Azure Data Factory Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Azure Data Factory
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 122 159 144
Rank change year-on-year +37 -15 +67
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 37 46 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.23% 0.83% 1.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.06% 3.35% 4.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 39 64
10th Percentile £413 £475 £453
25th Percentile £466 £509 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £620 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +3.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile - £678 £750
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 911 1,373 1,705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.27% 24.70% 29.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 924 1,252
10th Percentile £280 £250 £252
25th Percentile £403 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £635
90th Percentile £663 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 52 52
10th Percentile £16.78 £16.25 £17.72
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.80 £18.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.36 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.47% -8.74% +16.39%
75th Percentile £47.58 £52.38 £67.81
90th Percentile £75.05 £61.59 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

Azure Data Factory
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Data Factory in the South East

Azure Data Factory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Data Factory in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Azure Data Factory in the South East

Azure Data Factory
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Data Factory in the South East

Azure Data Factory
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Thames Valley +40 35 £548 -12.40% 13
Berkshire +31 33 £563 -10.00% 8
Buckinghamshire +13 2 £543 -9.58% 4
East Sussex - 2 £475 - 2
Azure Data Factory
England

Azure Data Factory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (10.81%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.70%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 37 (100.00%) Azure
2 14 (37.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 14 (37.84%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (27.03%) Azure Monitor
4 9 (24.32%) Azure Functions
4 9 (24.32%) Serverless
5 8 (21.62%) Azure API Management
5 8 (21.62%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (13.51%) Entra ID
7 4 (10.81%) Azure Storage
7 4 (10.81%) PaaS
7 4 (10.81%) Power Platform
8 3 (8.11%) Azure AKS
8 3 (8.11%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (8.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (8.11%) IaaS
9 2 (5.41%) Azure Event Grid
10 1 (2.70%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (2.70%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (32.43%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (21.62%) Big Data
3 5 (13.51%) NoSQL
3 5 (13.51%) SQL Server
4 4 (10.81%) Data Lake
5 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 2 (5.41%) Power BI
5 2 (5.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (2.70%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.70%) Apache Hive
6 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.70%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.70%) HBase
6 1 (2.70%) HDInsight
6 1 (2.70%) Impala
6 1 (2.70%) Metadata
6 1 (2.70%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 9 (24.32%) Selenium
2 6 (16.22%) Git
3 3 (8.11%) SpecFlow
4 2 (5.41%) Postman
5 1 (2.70%) JIRA
General
1 6 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (13.51%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.11%) Electronics
3 3 (8.11%) Finance
3 3 (8.11%) Manufacturing
3 3 (8.11%) Marketing
3 3 (8.11%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.11%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.70%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 16 (43.24%) Developer
2 15 (40.54%) Azure Developer
3 12 (32.43%) Full-Stack Developer
4 9 (24.32%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (18.92%) Data Engineer
6 6 (16.22%) Python Developer
7 5 (13.51%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 5 (13.51%) React Developer
7 5 (13.51%) Senior
8 3 (8.11%) Azure Data Engineer
8 3 (8.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 3 (8.11%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (8.11%) Site Engineer
8 3 (8.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 3 (8.11%) Test Engineer
9 2 (5.41%) Data Analyst
9 2 (5.41%) Data Migration Analyst
9 2 (5.41%) Senior Developer
9 2 (5.41%) Senior Test Engineer
9 2 (5.41%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (29.73%) PySpark
2 9 (24.32%) ADO
3 7 (18.92%) React
4 3 (8.11%) Gherkin
5 2 (5.41%) .NET
5 2 (5.41%) JSON
6 1 (2.70%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.70%) ARM Templates
6 1 (2.70%) Kafka
6 1 (2.70%) RESTful
6 1 (2.70%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.03%) Product Ownership
2 6 (16.22%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (2.70%) IoT
3 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Linux
1 1 (2.70%) Unix
1 1 (2.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (64.86%) DevOps
2 18 (48.65%) Agile
3 12 (32.43%) Full-Stack Development
3 12 (32.43%) Test Automation
4 11 (29.73%) CI/CD
5 9 (24.32%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (24.32%) Data Pipeline
5 9 (24.32%) Microservices
6 8 (21.62%) Analytics
7 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (16.22%) Product Backlog
8 6 (16.22%) SDLC
9 5 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (13.51%) Unit Testing
10 4 (10.81%) Artificial Intelligence
10 4 (10.81%) Data Integration
10 4 (10.81%) Data Migration
10 4 (10.81%) ETL
10 4 (10.81%) Migration
10 4 (10.81%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 23 (62.16%) Python
2 19 (51.35%) SQL
3 9 (24.32%) Java
4 5 (13.51%) C#
5 4 (10.81%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.70%) Perl
6 1 (2.70%) R
6 1 (2.70%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared
1 3 (8.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.41%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.41%) QA
System Software
1 7 (18.92%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Flume
2 1 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (8.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (35.14%) Databricks
2 9 (24.32%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.11%) SAP
4 1 (2.70%) Google
4 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.70%) Snow
4 1 (2.70%) StreamSets