Azure Data Factory Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Azure Data Factory
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 67 107 105
Rank change year-on-year +40 -2 +36
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 35 38 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.32% 1.41% 1.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.85% 5.03% 5.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 33 42
10th Percentile £413 £461 £538
25th Percentile £494 £506 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £625 £615
Median % change year-on-year -12.40% +1.71% +17.05%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £739
90th Percentile - £685 £775
South East median daily rate £543 £620 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% +3.33% +14.29%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 511 755 844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 33.82% 28.11% 28.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 515 615
10th Percentile £304 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £606 £608 £625
90th Percentile £663 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 30 20
10th Percentile £20.96 £15.99 £18.42
25th Percentile £28.05 £19.37 £21.49
Median hourly rate £32.05 £42.50 £30.23
Median % change year-on-year -24.59% +40.59% +43.95%
75th Percentile £47.15 £59.95 £59.25
90th Percentile £76.51 £61.60 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.50 £22.36 £24.50
% change year-on-year +27.47% -8.74% +16.39%

Azure Data Factory
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Data Factory in the Thames Valley

Azure Data Factory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Data Factory in the Thames Valley

Azure Data Factory
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Data Factory in the Thames Valley

Azure Data Factory
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +31 33 £563 -10.00% 16
Buckinghamshire +13 2 £543 -9.58% 12
Azure Data Factory
South East

Azure Data Factory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (11.43%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.86%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 35 (100.00%) Azure
2 14 (40.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 14 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
4 9 (25.71%) Azure Functions
4 9 (25.71%) Serverless
5 8 (22.86%) Azure API Management
5 8 (22.86%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (14.29%) Entra ID
7 4 (11.43%) Azure Storage
7 4 (11.43%) PaaS
8 3 (8.57%) Azure AKS
8 3 (8.57%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (8.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (8.57%) IaaS
9 2 (5.71%) Azure Event Grid
9 2 (5.71%) Power Platform
10 1 (2.86%) Amazon ELB
10 1 (2.86%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (34.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (22.86%) Big Data
3 5 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 5 (14.29%) SQL Server
4 4 (11.43%) Data Lake
5 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 2 (5.71%) Power BI
5 2 (5.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (2.86%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.86%) Apache Hive
6 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.86%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.86%) HBase
6 1 (2.86%) HDInsight
6 1 (2.86%) Impala
6 1 (2.86%) Metadata
6 1 (2.86%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 9 (25.71%) Selenium
2 6 (17.14%) Git
3 3 (8.57%) SpecFlow
4 2 (5.71%) Postman
5 1 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 6 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (8.57%) Electronics
2 3 (8.57%) Finance
2 3 (8.57%) Manufacturing
2 3 (8.57%) Marketing
2 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
2 3 (8.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.57%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.86%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 16 (45.71%) Developer
2 15 (42.86%) Azure Developer
3 12 (34.29%) Full-Stack Developer
4 7 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
5 6 (17.14%) Python Developer
6 5 (14.29%) Data Engineer
6 5 (14.29%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 5 (14.29%) React Developer
6 5 (14.29%) Senior
7 3 (8.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 3 (8.57%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (8.57%) Site Engineer
7 3 (8.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 3 (8.57%) Test Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) Automation Tester
8 2 (5.71%) Azure Consultant
8 2 (5.71%) Migration Analyst
8 2 (5.71%) Senior Automation Tester
8 2 (5.71%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (31.43%) PySpark
2 9 (25.71%) ADO
3 7 (20.00%) React
4 3 (8.57%) Gherkin
5 2 (5.71%) .NET
5 2 (5.71%) JSON
6 1 (2.86%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.86%) ARM Templates
6 1 (2.86%) Kafka
6 1 (2.86%) RESTful
6 1 (2.86%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 6 (17.14%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (2.86%) IoT
3 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Linux
1 1 (2.86%) Unix
1 1 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (62.86%) DevOps
2 16 (45.71%) Agile
3 12 (34.29%) Full-Stack Development
4 11 (31.43%) CI/CD
5 10 (28.57%) Test Automation
6 9 (25.71%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (25.71%) Data Pipeline
6 9 (25.71%) Microservices
7 8 (22.86%) Analytics
8 7 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (17.14%) Product Backlog
9 6 (17.14%) SDLC
10 5 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (14.29%) Unit Testing
11 4 (11.43%) Artificial Intelligence
11 4 (11.43%) Data Migration
11 4 (11.43%) ETL
11 4 (11.43%) Migration
11 4 (11.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 4 (11.43%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 21 (60.00%) Python
2 17 (48.57%) SQL
3 9 (25.71%) Java
4 4 (11.43%) T-SQL
5 3 (8.57%) C#
6 1 (2.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.86%) Perl
6 1 (2.86%) R
6 1 (2.86%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 3 (8.57%) SC Cleared
1 3 (8.57%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.71%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.71%) QA
System Software
1 7 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.86%) Apache Flume
2 1 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (8.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (31.43%) Databricks
2 9 (25.71%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.57%) SAP
4 1 (2.86%) Google
4 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.86%) Snow
4 1 (2.86%) StreamSets