Azure Data Factory Contracts

Microsoft Azure Data Factory
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 262 299 269
Rank change year-on-year +37 -30 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 291 336 591
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.00% 0.77% 0.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.65% 2.38% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 261 434
10th Percentile £358 £413 £412
25th Percentile £413 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £575 £638 £650
90th Percentile £650 £688 £747
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £538 £560
% change year-on-year -6.98% -4.02% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £34.06 - -
25th Percentile £45.66 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £35.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.35 - £35.00

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 10,997 14,094 22,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.61% 32.33% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,640 10,005 15,924
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £634 £650
90th Percentile £734 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 348 350
10th Percentile £15.28 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.05 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.43 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.60% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £48.56 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £62.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.53 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.47% -28.03% +31.31%

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 30 April 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure Data Factory over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure Data Factory in the UK

Azure Data Factory
Top 16 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 30 April 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
England +38 268 £500 -9.09% 169
London +36 162 £500 -9.09% 69
UK excluding London +14 95 £500 -6.98% 105
Work from Home +7 92 £500 -9.09% 116
South East +34 37 £543 -12.50% 22
North of England +32 30 £475 -5.00% 25
North West +14 18 £500 -4.76% 12
Midlands +12 11 £390 -25.54% 26
South West +36 9 £475 -11.63% 9
West Midlands +9 8 £475 -13.64% 20
Yorkshire +11 7 £388 -18.42% 13
Scotland +6 6 £431 -9.26% 9
North East - 5 £358 -
East of England +29 3 £400 -2.44% 10
East Midlands +5 3 £380 -14.37% 6
Wales 0 2 £515 -6.36% 3

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 26 (8.93%) Apache Spark
2 10 (3.44%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.37%) Apache
4 2 (0.69%) Confluence
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.34%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.69%) Endur
2 2 (0.69%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.69%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.34%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.34%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.34%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 291 (100.00%) Azure
2 86 (29.55%) Power Platform
3 77 (26.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 68 (23.37%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (10.65%) AWS
6 29 (9.97%) Azure Machine Learning
7 26 (8.93%) Azure Functions
7 26 (8.93%) Serverless
8 24 (8.25%) Azure Service Bus
9 21 (7.22%) Azure AKS
9 21 (7.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 19 (6.53%) Azure Logic Apps
10 19 (6.53%) PaaS
11 18 (6.19%) Azure API Management
11 18 (6.19%) Azure Monitor
12 15 (5.15%) GitHub
13 12 (4.12%) Snowflake
14 11 (3.78%) Azure Storage
14 11 (3.78%) Microsoft 365
15 10 (3.44%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.72%) DNS
2 3 (1.03%) FTP
2 3 (1.03%) HTTP
2 3 (1.03%) Network Security
2 3 (1.03%) SMTP
2 3 (1.03%) SSL
2 3 (1.03%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.69%) WAN
4 1 (0.34%) Firewall
4 1 (0.34%) LAN
4 1 (0.34%) NAS
4 1 (0.34%) SAN
4 1 (0.34%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.34%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (28.18%) Power BI
2 75 (25.77%) Data Lake
3 52 (17.87%) SQL Server
4 51 (17.53%) Azure SQL Database
5 44 (15.12%) Data Warehouse
6 24 (8.25%) Big Data
7 21 (7.22%) Neo4j
7 21 (7.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 17 (5.84%) Metadata
9 15 (5.15%) NoSQL
10 14 (4.81%) Delta Lake
11 13 (4.47%) Tableau
12 10 (3.44%) Relational Database
13 7 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
13 7 (2.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 6 (2.06%) Apache Hive
14 6 (2.06%) BusinessObjects
14 6 (2.06%) Crystal Reports
14 6 (2.06%) Snowflake Schema
15 5 (1.72%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 17 (5.84%) Git
2 12 (4.12%) Selenium
3 10 (3.44%) GitLab
4 7 (2.41%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.06%) JIRA
5 6 (2.06%) Visual Studio
6 5 (1.72%) Postman
6 5 (1.72%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.37%) ERwin
7 4 (1.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (1.03%) ER Studio
8 3 (1.03%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.34%) JMeter
9 1 (0.34%) Locust
9 1 (0.34%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.34%) SonarQube
General
1 62 (21.31%) Social Skills
2 47 (16.15%) Finance
3 40 (13.75%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (13.06%) Public Sector
5 14 (4.81%) Banking
6 10 (3.44%) Manufacturing
7 7 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.41%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.06%) Front Office
8 6 (2.06%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.06%) Retail
9 5 (1.72%) Marketing
10 4 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.37%) Local Government
10 4 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.37%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.03%) Electronics
11 3 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.03%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 126 (43.30%) Data Engineer
2 71 (24.40%) Azure Engineer
3 44 (15.12%) Developer
4 41 (14.09%) Azure Data Engineer
5 30 (10.31%) Senior
6 28 (9.62%) Architect
7 23 (7.90%) Analyst
7 23 (7.90%) Azure Developer
7 23 (7.90%) Senior Data Engineer
8 21 (7.22%) DevOps Engineer
9 17 (5.84%) Data Architect
10 16 (5.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 12 (4.12%) Azure Architect
11 12 (4.12%) Data Analyst
11 12 (4.12%) Full-Stack Developer
12 11 (3.78%) Lead
13 8 (2.75%) Business Analyst
13 8 (2.75%) Consultant
14 7 (2.41%) Power BI Developer
14 7 (2.41%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (16.15%) PySpark
2 28 (9.62%) React
3 22 (7.56%) .NET
4 20 (6.87%) Plotly
5 11 (3.78%) ADO
6 9 (3.09%) Web Services
7 8 (2.75%) .NET Core
7 8 (2.75%) REST
8 7 (2.41%) .NET Framework
8 7 (2.41%) JSON
8 7 (2.41%) YAML
9 6 (2.06%) ASP.NET
9 6 (2.06%) Entity Framework
9 6 (2.06%) Middleware
9 6 (2.06%) WCF
10 5 (1.72%) ASP.NET MVC
10 5 (1.72%) ASP.NET Web API
10 5 (1.72%) Autofac
10 5 (1.72%) Dapper ORM
10 5 (1.72%) StructureMap
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.12%) Product Ownership
2 8 (2.75%) Renewable Energy
3 5 (1.72%) Cloud Native
3 5 (1.72%) Data Structures
3 5 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (1.72%) N-Tier
4 4 (1.37%) Clustering
4 4 (1.37%) Data Fabric
4 4 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (1.37%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.03%) IoT
5 3 (1.03%) NHS
5 3 (1.03%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (0.69%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.69%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.34%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.34%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.34%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.34%) Replication
7 1 (0.34%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.72%) Windows
2 4 (1.37%) Unix
3 3 (1.03%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.69%) Linux
4 2 (0.69%) VMS
4 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (34.02%) DevOps
2 86 (29.55%) ETL
3 84 (28.87%) Analytics
4 81 (27.84%) Data Pipeline
5 78 (26.80%) CI/CD
6 75 (25.77%) Data Modelling
7 68 (23.37%) Agile
8 64 (21.99%) Business Intelligence
8 64 (21.99%) Data Engineering
9 59 (20.27%) Data Integration
10 58 (19.93%) Visualisation
11 57 (19.59%) Machine Learning
12 42 (14.43%) Problem-Solving
13 36 (12.37%) Data Visualisation
14 34 (11.68%) Data Transformation
15 33 (11.34%) Infrastructure as Code
16 32 (11.00%) Data Science
17 28 (9.62%) Data Governance
18 27 (9.28%) Migration
19 26 (8.93%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 157 (53.95%) SQL
2 111 (38.14%) Python
3 37 (12.71%) C#
4 33 (11.34%) JavaScript
5 30 (10.31%) PowerShell
6 29 (9.97%) Java
7 23 (7.90%) T-SQL
8 8 (2.75%) Bicep
9 7 (2.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (1.72%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (1.37%) Bash
12 3 (1.03%) Scala
13 2 (0.69%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.69%) R
13 2 (0.69%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.34%) ABAP
14 1 (0.34%) Formula Language
14 1 (0.34%) Perl
14 1 (0.34%) PHP
14 1 (0.34%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 56 (19.24%) Security Cleared
2 44 (15.12%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.19%) Degree
4 17 (5.84%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.72%) MCPD
6 5 (1.72%) MCSD
7 4 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.37%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.34%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (16.49%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.47%) Accessibility
3 12 (4.12%) QA
4 6 (2.06%) GDPR
5 3 (1.03%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.69%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.34%) GxP
7 1 (0.34%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (5.15%) Docker
2 12 (4.12%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 38 (13.06%) Terraform
2 17 (5.84%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.03%) Ansible
3 3 (1.03%) Grafana
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.34%) Perfmon
4 1 (0.34%) Puppet
4 1 (0.34%) SCOM
4 1 (0.34%) VxRail
Vendors
1 153 (52.58%) Databricks
2 84 (28.87%) Microsoft
3 11 (3.78%) Cloudera
4 9 (3.09%) SAP
5 7 (2.41%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.06%) Informatica
6 6 (2.06%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.03%) IDERA
7 3 (1.03%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.03%) Palantir
8 2 (0.69%) Brio
8 2 (0.69%) Google
8 2 (0.69%) IBM
8 2 (0.69%) Liquidlogic
8 2 (0.69%) Splunk
8 2 (0.69%) VMware
9 1 (0.34%) GoldenSource
9 1 (0.34%) Qualys
9 1 (0.34%) SonicWALL
9 1 (0.34%) TOWER Software