Azure Data Factory Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft Azure Data Factory
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 150 162
Rank change year-on-year +13 +12 -7
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 28 33 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.85% 0.71% 0.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.56% 2.40% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 33 37
10th Percentile £356 £373 £468
25th Percentile £363 £419 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -20.00% +12.41%
75th Percentile £525 £588 £656
90th Percentile £538 £638 £700
England median daily rate £488 £544 £550
% change year-on-year -10.34% -1.14% -2.53%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,093 1,374 2,043
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.09% 29.70% 36.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 809 973 1,524
10th Percentile £255 £266 £291
25th Percentile £380 £393 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £489 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -6.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £645 £686
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 79 38
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.00 £16.05
25th Percentile £12.82 £15.50 £17.75
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -56.94% +77.62%
75th Percentile £73.44 £22.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £97.49 £44.24 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £21.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year +21.43% -34.98% +50.23%

Azure Data Factory
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Data Factory in the North of England

Azure Data Factory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Data Factory in the North of England

Azure Data Factory
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Data Factory in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Data Factory in the North of England

Azure Data Factory
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 16 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
North West +4 17 £500 - 24
Yorkshire +8 6 £388 -18.42% 20
North East - 5 £358 - 9
Azure Data Factory
England

Azure Data Factory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 3 (10.71%) SharePoint
2 2 (7.14%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.57%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (7.14%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 28 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (39.29%) Power Platform
3 10 (35.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 5 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (10.71%) GCP
5 3 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Functions
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Storage
7 1 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (3.57%) Serverless
7 1 (3.57%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (39.29%) Power BI
2 8 (28.57%) Data Lake
3 7 (25.00%) Metadata
4 6 (21.43%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (21.43%) SQL Server
4 6 (21.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (17.86%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (10.71%) Bigtable
6 3 (10.71%) Data Vault
6 3 (10.71%) Delta Lake
6 3 (10.71%) Dremio
6 3 (10.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (7.14%) Big Data
7 2 (7.14%) Metadata Repository
7 2 (7.14%) MongoDB
7 2 (7.14%) Power Query
7 2 (7.14%) Tableau
8 1 (3.57%) MySQL
8 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
8 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) ERwin
1 4 (14.29%) Visual Studio
2 3 (10.71%) ER Studio
2 3 (10.71%) Git
2 3 (10.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.86%) Finance
3 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Architect
2 4 (14.29%) Senior
3 3 (10.71%) Data Modeller
4 2 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Data Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Report Specialist
4 2 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Administrator
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Consultant
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Business Intelligence Consultant
5 1 (3.57%) Data Scientist
5 1 (3.57%) DBA
5 1 (3.57%) Integration Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Data Modeller
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (28.57%) PySpark
2 2 (7.14%) ADO
3 1 (3.57%) .NET
3 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET
3 1 (3.57%) Matplotlib
3 1 (3.57%) Pandas
3 1 (3.57%) scikit-learn
3 1 (3.57%) Shiny
3 1 (3.57%) TensorFlow
3 1 (3.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 2 (7.14%) NHS
3 1 (3.57%) Clustering
3 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.57%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (3.57%) IoT
3 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Windows
1 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
1 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (64.29%) Data Modelling
2 13 (46.43%) Data Pipeline
3 12 (42.86%) Analytics
4 9 (32.14%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (32.14%) Data Transformation
4 9 (32.14%) ETL
5 7 (25.00%) Data Engineering
5 7 (25.00%) DevOps
5 7 (25.00%) ERP
6 6 (21.43%) Agile
6 6 (21.43%) Machine Learning
7 5 (17.86%) API Integration
7 5 (17.86%) Data Analytics
8 4 (14.29%) Analytical Modelling
8 4 (14.29%) CI/CD
8 4 (14.29%) Data Integration
8 4 (14.29%) Data Management
8 4 (14.29%) Data Science
8 4 (14.29%) Decision-Making
9 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 22 (78.57%) SQL
2 6 (21.43%) Python
2 6 (21.43%) T-SQL
3 2 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (7.14%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.57%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.14%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (3.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) Perfmon
1 1 (3.57%) SCOM
1 1 (3.57%) Terraform
1 1 (3.57%) VxRail
Vendors
1 15 (53.57%) Databricks
2 10 (35.71%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.71%) IDERA
4 2 (7.14%) Liquidlogic
4 2 (7.14%) SAP
5 1 (3.57%) Brio
5 1 (3.57%) Informatica
5 1 (3.57%) Talend
5 1 (3.57%) VMware