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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 109 124
Rank change year-on-year -35 +15 +17
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 12 11 17
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.43% 0.53% 0.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.26% 1.57% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 15
10th Percentile £360 £335 £418
25th Percentile £406 £366 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -11.90% -12.50%
75th Percentile £650 £513 £638
90th Percentile - £544 -
England median daily rate £525 £521 £550
% change year-on-year +0.72% -5.23% -

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 952 702 969
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 33.72% 33.73% 34.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 685 504 698
10th Percentile £220 £241 £268
25th Percentile £358 £391 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -2.71% -2.35%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £551
90th Percentile £630 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 11 79
10th Percentile £16.20 £21.05 £15.00
25th Percentile £22.62 £22.61 £16.06
Median hourly rate £62.50 £28.75 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +117.39% +62.25% -64.25%
75th Percentile £77.50 £30.63 £35.13
90th Percentile £91.50 £77.50 £71.87
England median hourly rate £40.00 £27.50 £21.42
% change year-on-year +45.45% +28.41% -14.34%

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 28 February 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 28 February 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 -13 10 £450 -10.00% 9
Merseyside -17 1 - - 4
Lancashire - 1 £425 - 4
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 (8.33%) Apache Spark
1 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (75.00%) Power Platform
3 8 (66.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (25.00%) Power Automate
5 2 (16.67%) Azure AI
5 2 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (16.67%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (8.33%) OCI
6 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (50.00%) Power BI
2 3 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (16.67%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 2 (16.67%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database
4 1 (8.33%) RDBMS
4 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (8.33%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 5 (41.67%) Law
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Retail
4 1 (8.33%) Finance
4 1 (8.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Azure Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Lead
3 2 (16.67%) Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Data Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Applications Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (8.33%) C# Application Developer
4 1 (8.33%) C# Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Migration Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) PySpark
2 1 (8.33%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Analytics
2 6 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 6 (50.00%) DevOps
3 5 (41.67%) ETL
4 4 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
4 4 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (25.00%) Data Engineering
5 3 (25.00%) Machine Learning
5 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 2 (16.67%) Dashboard Development
6 2 (16.67%) ETL Development
6 2 (16.67%) Event-Driven
6 2 (16.67%) Generative AI
6 2 (16.67%) Microservices
6 2 (16.67%) Observability
6 2 (16.67%) Prompt Engineering
6 2 (16.67%) Semantic Search
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) SQL
2 4 (33.33%) Python
3 2 (16.67%) T-SQL
4 1 (8.33%) C#
4 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (8.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 2 (16.67%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Databricks
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (16.67%) Foundry
3 2 (16.67%) OpenAI
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle