Azure Data Factory Contract Job Trends in the North West

Microsoft Azure Data Factory
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Azure Data Factory skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 106 122
Rank change year-on-year -28 +16 +18
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 23 18 15
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.72% 0.94% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.25% 2.87% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 12 15
10th Percentile £403 £361 £413
25th Percentile £413 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £581 £538 £638
90th Percentile £650 - -
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,024 628 886
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.95% 32.62% 32.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 696 487 641
10th Percentile £230 £242 £284
25th Percentile £375 £400 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £489
Median % change year-on-year - -2.86% -2.20%
75th Percentile £581 £563 £575
90th Percentile £650 £638 £638
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 11 65
10th Percentile £23.71 - £13.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £26.88 -
Median hourly rate £62.25 £29.00 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +114.66% +80.57% -56.94%
75th Percentile £78.38 £57.94 £20.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £76.25 £43.75
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £20.77
% change year-on-year +70.13% +27.35% -35.70%

Azure Data Factory
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Azure Data Factory job vacancy trend in the North West

Azure Data Factory
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Azure Data Factory
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Data Factory in the North West over the 6 months to 29 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Data Factory in the North West

Azure Data Factory
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 29 April 2026. 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
Manchester -18 18 £550 +10.00% 4
Merseyside -16 3 £419 -20.24% 3
Lancashire -11 1 £425 -10.53% 3
Azure Data Factory
England

Azure Data Factory
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (8.70%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) Azure
2 16 (69.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 12 (52.17%) Power Platform
4 4 (17.39%) Power Automate
5 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (8.70%) Azure AI
6 2 (8.70%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (8.70%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (8.70%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (8.70%) Snowflake
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Storage
7 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (4.35%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (43.48%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (39.13%) Power BI
3 6 (26.09%) Data Lake
4 4 (17.39%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 4 (17.39%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (17.39%) Snowflake Schema
4 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
5 3 (13.04%) Metadata
6 1 (4.35%) Oracle Database
6 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (4.35%) RDBMS
6 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
6 1 (4.35%) Spark SQL
6 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Git
1 1 (4.35%) JIRA
1 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 6 (26.09%) Law
3 3 (13.04%) Retail
4 1 (4.35%) Finance
4 1 (4.35%) Legal
4 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Data Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Lead
4 3 (13.04%) Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Azure Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Azure Data Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Data Migration Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Data Migration Project Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Migration Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Migration Project Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Project Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Senior
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Project Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Lead Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) PySpark
2 2 (8.70%) Pandas
3 1 (4.35%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Data Structures
1 2 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.35%) Data Fabric
2 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (73.91%) Analytics
2 13 (56.52%) Data Modelling
3 12 (52.17%) Data Pipeline
4 11 (47.83%) ETL
5 10 (43.48%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (34.78%) CI/CD
7 7 (30.43%) DevOps
8 6 (26.09%) Data Engineering
8 6 (26.09%) Data Migration
8 6 (26.09%) Migration
8 6 (26.09%) Workflow
9 5 (21.74%) Actionable Insight
9 5 (21.74%) Data Governance
9 5 (21.74%) Performance Tuning
9 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (17.39%) Data Visualisation
10 4 (17.39%) ETL Development
10 4 (17.39%) Mentoring
10 4 (17.39%) Visualisation
11 3 (13.04%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 19 (82.61%) SQL
2 10 (43.48%) Python
3 5 (21.74%) T-SQL
4 1 (4.35%) C#
4 1 (4.35%) PL/SQL
4 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.35%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (47.83%) Data Quality
2 3 (13.04%) GDPR
3 1 (4.35%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Databricks
2 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.70%) Foundry
3 2 (8.70%) OpenAI
3 2 (8.70%) Oracle
4 1 (4.35%) Infor
4 1 (4.35%) SAP