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

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 215 226 217
Rank change year-on-year +11 -9 +6
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 132 268 563
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.89% 1.09% 1.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.45% 2.76% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 218 412
10th Percentile £412 £400 £400
25th Percentile £475 £468 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +6.80%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £625
90th Percentile £688 £741 £714
UK median daily rate £544 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.14% - +6.80%
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 5,395 9,717 18,221
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.48% 39.48% 41.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,889 7,207 13,616
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
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 88 125 169
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +35.00% +1.27%
75th Percentile £50.94 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.06 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.19
% change year-on-year -38.94% +57.73% -1.38%

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 17 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 (7.58%) Apache Spark
2 7 (5.30%) Confluence
3 4 (3.03%) Luigi
4 2 (1.52%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (3.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.76%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.76%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.76%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 132 (100.00%) Azure
2 49 (37.12%) Power Platform
3 40 (30.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 32 (24.24%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (19.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 23 (17.42%) Azure Monitor
7 22 (16.67%) Serverless
8 20 (15.15%) Azure Logic Apps
9 19 (14.39%) Azure Functions
10 12 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
10 12 (9.09%) Entra ID
11 11 (8.33%) Azure API Management
11 11 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
11 11 (8.33%) PowerApps
12 7 (5.30%) PaaS
13 6 (4.55%) Snowflake
14 5 (3.79%) AWS
14 5 (3.79%) Dynamics 365
15 4 (3.03%) Azure Storage
16 3 (2.27%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.52%) Firewall
2 1 (0.76%) DNS
2 1 (0.76%) Network Security
2 1 (0.76%) VPN
2 1 (0.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (35.61%) Power BI
2 37 (28.03%) Azure SQL Database
3 32 (24.24%) SQL Server
4 29 (21.97%) Data Lake
5 27 (20.45%) Data Warehouse
6 19 (14.39%) NoSQL
7 16 (12.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (7.58%) Big Data
9 7 (5.30%) Delta Lake
10 6 (4.55%) Relational Database
10 6 (4.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (3.79%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 5 (3.79%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (3.03%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 4 (3.03%) Power Query
12 4 (3.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 3 (2.27%) QlikView
13 3 (2.27%) Spark SQL
13 3 (2.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (12.88%) Git
2 11 (8.33%) JIRA
3 7 (5.30%) GitLab
4 6 (4.55%) Visual Studio
5 3 (2.27%) Selenium
6 2 (1.52%) Postman
6 2 (1.52%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.76%) Deequ
7 1 (0.76%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.76%) NUnit
General
1 45 (34.09%) Social Skills
2 26 (19.70%) Finance
3 13 (9.85%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.82%) Marketing
5 8 (6.06%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.30%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (4.55%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (2.27%) Banking
8 3 (2.27%) Legal
8 3 (2.27%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.52%) Law
9 2 (1.52%) Retail
10 1 (0.76%) Billing
10 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.76%) Electronics
10 1 (0.76%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.76%) Local Government
10 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 58 (43.94%) Data Engineer
2 41 (31.06%) Azure Engineer
3 36 (27.27%) Azure Data Engineer
4 30 (22.73%) Developer
5 15 (11.36%) Architect
6 14 (10.61%) Lead
7 13 (9.85%) Azure Developer
8 11 (8.33%) Data Architect
9 10 (7.58%) Senior
10 9 (6.82%) Full Stack Developer
10 9 (6.82%) Lead Data Engineer
11 8 (6.06%) Azure Architect
12 7 (5.30%) Analyst
13 6 (4.55%) Data Analyst
13 6 (4.55%) Integration Developer
14 5 (3.79%) Azure Data Architect
14 5 (3.79%) Consultant
14 5 (3.79%) Data Consultant
14 5 (3.79%) Senior Data Engineer
15 4 (3.03%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (13.64%) PySpark
2 14 (10.61%) .NET
3 9 (6.82%) ARM Templates
3 9 (6.82%) React
4 6 (4.55%) JSON
4 6 (4.55%) Pandas
4 6 (4.55%) REST
4 6 (4.55%) SOAP
5 5 (3.79%) .NET Core
5 5 (3.79%) Kafka
6 4 (3.03%) XML
6 4 (3.03%) YAML
7 3 (2.27%) GraphQL
7 3 (2.27%) OAuth
7 3 (2.27%) OpenID
8 2 (1.52%) Blazor
8 2 (1.52%) JSON Schema
8 2 (1.52%) OpenAPI
8 2 (1.52%) Spark Streaming
8 2 (1.52%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.82%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.27%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.27%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.52%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.52%) Grid Computing
4 2 (1.52%) NHS
5 1 (0.76%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.76%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.76%) Housing Association
5 1 (0.76%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.76%) Replication
5 1 (0.76%) Smart Meter
5 1 (0.76%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.30%) Linux
2 1 (0.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (40.15%) DevOps
2 49 (37.12%) Business Intelligence
3 44 (33.33%) Analytics
4 38 (28.79%) Agile
5 37 (28.03%) ETL
6 35 (26.52%) CI/CD
7 32 (24.24%) Data Modelling
8 26 (19.70%) Data Pipeline
9 23 (17.42%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (15.15%) Data Engineering
11 19 (14.39%) Infrastructure as Code
12 17 (12.88%) Data Integration
12 17 (12.88%) Migration
13 16 (12.12%) Microservices
14 14 (10.61%) Visualisation
15 12 (9.09%) Data Migration
16 11 (8.33%) Full Stack Development
16 11 (8.33%) Scrum
17 10 (7.58%) SDLC
17 10 (7.58%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 87 (65.91%) SQL
2 60 (45.45%) Python
3 20 (15.15%) C#
4 16 (12.12%) PowerShell
5 15 (11.36%) Scala
6 10 (7.58%) Bicep
7 8 (6.06%) T-SQL
8 7 (5.30%) Java
9 6 (4.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.52%) Bash
10 2 (1.52%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.76%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.76%) PHP
11 1 (0.76%) R
11 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.76%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (7.58%) Azure Certification
2 7 (5.30%) Degree
3 5 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.27%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.27%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.03%) QA
3 1 (0.76%) GDPR
3 1 (0.76%) GxP
System Software
1 12 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 10 (7.58%) Docker
3 1 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (11.36%) Terraform
2 7 (5.30%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 53 (40.15%) Databricks
2 37 (28.03%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.79%) Oracle
4 4 (3.03%) Informatica
5 2 (1.52%) Adobe
5 2 (1.52%) JD Edwards
5 2 (1.52%) QAD
5 2 (1.52%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.52%) SAP
6 1 (0.76%) Ab Initio
6 1 (0.76%) BMC
6 1 (0.76%) IBM
6 1 (0.76%) Remedy
6 1 (0.76%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.76%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.76%) Splunk
6 1 (0.76%) StreamSets
6 1 (0.76%) Talend