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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 114 124
Rank change year-on-year -19 +10 +18
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 5 9 23
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.20% 0.39% 0.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.60% 1.26% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 18
10th Percentile £402 £413 £421
25th Percentile £428 £428 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £450 £625
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -28.00% +18.99%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £669
90th Percentile - £675 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -3.51%

All Cloud 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 839 717 1,012
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 34.27% 30.72% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 646 454 763
10th Percentile £300 £300 £265
25th Percentile £363 £393 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.79% -4.04% -1.00%
75th Percentile £549 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £644 £650
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 16 52
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.44 £16.03
25th Percentile £16.94 £21.05 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.17% -11.76% +60.00%
75th Percentile £67.25 £49.14 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.83 £73.63 £61.90
England median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -27.23% +27.27% +22.22%

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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 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
Manchester -9 4 £445 -6.32% 7
Lancashire - 1 £500 - 5
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 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Power Automate
4 1 (20.00%) AWS
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (20.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Power BI
2 3 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (40.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (40.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (20.00%) Big Data
4 1 (20.00%) Delta Lake
4 1 (20.00%) Metadata
4 1 (20.00%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 2 (40.00%) Law
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Developer Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Power BI Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) PySpark
1 1 (20.00%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (60.00%) Actionable Insight
2 3 (60.00%) Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) ETL
3 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (40.00%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) Cost Management
4 1 (20.00%) Data Science
4 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) MLOps
4 1 (20.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Scala
2 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Databricks
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft