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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 119 102
Rank change year-on-year -28 -17 +19
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 25 12 18
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.66% 0.55% 0.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.08% 1.74% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 18
10th Percentile £408 £461 £398
25th Percentile £419 £463 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +7.53% -28.46%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £578
90th Percentile £600 - £649
England median daily rate £500 £500 £539
% change year-on-year - -7.19% -6.30%

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 1,200 688 745
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.76% 31.32% 31.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 772 513 505
10th Percentile £241 £311 £302
25th Percentile £400 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £613 £538 £575
90th Percentile £691 £638 £650
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 23 37
10th Percentile £18.85 £12.82 £14.84
25th Percentile £25.38 £22.87 -
Median hourly rate £46.80 £40.59 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +15.30% +152.74% -40.96%
75th Percentile £76.00 £56.25 £32.50
90th Percentile £91.00 £75.50 £70.45
England median hourly rate £35.71 £26.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year +37.35% +9.24% -27.88%

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 7 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 7 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 -24 21 £525 - 2
Merseyside -13 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 (8.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 25 (100.00%) Azure
2 15 (60.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 8 (32.00%) Power Platform
4 5 (20.00%) Snowflake
5 3 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (12.00%) Power Automate
6 2 (8.00%) dbt
6 2 (8.00%) Fivetran
6 2 (8.00%) SaaS
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Storage
7 1 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (32.00%) Power BI
3 6 (24.00%) Data Lake
4 5 (20.00%) SQL Server
4 5 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (16.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 4 (16.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (16.00%) Metadata
6 3 (12.00%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (8.00%) Delta Lake
7 2 (8.00%) Spark SQL
8 1 (4.00%) Parquet
8 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Git
2 1 (4.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (4.00%) Toad
General
1 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Law
2 4 (16.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (16.00%) Retail
3 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Finance
4 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (48.00%) Data Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Senior
3 4 (16.00%) Lead
4 3 (12.00%) Azure Data Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Azure Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Azure Data Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Data Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Data Migration Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Data Migration Project Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Integration Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Migration Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Migration Project Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Project Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Project Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Snowflake Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) PySpark
2 2 (8.00%) Kafka
2 2 (8.00%) Pandas
3 1 (4.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (4.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (8.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (8.00%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.00%) Data Fabric
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (64.00%) Data Pipeline
1 16 (64.00%) ETL
2 14 (56.00%) Analytics
2 14 (56.00%) Data Modelling
3 10 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 10 (40.00%) Migration
4 9 (36.00%) CI/CD
5 8 (32.00%) Data Engineering
6 7 (28.00%) Data Integration
6 7 (28.00%) Data Migration
7 5 (20.00%) Data Architecture
7 5 (20.00%) Data Governance
7 5 (20.00%) DevOps
7 5 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (20.00%) Workflow
8 4 (16.00%) ETL Development
8 4 (16.00%) Integration Patterns
9 3 (12.00%) Data Transformation
9 3 (12.00%) Event-Driven
9 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 20 (80.00%) SQL
2 14 (56.00%) Python
3 7 (28.00%) T-SQL
4 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (56.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.00%) GDPR
3 1 (4.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (40.00%) Databricks
2 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.00%) Informatica
3 2 (8.00%) MuleSoft
4 1 (4.00%) Infor
4 1 (4.00%) Oracle
4 1 (4.00%) SAP