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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 91 90
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 +59
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 19 42 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.27% 1.57% 1.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.48% 5.72% 6.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 35 52
10th Percentile - £418 £514
25th Percentile £413 £506 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £750
90th Percentile £638 £683 £828
South East median daily rate £475 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -24.00% +4.17% +11.63%

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 546 734 850
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 36.40% 27.52% 29.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 489 616
10th Percentile £263 £311 £320
25th Percentile £400 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £589 £608 £638
90th Percentile £650 £664 £713
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £540
% change year-on-year - -7.41% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 36 21
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.25 £17.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £20.69 £18.50
Median hourly rate £32.05 £50.25 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.22% +101.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £47.50 £60.72 £56.50
90th Percentile £75.50 £61.60 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -37.27% +9.09% +37.50%

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 25 June 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 25 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
Berkshire +10 19 £475 -24.00% 14
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 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 19 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (57.89%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (42.11%) PaaS
4 7 (36.84%) Azure AKS
4 7 (36.84%) Azure Storage
4 7 (36.84%) IaaS
5 5 (26.32%) Azure API Management
5 5 (26.32%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (21.05%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (21.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (15.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (10.53%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (10.53%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (5.26%) Azure Functions
9 1 (5.26%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (5.26%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (5.26%) GitHub
9 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
9 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (47.37%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (15.79%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.26%) Power BI
3 1 (5.26%) Power Query
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Selenium
2 2 (10.53%) Postman
3 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 6 (31.58%) Azure Engineer
1 6 (31.58%) DevOps Engineer
1 6 (31.58%) Site Engineer
1 6 (31.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Analyst
2 5 (26.32%) Data Analyst
2 5 (26.32%) Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Azure Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Data Migration Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Migration Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) Integration Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) Power BI Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (52.63%) ADO
2 2 (10.53%) .NET
2 2 (10.53%) JSON
3 1 (5.26%) .NET Framework
3 1 (5.26%) ARM Templates
3 1 (5.26%) RESTful
3 1 (5.26%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Renewable Energy
1 3 (15.79%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) DevOps
2 8 (42.11%) CI/CD
2 8 (42.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 6 (31.58%) Agile
4 5 (26.32%) Analytics
5 4 (21.05%) Data Modelling
6 3 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (15.79%) Test Automation
7 2 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (10.53%) Data Analysis
7 2 (10.53%) Data Migration
7 2 (10.53%) Data Reconciliation
7 2 (10.53%) Microservices
7 2 (10.53%) Migration
8 1 (5.26%) API Development
8 1 (5.26%) Disaster Recovery
8 1 (5.26%) ETL
8 1 (5.26%) Unit Testing
8 1 (5.26%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (68.42%) SQL
2 6 (31.58%) Python
3 3 (15.79%) Java
3 3 (15.79%) R
4 2 (10.53%) C#
5 1 (5.26%) Bicep
5 1 (5.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (5.26%) T-SQL
5 1 (5.26%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) Data Quality
2 2 (10.53%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 7 (36.84%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) Grafana
2 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.26%) Snow