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

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 287 266 267
Rank change year-on-year -21 +1 +30
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 327 552 907
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.76% 0.98% 1.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.34% 2.70% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 404 651
10th Percentile £405 £410 £406
25th Percentile £463 £487 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £663
90th Percentile £688 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -6.52% +9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
75th Percentile - - £67.81
90th Percentile - - £84.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £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 13,969 20,420 33,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.44% 36.43% 38.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,924 14,777 24,579
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 £746 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 332 392
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £19.00 £15.47
Median hourly rate £21.46 £38.78 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -44.66% +73.10% +2.47%
75th Percentile £42.50 £68.94 £54.00
90th Percentile £69.80 £78.00 £69.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.80 £27.83 £19.25
% change year-on-year -36.04% +44.57% -3.75%

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 1 June 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 1 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
England -22 298 £538 -4.44% 145
London -1 166 £550 - 74
UK excluding London -4 138 £538 -6.52% 70
Work from Home -8 117 £525 -4.55% 64
South East -20 43 £625 +4.17% 17
North of England +17 33 £500 -16.67% 21
South West +7 23 £538 +7.50% 7
North West +26 22 £500 -22.33% 13
Midlands +13 17 £493 -8.37% 13
Yorkshire +13 11 £475 -24.00% 6
West Midlands +7 10 £525 -16.00% 10
Scotland +30 9 £475 -4.04% 7
Wales +23 7 £550 +7.32%
East Midlands +9 7 £400 -8.57% 3
East of England +4 6 £410 -3.53% 5

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 32 (9.79%) Apache Spark
2 14 (4.28%) Apache
3 4 (1.22%) Luigi
4 3 (0.92%) Confluence
5 2 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.31%) CMS
6 1 (0.31%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (3.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.31%) Maximo
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 327 (100.00%) Azure
2 121 (37.00%) Power Platform
3 96 (29.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 55 (16.82%) Serverless
5 50 (15.29%) Azure DevOps
5 50 (15.29%) Azure Functions
6 46 (14.07%) Azure Monitor
7 45 (13.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 29 (8.87%) Azure Logic Apps
9 25 (7.65%) Entra ID
10 22 (6.73%) Azure Service Bus
11 20 (6.12%) Azure Key Vault
12 18 (5.50%) Azure API Management
13 17 (5.20%) PaaS
13 17 (5.20%) PowerApps
14 14 (4.28%) Snowflake
15 12 (3.67%) AWS
15 12 (3.67%) Power Automate
16 10 (3.06%) Dynamics 365
17 9 (2.75%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.92%) Firewall
2 2 (0.61%) DNS
2 2 (0.61%) VPN
3 1 (0.31%) Network Security
3 1 (0.31%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (35.17%) Power BI
2 107 (32.72%) Data Lake
3 78 (23.85%) SQL Server
4 76 (23.24%) Data Warehouse
5 73 (22.32%) Azure SQL Database
6 47 (14.37%) NoSQL
7 46 (14.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 30 (9.17%) Big Data
8 30 (9.17%) Relational Database
9 24 (7.34%) Tableau
10 22 (6.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 18 (5.50%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 15 (4.59%) Delta Lake
13 14 (4.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 12 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
14 12 (3.67%) Spark SQL
15 11 (3.36%) Power Query
16 10 (3.06%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
17 9 (2.75%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
17 9 (2.75%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 39 (11.93%) Git
2 10 (3.06%) Selenium
3 8 (2.45%) GitLab
3 8 (2.45%) JIRA
4 5 (1.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (1.22%) Deequ
5 4 (1.22%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.92%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.61%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.61%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.61%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.31%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.31%) Maven
8 1 (0.31%) MLflow
8 1 (0.31%) NUnit
8 1 (0.31%) Postman
8 1 (0.31%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.31%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 79 (24.16%) Social Skills
2 61 (18.65%) Analytical Skills
3 51 (15.60%) Finance
4 23 (7.03%) Public Sector
5 14 (4.28%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (3.36%) Marketing
7 7 (2.14%) Banking
7 7 (2.14%) Telecoms
8 6 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.22%) Legal
10 3 (0.92%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.92%) Law
10 3 (0.92%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.61%) Electronics
11 2 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.61%) Retail
12 1 (0.31%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.31%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.31%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 148 (45.26%) Data Engineer
2 94 (28.75%) Azure Engineer
3 81 (24.77%) Azure Data Engineer
4 71 (21.71%) Developer
5 41 (12.54%) Architect
6 31 (9.48%) Azure Developer
7 24 (7.34%) Full Stack Developer
8 23 (7.03%) Data Architect
9 22 (6.73%) Azure Architect
10 21 (6.42%) Lead
11 18 (5.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 16 (4.89%) Analyst
12 16 (4.89%) Data Analyst
12 16 (4.89%) Senior
13 15 (4.59%) Consultant
14 14 (4.28%) Python Developer
15 13 (3.98%) Power BI Developer
16 10 (3.06%) Azure Data Architect
16 10 (3.06%) Full Stack Python Developer
16 10 (3.06%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (15.60%) PySpark
2 27 (8.26%) React
3 24 (7.34%) .NET
4 14 (4.28%) ARM Templates
5 13 (3.98%) Kafka
6 11 (3.36%) XML
7 10 (3.06%) .NET Core
8 8 (2.45%) JSON
9 7 (2.14%) Apache Avro
9 7 (2.14%) Pandas
10 6 (1.83%) REST
11 5 (1.53%) .NET Framework
11 5 (1.53%) GraphQL
11 5 (1.53%) Great Expectations
11 5 (1.53%) JSON Schema
11 5 (1.53%) SOAP
11 5 (1.53%) YAML
12 4 (1.22%) ADO
12 4 (1.22%) Web Services
13 3 (0.92%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.95%) Product Ownership
2 12 (3.67%) Onboarding
3 8 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (2.14%) Cloud Native
5 6 (1.83%) Distributed Computing
5 6 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (1.83%) Smart Meter
6 5 (1.53%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.53%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (0.92%) Grid Computing
8 3 (0.92%) Tandem
8 3 (0.92%) Wiki
9 2 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.61%) NHS
9 2 (0.61%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.31%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.31%) Market Risk
10 1 (0.31%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.06%) Linux
2 9 (2.75%) Unix
3 6 (1.83%) Windows
4 1 (0.31%) VMS
4 1 (0.31%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (35.47%) Business Intelligence
2 112 (34.25%) Data Modelling
3 110 (33.64%) Analytics
4 109 (33.33%) ETL
5 105 (32.11%) DevOps
6 86 (26.30%) Agile
7 67 (20.49%) CI/CD
8 64 (19.57%) Data Pipeline
9 60 (18.35%) Data Engineering
10 45 (13.76%) Data Integration
11 42 (12.84%) Problem-Solving
12 37 (11.31%) Migration
13 35 (10.70%) Microservices
13 35 (10.70%) SDLC
14 31 (9.48%) Visualisation
15 30 (9.17%) Full Stack Development
16 29 (8.87%) Scrum
17 28 (8.56%) Test Automation
18 25 (7.65%) Data Science
19 24 (7.34%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 199 (60.86%) SQL
2 134 (40.98%) Python
3 41 (12.54%) T-SQL
4 32 (9.79%) PowerShell
5 29 (8.87%) C#
6 19 (5.81%) Java
7 18 (5.50%) Scala
8 13 (3.98%) Bicep
9 9 (2.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (1.22%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.92%) Bash
11 3 (0.92%) C
12 1 (0.31%) Gremlin
12 1 (0.31%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.31%) PHP
12 1 (0.31%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.31%) R
12 1 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 32 (9.79%) Security Cleared
2 25 (7.65%) Degree
3 21 (6.42%) SC Cleared
4 19 (5.81%) Azure Certification
5 14 (4.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (3.98%) Master's Degree
7 8 (2.45%) DV Cleared
8 7 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.31%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (10.09%) Data Quality
2 22 (6.73%) QA
3 5 (1.53%) GDPR
4 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.31%) NIST
System Software
1 27 (8.26%) Active Directory
2 13 (3.98%) Docker
3 7 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (8.87%) Terraform
2 14 (4.28%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.31%) Ansible
3 1 (0.31%) Ganglia
3 1 (0.31%) Kibana
3 1 (0.31%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 135 (41.28%) Databricks
2 92 (28.13%) Microsoft
3 11 (3.36%) Informatica
4 8 (2.45%) Oracle
5 6 (1.83%) Ab Initio
5 6 (1.83%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.53%) Adobe
6 5 (1.53%) SAP
7 4 (1.22%) Splunk
8 3 (0.92%) Google
9 2 (0.61%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.61%) IBM
9 2 (0.61%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.31%) BMC
10 1 (0.31%) JD Edwards
10 1 (0.31%) QAD
10 1 (0.31%) Remedy
10 1 (0.31%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.31%) Sybase
10 1 (0.31%) VMware