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

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 122 133
Rank change year-on-year +21 +11 +22
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 26 19 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.13% 0.64% 0.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.77% 2.65% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 17 20
10th Percentile £369 £354 £409
25th Percentile £400 £400 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £463 £531
Median % change year-on-year -4.86% -12.94% +1.19%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £641
90th Percentile £530 £620 £658
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -3.59%

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 690 718 1,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 29.97% 24.22% 34.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 468 515 821
10th Percentile £253 £200 £213
25th Percentile £375 £326 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £451 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -5.16% -1.04%
75th Percentile £552 £595 £588
90th Percentile £647 £685 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 25 22
10th Percentile £15.19 £13.93 £13.17
25th Percentile £17.96 £14.00 £14.64
Median hourly rate £21.39 £19.95 £23.25
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% -14.19% +18.47%
75th Percentile £25.72 £26.50 £29.69
90th Percentile £38.48 £31.36 £86.88
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £33.90
% change year-on-year +14.32% -35.10% +57.66%

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 6 July 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 6 July 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 +11 16 £470 -6.00% 50
East Midlands +1 6 £388 -3.13% 28
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 (3.85%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 6 (23.08%) SAP PM
2 2 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (3.85%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 26 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (30.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 7 (26.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 7 (26.92%) Microsoft Purview
3 7 (26.92%) Power Platform
4 6 (23.08%) Collibra
5 5 (19.23%) Snowflake
6 4 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (11.54%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (11.54%) GitHub
7 3 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (11.54%) Serverless
8 2 (7.69%) AWS
8 2 (7.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (3.85%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (3.85%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (34.62%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (26.92%) Delta Lake
2 7 (26.92%) Power BI
3 6 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (23.08%) GIS
3 6 (23.08%) Oracle Database
4 5 (19.23%) Data Lake
5 3 (11.54%) SQL Server
6 2 (7.69%) NoSQL
6 2 (7.69%) Tableau
7 1 (3.85%) Big Data
7 1 (3.85%) Metadata
7 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
7 1 (3.85%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Git
General
1 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Banking
3 1 (3.85%) Finance
3 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) Data Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Architect
2 6 (23.08%) Azure Data Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Data Architect
3 5 (19.23%) Data Migration Specialist
3 5 (19.23%) Migration Specialist
4 4 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Azure Specialist
5 2 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Data Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Data Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Business Intelligence Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Data Analytics Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Data Scientist
6 1 (3.85%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (30.77%) Kafka
2 2 (7.69%) PySpark
3 1 (3.85%) .NET
3 1 (3.85%) Middleware
3 1 (3.85%) Prophet
3 1 (3.85%) pytest
3 1 (3.85%) scikit-learn
3 1 (3.85%) Spark Streaming
3 1 (3.85%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) IoT
1 6 (23.08%) SCADA
2 4 (15.38%) Cloud Native
3 3 (11.54%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (11.54%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (57.69%) ETL
2 12 (46.15%) Analytics
2 12 (46.15%) Data Governance
3 11 (42.31%) Data Modelling
4 9 (34.62%) Data Integration
5 8 (30.77%) Artificial Intelligence
5 8 (30.77%) Business Intelligence
5 8 (30.77%) Data Pipeline
5 8 (30.77%) Machine Learning
6 7 (26.92%) Data Migration
6 7 (26.92%) DevOps
6 7 (26.92%) Migration
7 6 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (23.08%) Data Engineering
8 5 (19.23%) Data Mapping
8 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (15.38%) Validation
10 3 (11.54%) Agile
10 3 (11.54%) Data Architecture
10 3 (11.54%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 17 (65.38%) SQL
2 12 (46.15%) Python
3 6 (23.08%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (11.54%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.85%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (46.15%) Data Quality
2 5 (19.23%) GDPR
3 3 (11.54%) QA
4 2 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) Terraform
2 1 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (65.38%) Databricks
2 15 (57.69%) Microsoft
3 6 (23.08%) Informatica
3 6 (23.08%) Oracle
3 6 (23.08%) SAP
4 1 (3.85%) Google