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

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 234 215 224
Rank change year-on-year -19 +9 +4
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 113 268 543
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.77% 1.12% 1.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.10% 2.83% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 216 406
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £475 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £647 £675 £638
90th Percentile £688 £750 £726
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.75
UK median hourly rate - - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - +9.38%

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 5,387 9,474 18,265
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.62% 39.42% 41.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,891 7,062 13,694
10th Percentile £350 £364 £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 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 133 153
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.23 £15.08
25th Percentile £16.90 £21.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £53.35 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.27% +33.38% +14.29%
75th Percentile £52.31 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £38.78 £22.00
% change year-on-year -44.55% +76.25% +0.64%

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 June 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 11 (9.73%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.54%) Luigi
3 2 (1.77%) Apache
4 1 (0.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (4.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.88%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 113 (100.00%) Azure
2 41 (36.28%) Power Platform
3 39 (34.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 22 (19.47%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (15.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 18 (15.93%) Azure Monitor
5 18 (15.93%) Serverless
6 17 (15.04%) Azure Logic Apps
7 15 (13.27%) Azure Functions
8 10 (8.85%) Entra ID
9 9 (7.96%) Azure Key Vault
9 9 (7.96%) Azure Service Bus
10 8 (7.08%) Azure API Management
11 6 (5.31%) PowerApps
12 5 (4.42%) AWS
12 5 (4.42%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (4.42%) Snowflake
13 4 (3.54%) Azure Storage
13 4 (3.54%) PaaS
14 3 (2.65%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.77%) Firewall
2 1 (0.88%) DNS
2 1 (0.88%) Network Security
2 1 (0.88%) VPN
2 1 (0.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (34.51%) Power BI
2 33 (29.20%) Azure SQL Database
3 29 (25.66%) SQL Server
4 27 (23.89%) Data Lake
5 22 (19.47%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (12.39%) NoSQL
7 13 (11.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 11 (9.73%) Big Data
9 9 (7.96%) Delta Lake
10 6 (5.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (4.42%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 5 (4.42%) Relational Database
12 4 (3.54%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (3.54%) Power Query
12 4 (3.54%) Spark SQL
12 4 (3.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 3 (2.65%) Parquet
13 3 (2.65%) QlikView
13 3 (2.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (12.39%) Git
2 6 (5.31%) GitLab
3 4 (3.54%) JIRA
3 4 (3.54%) Visual Studio
4 3 (2.65%) Selenium
5 2 (1.77%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.88%) Deequ
6 1 (0.88%) NUnit
6 1 (0.88%) Postman
General
1 42 (37.17%) Social Skills
2 22 (19.47%) Finance
3 10 (8.85%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.19%) Presentation Skills
4 7 (6.19%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.42%) Marketing
5 5 (4.42%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (2.65%) Legal
7 2 (1.77%) Banking
7 2 (1.77%) Law
7 2 (1.77%) Retail
8 1 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.88%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.88%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 53 (46.90%) Data Engineer
2 39 (34.51%) Azure Engineer
3 35 (30.97%) Azure Data Engineer
4 23 (20.35%) Developer
5 14 (12.39%) Architect
6 11 (9.73%) Data Architect
6 11 (9.73%) Lead
7 9 (7.96%) Azure Developer
8 8 (7.08%) Azure Architect
9 7 (6.19%) Full Stack Developer
9 7 (6.19%) Lead Data Engineer
9 7 (6.19%) Senior
10 5 (4.42%) Analyst
10 5 (4.42%) Azure Data Architect
10 5 (4.42%) Consultant
10 5 (4.42%) Data Analyst
10 5 (4.42%) Data Consultant
10 5 (4.42%) Integration Developer
11 4 (3.54%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 4 (3.54%) Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (16.81%) PySpark
2 10 (8.85%) .NET
3 7 (6.19%) ARM Templates
3 7 (6.19%) React
4 6 (5.31%) Pandas
5 5 (4.42%) .NET Core
5 5 (4.42%) Kafka
6 4 (3.54%) JSON
6 4 (3.54%) REST
6 4 (3.54%) SOAP
6 4 (3.54%) YAML
7 3 (2.65%) GraphQL
7 3 (2.65%) Spark Streaming
8 2 (1.77%) Apache Avro
8 2 (1.77%) Blazor
8 2 (1.77%) Great Expectations
8 2 (1.77%) JSON Schema
8 2 (1.77%) NumPy
8 2 (1.77%) Web Services
8 2 (1.77%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.31%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.65%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.65%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.77%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.77%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.77%) Grid Computing
4 2 (1.77%) NHS
5 1 (0.88%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.88%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.88%) Housing Association
5 1 (0.88%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.88%) Replication
5 1 (0.88%) Smart Meter
5 1 (0.88%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.31%) Linux
2 1 (0.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (35.40%) Business Intelligence
1 40 (35.40%) DevOps
2 35 (30.97%) Analytics
3 32 (28.32%) Data Modelling
3 32 (28.32%) ETL
4 31 (27.43%) CI/CD
5 27 (23.89%) Agile
6 23 (20.35%) Data Pipeline
7 22 (19.47%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (15.04%) Data Integration
8 17 (15.04%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (15.04%) Migration
9 16 (14.16%) Data Engineering
10 13 (11.50%) Microservices
11 12 (10.62%) Data Migration
11 12 (10.62%) Visualisation
12 10 (8.85%) Data Architecture
12 10 (8.85%) Data Transformation
13 9 (7.96%) Software Engineering
13 9 (7.96%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 71 (62.83%) SQL
2 49 (43.36%) Python
3 15 (13.27%) C#
3 15 (13.27%) PowerShell
4 10 (8.85%) Bicep
4 10 (8.85%) Scala
5 6 (5.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 6 (5.31%) Java
5 6 (5.31%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.77%) Bash
7 1 (0.88%) R
7 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.88%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (8.85%) Azure Certification
2 7 (6.19%) Degree
3 5 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (4.42%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.65%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.65%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.73%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.54%) QA
3 1 (0.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (8.85%) Active Directory
2 9 (7.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (14.16%) Terraform
2 7 (6.19%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 46 (40.71%) Databricks
2 31 (27.43%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.42%) Oracle
4 4 (3.54%) Informatica
5 3 (2.65%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.88%) Ab Initio
6 1 (0.88%) Adobe
6 1 (0.88%) BMC
6 1 (0.88%) IBM
6 1 (0.88%) Remedy
6 1 (0.88%) SAP
6 1 (0.88%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.88%) Sitecore