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

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 279 269 269
Rank change year-on-year -10 0 +24
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 339 564 928
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.80% 0.99% 1.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.45% 2.69% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 415 650
10th Percentile £413 £411 £406
25th Percentile £463 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +6.80%
75th Percentile £638 £659 £650
90th Percentile £688 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -6.52% +9.52% +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 13,823 20,974 33,690
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.48% 36.73% 38.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,820 15,173 24,585
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 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 334 420
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.31 £15.88
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%
75th Percentile £35.50 £66.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £25.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -29.12% +25.00% -

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 15 May 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 15 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
England -16 305 £544 -1.14% 177
London +1 162 £550 - 89
UK excluding London +9 148 £538 -6.52% 85
Work from Home +10 132 £525 -4.55% 75
South East -4 49 £625 +4.17% 16
North of England +12 33 £480 -20.00% 22
South West +16 22 £538 +7.50% 12
Midlands +25 21 £524 -2.56% 22
North West +22 21 £500 -21.57% 13
West Midlands +18 14 £550 -8.33% 18
Yorkshire +14 12 £475 -20.83% 6
Scotland +39 9 £475 -4.04% 2
Wales +27 7 £550 +7.32%
East of England +11 7 £410 -3.53% 10
East Midlands +10 7 £425 -5.56% 4

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 30 (8.85%) Apache Spark
2 14 (4.13%) Apache
3 8 (2.36%) Confluence
4 4 (1.18%) Luigi
5 2 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.59%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.29%) CMS
6 1 (0.29%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (2.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.29%) Maximo
2 1 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 339 (100.00%) Azure
2 134 (39.53%) Power Platform
3 102 (30.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 59 (17.40%) Azure DevOps
4 59 (17.40%) Serverless
5 52 (15.34%) Azure Functions
6 50 (14.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 47 (13.86%) Azure Monitor
8 29 (8.55%) Azure Logic Apps
9 25 (7.37%) Entra ID
10 22 (6.49%) Azure Key Vault
11 21 (6.19%) Azure Service Bus
11 21 (6.19%) PowerApps
12 20 (5.90%) Azure API Management
13 19 (5.60%) PaaS
14 15 (4.42%) Snowflake
15 14 (4.13%) Power Automate
16 13 (3.83%) AWS
17 12 (3.54%) GCP
18 10 (2.95%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.88%) Firewall
2 2 (0.59%) DNS
2 2 (0.59%) VPN
3 1 (0.29%) Network Security
3 1 (0.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (37.76%) Power BI
2 108 (31.86%) Data Lake
3 83 (24.48%) Data Warehouse
4 80 (23.60%) SQL Server
5 74 (21.83%) Azure SQL Database
6 52 (15.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 45 (13.27%) NoSQL
8 31 (9.14%) Big Data
9 30 (8.85%) Relational Database
10 25 (7.37%) Tableau
11 22 (6.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 18 (5.31%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 16 (4.72%) Delta Lake
14 15 (4.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 14 (4.13%) PostgreSQL
16 13 (3.83%) Power Query
17 12 (3.54%) Spark SQL
18 10 (2.95%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
19 9 (2.65%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
19 9 (2.65%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 38 (11.21%) Git
2 14 (4.13%) JIRA
3 9 (2.65%) GitLab
4 7 (2.06%) Selenium
5 6 (1.77%) Visual Studio
6 5 (1.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (1.18%) Deequ
8 3 (0.88%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.59%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.59%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.59%) Postman
9 2 (0.59%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.29%) Maven
10 1 (0.29%) MLflow
10 1 (0.29%) NUnit
10 1 (0.29%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.29%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 81 (23.89%) Social Skills
2 58 (17.11%) Analytical Skills
3 55 (16.22%) Finance
4 24 (7.08%) Public Sector
5 15 (4.42%) Marketing
6 14 (4.13%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (2.36%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.06%) Banking
8 7 (2.06%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (1.47%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.18%) Legal
11 3 (0.88%) Electronics
11 3 (0.88%) Law
12 2 (0.59%) Back Office
12 2 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.59%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.29%) Front Office
13 1 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.29%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 151 (44.54%) Data Engineer
2 99 (29.20%) Azure Engineer
3 83 (24.48%) Azure Data Engineer
4 70 (20.65%) Developer
5 43 (12.68%) Architect
6 32 (9.44%) Azure Developer
7 23 (6.78%) Data Architect
7 23 (6.78%) Full Stack Developer
7 23 (6.78%) Lead
8 22 (6.49%) Azure Architect
9 21 (6.19%) Senior
10 19 (5.60%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 17 (5.01%) Analyst
12 16 (4.72%) Data Analyst
13 15 (4.42%) Consultant
14 14 (4.13%) Power BI Developer
15 12 (3.54%) Lead Data Engineer
16 11 (3.24%) Python Developer
17 10 (2.95%) Azure Data Architect
18 8 (2.36%) Full Stack Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (16.22%) PySpark
2 27 (7.96%) .NET
3 26 (7.67%) React
4 16 (4.72%) ARM Templates
5 13 (3.83%) XML
6 10 (2.95%) .NET Core
6 10 (2.95%) JSON
6 10 (2.95%) Kafka
7 8 (2.36%) REST
8 7 (2.06%) Apache Avro
8 7 (2.06%) Pandas
8 7 (2.06%) SOAP
9 5 (1.47%) .NET Framework
9 5 (1.47%) GraphQL
9 5 (1.47%) Great Expectations
9 5 (1.47%) JSON Schema
9 5 (1.47%) YAML
10 4 (1.18%) Microsoft Graph
10 4 (1.18%) RESTful
10 4 (1.18%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 28 (8.26%) Product Ownership
2 12 (3.54%) Onboarding
3 8 (2.36%) Cloud Native
3 8 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (1.77%) Distributed Computing
4 6 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (1.77%) Management Information System
4 6 (1.77%) Smart Meter
5 5 (1.47%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (0.88%) Grid Computing
7 3 (0.88%) Tandem
7 3 (0.88%) Wiki
8 2 (0.59%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.59%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.59%) Market Risk
8 2 (0.59%) NHS
8 2 (0.59%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.29%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.29%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.24%) Linux
2 6 (1.77%) Unix
2 6 (1.77%) Windows
3 1 (0.29%) VMS
3 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (36.87%) Business Intelligence
2 120 (35.40%) Analytics
3 117 (34.51%) ETL
4 116 (34.22%) Data Modelling
5 112 (33.04%) DevOps
6 89 (26.25%) Agile
7 70 (20.65%) CI/CD
8 66 (19.47%) Data Pipeline
9 65 (19.17%) Data Engineering
10 50 (14.75%) Data Integration
11 43 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
12 38 (11.21%) Migration
13 35 (10.32%) SDLC
13 35 (10.32%) Visualisation
14 32 (9.44%) Microservices
14 32 (9.44%) Scrum
15 30 (8.85%) Full Stack Development
16 24 (7.08%) Data Migration
16 24 (7.08%) Infrastructure as Code
16 24 (7.08%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 215 (63.42%) SQL
2 141 (41.59%) Python
3 43 (12.68%) T-SQL
4 35 (10.32%) C#
5 31 (9.14%) PowerShell
6 23 (6.78%) Scala
7 18 (5.31%) Java
8 13 (3.83%) Bicep
9 11 (3.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.88%) Bash
10 3 (0.88%) C
11 2 (0.59%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.29%) Gremlin
12 1 (0.29%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.29%) PHP
12 1 (0.29%) R
12 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 32 (9.44%) Security Cleared
2 21 (6.19%) SC Cleared
3 20 (5.90%) Azure Certification
3 20 (5.90%) Degree
4 13 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.65%) Master's Degree
6 8 (2.36%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.29%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (9.44%) Data Quality
2 21 (6.19%) QA
3 5 (1.47%) GDPR
4 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.29%) GxP
4 1 (0.29%) NIST
System Software
1 26 (7.67%) Active Directory
2 14 (4.13%) Docker
3 8 (2.36%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (7.08%) Terraform
2 11 (3.24%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.29%) Ansible
3 1 (0.29%) Ganglia
3 1 (0.29%) Kibana
3 1 (0.29%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 142 (41.89%) Databricks
2 98 (28.91%) Microsoft
3 8 (2.36%) Informatica
3 8 (2.36%) Oracle
4 6 (1.77%) Ab Initio
4 6 (1.77%) Adobe
4 6 (1.77%) Splunk
5 5 (1.47%) SAP
6 4 (1.18%) Google
7 3 (0.88%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.59%) Cloudera
8 2 (0.59%) IBM
8 2 (0.59%) JD Edwards
8 2 (0.59%) QAD
9 1 (0.29%) BMC
9 1 (0.29%) Remedy
9 1 (0.29%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.29%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.29%) Talend
9 1 (0.29%) VMware