Azure Data Factory Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft Azure Data Factory
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 100 110 136
Rank change year-on-year +10 +26 +25
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 11 23 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.57% 0.83% 0.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.89% 3.34% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 16 24
10th Percentile £365 £351 £411
25th Percentile £374 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £524 £475
Median % change year-on-year -25.54% +10.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £488 £591 £588
90th Percentile £493 £688 £650
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 583 688 1,225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.46% 24.95% 35.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 411 519 879
10th Percentile £200 £198 £213
25th Percentile £375 £325 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -6.25% +1.05%
75th Percentile £575 £591 £575
90th Percentile £675 £682 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 22 16
10th Percentile £14.82 - £14.76
25th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.00 £23.75 £18.86
Median % change year-on-year -24.21% +25.93% +9.00%
75th Percentile £19.87 £27.25 £24.47
90th Percentile £26.79 £50.04 £26.48
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

Azure Data Factory
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Data Factory in the Midlands

Azure Data Factory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Data Factory in the Midlands

Azure Data Factory
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Data Factory in the Midlands

Azure Data Factory
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +7 8 £475 -13.64% 21
East Midlands +5 3 £380 -14.37% 7
Azure Data Factory
England

Azure Data Factory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Data Lake
2 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (18.18%) Power BI
3 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (9.09%) Metadata
3 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
3 1 (9.09%) Spark SQL
3 1 (9.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Manufacturing
3 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Data Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Business Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Data Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Solutions Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Solutions Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Data Analytics Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Junior
3 1 (9.09%) Junior Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) PySpark
2 1 (9.09%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) ETL
2 6 (54.55%) Agile
2 6 (54.55%) Data Integration
2 6 (54.55%) Data Transformation
2 6 (54.55%) ERP
3 5 (45.45%) Data Modelling
3 5 (45.45%) Machine Learning
4 4 (36.36%) Data Migration
4 4 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (36.36%) ETL Development
4 4 (36.36%) Migration
5 3 (27.27%) API Integration
5 3 (27.27%) Data Mapping
5 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (27.27%) Validation
6 2 (18.18%) Analytics
6 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (18.18%) Data Engineering
6 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Azure Certification
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
2 1 (9.09%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Databricks
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) Informatica