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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 66 56
Rank change year-on-year -17 -10 +17
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 3 3 8
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.28% 0.48% 1.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.70% 1.01% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - £434
25th Percentile £343 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £355 £375 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% -24.24% -5.71%
75th Percentile £368 - £550
90th Percentile - - £588
West Yorkshire median daily rate £428 £375 £495
% change year-on-year +14.00% -24.24% -5.71%

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 429 298 312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 40.43% 47.83% 44.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 191 229
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -7.32%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £556
90th Percentile £644 £609 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -7.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £26.38 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £35.00 £200.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -82.50% +627.27% -

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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Databricks
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) Pandas
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Data Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Log Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) SFIA
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft