Azure Data Factory Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure Data Factory
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Azure Data Factory skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure Data Factory over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 262 253 289
Rank change year-on-year -9 +36 +29
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 143 182 230
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.67% 0.80% 0.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.62% 2.46% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 145 185
10th Percentile £405 £410 £407
25th Percentile £438 £475 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% +9.52% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £625
90th Percentile £675 £735 £695
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK median hourly rate - - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - +9.38%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

Azure Data Factory falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,466 7,412 9,987
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.63% 32.66% 32.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,807 5,454 7,397
10th Percentile £220 £238 £210
25th Percentile £375 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £594
90th Percentile £674 £694 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 216 273
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.57 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.15 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.00 £27.35 £19.09
Median % change year-on-year -26.87% +43.27% -4.55%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.19 £29.38
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.63 £64.60
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -16 44 £625 +4.17% 9
North of England +13 33 £500 -16.67% 21
South West +3 24 £538 +9.14% 7
North West +21 22 £500 -22.33% 14
Midlands +11 20 £475 -9.52% 13
West Midlands +15 13 £511 -18.20% 9
Yorkshire +10 11 £475 -26.92% 6
Scotland +42 9 £475 -4.04% 4
Wales +27 7 £550 +46.67%
East Midlands +4 7 £400 -8.57% 2
East of England +6 6 £410 -3.53% 3
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 (4.90%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.80%) Apache
3 1 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.70%) Confluence
3 1 (0.70%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (4.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.70%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.70%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 143 (100.00%) Azure
2 69 (48.25%) Power Platform
3 36 (25.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 28 (19.58%) Azure Functions
4 28 (19.58%) Serverless
5 25 (17.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 24 (16.78%) Azure Monitor
7 21 (14.69%) Entra ID
8 9 (6.29%) Snowflake
9 8 (5.59%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (4.20%) Power Automate
12 5 (3.50%) Azure Key Vault
13 4 (2.80%) Azure API Management
13 4 (2.80%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (2.80%) dbt
14 3 (2.10%) Azure App Service
14 3 (2.10%) Dynamics 365
14 3 (2.10%) GCP
14 3 (2.10%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.40%) DNS
2 1 (0.70%) Firewall
2 1 (0.70%) Network Security
2 1 (0.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (46.15%) Power BI
2 34 (23.78%) Data Lake
3 30 (20.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 29 (20.28%) SQL Server
5 26 (18.18%) NoSQL
6 23 (16.08%) Azure SQL Database
7 21 (14.69%) Data Warehouse
8 20 (13.99%) Relational Database
9 19 (13.29%) Tableau
10 16 (11.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 15 (10.49%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 7 (4.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (4.20%) Big Data
14 5 (3.50%) Delta Lake
14 5 (3.50%) Power Query
15 4 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
16 3 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
16 3 (2.10%) QlikView
17 2 (1.40%) Hadoop
17 2 (1.40%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 23 (16.08%) Git
2 8 (5.59%) Selenium
3 5 (3.50%) JIRA
4 2 (1.40%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.40%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.70%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.70%) Postman
5 1 (0.70%) SpecFlow
General
1 35 (24.48%) Analytical Skills
2 20 (13.99%) Social Skills
3 11 (7.69%) Finance
4 5 (3.50%) Public Sector
4 5 (3.50%) Telecoms
5 4 (2.80%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (2.10%) Legal
6 3 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.70%) General Ledger
7 1 (0.70%) Law
7 1 (0.70%) Local Government
7 1 (0.70%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 48 (33.57%) Data Engineer
1 48 (33.57%) Developer
2 29 (20.28%) Azure Engineer
3 23 (16.08%) Architect
4 22 (15.38%) Azure Data Engineer
4 22 (15.38%) Azure Developer
5 20 (13.99%) Full Stack Developer
6 16 (11.19%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 14 (9.79%) Data Architect
8 13 (9.09%) Azure Architect
8 13 (9.09%) Power BI Developer
9 12 (8.39%) Consultant
9 12 (8.39%) Python Developer
10 10 (6.99%) Full Stack Python Developer
11 7 (4.90%) Analyst
11 7 (4.90%) Data Analyst
11 7 (4.90%) Senior
12 6 (4.20%) Azure Consultant
13 5 (3.50%) Azure Data Architect
13 5 (3.50%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (15.38%) React
2 9 (6.29%) PySpark
3 7 (4.90%) XML
4 5 (3.50%) ARM Templates
5 3 (2.10%) NumPy
5 3 (2.10%) Pandas
6 2 (1.40%) Django
6 2 (1.40%) Kafka
6 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (0.70%) .NET
7 1 (0.70%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (0.70%) HTML
7 1 (0.70%) OpenAPI
7 1 (0.70%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.70%) pytest
7 1 (0.70%) Swagger
7 1 (0.70%) Web Services
7 1 (0.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.99%) Product Ownership
2 7 (4.90%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.20%) Smart Meter
4 5 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.40%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.40%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.40%) NHS
6 1 (0.70%) FMCG
6 1 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.70%) IoT
6 1 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.70%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.80%) Linux
1 4 (2.80%) Unix
1 4 (2.80%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (46.85%) Business Intelligence
2 52 (36.36%) ETL
3 50 (34.97%) Data Modelling
4 39 (27.27%) Analytics
5 38 (26.57%) DevOps
6 27 (18.88%) CI/CD
7 26 (18.18%) Agile
8 24 (16.78%) Data Pipeline
9 22 (15.38%) Full Stack Development
10 21 (14.69%) Data Engineering
10 21 (14.69%) Microservices
11 20 (13.99%) Visualisation
12 17 (11.89%) SDLC
13 16 (11.19%) Translating Business Requirements
13 16 (11.19%) Unit Testing
14 15 (10.49%) Continuous Improvement
14 15 (10.49%) Data Integration
14 15 (10.49%) Data Visualisation
14 15 (10.49%) Performance Optimisation
14 15 (10.49%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 83 (58.04%) SQL
2 50 (34.97%) Python
3 17 (11.89%) T-SQL
4 12 (8.39%) PowerShell
5 9 (6.29%) Java
6 3 (2.10%) Bicep
6 3 (2.10%) C
6 3 (2.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.40%) C#
8 1 (0.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 8 (5.59%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.20%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.10%) Degree
4 3 (2.10%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.70%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (11.19%) QA
2 5 (3.50%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.50%) GDPR
3 1 (0.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 22 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.10%) Docker
3 1 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (7.69%) Terraform
2 4 (2.80%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.70%) Ansible
3 1 (0.70%) Kibana
Vendors
1 40 (27.97%) Databricks
2 27 (18.88%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.20%) Ab Initio
4 4 (2.80%) Informatica
5 3 (2.10%) Oracle
6 1 (0.70%) BMC
6 1 (0.70%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.70%) Remedy
6 1 (0.70%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.70%) ServiceNow