Azure Data Factory Contracts in Reading

Microsoft Azure Data Factory
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 59 67
Rank change year-on-year +19 +8 +16
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 20 32 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 3.35% 2.68% 1.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.95% 8.67% 6.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 29 17
10th Percentile £533 £496 £513
25th Percentile £613 £506 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £613
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +16.67%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £750
90th Percentile - £688 -
Berkshire median daily rate £563 £625 £606
% change year-on-year -10.00% +3.09% +18.29%

All Cloud Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 201 369 320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 33.67% 30.96% 30.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 275 247
10th Percentile £343 £381 £413
25th Percentile £444 £484 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £675 £688 £725
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 7
10th Percentile £33.82 £56.50 £38.59
25th Percentile £41.05 £56.58 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £58.30 £75.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% -22.78% +211.34%
75th Percentile £65.14 £59.95 £79.19
90th Percentile £72.37 £60.61 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.05 £58.30 £33.50
% change year-on-year -45.03% +74.03% +53.85%

Azure Data Factory
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Data Factory in Reading

Azure Data Factory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Data Factory in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Azure Data Factory in Reading

Azure Data Factory
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Data Factory in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Data Factory in Reading

Azure Data Factory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 20 (100.00%) Azure
2 14 (70.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 8 (40.00%) Azure Functions
3 8 (40.00%) Serverless
4 7 (35.00%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (35.00%) Azure Monitor
5 6 (30.00%) Azure API Management
5 6 (30.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (25.00%) Entra ID
7 2 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (5.00%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (5.00%) AWS
8 1 (5.00%) Azure Storage
8 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Hive
2 1 (5.00%) Big Data
2 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.00%) HBase
2 1 (5.00%) HDInsight
2 1 (5.00%) Impala
2 1 (5.00%) Metadata
2 1 (5.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (45.00%) Selenium
2 6 (30.00%) Git
3 3 (15.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 6 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Electronics
2 3 (15.00%) Finance
2 3 (15.00%) Manufacturing
2 3 (15.00%) Marketing
2 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (15.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (65.00%) Azure Developer
1 13 (65.00%) Developer
2 12 (60.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 6 (30.00%) Python Developer
4 5 (25.00%) Full-Stack Python Developer
4 5 (25.00%) React Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Test Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Analyst
6 2 (10.00%) Automation Tester
6 2 (10.00%) Data Analyst
6 2 (10.00%) Data Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Data Migration Analyst
6 2 (10.00%) Senior Automation Tester
6 2 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Senior Test Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Senior Tester
6 2 (10.00%) Test Automation Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (35.00%) React
2 6 (30.00%) ADO
3 4 (20.00%) PySpark
4 3 (15.00%) Gherkin
5 2 (10.00%) JSON
6 1 (5.00%) ARM Templates
6 1 (5.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Product Ownership
1 6 (30.00%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (5.00%) IoT
2 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Unix
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (75.00%) DevOps
2 13 (65.00%) Agile
3 12 (60.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 10 (50.00%) Test Automation
5 8 (40.00%) Microservices
6 7 (35.00%) CI/CD
7 6 (30.00%) Product Backlog
7 6 (30.00%) SDLC
8 5 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (20.00%) Data Migration
9 4 (20.00%) Data-Driven Testing
9 4 (20.00%) Migration
9 4 (20.00%) Unit Testing
10 3 (15.00%) Analytics
10 3 (15.00%) Digital Marketing
10 3 (15.00%) ETL
10 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (15.00%) Programme Management
11 2 (10.00%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 13 (65.00%) Python
2 9 (45.00%) Java
3 6 (30.00%) SQL
4 1 (5.00%) C#
4 1 (5.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 7 (35.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Flume
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Databricks
2 3 (15.00%) SAP
3 1 (5.00%) Google
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) StreamSets