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 31 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 57 59
Rank change year-on-year -20 +2 +16
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 6 3 7
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.63% 0.63% 0.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.58% 1.43% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 7
10th Percentile £468 - £386
25th Percentile £476 - £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% -20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £638 - £569
90th Percentile £705 - £603
West Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £375 £488
% change year-on-year +40.00% -23.08% -18.75%

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 380 210 252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 40.13% 44.21% 32.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 139 183
10th Percentile £319 £299 £300
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £600
90th Percentile £630 £650 £669
West Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 0
10th Percentile - £31.53 -
25th Percentile £14.25 £31.62 -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £33.11 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% - -
75th Percentile £74.00 £66.51 -
90th Percentile £75.80 £85.74 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £29.50 £32.96 £15.00
% change year-on-year -10.50% +119.73% -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
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Data Factory in Leeds over the 6 months to 31 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Data Factory in Leeds

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 1 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Power Platform
3 3 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (33.33%) Azure Storage
4 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (16.67%) AWS
5 1 (16.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Data Lake
1 4 (66.67%) Power BI
2 2 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (16.67%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Head of Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Head of Data Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Head of Digital
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) PySpark
2 1 (16.67%) JSON
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) Pandas
2 1 (16.67%) PyArrow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Low-Code
1 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 4 (66.67%) ETL
3 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) Data Architecture
3 3 (50.00%) Data Transformation
3 3 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (33.33%) AI
4 2 (33.33%) Analytics
4 2 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (33.33%) Data Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
4 2 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (16.67%) Data Extraction
5 1 (16.67%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Databricks