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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 120 142
Rank change year-on-year +13 +22 -17
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 17 21 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.86% 0.79% 0.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.69% 2.45% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 21 15
10th Percentile £361 £413 £415
25th Percentile £463 £419 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £638
Median % change year-on-year - -21.57% +15.91%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £666
90th Percentile - - £700
England median daily rate £488 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -11.36% - -2.53%

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 632 857 1,148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.13% 32.13% 37.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 620 850
10th Percentile £250 £284 £313
25th Percentile £391 £393 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £638 £651
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 65 33
10th Percentile £12.82 £13.00 £15.81
25th Percentile £26.88 - £16.62
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -54.11% +45.67%
75th Percentile £65.22 £26.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £60.40 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £21.00 £32.40
% change year-on-year +21.43% -35.19% +50.70%

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
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 17 May 2025.

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 17 May 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 +16 10 £500 +4.17% 12
Cheshire -3 4 £448 -28.40% 3
Lancashire - 1 £475 - 4
Merseyside - 1 £525 - 1
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 3 (17.65%) SharePoint
2 2 (11.76%) Apache Spark
3 1 (5.88%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (35.29%) Power Platform
3 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (17.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (17.65%) GCP
3 3 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Functions
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Storage
5 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) Power BI
2 5 (29.41%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (23.53%) Metadata
3 4 (23.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (17.65%) Bigtable
4 3 (17.65%) Data Vault
4 3 (17.65%) Delta Lake
4 3 (17.65%) Dremio
4 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
5 2 (11.76%) Big Data
5 2 (11.76%) MongoDB
5 2 (11.76%) Tableau
6 1 (5.88%) GIS
6 1 (5.88%) MSDE
6 1 (5.88%) MySQL
6 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
6 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
6 1 (5.88%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) ERwin
1 4 (23.53%) Visual Studio
2 3 (17.65%) ER Studio
2 3 (17.65%) Git
2 3 (17.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 4 (23.53%) Finance
1 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Data Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Senior
3 3 (17.65%) Data Modeller
4 2 (11.76%) Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Data Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Administrator
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Data Integration Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Data Scientist
5 1 (5.88%) DBA
5 1 (5.88%) Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Data Modeller
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Data Scientist
5 1 (5.88%) SQL DBA
5 1 (5.88%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) PySpark
2 2 (11.76%) ADO
3 1 (5.88%) .NET
3 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET
3 1 (5.88%) Matplotlib
3 1 (5.88%) Pandas
3 1 (5.88%) scikit-learn
3 1 (5.88%) Shiny
3 1 (5.88%) TensorFlow
3 1 (5.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.88%) Clustering
2 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.88%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (5.88%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
1 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
1 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Data Modelling
2 9 (52.94%) Data Pipeline
3 8 (47.06%) ETL
4 7 (41.18%) Analytics
5 6 (35.29%) Agile
5 6 (35.29%) Data Engineering
6 4 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (23.53%) Data Management
6 4 (23.53%) Data Transformation
6 4 (23.53%) DevOps
7 3 (17.65%) Data Analytics
7 3 (17.65%) Data Design
7 3 (17.65%) Data Integration
7 3 (17.65%) Data Mapping
7 3 (17.65%) Design Patterns
7 3 (17.65%) Quality Management
8 2 (11.76%) Analytical Modelling
8 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
8 2 (11.76%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 2 (11.76%) DataOps
Programming Languages
1 13 (76.47%) SQL
2 6 (35.29%) Python
3 4 (23.53%) T-SQL
4 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.88%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.76%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (5.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Perfmon
1 1 (5.88%) SCOM
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
1 1 (5.88%) VxRail
Vendors
1 14 (82.35%) Databricks
2 8 (47.06%) Microsoft
3 3 (17.65%) IDERA
4 1 (5.88%) Brio
4 1 (5.88%) Informatica
4 1 (5.88%) Talend
4 1 (5.88%) VMware