Bus
11 10 (7.30%) Entra ID
12 7 (5.11%) PaaS
13 6 (4.38%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (4.38%) Snowflake
14 5 (3.65%) AWS
14 5 (3.65%) Azure Storage
15 3 (2.19%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.46%) Firewall
2 1 (0.73%) DNS
2 1 (0.73%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (35.04%) Power BI
2 38 (27.74%) Azure SQL Database
3 35 (25.55%) SQL Server
4 30 (21.90%) Data Lake
5 27 (19.71%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (13.14%) NoSQL
7 17 (12.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (7.30%) Big Data
9 8 (5.84%) Power Query
10 7 (5.11%) Delta Lake
10 7 (5.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 6 (4.38%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 6 (4.38%) Relational Database
12 5 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
13 4 (2.92%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 4 (2.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 3 (2.19%) Parquet
14 3 (2.19%) QlikView
14 3 (2.19%) Spark SQL
14 3 (2.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (11.68%) Git
2 10 (7.30%) JIRA
3 7 (5.11%) GitLab
4 6 (4.38%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.46%) Postman
5 2 (1.46%) Selenium
5 2 (1.46%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.73%) Deequ
6 1 (0.73%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.73%) NUnit
General
1 47 (34.31%) Social Skills
2 26 (18.98%) Finance
3 15 (10.95%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.84%) Marketing
4 8 (5.84%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.11%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (4.38%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (2.19%) Banking
7 3 (2.19%) Legal
7 3 (2.19%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.46%) Law
9 1 (0.73%) Billing
9 1 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.73%) Electronics
9 1 (0.73%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.73%) Local Government
9 1 (0.73%) Retail
9 1 (0.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (44.53%) Data Engineer
2 43 (31.39%) Azure Engineer
3 39 (28.47%) Azure Data Engineer
4 31 (22.63%) Developer
5 15 (10.95%) Architect
6 14 (10.22%) Lead
7 13 (9.49%) Azure Developer
8 11 (8.03%) Data Architect
9 10 (7.30%) Senior
10 9 (6.57%) Lead Data Engineer
11 8 (5.84%) Full Stack Developer
12 7 (5.11%) Analyst
12 7 (5.11%) Azure Architect
13 6 (4.38%) Data Analyst
13 6 (4.38%) Integration Developer
14 5 (3.65%) Azure Data Architect
14 5 (3.65%) Consultant
14 5 (3.65%) Data Consultant
14 5 (3.65%) Senior Data Engineer
14 5 (3.65%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (13.87%) PySpark
2 14 (10.22%) .NET
3 8 (5.84%) ARM Templates
3 8 (5.84%) React
4 6 (4.38%) JSON
4 6 (4.38%) Pandas
4 6 (4.38%) REST
4 6 (4.38%) SOAP
5 5 (3.65%) .NET Core
5 5 (3.65%) Kafka
6 4 (2.92%) XML
6 4 (2.92%) YAML
7 3 (2.19%) GraphQL
7 3 (2.19%) OAuth
7 3 (2.19%) OpenID
8 2 (1.46%) Blazor
8 2 (1.46%) Great Expectations
8 2 (1.46%) NumPy
8 2 (1.46%) OpenAPI
8 2 (1.46%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.57%) Product Ownership
2 4 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (2.92%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.19%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.19%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.46%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.46%) Grid Computing
4 2 (1.46%) NHS
5 1 (0.73%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.73%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.73%) Housing Association
5 1 (0.73%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.73%) Replication
5 1 (0.73%) Smart Meter
5 1 (0.73%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.11%) Linux
2 1 (0.73%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (38.69%) DevOps
2 50 (36.50%) Business Intelligence
3 45 (32.85%) Analytics
4 41 (29.93%) ETL
5 40 (29.20%) Agile
6 33 (24.09%) CI/CD
6 33 (24.09%) Data Modelling
7 28 (20.44%) Data Pipeline
8 26 (18.98%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (15.33%) Data Engineering
10 19 (13.87%) Data Integration
10 19 (13.87%) Migration
11 18 (13.14%) Infrastructure as Code
12 15 (10.95%) Microservices
12 15 (10.95%) Visualisation
13 13 (9.49%) Data Migration
13 13 (9.49%) Scrum
14 11 (8.03%) Data Transformation
14 11 (8.03%) TDD
15 10 (7.30%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 91 (66.42%) SQL
2 61 (44.53%) Python
3 20 (14.60%) C#
4 16 (11.68%) PowerShell
5 15 (10.95%) Scala
6 9 (6.57%) Bicep
7 8 (5.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 8 (5.84%) T-SQL
8 6 (4.38%) Java
9 2 (1.46%) Bash
9 2 (1.46%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.73%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.73%) PHP
10 1 (0.73%) R
10 1 (0.73%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.73%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (7.30%) Azure Certification
2 7 (5.11%) Degree
3 5 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.92%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.19%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.19%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.73%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.49%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.92%) QA
3 1 (0.73%) GDPR
3 1 (0.73%) GxP
System Software
1 10 (7.30%) Active Directory
1 10 (7.30%) Docker
2 1 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (9.49%) Terraform
2 7 (5.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 56 (40.88%) Databricks
2 39 (28.47%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.65%) Oracle
4 4 (2.92%) Informatica
5 2 (1.46%) JD Edwards
5 2 (1.46%) QAD
6 1 (0.73%) Ab Initio
6 1 (0.73%) Adobe
6 1 (0.73%) BMC
6 1 (0.73%) IBM
6 1 (0.73%) Remedy
6 1 (0.73%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.73%) SAP
6 1 (0.73%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.73%) Splunk
6 1 (0.73%) StreamSets
6 1 (0.73%) Talend