Azure Data Factory Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure Data Factory
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 241 262 263
Rank change year-on-year +21 +1 +26
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 95 138 208
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.74% 0.66% 0.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.33% 2.54% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 114 163
10th Percentile £363 £405 £410
25th Percentile £413 £452 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £560
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -4.02% +6.67%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £650
90th Percentile £638 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.32 - -
Median hourly rate £27.35 - £35.00
75th Percentile £28.38 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -38.46%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,086 5,443 8,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.01% 26.20% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,896 3,840 5,946
10th Percentile £236 £213 £240
25th Percentile £388 £375 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 259 231
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.00 £16.69
Median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%
75th Percentile £33.45 £26.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.25 £61.52 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Azure Data Factory
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Azure Data Factory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Data Factory in the UK excluding London

Azure Data Factory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Data Factory in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Azure Data Factory in the UK excluding London

Azure Data Factory
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Data Factory in the UK excluding London

Azure Data Factory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Data Factory in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Data Factory in the UK excluding London

Azure Data Factory
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
South East +37 37 £543 -12.50% 110
North of England +22 30 £475 -5.00% 90
North West +19 18 £500 -2.44% 42
Midlands +10 11 £390 -25.54% 90
South West +36 9 £475 -11.63% 45
West Midlands +7 8 £475 -13.64% 53
Yorkshire +4 7 £388 -18.42% 40
Scotland +10 6 £431 -9.26% 21
North East - 5 £358 - 8
East of England +26 3 £400 -2.44% 63
East Midlands +5 3 £380 -14.37% 31
Wales -4 2 £515 -6.36% 12
Azure Data Factory
UK

Azure Data Factory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (6.32%) Apache Spark
2 5 (5.26%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.11%) Confluence
4 1 (1.05%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.11%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.05%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 95 (100.00%) Azure
2 22 (23.16%) Power Platform
3 21 (22.11%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (22.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 18 (18.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 12 (12.63%) Azure Functions
5 12 (12.63%) Serverless
6 10 (10.53%) Azure Monitor
6 10 (10.53%) Azure Service Bus
7 9 (9.47%) Azure API Management
8 7 (7.37%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (5.26%) Azure Storage
9 5 (5.26%) Entra ID
10 4 (4.21%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (4.21%) PaaS
11 3 (3.16%) Azure AKS
11 3 (3.16%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (3.16%) GCP
11 3 (3.16%) IaaS
12 2 (2.11%) Azure Key Vault
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (27.37%) Azure SQL Database
2 21 (22.11%) SQL Server
3 20 (21.05%) Power BI
4 18 (18.95%) Data Lake
5 12 (12.63%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (10.53%) Big Data
7 9 (9.47%) Metadata
8 7 (7.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (6.32%) NoSQL
10 5 (5.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (4.21%) Tableau
12 3 (3.16%) Bigtable
12 3 (3.16%) Data Vault
12 3 (3.16%) Delta Lake
12 3 (3.16%) Dremio
12 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 3 (3.16%) Power Query
12 3 (3.16%) Relational Database
12 3 (3.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 2 (2.11%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 11 (11.58%) Git
2 9 (9.47%) Selenium
3 5 (5.26%) JIRA
3 5 (5.26%) Visual Studio
4 4 (4.21%) ERwin
4 4 (4.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (3.16%) ER Studio
5 3 (3.16%) SpecFlow
6 2 (2.11%) Postman
General
1 15 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
1 15 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 13 (13.68%) Finance
2 13 (13.68%) Public Sector
3 6 (6.32%) Manufacturing
4 3 (3.16%) Electronics
4 3 (3.16%) Marketing
4 3 (3.16%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.05%) Banking
6 1 (1.05%) Billing
6 1 (1.05%) Local Government
6 1 (1.05%) Publishing
6 1 (1.05%) Retail
6 1 (1.05%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 41 (43.16%) Data Engineer
2 20 (21.05%) Developer
3 18 (18.95%) Azure Engineer
4 15 (15.79%) Azure Developer
5 12 (12.63%) Azure Data Engineer
5 12 (12.63%) Full-Stack Developer
6 9 (9.47%) Senior
7 8 (8.42%) Analyst
8 7 (7.37%) Architect
9 6 (6.32%) Python Developer
10 5 (5.26%) Business Analyst
10 5 (5.26%) Data Analyst
10 5 (5.26%) Full-Stack Python Developer
10 5 (5.26%) React Developer
11 4 (4.21%) Consultant
11 4 (4.21%) Senior Data Engineer
12 3 (3.16%) Azure Architect
12 3 (3.16%) Azure Consultant
12 3 (3.16%) Data Modeller
12 3 (3.16%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (23.16%) PySpark
2 11 (11.58%) ADO
3 7 (7.37%) React
4 4 (4.21%) .NET
5 3 (3.16%) Gherkin
5 3 (3.16%) RESTful
6 2 (2.11%) JSON
6 2 (2.11%) Web Services
7 1 (1.05%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.05%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.05%) ASP.NET
7 1 (1.05%) Kafka
7 1 (1.05%) Matplotlib
7 1 (1.05%) Middleware
7 1 (1.05%) Pandas
7 1 (1.05%) scikit-learn
7 1 (1.05%) Shiny
7 1 (1.05%) SOAP
7 1 (1.05%) TensorFlow
7 1 (1.05%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.63%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.32%) Renewable Energy
3 4 (4.21%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.16%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.11%) IoT
5 2 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.11%) NHS
5 2 (2.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.05%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.05%) Clustering
6 1 (1.05%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.05%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.05%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.05%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.05%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.16%) Windows
2 2 (2.11%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.05%) Linux
3 1 (1.05%) Unix
3 1 (1.05%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (37.89%) DevOps
2 35 (36.84%) Agile
3 32 (33.68%) Data Pipeline
3 32 (33.68%) ETL
4 29 (30.53%) Analytics
5 27 (28.42%) Business Intelligence
6 26 (27.37%) Data Modelling
7 22 (23.16%) Data Integration
8 19 (20.00%) CI/CD
8 19 (20.00%) Data Engineering
8 19 (20.00%) Data Transformation
9 15 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (14.74%) Migration
11 13 (13.68%) ERP
11 13 (13.68%) Test Automation
12 12 (12.63%) Data Migration
12 12 (12.63%) Full-Stack Development
13 11 (11.58%) Microservices
14 10 (10.53%) Machine Learning
15 8 (8.42%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 65 (68.42%) SQL
2 39 (41.05%) Python
3 12 (12.63%) T-SQL
4 9 (9.47%) Java
5 5 (5.26%) C#
6 4 (4.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (2.11%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.11%) R
8 1 (1.05%) Perl
8 1 (1.05%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.05%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 10 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.37%) Azure Certification
2 7 (7.37%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.26%) Degree
4 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.58%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.21%) QA
3 3 (3.16%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.11%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.05%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (7.37%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.05%) Apache Flume
2 1 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.05%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (3.16%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.11%) Terraform
3 1 (1.05%) Perfmon
3 1 (1.05%) SCOM
3 1 (1.05%) VxRail
Vendors
1 46 (48.42%) Databricks
2 32 (33.68%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.26%) SAP
4 4 (4.21%) Informatica
5 3 (3.16%) IDERA
6 2 (2.11%) Brio
6 2 (2.11%) Liquidlogic
7 1 (1.05%) Google
7 1 (1.05%) Sage
7 1 (1.05%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.05%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.05%) Snow
7 1 (1.05%) StreamSets
7 1 (1.05%) Talend
7 1 (1.05%) VMware