Azure Data Factory Contracts

Microsoft Azure Data Factory
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 299 269 267
Rank change year-on-year -30 -2 +26
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 336 591 936
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.77% 0.99% 1.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.38% 2.68% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 434 657
10th Percentile £413 £412 £406
25th Percentile £475 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.84%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £688 £747 £714
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £560 £525
% change year-on-year -4.02% +6.67% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £35.00
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £56.88
Median % change year-on-year - -38.46% +15.48%
75th Percentile - - £81.79
90th Percentile - - £87.26
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £35.00 £35.00

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,092 22,029 34,235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.32% 36.91% 38.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,003 15,924 24,905
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 348 350 427
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.05 £18.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -5.54%
75th Percentile £35.00 £66.00 £49.46
90th Percentile £62.00 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £24.62 £18.75
% change year-on-year -28.03% +31.31% -5.06%

Azure Data Factory
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Azure Data Factory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Data Factory in the UK

Azure Data Factory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Data Factory in the UK

Azure Data Factory
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Data Factory over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Data Factory in the UK

Azure Data Factory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Data Factory.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Data Factory in the UK

Azure Data Factory
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 29 April 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
England -19 295 £550 - 164
London -4 163 £550 - 77
Work from Home +4 137 £550 - 70
UK excluding London +3 136 £538 -4.02% 88
South East -14 46 £620 +3.33% 21
North of England +10 26 £500 -16.67% 18
Midlands +20 23 £524 +10.26% 18
South West +5 18 £538 +4.88% 11
West Midlands +27 15 £550 -4.35% 12
North West +19 15 £525 -12.50% 11
Yorkshire +14 11 £475 -20.83% 6
Scotland +27 9 £475 -4.04% 6
East Midlands +16 8 £444 -1.39% 6
Wales +16 7 £550 +27.54% 1
East of England +11 7 £410 -18.00% 10

Azure Data Factory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 29 (8.63%) Apache Spark
2 13 (3.87%) Apache
3 7 (2.08%) Confluence
4 4 (1.19%) Luigi
5 3 (0.89%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.30%) CMS
6 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (2.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 336 (100.00%) Azure
2 132 (39.29%) Power Platform
3 97 (28.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 63 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
5 54 (16.07%) Serverless
6 48 (14.29%) Azure Functions
7 45 (13.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 44 (13.10%) Azure Monitor
9 29 (8.63%) Azure Logic Apps
10 23 (6.85%) PowerApps
11 21 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
11 21 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
11 21 (6.25%) Entra ID
12 20 (5.95%) Azure API Management
12 20 (5.95%) PaaS
13 16 (4.76%) AWS
13 16 (4.76%) Snowflake
14 15 (4.46%) GCP
15 14 (4.17%) Power Automate
16 10 (2.98%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.89%) Firewall
2 2 (0.60%) DNS
2 2 (0.60%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (36.90%) Power BI
2 104 (30.95%) Data Lake
3 83 (24.70%) Data Warehouse
4 79 (23.51%) SQL Server
5 72 (21.43%) Azure SQL Database
6 51 (15.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 38 (11.31%) NoSQL
8 32 (9.52%) Relational Database
9 30 (8.93%) Big Data
10 24 (7.14%) Tableau
11 21 (6.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 17 (5.06%) PostgreSQL
13 16 (4.76%) Delta Lake
13 16 (4.76%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 16 (4.76%) Power Query
13 16 (4.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 11 (3.27%) Spark SQL
15 10 (2.98%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 10 (2.98%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
16 8 (2.38%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 37 (11.01%) Git
2 12 (3.57%) JIRA
3 9 (2.68%) GitLab
4 6 (1.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 6 (1.79%) Visual Studio
5 4 (1.19%) Deequ
5 4 (1.19%) Selenium
6 3 (0.89%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.60%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.60%) Postman
7 2 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.30%) Maven
8 1 (0.30%) MLflow
8 1 (0.30%) NUnit
8 1 (0.30%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 80 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 60 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
3 58 (17.26%) Finance
4 26 (7.74%) Public Sector
5 16 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
6 15 (4.46%) Marketing
7 8 (2.38%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.08%) Banking
8 7 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (1.79%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.89%) Electronics
10 3 (0.89%) Legal
11 2 (0.60%) Back Office
11 2 (0.60%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.60%) Law
12 1 (0.30%) Billing
12 1 (0.30%) Front Office
12 1 (0.30%) Publishing
12 1 (0.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 152 (45.24%) Data Engineer
2 103 (30.65%) Azure Engineer
3 87 (25.89%) Azure Data Engineer
4 65 (19.35%) Developer
5 45 (13.39%) Architect
6 28 (8.33%) Azure Developer
7 25 (7.44%) Data Architect
8 24 (7.14%) Lead
9 23 (6.85%) Azure Architect
10 21 (6.25%) Full Stack Developer
10 21 (6.25%) Senior
11 16 (4.76%) Analyst
11 16 (4.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 15 (4.46%) Consultant
13 14 (4.17%) Data Analyst
14 12 (3.57%) Azure Data Architect
14 12 (3.57%) Lead Data Engineer
14 12 (3.57%) Power BI Developer
15 10 (2.98%) SQL Developer
16 8 (2.38%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (14.88%) PySpark
2 26 (7.74%) .NET
3 23 (6.85%) React
4 14 (4.17%) ARM Templates
5 13 (3.87%) XML
6 10 (2.98%) .NET Core
6 10 (2.98%) JSON
7 9 (2.68%) Kafka
7 9 (2.68%) REST
8 8 (2.38%) SOAP
9 7 (2.08%) Pandas
10 6 (1.79%) GraphQL
10 6 (1.79%) YAML
11 5 (1.49%) .NET Framework
11 5 (1.49%) Apache Avro
11 5 (1.49%) Great Expectations
11 5 (1.49%) JSON Schema
12 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Graph
12 4 (1.19%) RESTful
12 4 (1.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 28 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 12 (3.57%) Onboarding
3 9 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (2.38%) Cloud Native
5 7 (2.08%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.79%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.79%) Smart Meter
7 5 (1.49%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.19%) Wiki
9 3 (0.89%) Grid Computing
9 3 (0.89%) Tandem
10 2 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.60%) Market Risk
10 2 (0.60%) NHS
10 2 (0.60%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.30%) Housing Association
11 1 (0.30%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.27%) Linux
2 6 (1.79%) Windows
3 5 (1.49%) Unix
4 1 (0.30%) VMS
4 1 (0.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (36.01%) Business Intelligence
2 120 (35.71%) ETL
3 119 (35.42%) Data Modelling
4 117 (34.82%) Analytics
5 113 (33.63%) DevOps
6 90 (26.79%) Agile
7 70 (20.83%) CI/CD
8 65 (19.35%) Data Pipeline
9 60 (17.86%) Data Engineering
10 50 (14.88%) Data Integration
11 44 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
12 39 (11.61%) Migration
13 35 (10.42%) Scrum
14 33 (9.82%) SDLC
14 33 (9.82%) Visualisation
15 31 (9.23%) Full Stack Development
16 28 (8.33%) Microservices
17 24 (7.14%) Unit Testing
18 23 (6.85%) Data Migration
18 23 (6.85%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 216 (64.29%) SQL
2 134 (39.88%) Python
3 45 (13.39%) T-SQL
4 37 (11.01%) C#
5 31 (9.23%) PowerShell
6 20 (5.95%) Scala
7 14 (4.17%) Java
8 13 (3.87%) Bicep
9 10 (2.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.89%) R
11 2 (0.60%) Bash
11 2 (0.60%) C
11 2 (0.60%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.30%) Gremlin
12 1 (0.30%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.30%) PHP
12 1 (0.30%) X++
Qualifications
1 35 (10.42%) Security Cleared
2 25 (7.44%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.25%) Azure Certification
4 19 (5.65%) Degree
5 12 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.68%) Master's Degree
7 8 (2.38%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (9.23%) Data Quality
2 21 (6.25%) QA
3 4 (1.19%) GDPR
4 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.30%) GxP
4 1 (0.30%) IFRS
4 1 (0.30%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (6.55%) Active Directory
2 14 (4.17%) Docker
3 8 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (6.85%) Terraform
2 9 (2.68%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.30%) Ansible
3 1 (0.30%) Ganglia
3 1 (0.30%) Kibana
3 1 (0.30%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 143 (42.56%) Databricks
2 102 (30.36%) Microsoft
3 11 (3.27%) Oracle
4 7 (2.08%) Adobe
4 7 (2.08%) Informatica
4 7 (2.08%) Splunk
5 6 (1.79%) Ab Initio
6 5 (1.49%) Google
6 5 (1.49%) SAP
7 3 (0.89%) Salesforce
7 3 (0.89%) Talend
8 2 (0.60%) Cloudera
8 2 (0.60%) JD Edwards
8 2 (0.60%) QAD
8 2 (0.60%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.30%) BMC
9 1 (0.30%) IBM
9 1 (0.30%) Remedy
9 1 (0.30%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.30%) VMware