Azure Data Factory Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Microsoft Azure Data Factory
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Azure Data Factory skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 47 65
Rank change year-on-year -25 +18 +24
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 3 5 3
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.40% 1.13% 0.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.93% 2.43% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £466 £401 £355
25th Percentile £472 £403 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £413 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £497 £428 £531
90th Percentile £499 £434 £565
West Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £388 £475
% change year-on-year +25.81% -18.42% -20.83%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 322 206 298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 42.59% 46.71% 34.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 133 212
10th Percentile £312 £263 £276
25th Percentile £409 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £573 £600
90th Percentile £625 £725 £675
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 1
10th Percentile - £28.86 -
25th Percentile - £33.73 -
Median hourly rate £14.25 £65.71 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -78.31% +5.98% -7.46%
75th Percentile £74.00 £100.66 -
90th Percentile £75.20 £102.00 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £14.25 £32.81 £15.00
% change year-on-year -56.57% +118.73% -72.22%

Azure Data Factory
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Azure Data Factory job vacancy trend in Leeds

Azure Data Factory
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Azure Data Factory
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 2 (66.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (33.33%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (33.33%) Delta Lake
2 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) FHIR
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) Pandas
1 1 (33.33%) PyArrow
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (33.33%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Data Extraction
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Databricks
2 1 (33.33%) Brio
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft