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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 292 271 268
Rank change year-on-year -21 -3 +31
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 344 589 937
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.79% 0.99% 1.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.45% 2.70% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 435 657
10th Percentile £412 £412 £406
25th Percentile £466 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +7.84%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £644
90th Percentile £688 £750 £722
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 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 14,016 21,833 34,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.31% 36.85% 38.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,964 15,782 24,942
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 343 349 421
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.95 £18.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -6.07%
75th Percentile £34.38 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £62.00 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.69 £24.62 £19.00
% change year-on-year -28.15% +29.58% -5.00%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 -5 305 £550 - 169
London -8 169 £550 - 75
Work from Home +12 141 £525 -4.55% 75
UK excluding London +2 141 £538 -2.27% 94
South East -17 46 £620 +3.33% 19
North of England +14 28 £490 -18.33% 18
Midlands +21 23 £524 +10.26% 25
South West +15 21 £538 +4.88% 14
North West +16 17 £500 -21.57% 10
West Midlands +24 15 £550 -4.35% 19
Yorkshire +12 11 £475 -20.83% 7
Scotland +29 9 £475 -4.04% 5
East Midlands +15 8 £444 -1.39% 6
Wales +22 7 £550 +27.54% 1
East of England +15 7 £410 -3.53% 10

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 31 (9.01%) Apache Spark
2 15 (4.36%) Apache
3 7 (2.03%) Confluence
4 4 (1.16%) Luigi
5 3 (0.87%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.29%) CMS
6 1 (0.29%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (2.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 344 (100.00%) Azure
2 138 (40.12%) Power Platform
3 103 (29.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 63 (18.31%) Azure DevOps
5 57 (16.57%) Serverless
6 50 (14.53%) Azure Functions
7 47 (13.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 44 (12.79%) Azure Monitor
9 30 (8.72%) Azure Logic Apps
10 23 (6.69%) PowerApps
11 22 (6.40%) Azure Key Vault
12 21 (6.10%) Azure API Management
12 21 (6.10%) Azure Service Bus
12 21 (6.10%) Entra ID
13 20 (5.81%) PaaS
14 16 (4.65%) Snowflake
15 15 (4.36%) AWS
16 14 (4.07%) GCP
16 14 (4.07%) Power Automate
17 12 (3.49%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.87%) Firewall
2 2 (0.58%) DNS
2 2 (0.58%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (37.79%) Power BI
2 109 (31.69%) Data Lake
3 84 (24.42%) Data Warehouse
4 81 (23.55%) SQL Server
5 74 (21.51%) Azure SQL Database
6 53 (15.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 41 (11.92%) NoSQL
8 32 (9.30%) Relational Database
9 31 (9.01%) Big Data
10 25 (7.27%) Tableau
11 22 (6.40%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 17 (4.94%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 16 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
13 16 (4.65%) Power Query
13 16 (4.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 15 (4.36%) Delta Lake
15 12 (3.49%) Spark SQL
16 10 (2.91%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 10 (2.91%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
17 9 (2.62%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 36 (10.47%) Git
2 12 (3.49%) JIRA
3 9 (2.62%) GitLab
4 6 (1.74%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 6 (1.74%) Visual Studio
5 4 (1.16%) Deequ
5 4 (1.16%) Selenium
6 3 (0.87%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.58%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.58%) Postman
7 2 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.29%) Maven
8 1 (0.29%) MLflow
8 1 (0.29%) NUnit
8 1 (0.29%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.29%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 83 (24.13%) Social Skills
2 59 (17.15%) Analytical Skills
3 57 (16.57%) Finance
4 26 (7.56%) Public Sector
5 15 (4.36%) Marketing
6 14 (4.07%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (2.33%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.03%) Banking
8 7 (2.03%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (1.74%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.16%) Legal
11 3 (0.87%) Electronics
11 3 (0.87%) Law
12 2 (0.58%) Back Office
12 2 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.58%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.29%) French Language
13 1 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.29%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 160 (46.51%) Data Engineer
2 106 (30.81%) Azure Engineer
3 90 (26.16%) Azure Data Engineer
4 66 (19.19%) Developer
5 43 (12.50%) Architect
6 28 (8.14%) Azure Developer
7 24 (6.98%) Data Architect
7 24 (6.98%) Lead
8 22 (6.40%) Azure Architect
9 21 (6.10%) Senior
10 20 (5.81%) Full Stack Developer
11 18 (5.23%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 16 (4.65%) Analyst
13 15 (4.36%) Consultant
13 15 (4.36%) Data Analyst
14 13 (3.78%) Power BI Developer
15 12 (3.49%) Lead Data Engineer
16 11 (3.20%) Azure Data Architect
17 10 (2.91%) SQL Developer
18 8 (2.33%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (15.41%) PySpark
2 26 (7.56%) .NET
3 23 (6.69%) React
4 15 (4.36%) ARM Templates
5 13 (3.78%) XML
6 10 (2.91%) .NET Core
6 10 (2.91%) JSON
7 9 (2.62%) REST
8 8 (2.33%) Kafka
8 8 (2.33%) SOAP
9 7 (2.03%) Apache Avro
9 7 (2.03%) Pandas
10 6 (1.74%) GraphQL
10 6 (1.74%) YAML
11 5 (1.45%) .NET Framework
11 5 (1.45%) Great Expectations
11 5 (1.45%) JSON Schema
12 4 (1.16%) Microsoft Graph
12 4 (1.16%) RESTful
12 4 (1.16%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 28 (8.14%) Product Ownership
2 12 (3.49%) Onboarding
3 9 (2.62%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (2.33%) Cloud Native
5 6 (1.74%) Distributed Computing
5 6 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (1.74%) Management Information System
5 6 (1.74%) Smart Meter
6 5 (1.45%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.16%) Wiki
8 3 (0.87%) Grid Computing
8 3 (0.87%) Tandem
9 2 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.58%) Market Risk
9 2 (0.58%) NHS
9 2 (0.58%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.29%) Housing Association
10 1 (0.29%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.20%) Linux
2 6 (1.74%) Windows
3 5 (1.45%) Unix
4 1 (0.29%) VMS
4 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (37.21%) Business Intelligence
2 120 (34.88%) Data Modelling
2 120 (34.88%) ETL
3 119 (34.59%) Analytics
4 114 (33.14%) DevOps
5 91 (26.45%) Agile
6 71 (20.64%) CI/CD
6 71 (20.64%) Data Pipeline
7 64 (18.60%) Data Engineering
8 52 (15.12%) Data Integration
9 45 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
10 40 (11.63%) Migration
11 36 (10.47%) Scrum
12 35 (10.17%) Visualisation
13 34 (9.88%) SDLC
14 30 (8.72%) Full Stack Development
15 28 (8.14%) Microservices
16 25 (7.27%) Data Migration
17 24 (6.98%) Infrastructure as Code
17 24 (6.98%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 222 (64.53%) SQL
2 140 (40.70%) Python
3 44 (12.79%) T-SQL
4 38 (11.05%) C#
5 32 (9.30%) PowerShell
6 24 (6.98%) Scala
7 15 (4.36%) Java
8 13 (3.78%) Bicep
9 11 (3.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.87%) Bash
11 2 (0.58%) C
11 2 (0.58%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.58%) R
12 1 (0.29%) Gremlin
12 1 (0.29%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.29%) PHP
12 1 (0.29%) VBA
12 1 (0.29%) X++
Qualifications
1 35 (10.17%) Security Cleared
2 25 (7.27%) SC Cleared
3 20 (5.81%) Azure Certification
3 20 (5.81%) Degree
4 12 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.33%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.33%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.29%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (10.47%) Data Quality
2 21 (6.10%) QA
3 5 (1.45%) GDPR
4 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.29%) GxP
4 1 (0.29%) IFRS
4 1 (0.29%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (6.40%) Active Directory
2 14 (4.07%) Docker
3 8 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (6.98%) Terraform
2 9 (2.62%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.29%) Ansible
3 1 (0.29%) Ganglia
3 1 (0.29%) Kibana
3 1 (0.29%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 148 (43.02%) Databricks
2 101 (29.36%) Microsoft
3 10 (2.91%) Oracle
4 7 (2.03%) Informatica
5 6 (1.74%) Ab Initio
5 6 (1.74%) Adobe
5 6 (1.74%) Splunk
6 5 (1.45%) SAP
7 4 (1.16%) Google
8 3 (0.87%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.87%) Talend
9 2 (0.58%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.58%) JD Edwards
9 2 (0.58%) QAD
9 2 (0.58%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.29%) BMC
10 1 (0.29%) IBM
10 1 (0.29%) Remedy
10 1 (0.29%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.29%) VMware