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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 104 126
Rank change year-on-year -15 +22 +22
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 11 18 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.50% 0.75% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.52% 2.49% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 17 16
10th Percentile £461 £413 £438
25th Percentile £463 £419 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £631
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -28.71% +14.77%
75th Percentile £534 £588 £675
90th Percentile £538 £653 -
England median daily rate £503 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -8.64% -4.35% -

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 724 723 1,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 33.15% 30.11% 35.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 546 468 750
10th Percentile £313 £300 £265
25th Percentile £376 £384 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £525 £575 £575
90th Percentile £634 £650 £664
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 13 57
10th Percentile £12.82 £13.09 £15.75
25th Percentile £14.75 £17.44 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.58% +2.86% +29.88%
75th Percentile £62.22 £58.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £73.52 £71.15 £70.00
England median hourly rate £26.00 £33.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -21.21% - +53.49%

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
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
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 19 September 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 -11 7 £513 +7.33% 6
Lancashire - 3 £475 - 7
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 (18.18%) Apache Spark
2 1 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (81.82%) Power Platform
3 4 (36.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (27.27%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (9.09%) AWS
6 1 (9.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (9.09%) Azure Storage
6 1 (9.09%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (81.82%) Power BI
2 4 (36.36%) Data Lake
2 4 (36.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (27.27%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (27.27%) Big Data
3 3 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (27.27%) Dremio
4 2 (18.18%) Delta Lake
4 2 (18.18%) Metadata
4 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
4 2 (18.18%) Tableau
5 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
5 1 (9.09%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 3 (27.27%) Visual Studio
2 2 (18.18%) Git
3 1 (9.09%) ERwin
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
1 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
1 3 (27.27%) Retail
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Data Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Data Analytics Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Analyst Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Data Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Data Integration Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Data Scientist
3 1 (9.09%) Developer Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Integration Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Power BI Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Power BI Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) PySpark
2 1 (9.09%) Kafka
2 1 (9.09%) Matplotlib
2 1 (9.09%) Pandas
2 1 (9.09%) scikit-learn
2 1 (9.09%) Spark Streaming
2 1 (9.09%) TensorFlow
2 1 (9.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Data Structures
1 2 (18.18%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) Data Modelling
2 6 (54.55%) Analytics
3 4 (36.36%) Data Engineering
3 4 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (36.36%) Data Transformation
4 3 (27.27%) Actionable Insight
4 3 (27.27%) Data Governance
4 3 (27.27%) Design Patterns
4 3 (27.27%) DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) Machine Learning
5 2 (18.18%) Agile
5 2 (18.18%) Analytical Modelling
5 2 (18.18%) Data Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) Data Architecture
5 2 (18.18%) Data Science
5 2 (18.18%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (18.18%) ETL
5 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (18.18%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) T-SQL
3 1 (9.09%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Accessibility
2 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Databricks
2 7 (63.64%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Informatica
3 1 (9.09%) Talend