Azure Data Factory Contracts

Microsoft Azure Data Factory
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Azure Data Factory skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Data Factory over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 304 268 267
Rank change year-on-year -36 -1 +21
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 330 589 944
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.76% 0.98% 1.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.36% 2.67% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 431 664
10th Percentile £413 £413 £409
25th Percentile £475 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.84%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £714
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £561 £520
% change year-on-year -4.23% +7.93% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £35.00
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £56.88
Median % change year-on-year - -38.46% +15.48%
75th Percentile - - £81.79
90th Percentile - - £87.26
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £35.00 £35.00

All Cloud Skills
UK

Azure Data Factory is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,989 22,053 34,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.31% 36.87% 38.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,925 15,944 24,923
10th Percentile £300 £325 £353
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 355 426
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.39
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -5.54%
75th Percentile £34.69 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £24.62 £18.75
% change year-on-year -28.09% +31.31% -6.25%

Azure Data Factory
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Data Factory in the UK

Azure Data Factory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Data Factory in the UK

Azure Data Factory
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Data Factory over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Data Factory in the UK

Azure Data Factory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Data Factory.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Data Factory in the UK

Azure Data Factory
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
England -8 289 £550 - 148
London -12 160 £550 - 68
Work from Home +10 136 £550 - 59
UK excluding London +5 134 £538 -4.23% 76
South East -7 45 £620 +3.33% 22
North of England +14 26 £500 -16.67% 16
Midlands +14 22 £525 +10.53% 11
South West +15 18 £538 +4.88% 11
West Midlands +29 15 £550 -4.35% 5
North West +11 15 £525 -12.50% 10
Yorkshire +11 11 £475 -20.83% 6
Scotland +25 9 £475 -4.04% 4
Wales +19 7 £550 +25.71% 1
East of England +14 7 £410 -18.00% 10
East Midlands +11 7 £463 +2.78% 6

Azure Data Factory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 28 (8.48%) Apache Spark
2 12 (3.64%) Apache
3 7 (2.12%) Confluence
4 4 (1.21%) Luigi
5 3 (0.91%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.30%) CMS
6 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (3.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 330 (100.00%) Azure
2 132 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 95 (28.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 62 (18.79%) Azure DevOps
5 52 (15.76%) Serverless
6 46 (13.94%) Azure Functions
7 44 (13.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 42 (12.73%) Azure Monitor
9 29 (8.79%) Azure Logic Apps
10 23 (6.97%) PowerApps
11 21 (6.36%) Azure Key Vault
11 21 (6.36%) Azure Service Bus
12 20 (6.06%) Entra ID
12 20 (6.06%) PaaS
13 18 (5.45%) Azure API Management
14 16 (4.85%) AWS
14 16 (4.85%) Snowflake
15 15 (4.55%) GCP
16 14 (4.24%) Power Automate
17 10 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.91%) Firewall
2 2 (0.61%) DNS
2 2 (0.61%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (37.58%) Power BI
2 101 (30.61%) Data Lake
3 82 (24.85%) Data Warehouse
4 78 (23.64%) SQL Server
5 71 (21.52%) Azure SQL Database
6 51 (15.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 36 (10.91%) NoSQL
8 29 (8.79%) Big Data
8 29 (8.79%) Relational Database
9 24 (7.27%) Tableau
10 21 (6.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 17 (5.15%) PostgreSQL
12 16 (4.85%) Delta Lake
12 16 (4.85%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 16 (4.85%) Power Query
12 16 (4.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 11 (3.33%) Spark SQL
14 10 (3.03%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 10 (3.03%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 8 (2.42%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 35 (10.61%) Git
2 12 (3.64%) JIRA
3 9 (2.73%) GitLab
4 6 (1.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 6 (1.82%) Visual Studio
5 4 (1.21%) Selenium
6 3 (0.91%) Deequ
6 3 (0.91%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.61%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.61%) Postman
7 2 (0.61%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.30%) Maven
8 1 (0.30%) MLflow
8 1 (0.30%) NUnit
8 1 (0.30%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 77 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 58 (17.58%) Analytical Skills
2 58 (17.58%) Finance
3 26 (7.88%) Public Sector
4 16 (4.85%) Presentation Skills
5 15 (4.55%) Marketing
6 8 (2.42%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.12%) Banking
8 6 (1.82%) Manufacturing
8 6 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (0.91%) Electronics
9 3 (0.91%) Legal
10 2 (0.61%) Back Office
10 2 (0.61%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.61%) Law
11 1 (0.30%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.30%) Front Office
11 1 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.30%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 148 (44.85%) Data Engineer
2 102 (30.91%) Azure Engineer
3 86 (26.06%) Azure Data Engineer
4 64 (19.39%) Developer
5 45 (13.64%) Architect
6 27 (8.18%) Azure Developer
7 25 (7.58%) Data Architect
8 23 (6.97%) Azure Architect
8 23 (6.97%) Lead
9 21 (6.36%) Senior
10 20 (6.06%) Full Stack Developer
11 16 (4.85%) Analyst
11 16 (4.85%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 15 (4.55%) Consultant
13 14 (4.24%) Data Analyst
14 12 (3.64%) Azure Data Architect
14 12 (3.64%) Lead Data Engineer
14 12 (3.64%) Power BI Developer
15 10 (3.03%) SQL Developer
16 8 (2.42%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (14.55%) PySpark
2 26 (7.88%) .NET
3 22 (6.67%) React
4 13 (3.94%) ARM Templates
4 13 (3.94%) XML
5 10 (3.03%) .NET Core
6 9 (2.73%) JSON
6 9 (2.73%) Kafka
6 9 (2.73%) REST
7 8 (2.42%) SOAP
8 7 (2.12%) Pandas
9 6 (1.82%) GraphQL
9 6 (1.82%) YAML
10 5 (1.52%) .NET Framework
11 4 (1.21%) Apache Avro
11 4 (1.21%) Great Expectations
11 4 (1.21%) JSON Schema
11 4 (1.21%) Microsoft Graph
11 4 (1.21%) RESTful
12 3 (0.91%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 28 (8.48%) Product Ownership
2 12 (3.64%) Onboarding
3 9 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (2.42%) Cloud Native
5 7 (2.12%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.82%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.82%) Smart Meter
7 5 (1.52%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.21%) Wiki
9 3 (0.91%) Grid Computing
9 3 (0.91%) Tandem
10 2 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.61%) Market Risk
10 2 (0.61%) NHS
10 2 (0.61%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.30%) Data Fabric
11 1 (0.30%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.33%) Linux
2 6 (1.82%) Windows
3 5 (1.52%) Unix
4 1 (0.30%) VMS
4 1 (0.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (36.67%) Business Intelligence
2 119 (36.06%) ETL
3 116 (35.15%) Data Modelling
4 115 (34.85%) Analytics
5 110 (33.33%) DevOps
6 88 (26.67%) Agile
7 65 (19.70%) CI/CD
8 63 (19.09%) Data Pipeline
9 57 (17.27%) Data Engineering
10 50 (15.15%) Data Integration
11 42 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
12 38 (11.52%) Migration
13 34 (10.30%) Scrum
14 33 (10.00%) Visualisation
15 30 (9.09%) Full Stack Development
15 30 (9.09%) SDLC
16 26 (7.88%) Microservices
17 23 (6.97%) Translating Business Requirements
17 23 (6.97%) Unit Testing
18 22 (6.67%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 213 (64.55%) SQL
2 131 (39.70%) Python
3 44 (13.33%) T-SQL
4 37 (11.21%) C#
5 31 (9.39%) PowerShell
6 19 (5.76%) Scala
7 14 (4.24%) Java
8 13 (3.94%) Bicep
9 10 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.91%) R
11 2 (0.61%) Bash
11 2 (0.61%) C
11 2 (0.61%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.30%) Gremlin
12 1 (0.30%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.30%) PHP
12 1 (0.30%) X++
Qualifications
1 34 (10.30%) Security Cleared
2 24 (7.27%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.36%) Azure Certification
4 19 (5.76%) Degree
5 12 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.73%) Master's Degree
7 8 (2.42%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (8.48%) Data Quality
2 21 (6.36%) QA
3 4 (1.21%) GDPR
4 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.30%) GxP
4 1 (0.30%) IFRS
4 1 (0.30%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (6.36%) Active Directory
2 14 (4.24%) Docker
3 8 (2.42%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (6.67%) Terraform
2 9 (2.73%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.30%) Ansible
3 1 (0.30%) Ganglia
3 1 (0.30%) Kibana
3 1 (0.30%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 138 (41.82%) Databricks
2 102 (30.91%) Microsoft
3 10 (3.03%) Oracle
4 7 (2.12%) Adobe
4 7 (2.12%) Informatica
4 7 (2.12%) Splunk
5 6 (1.82%) Ab Initio
6 5 (1.52%) Google
6 5 (1.52%) SAP
7 3 (0.91%) Salesforce
7 3 (0.91%) Talend
8 2 (0.61%) Cloudera
8 2 (0.61%) JD Edwards
8 2 (0.61%) QAD
8 2 (0.61%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.30%) BMC
9 1 (0.30%) IBM
9 1 (0.30%) Remedy
9 1 (0.30%) Sybase
9 1 (0.30%) VMware