Azure Data Factory Contracts in the North West

Microsoft Azure Data Factory
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 115 135
Rank change year-on-year +2 +20 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 14 20 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.66% 0.73% 0.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.06% 2.27% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 20 15
10th Percentile - £408 £396
25th Percentile £463 £419 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £560
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -12.50% +1.82%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £666
90th Percentile - £641 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -3.59%

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 680 883 1,143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.24% 32.05% 36.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 516 625 858
10th Percentile £313 £283 £300
25th Percentile £392 £388 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £457 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.74% -5.00% -1.72%
75th Percentile £548 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £650 £656
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 60 38
10th Percentile £12.82 £15.25 £15.72
25th Percentile £16.33 - £16.34
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £22.47
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -28.53% -12.56%
75th Percentile £47.12 £26.50 £42.44
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.54 £63.83
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £33.90
% change year-on-year +14.32% -35.10% +57.66%

Azure Data Factory
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Data Factory in the North West

Azure Data Factory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend 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 6 July 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 +4 9 £513 +4.59% 31
Lancashire - 3 £475 - 8
Merseyside +1 1 £525 +17.98% 5
Azure Data Factory
England

Azure Data Factory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (14.29%) Apache Spark
2 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (57.14%) Power Platform
3 4 (28.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (21.43%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Storage
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (57.14%) Power BI
2 4 (28.57%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (28.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (21.43%) Data Lake
3 3 (21.43%) Delta Lake
3 3 (21.43%) Dremio
3 3 (21.43%) Metadata
4 2 (14.29%) Big Data
4 2 (14.29%) MongoDB
4 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
5 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
5 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
5 1 (7.14%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 3 (21.43%) Visual Studio
2 2 (14.29%) Git
3 1 (7.14%) ERwin
General
1 3 (21.43%) Finance
1 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
1 3 (21.43%) Retail
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Consultant
2 2 (14.29%) Consultant
2 2 (14.29%) Data Analytics Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Data Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Analyst Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Data Integration Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Data Scientist
3 1 (7.14%) Developer Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Lead
3 1 (7.14%) Lead Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) PySpark
2 1 (7.14%) ADO
2 1 (7.14%) Matplotlib
2 1 (7.14%) Pandas
2 1 (7.14%) scikit-learn
2 1 (7.14%) TensorFlow
2 1 (7.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.14%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (7.14%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Data Modelling
2 8 (57.14%) Analytics
3 6 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (28.57%) Agile
4 4 (28.57%) Data Engineering
5 3 (21.43%) Actionable Insight
5 3 (21.43%) Data Management
5 3 (21.43%) Data Transformation
5 3 (21.43%) Design Patterns
5 3 (21.43%) DevOps
5 3 (21.43%) ETL
6 2 (14.29%) Analytical Modelling
6 2 (14.29%) Data Analytics
6 2 (14.29%) Data Architecture
6 2 (14.29%) Data Governance
6 2 (14.29%) Data Integration
6 2 (14.29%) Machine Learning
6 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (7.14%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) SQL
2 5 (35.71%) Python
3 3 (21.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) Databricks
2 8 (57.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Informatica
3 1 (7.14%) Talend