Azure Data Factory Contract Job Trends in the North East

Microsoft Azure Data Factory
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Azure Data Factory skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 35 30
Rank change year-on-year -12 -5 +34
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 4 6 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 1.04% 1.99% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.55% 5.41% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 0
10th Percentile £395 £349 -
25th Percentile £444 £355 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £358 -
Median % change year-on-year +53.63% - -
75th Percentile £606 £366 -
90th Percentile £625 £380 -
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.65%

All Cloud Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 157 111 73
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 40.99% 36.88% 29.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 63 52
10th Percentile £215 £315 £163
25th Percentile £377 £375 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £403
Median % change year-on-year - +18.01% -30.00%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £498
90th Percentile £710 £626 £580
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 4
10th Percentile £39.40 - £15.73
25th Percentile £44.50 - £16.06
Median hourly rate £52.50 £46.18 £31.84
Median % change year-on-year +13.69% +45.04% +41.51%
75th Percentile £55.00 - £46.18
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £26.30 £30.94 £23.24
% change year-on-year -14.99% +33.12% +3.29%

Azure Data Factory
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Azure Data Factory job vacancy trend in the North East

Azure Data Factory
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Azure Data Factory.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Azure Data Factory

Azure Data Factory
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Data Factory in the North East over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Data Factory in the North East

Azure Data Factory
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Tyne and Wear -11 4 £550 +53.63% 3
Azure Data Factory
England

Azure Data Factory
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (25.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Lineage
1 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (25.00%) Benchmarking
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (25.00%) CRM
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) ERP
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Stress Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) Bicep
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) Basel II
2 1 (25.00%) Basel III
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce