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 18 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 100 112
Rank change year-on-year +5 +12 +27
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 14 13 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.94% 0.63% 0.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.00% 2.67% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 13
10th Percentile £355 £359 £423
25th Percentile £403 £453 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £511 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.40% -7.05% +10.00%
75th Percentile £490 £588 £650
90th Percentile £519 £660 £671
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -4.35%

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 467 486 816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 31.28% 23.57% 36.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 306 360 574
10th Percentile £210 £202 £263
25th Percentile £388 £327 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £469 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +1.01%
75th Percentile £598 £611 £609
90th Percentile £672 £688 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 4
10th Percentile £15.27 £14.14 £15.54
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.56 £15.98
Median hourly rate £18.74 £22.50 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year -16.71% +11.17% +6.53%
75th Percentile £34.98 £26.50 £24.47
90th Percentile £45.70 £33.19 £25.31
England median hourly rate £25.01 £21.50 £34.80
% change year-on-year +16.30% -38.21% +61.84%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 +6 6 - - 16
Shropshire +3 3 £440 -15.79% 32
Warwickshire +1 3 £463 - 13
Solihull - 2 £320 - 2
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:

Business Applications
1 6 (42.86%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 6 (42.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 6 (42.86%) Collibra
2 6 (42.86%) Microsoft Purview
3 4 (28.57%) Power Platform
4 3 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (21.43%) GitHub
4 3 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (21.43%) Serverless
4 3 (21.43%) Snowflake
5 2 (14.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (7.14%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (57.14%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (42.86%) Delta Lake
2 6 (42.86%) GIS
3 5 (35.71%) Oracle Database
4 4 (28.57%) Power BI
5 3 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
6 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
7 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
7 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (7.14%) Semantic Layer
General
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Data Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Architect
2 4 (28.57%) Azure Data Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Data Architect
3 3 (21.43%) Data Migration Specialist
3 3 (21.43%) Migration Specialist
3 3 (21.43%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.14%) .NET Developer
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Architect
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Data Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) Kafka
2 1 (7.14%) .NET
2 1 (7.14%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) IoT
1 6 (42.86%) SCADA
2 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 3 (21.43%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (21.43%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Analytics
1 8 (57.14%) ETL
2 7 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 7 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 6 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence
4 5 (35.71%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (35.71%) Data Mapping
4 5 (35.71%) DevOps
4 5 (35.71%) Machine Learning
5 4 (28.57%) Data Engineering
5 4 (28.57%) Data Integration
5 4 (28.57%) Data Migration
5 4 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (28.57%) Migration
6 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (21.43%) DataOps
6 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
6 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (21.43%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) SQL
2 8 (57.14%) Python
3 6 (42.86%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (21.43%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (7.14%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (57.14%) Data Quality
2 5 (35.71%) GDPR
3 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (14.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Databricks
1 9 (64.29%) Microsoft
2 6 (42.86%) Informatica
2 6 (42.86%) SAP
3 5 (35.71%) Oracle