Azure Data Factory Contracts in the West Midlands

Microsoft Azure Data Factory
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 89 96 123
Rank change year-on-year +7 +27 +12
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 8 15 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.59% 0.77% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.84% 3.20% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 11
10th Percentile £374 £455 £519
25th Percentile £390 £512 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £488 £591 £650
90th Percentile £495 £645 £656
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 434 469 917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.27% 24.09% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 364 648
10th Percentile £200 £213 £300
25th Percentile £393 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £457 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.53% -8.75% +2.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £690 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 9 4
10th Percentile £15.24 £14.08 £15.54
25th Percentile £16.38 £19.95 £15.98
Median hourly rate £18.07 £26.00 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year -30.52% +28.46% +15.66%
75th Percentile £19.93 £26.50 £24.47
90th Percentile £35.45 £55.00 £25.31
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

Azure Data Factory
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Azure Data Factory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Data Factory in the West Midlands

Azure Data Factory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Data Factory in the West Midlands

Azure Data Factory
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Data Factory in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Data Factory in the West Midlands

Azure Data Factory
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Coventry +10 4 £383 -43.33% 6
Birmingham +15 3 £475 -13.64% 9
Shropshire -3 1 - - 1
Azure Data Factory
England

Azure Data Factory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) Metadata
2 1 (12.50%) Power BI
2 1 (12.50%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Manufacturing
3 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Data Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) Business Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) Data Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Data Transformation
1 6 (75.00%) ERP
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
3 4 (50.00%) Data Integration
3 4 (50.00%) Data Migration
3 4 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 4 (50.00%) ETL
3 4 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 4 (50.00%) Migration
4 3 (37.50%) API Integration
4 3 (37.50%) Data Mapping
4 3 (37.50%) ETL Development
4 3 (37.50%) Validation
5 2 (25.00%) Data Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (12.50%) Data Development
6 1 (12.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (12.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) Informatica
3 2 (25.00%) Databricks