Azure Data Factory Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Azure Data Factory
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 206 226 215
Rank change year-on-year +20 -11 +13
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 141 279 566
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.93% 1.09% 1.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.56% 2.76% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 229 418
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £475 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +7.32%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £625
90th Percentile £688 £738 £714
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.75
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £56.88
% change year-on-year - -38.46% +15.48%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,503 10,093 18,458
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.14% 39.53% 41.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,963 7,414 13,803
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 129 172
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £14.33
25th Percentile £16.60 £21.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +87.83% -28.13%
75th Percentile £45.31 £70.00 £62.24
90th Percentile £65.31 £75.20 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -4.44%

Azure Data Factory
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure Data Factory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure Data Factory trend for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Data Factory
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure Data Factory.

Azure Data Factory daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Data Factory
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Azure Data Factory over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Azure Data Factory daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Data Factory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 10 (7.09%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.26%) Confluence
3 4 (2.84%) Luigi
4 3 (2.13%) Apache
5 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (3.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.71%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.71%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 141 (100.00%) Azure
2 55 (39.01%) Power Platform
3 42 (29.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 33 (23.40%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (17.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 23 (16.31%) Serverless
7 21 (14.89%) Azure Monitor
8 19 (13.48%) Azure Functions
8 19 (13.48%) Azure Logic Apps
9 13 (9.22%) PowerApps
10 12 (8.51%) Azure Key Vault
11 11 (7.80%) Azure API Management
11 11 (7.80%) Azure Service Bus
12 9 (6.38%) Entra ID
13 7 (4.96%) PaaS
14 6 (4.26%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (4.26%) Snowflake
15 5 (3.55%) AWS
15 5 (3.55%) Azure Storage
16 3 (2.13%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.42%) Firewall
2 1 (0.71%) DNS
2 1 (0.71%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (36.17%) Power BI
2 38 (26.95%) Azure SQL Database
3 34 (24.11%) SQL Server
4 31 (21.99%) Data Lake
5 27 (19.15%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (12.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 16 (11.35%) NoSQL
8 10 (7.09%) Big Data
9 8 (5.67%) Power Query
10 7 (4.96%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 6 (4.26%) Delta Lake
11 6 (4.26%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 6 (4.26%) Relational Database
12 5 (3.55%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (3.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (2.84%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 3 (2.13%) Parquet
14 3 (2.13%) QlikView
14 3 (2.13%) Spark SQL
14 3 (2.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (10.64%) Git
2 9 (6.38%) JIRA
3 7 (4.96%) GitLab
4 6 (4.26%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.42%) Postman
5 2 (1.42%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.71%) Deequ
6 1 (0.71%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.71%) NUnit
6 1 (0.71%) Selenium
General
1 46 (32.62%) Social Skills
2 28 (19.86%) Finance
3 16 (11.35%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.80%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.67%) Marketing
6 7 (4.96%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (4.26%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (2.13%) Banking
8 3 (2.13%) Legal
8 3 (2.13%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.42%) Law
10 1 (0.71%) Billing
10 1 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.71%) Electronics
10 1 (0.71%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.71%) Local Government
10 1 (0.71%) Retail
10 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 65 (46.10%) Data Engineer
2 48 (34.04%) Azure Engineer
3 43 (30.50%) Azure Data Engineer
4 30 (21.28%) Developer
5 15 (10.64%) Architect
5 15 (10.64%) Lead
6 13 (9.22%) Azure Developer
7 11 (7.80%) Data Architect
8 10 (7.09%) Senior
9 9 (6.38%) Lead Data Engineer
10 7 (4.96%) Azure Architect
10 7 (4.96%) Full Stack Developer
11 6 (4.26%) Analyst
11 6 (4.26%) Integration Developer
12 5 (3.55%) Azure Data Architect
12 5 (3.55%) Consultant
12 5 (3.55%) Data Analyst
12 5 (3.55%) Data Consultant
12 5 (3.55%) Senior Data Engineer
12 5 (3.55%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (13.48%) PySpark
2 14 (9.93%) .NET
3 8 (5.67%) ARM Templates
4 7 (4.96%) React
5 6 (4.26%) JSON
5 6 (4.26%) Pandas
5 6 (4.26%) REST
5 6 (4.26%) SOAP
6 5 (3.55%) .NET Core
7 4 (2.84%) Kafka
7 4 (2.84%) XML
7 4 (2.84%) YAML
8 3 (2.13%) GraphQL
8 3 (2.13%) OAuth
8 3 (2.13%) OpenID
9 2 (1.42%) Blazor
9 2 (1.42%) JSON Schema
9 2 (1.42%) OpenAPI
9 2 (1.42%) Spark Streaming
9 2 (1.42%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.09%) Product Ownership
2 4 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.13%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.13%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.42%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.42%) Grid Computing
4 2 (1.42%) NHS
5 1 (0.71%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.71%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.71%) Housing Association
5 1 (0.71%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.71%) Replication
5 1 (0.71%) Smart Meter
5 1 (0.71%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.96%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (37.59%) DevOps
2 52 (36.88%) Business Intelligence
3 45 (31.91%) Analytics
4 41 (29.08%) Agile
5 40 (28.37%) ETL
6 34 (24.11%) CI/CD
7 33 (23.40%) Data Modelling
8 28 (19.86%) Data Pipeline
9 25 (17.73%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (14.89%) Data Engineering
11 19 (13.48%) Data Integration
11 19 (13.48%) Migration
12 18 (12.77%) Infrastructure as Code
13 16 (11.35%) Visualisation
14 14 (9.93%) Scrum
15 13 (9.22%) Data Migration
15 13 (9.22%) Microservices
16 12 (8.51%) Full Stack Development
17 11 (7.80%) Data Transformation
17 11 (7.80%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 92 (65.25%) SQL
2 61 (43.26%) Python
3 22 (15.60%) C#
4 16 (11.35%) PowerShell
4 16 (11.35%) Scala
5 9 (6.38%) Bicep
5 9 (6.38%) T-SQL
6 8 (5.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 5 (3.55%) Java
8 2 (1.42%) Bash
8 2 (1.42%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.42%) R
9 1 (0.71%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.71%) PHP
9 1 (0.71%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (7.09%) Azure Certification
2 7 (4.96%) Degree
3 5 (3.55%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.55%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.84%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.22%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.84%) QA
3 1 (0.71%) GDPR
3 1 (0.71%) GxP
System Software
1 10 (7.09%) Docker
2 9 (6.38%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (9.22%) Terraform
2 6 (4.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 59 (41.84%) Databricks
2 42 (29.79%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.55%) Oracle
4 3 (2.13%) Informatica
5 2 (1.42%) JD Edwards
5 2 (1.42%) QAD
6 1 (0.71%) Ab Initio
6 1 (0.71%) Adobe
6 1 (0.71%) BMC
6 1 (0.71%) IBM
6 1 (0.71%) Remedy
6 1 (0.71%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.71%) SAP
6 1 (0.71%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.71%) Splunk
6 1 (0.71%) StreamSets
6 1 (0.71%) Talend