Azure Data Factory Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Microsoft Azure Data Factory
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Azure Data Factory skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 47 93
Rank change year-on-year -39 +46 +18
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 15 69 25
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.20% 4.27% 1.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.86% 13.42% 4.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 50 22
10th Percentile - £500 £425
25th Percentile £413 £553 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £625 £601
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +4.08% +9.18%
75th Percentile £473 £650 £693
90th Percentile £581 £653 £746
South East median daily rate £425 £625 £594
% change year-on-year -32.00% +5.26% +7.95%

All Cloud Skills
Berkshire

Azure Data Factory 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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 524 514 528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 41.85% 31.79% 29.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 329 372
10th Percentile £255 £373 £313
25th Percentile £413 £458 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £650
90th Percentile £664 £663 £725
South East median daily rate £488 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -4.88% -2.38% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 16 14
10th Percentile - £20.03 £17.63
25th Percentile £14.75 £27.38 £19.46
Median hourly rate £18.87 £50.27 £56.15
Median % change year-on-year -62.46% -10.47% +149.57%
75th Percentile £36.48 £61.98 £70.13
90th Percentile £48.20 £64.73 £87.11
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £42.50 £23.95
% change year-on-year -55.72% +77.45% +14.81%

Azure Data Factory
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure Data Factory relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Azure Data Factory job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Azure Data Factory
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Azure Data Factory.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Azure Data Factory

Azure Data Factory
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Data Factory in Berkshire over the 6 months to 21 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Data Factory in Berkshire

Azure Data Factory
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 21 October 2025. 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
Wokingham -7 9 £425 -
Windsor -5 3 £468 -
Reading -26 1 £525 -16.00% 6
Slough - 1 £450 - 16
Azure Data Factory
South East

Azure Data Factory
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (60.00%) Azure AKS
3 9 (60.00%) Azure Storage
3 9 (60.00%) IaaS
3 9 (60.00%) PaaS
4 5 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (13.33%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Functions
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (66.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (26.67%) Data Lake
3 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (6.67%) Data Vault
4 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (6.67%) MySQL
4 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
General
1 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Automotive
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 8 (53.33%) Azure Engineer
1 8 (53.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 8 (53.33%) Site Engineer
1 8 (53.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Data Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (60.00%) ADO
2 1 (6.67%) ARM Templates
2 1 (6.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 10 (66.67%) DevOps
2 9 (60.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 5 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 4 (26.67%) Analytics
5 3 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (13.33%) Data Transformation
7 1 (6.67%) Change Data Capture
7 1 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (6.67%) Data Governance
7 1 (6.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 1 (6.67%) High Availability
7 1 (6.67%) Inmon Methodology
7 1 (6.67%) Kimball Methodology
7 1 (6.67%) Mentoring
7 1 (6.67%) Microservices
7 1 (6.67%) Performance Tuning
7 1 (6.67%) Process Improvement
7 1 (6.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 1 (6.67%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 14 (93.33%) SQL
2 2 (13.33%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) R
3 1 (6.67%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (13.33%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 9 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Grafana
2 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Databricks
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle