Azure Data Factory Contracts in England

Microsoft Azure Data Factory
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Azure Data Factory skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure Data Factory over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 235 276 257
Rank change year-on-year +41 -19 +32
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 269 298 517
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.10% 0.80% 1.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.97% 2.51% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 242 386
10th Percentile £358 £413 £413
25th Percentile £413 £475 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £578 £638 £672
90th Percentile £650 £688 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £35.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -38.46%

All Cloud Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 9,062 11,852 18,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.21% 31.87% 36.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,341 8,544 13,518
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 321 311
10th Percentile £15.03 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.85 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%
75th Percentile £40.50 £32.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £73.38 £61.60 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Azure Data Factory
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Azure Data Factory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Data Factory in England

Azure Data Factory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Data Factory in England.

Daily rate trend for Azure Data Factory in England

Azure Data Factory
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Data Factory in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Data Factory in England

Azure Data Factory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Data Factory in England.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Data Factory in England

Azure Data Factory
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +36 163 £500 -9.09% 94
South East +37 37 £543 -12.50% 41
North of England +22 30 £475 -5.00% 25
North West +19 18 £500 -2.44% 12
Midlands +10 11 £390 -25.54% 31
South West +36 9 £475 -11.63% 9
West Midlands +7 8 £475 -13.64% 22
Yorkshire +4 7 £388 -18.42% 13
North East - 5 £358 -
East of England +26 3 £400 -2.44% 13
East Midlands +5 3 £380 -14.37% 7
Azure Data Factory
UK

Azure Data Factory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 25 (9.29%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.35%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.49%) Apache
4 2 (0.74%) Confluence
5 1 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.37%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.74%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.74%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.37%) Endur
3 1 (0.37%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.37%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 269 (100.00%) Azure
2 79 (29.37%) Power Platform
3 71 (26.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 66 (24.54%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (11.15%) AWS
6 28 (10.41%) Azure Machine Learning
7 23 (8.55%) Azure Functions
7 23 (8.55%) Serverless
8 22 (8.18%) Azure Service Bus
9 21 (7.81%) Azure AKS
9 21 (7.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 18 (6.69%) Azure Logic Apps
11 17 (6.32%) Azure Monitor
11 17 (6.32%) PaaS
12 16 (5.95%) Azure API Management
13 15 (5.58%) GitHub
14 11 (4.09%) Azure Storage
14 11 (4.09%) Snowflake
15 10 (3.72%) Azure Key Vault
15 10 (3.72%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.86%) DNS
2 3 (1.12%) FTP
2 3 (1.12%) HTTP
2 3 (1.12%) Network Security
2 3 (1.12%) SMTP
2 3 (1.12%) SSL
2 3 (1.12%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.74%) WAN
4 1 (0.37%) Firewall
4 1 (0.37%) LAN
4 1 (0.37%) NAS
4 1 (0.37%) SAN
4 1 (0.37%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.37%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (27.88%) Power BI
2 68 (25.28%) Data Lake
3 50 (18.59%) SQL Server
4 48 (17.84%) Azure SQL Database
5 40 (14.87%) Data Warehouse
6 23 (8.55%) Big Data
7 21 (7.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 20 (7.43%) Neo4j
9 16 (5.95%) Metadata
10 15 (5.58%) NoSQL
11 14 (5.20%) Delta Lake
12 13 (4.83%) Tableau
13 9 (3.35%) Relational Database
14 7 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
15 6 (2.23%) Apache Hive
15 6 (2.23%) BusinessObjects
15 6 (2.23%) Crystal Reports
15 6 (2.23%) Snowflake Schema
15 6 (2.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 5 (1.86%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 17 (6.32%) Git
2 12 (4.46%) Selenium
3 10 (3.72%) GitLab
4 7 (2.60%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.23%) JIRA
5 6 (2.23%) Visual Studio
6 5 (1.86%) Postman
6 5 (1.86%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.49%) ERwin
7 4 (1.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (1.12%) ER Studio
8 3 (1.12%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.37%) JMeter
9 1 (0.37%) Locust
9 1 (0.37%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.37%) SonarQube
General
1 54 (20.07%) Social Skills
2 45 (16.73%) Finance
3 36 (13.38%) Public Sector
4 35 (13.01%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (4.83%) Banking
6 10 (3.72%) Manufacturing
7 7 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.60%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.23%) Front Office
8 6 (2.23%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.23%) Retail
9 5 (1.86%) Marketing
10 4 (1.49%) Local Government
10 4 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.49%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.12%) Electronics
12 2 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.74%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 115 (42.75%) Data Engineer
2 67 (24.91%) Azure Engineer
3 42 (15.61%) Developer
4 38 (14.13%) Azure Data Engineer
5 28 (10.41%) Senior
6 24 (8.92%) Architect
7 23 (8.55%) Azure Developer
7 23 (8.55%) Senior Data Engineer
8 20 (7.43%) Analyst
9 19 (7.06%) DevOps Engineer
10 15 (5.58%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 14 (5.20%) Data Architect
12 12 (4.46%) Full-Stack Developer
13 11 (4.09%) Azure Architect
14 10 (3.72%) Data Analyst
15 8 (2.97%) Lead
16 7 (2.60%) Business Analyst
16 7 (2.60%) Consultant
16 7 (2.60%) PowerShell Engineer
17 6 (2.23%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (17.47%) PySpark
2 27 (10.04%) React
3 22 (8.18%) .NET
4 19 (7.06%) Plotly
5 11 (4.09%) ADO
6 9 (3.35%) Web Services
7 8 (2.97%) .NET Core
8 7 (2.60%) .NET Framework
8 7 (2.60%) REST
8 7 (2.60%) YAML
9 6 (2.23%) ASP.NET
9 6 (2.23%) Entity Framework
9 6 (2.23%) JSON
9 6 (2.23%) WCF
10 5 (1.86%) ASP.NET MVC
10 5 (1.86%) ASP.NET Web API
10 5 (1.86%) Autofac
10 5 (1.86%) Dapper ORM
10 5 (1.86%) Middleware
10 5 (1.86%) StructureMap
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.46%) Product Ownership
2 8 (2.97%) Renewable Energy
3 5 (1.86%) Cloud Native
3 5 (1.86%) Data Structures
3 5 (1.86%) N-Tier
4 4 (1.49%) Clustering
4 4 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.12%) Data Fabric
5 3 (1.12%) IoT
5 3 (1.12%) NHS
6 2 (0.74%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.74%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.74%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.37%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (0.37%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.37%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.37%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.37%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.37%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.86%) Windows
2 4 (1.49%) Unix
3 3 (1.12%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.74%) Linux
4 2 (0.74%) VMS
4 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (34.57%) DevOps
2 80 (29.74%) Analytics
2 80 (29.74%) ETL
3 79 (29.37%) Data Pipeline
4 73 (27.14%) CI/CD
5 68 (25.28%) Data Modelling
6 64 (23.79%) Agile
7 61 (22.68%) Data Engineering
8 58 (21.56%) Business Intelligence
8 58 (21.56%) Data Integration
9 54 (20.07%) Machine Learning
10 52 (19.33%) Visualisation
11 37 (13.75%) Problem-Solving
12 33 (12.27%) Infrastructure as Code
13 31 (11.52%) Data Transformation
13 31 (11.52%) Data Visualisation
14 29 (10.78%) Data Science
15 24 (8.92%) Artificial Intelligence
15 24 (8.92%) Data Governance
16 22 (8.18%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 147 (54.65%) SQL
2 103 (38.29%) Python
3 36 (13.38%) C#
4 32 (11.90%) JavaScript
5 29 (10.78%) Java
6 28 (10.41%) PowerShell
7 22 (8.18%) T-SQL
8 8 (2.97%) Bicep
9 5 (1.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (1.49%) Bash
10 4 (1.49%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (1.12%) Scala
12 2 (0.74%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.74%) R
12 2 (0.74%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.37%) ABAP
13 1 (0.37%) Perl
13 1 (0.37%) PHP
13 1 (0.37%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 52 (19.33%) Security Cleared
2 41 (15.24%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.95%) Azure Certification
4 15 (5.58%) Degree
5 7 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.86%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.86%) MCPD
6 5 (1.86%) MCSD
7 3 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.37%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (16.36%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.83%) Accessibility
3 12 (4.46%) QA
4 5 (1.86%) GDPR
5 3 (1.12%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.37%) GxP
7 1 (0.37%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (4.83%) Docker
2 12 (4.46%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.37%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.37%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (13.01%) Terraform
2 15 (5.58%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.12%) Ansible
3 3 (1.12%) Grafana
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.37%) Perfmon
4 1 (0.37%) Puppet
4 1 (0.37%) SCOM
4 1 (0.37%) VxRail
Vendors
1 138 (51.30%) Databricks
2 78 (29.00%) Microsoft
3 11 (4.09%) Cloudera
4 9 (3.35%) SAP
5 6 (2.23%) Informatica
5 6 (2.23%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.49%) Palantir
6 4 (1.49%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.12%) IDERA
7 3 (1.12%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.74%) Brio
8 2 (0.74%) Google
8 2 (0.74%) IBM
8 2 (0.74%) Liquidlogic
8 2 (0.74%) Splunk
8 2 (0.74%) VMware
9 1 (0.37%) GoldenSource
9 1 (0.37%) Qualys
9 1 (0.37%) SonicWALL
9 1 (0.37%) TOWER Software