Azure Data Factory Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure Data Factory
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 250 266 292
Rank change year-on-year +16 +26 +37
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 149 194 237
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.73% 0.84% 0.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.84% 2.54% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 151 179
10th Percentile £407 £410 £410
25th Percentile £450 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £619
90th Percentile £675 £706 £688
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +6.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £35.00
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £56.88
% change year-on-year - -38.46% +15.48%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,254 7,633 9,840
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.89% 33.18% 32.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,726 5,635 7,234
10th Percentile £213 £250 £208
25th Percentile £375 £406 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 222 284
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.28
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.72 £25.87 £19.63
Median % change year-on-year -31.49% +31.80% -1.88%
75th Percentile £27.25 £64.31 £31.69
90th Percentile £65.75 £75.00 £62.75
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%

Azure Data Factory
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Azure Data Factory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Data Factory in the UK excluding London

Azure Data Factory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Data Factory in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Azure Data Factory in the UK excluding London

Azure Data Factory
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Data Factory in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Data Factory in the UK excluding London

Azure Data Factory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Data Factory in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Data Factory in the UK excluding London

Azure Data Factory
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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
South East -11 50 £625 +4.17% 12
North of England +17 33 £480 -20.00% 20
South West +8 22 £538 +7.50% 13
North West +22 21 £500 -21.57% 12
Midlands +20 21 £524 -2.56% 22
West Midlands +25 14 £550 -8.33% 17
Yorkshire +8 12 £475 -20.83% 6
Scotland +27 9 £475 -4.04% 4
Wales +22 7 £550 +7.32%
East of England +9 7 £410 -3.53% 10
East Midlands +8 7 £425 -5.56% 5
Azure Data Factory
UK

Azure Data Factory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (4.70%) Confluence
2 6 (4.03%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.01%) Apache
4 1 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.67%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (4.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 149 (100.00%) Azure
2 72 (48.32%) Power Platform
3 39 (26.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 33 (22.15%) Azure Functions
4 33 (22.15%) Serverless
5 32 (21.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 27 (18.12%) Azure Monitor
7 22 (14.77%) Entra ID
8 17 (11.41%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (7.38%) Azure Logic Apps
10 10 (6.71%) Snowflake
11 8 (5.37%) Azure API Management
11 8 (5.37%) Azure Key Vault
11 8 (5.37%) Power Automate
11 8 (5.37%) PowerApps
12 6 (4.03%) Azure Service Bus
13 5 (3.36%) GCP
14 4 (2.68%) Apigee
15 3 (2.01%) AWS
15 3 (2.01%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.34%) DNS
2 1 (0.67%) Firewall
2 1 (0.67%) Network Security
2 1 (0.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (46.31%) Power BI
2 35 (23.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 33 (22.15%) Data Lake
3 33 (22.15%) SQL Server
4 29 (19.46%) NoSQL
5 27 (18.12%) Azure SQL Database
6 24 (16.11%) Data Warehouse
7 19 (12.75%) Tableau
8 18 (12.08%) Relational Database
9 16 (10.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 15 (10.07%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 7 (4.70%) Big Data
11 7 (4.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (4.03%) Delta Lake
13 5 (3.36%) Power Query
14 4 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
15 3 (2.01%) QlikView
16 2 (1.34%) DTS
16 2 (1.34%) Hadoop
16 2 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (15.44%) Git
2 11 (7.38%) JIRA
3 6 (4.03%) Selenium
4 5 (3.36%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.34%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.34%) Postman
General
1 35 (23.49%) Analytical Skills
2 24 (16.11%) Social Skills
3 13 (8.72%) Finance
4 5 (3.36%) Pharmaceutical
4 5 (3.36%) Public Sector
4 5 (3.36%) Telecoms
5 4 (2.68%) Marketing
6 3 (2.01%) Legal
6 3 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.34%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.67%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.67%) Law
8 1 (0.67%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 50 (33.56%) Data Engineer
1 50 (33.56%) Developer
2 29 (19.46%) Azure Engineer
3 24 (16.11%) Azure Developer
4 22 (14.77%) Architect
5 21 (14.09%) Azure Data Engineer
6 20 (13.42%) Full Stack Developer
7 14 (9.40%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 12 (8.05%) Azure Architect
8 12 (8.05%) Consultant
8 12 (8.05%) Data Architect
9 11 (7.38%) Power BI Developer
9 11 (7.38%) Python Developer
10 9 (6.04%) Full Stack Python Developer
10 9 (6.04%) Senior
11 7 (4.70%) Analyst
11 7 (4.70%) Data Analyst
12 6 (4.03%) Azure Consultant
12 6 (4.03%) Integration Developer
13 5 (3.36%) Infrastructure Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (14.77%) React
2 10 (6.71%) PySpark
2 10 (6.71%) XML
3 8 (5.37%) ARM Templates
4 5 (3.36%) .NET
5 4 (2.68%) Microsoft Graph
6 3 (2.01%) JSON
6 3 (2.01%) NumPy
6 3 (2.01%) OAuth
6 3 (2.01%) OpenID
6 3 (2.01%) Pandas
6 3 (2.01%) REST
6 3 (2.01%) SOAP
7 2 (1.34%) Django
7 2 (1.34%) OpenAPI
7 2 (1.34%) Swagger
8 1 (0.67%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (0.67%) Kafka
8 1 (0.67%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (0.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.77%) Product Ownership
2 7 (4.70%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.03%) Smart Meter
4 5 (3.36%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.01%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.34%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.34%) NHS
7 1 (0.67%) FMCG
7 1 (0.67%) IoT
7 1 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.68%) Linux
1 4 (2.68%) Unix
1 4 (2.68%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (46.98%) Business Intelligence
2 56 (37.58%) ETL
3 50 (33.56%) Data Modelling
4 47 (31.54%) Analytics
5 45 (30.20%) DevOps
6 32 (21.48%) Agile
7 31 (20.81%) CI/CD
8 23 (15.44%) Data Pipeline
8 23 (15.44%) Full Stack Development
9 22 (14.77%) Data Engineering
9 22 (14.77%) Microservices
10 19 (12.75%) Visualisation
11 18 (12.08%) SDLC
12 17 (11.41%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (11.41%) Translating Business Requirements
13 15 (10.07%) Data Integration
13 15 (10.07%) Performance Optimisation
13 15 (10.07%) Product Backlog
13 15 (10.07%) Unit Testing
14 14 (9.40%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 91 (61.07%) SQL
2 56 (37.58%) Python
3 19 (12.75%) T-SQL
4 14 (9.40%) PowerShell
5 7 (4.70%) C#
5 7 (4.70%) Java
6 5 (3.36%) Scala
7 3 (2.01%) Bicep
7 3 (2.01%) C
7 3 (2.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.34%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (8.72%) Security Cleared
2 8 (5.37%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.03%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.01%) Degree
4 3 (2.01%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.67%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.67%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.07%) QA
2 5 (3.36%) GDPR
3 4 (2.68%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.67%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.67%) GxP
System Software
1 22 (14.77%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.01%) Docker
3 1 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (4.70%) Terraform
2 4 (2.68%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.67%) Ansible
3 1 (0.67%) Kibana
Vendors
1 42 (28.19%) Databricks
2 32 (21.48%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.03%) Ab Initio
4 4 (2.68%) Informatica
5 3 (2.01%) Oracle
6 2 (1.34%) JD Edwards
6 2 (1.34%) QAD
7 1 (0.67%) BMC
7 1 (0.67%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.67%) Remedy
7 1 (0.67%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.67%) StreamSets
7 1 (0.67%) Talend