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 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 121 105
Rank change year-on-year -31 -16 +21
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 23 12 18
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.59% 0.54% 0.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.91% 1.70% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 18
10th Percentile £407 - £398
25th Percentile £433 £463 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +8.11% -28.16%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £578
90th Percentile £598 - £649
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -3.51%

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 1,207 707 735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.08% 31.90% 30.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 785 523 497
10th Percentile £250 £313 £307
25th Percentile £400 £386 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £608 £538 £575
90th Percentile £692 £638 £650
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 27 27
10th Percentile £18.45 £12.82 -
25th Percentile £25.38 £18.87 -
Median hourly rate £45.50 £41.06 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +10.81% +155.67% -40.96%
75th Percentile £76.00 £67.25 £41.09
90th Percentile £88.50 £74.75 £70.45
England median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +34.62% +4.00% -22.65%

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 August 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 21 August 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 -26 19 £525 +2.44% 3
Merseyside -17 2 £419 -20.24%
Cumbria - 1 - -
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%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) Azure
2 14 (60.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 8 (34.78%) Power Platform
4 4 (17.39%) Power Automate
4 4 (17.39%) Snowflake
5 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (8.70%) dbt
5 2 (8.70%) Fivetran
5 2 (8.70%) SaaS
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Storage
6 1 (4.35%) Copilot Studio
6 1 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (43.48%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (34.78%) Power BI
3 5 (21.74%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 5 (21.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (17.39%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (17.39%) Data Lake
4 4 (17.39%) Metadata
4 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
5 3 (13.04%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (8.70%) Delta Lake
7 1 (4.35%) Parquet
7 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (4.35%) Spark SQL
7 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (4.35%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (4.35%) Toad
General
1 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Law
2 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
3 3 (13.04%) Retail
4 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Finance
5 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.35%) Military
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Data Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Senior
3 2 (8.70%) Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Azure Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Azure Data Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Azure Data Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Data Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Integration Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Lead
3 2 (8.70%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Snowflake Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Consultant
4 1 (4.35%) Data Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Project Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) Kafka
1 2 (8.70%) Pandas
1 2 (8.70%) PySpark
2 1 (4.35%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (8.70%) Data Structures
1 2 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.35%) Data Fabric
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (69.57%) ETL
2 14 (60.87%) Analytics
2 14 (60.87%) Data Modelling
2 14 (60.87%) Data Pipeline
3 10 (43.48%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (39.13%) Migration
5 7 (30.43%) Data Integration
6 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
6 6 (26.09%) Data Engineering
6 6 (26.09%) Data Migration
6 6 (26.09%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (21.74%) Data Architecture
7 5 (21.74%) Workflow
8 4 (17.39%) Data Governance
8 4 (17.39%) ETL Development
8 4 (17.39%) Integration Patterns
9 3 (13.04%) Decision-Making
9 3 (13.04%) Event-Driven
9 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (13.04%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 19 (82.61%) SQL
2 12 (52.17%) Python
3 8 (34.78%) T-SQL
4 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) SC Cleared
1 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (65.22%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.35%) GDPR
2 1 (4.35%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Databricks
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) Informatica
2 2 (8.70%) MuleSoft
3 1 (4.35%) Infor
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle
3 1 (4.35%) SAP