Azure Data Factory Contracts in Scotland

Microsoft Azure Data Factory
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 16 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 114 143
Rank change year-on-year +2 +29 0
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 3 6 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.18% 0.28% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.50% 0.85% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 8
10th Percentile - £409 £389
25th Percentile - £415 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £456 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.53% -7.83% -1.00%
75th Percentile - £497 £548
90th Percentile - £514 £623
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 596 702 988
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 36.54% 33.32% 36.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 487 732
10th Percentile £287 £213 £253
25th Percentile £410 £366 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £550
90th Percentile £591 £629 £622
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 10
10th Percentile £16.21 £16.22 £17.26
25th Percentile £17.90 £16.50 £22.44
Median hourly rate £21.22 £17.00 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year +24.82% -71.20% +45.74%
75th Percentile £25.06 £21.64 £63.00
90th Percentile £27.05 £30.09 £70.60
UK median hourly rate £27.76 £21.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.12% -38.57% +59.09%

Azure Data Factory
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Data Factory in Scotland

Azure Data Factory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Data Factory in Scotland

Azure Data Factory
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 16 June 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
Edinburgh +7 1 £431 -1.49% 29
Glasgow -10 1 - - 30
Azure Data Factory
UK

Azure Data Factory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Migration Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
1 1 (33.33%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) CRM
3 1 (33.33%) Data Design
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Data Science
3 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) ERP
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Storage Management
3 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Sage