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 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 234 274 254
Rank change year-on-year +40 -20 +35
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 269 305 517
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.10% 0.83% 1.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.96% 2.60% 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 251 387
10th Percentile £358 £412 £416
25th Percentile £413 £475 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £579 £638 £675
90th Percentile £650 £688 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
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 9,079 11,752 18,255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.20% 31.87% 36.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 8,495 13,351
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 £745 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 318 309
10th Percentile £15.05 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.85 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.98 £20.77 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.06% -31.90% +44.89%
75th Percentile £40.38 £32.31 £65.75
90th Percentile £73.13 £61.72 £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 6 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 6 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 +31 167 £500 -9.09% 73
South East +24 34 £550 -11.29% 28
North of England +19 30 £475 -3.06% 24
North West +12 18 £500 - 13
Midlands +10 13 £440 -15.99% 24
West Midlands +11 10 £475 -13.64% 16
South West +24 9 £475 -11.63% 8
Yorkshire +15 7 £388 -18.42% 11
North East - 5 £358 -
East of England +23 3 £400 -2.44% 12
East Midlands +7 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%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.74%) Confluence
5 1 (0.37%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (1.49%) 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 80 (29.74%) Power Platform
3 72 (26.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 69 (25.65%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (11.15%) AWS
6 29 (10.78%) Azure Machine Learning
7 23 (8.55%) Azure Functions
7 23 (8.55%) Serverless
8 22 (8.18%) Azure AKS
8 22 (8.18%) Azure Service Bus
9 21 (7.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 19 (7.06%) Azure Logic Apps
11 18 (6.69%) PaaS
12 17 (6.32%) Azure Monitor
13 16 (5.95%) Azure API Management
14 15 (5.58%) GitHub
15 11 (4.09%) Azure Storage
15 11 (4.09%) Snowflake
16 10 (3.72%) Azure Key Vault
16 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 76 (28.25%) Power BI
2 64 (23.79%) Data Lake
3 49 (18.22%) SQL Server
4 45 (16.73%) Azure SQL Database
5 40 (14.87%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (7.43%) Neo4j
6 20 (7.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 19 (7.06%) Big Data
8 16 (5.95%) Metadata
9 15 (5.58%) Delta Lake
9 15 (5.58%) NoSQL
10 13 (4.83%) Tableau
11 9 (3.35%) Relational Database
12 7 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
13 6 (2.23%) Apache Hive
13 6 (2.23%) BusinessObjects
13 6 (2.23%) Crystal Reports
13 6 (2.23%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (2.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 5 (1.86%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 18 (6.69%) 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%) MLflow
9 1 (0.37%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.37%) SonarQube
General
1 55 (20.45%) Social Skills
2 48 (17.84%) Finance
3 36 (13.38%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (13.01%) Public Sector
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
1 112 (41.64%) Data Engineer
2 69 (25.65%) Azure Engineer
3 44 (16.36%) Developer
4 38 (14.13%) Azure Data Engineer
5 26 (9.67%) Senior
6 24 (8.92%) Architect
7 22 (8.18%) Azure Developer
7 22 (8.18%) Senior Data Engineer
8 21 (7.81%) DevOps Engineer
9 20 (7.43%) Analyst
10 17 (6.32%) 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
15 8 (2.97%) PowerShell Engineer
16 7 (2.60%) Business Analyst
16 7 (2.60%) Consultant
17 6 (2.23%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (15.99%) PySpark
2 27 (10.04%) React
3 24 (8.92%) .NET
4 19 (7.06%) Plotly
5 12 (4.46%) ADO
6 9 (3.35%) .NET Core
6 9 (3.35%) Web Services
7 7 (2.60%) .NET Framework
7 7 (2.60%) REST
7 7 (2.60%) YAML
8 6 (2.23%) ASP.NET
8 6 (2.23%) Entity Framework
8 6 (2.23%) JSON
8 6 (2.23%) WCF
9 5 (1.86%) ASP.NET MVC
9 5 (1.86%) ASP.NET Web API
9 5 (1.86%) Autofac
9 5 (1.86%) Dapper ORM
9 5 (1.86%) StructureMap
9 5 (1.86%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (2.97%) Product Ownership
1 8 (2.97%) Renewable Energy
2 5 (1.86%) Cloud Native
2 5 (1.86%) Data Structures
2 5 (1.86%) N-Tier
3 4 (1.49%) Clustering
3 4 (1.49%) Data Fabric
3 4 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.12%) IoT
4 3 (1.12%) NHS
5 2 (0.74%) Algorithms
5 2 (0.74%) Public Cloud
5 2 (0.74%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.37%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (0.37%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.37%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.37%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.37%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.37%) Self-Motivation
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 96 (35.69%) DevOps
2 81 (30.11%) Analytics
3 79 (29.37%) ETL
4 78 (29.00%) Data Pipeline
5 74 (27.51%) CI/CD
6 69 (25.65%) Data Modelling
7 65 (24.16%) Agile
8 61 (22.68%) Data Engineering
9 59 (21.93%) Data Integration
10 56 (20.82%) Machine Learning
11 55 (20.45%) Business Intelligence
12 52 (19.33%) Visualisation
13 39 (14.50%) Problem-Solving
14 33 (12.27%) Infrastructure as Code
15 31 (11.52%) Data Visualisation
16 30 (11.15%) Data Transformation
17 29 (10.78%) Data Science
18 26 (9.67%) Artificial Intelligence
19 25 (9.29%) Data Governance
20 22 (8.18%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 145 (53.90%) SQL
2 99 (36.80%) Python
3 37 (13.75%) C#
4 32 (11.90%) JavaScript
5 29 (10.78%) Java
5 29 (10.78%) PowerShell
6 22 (8.18%) T-SQL
7 8 (2.97%) Bicep
8 7 (2.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (1.49%) Bash
9 4 (1.49%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.12%) Scala
11 2 (0.74%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.74%) R
11 2 (0.74%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.37%) ABAP
12 1 (0.37%) Perl
12 1 (0.37%) PHP
12 1 (0.37%) VBA
12 1 (0.37%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 51 (18.96%) Security Cleared
2 40 (14.87%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.32%) 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 45 (16.73%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.20%) QA
3 13 (4.83%) Accessibility
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 36 (13.38%) Terraform
2 16 (5.95%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.12%) Ansible
3 3 (1.12%) Grafana
4 1 (0.37%) Kubeflow
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
1 133 (49.44%) Databricks
2 75 (27.88%) 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