Azure Data Factory Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Microsoft Azure Data Factory
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Azure Data Factory skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 101 116
Rank change year-on-year +3 +15 -10
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 26 15 14
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.31% 0.82% 0.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.15% 1.97% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 4 9
10th Percentile £355 £434 £505
25th Percentile £400 £448 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £493 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% -17.92% +4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £598 £675
90th Percentile £693 £661 £695
Central London median daily rate £575 £493 £600
% change year-on-year +16.75% -17.92% +4.35%

All Cloud Computing Skills
City of 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 City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 825 760 902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.69% 41.46% 37.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 595 487 642
10th Percentile £334 £400 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 11
10th Percentile £31.88 £28.98 £12.75
25th Percentile £39.44 £35.46 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £47.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +150.00% -55.81%
75th Percentile £55.94 £118.13 £36.25
90th Percentile £66.53 £159.75 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +15.71% +84.21% -45.71%

Azure Data Factory
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure Data Factory relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Azure Data Factory job vacancy trend in the City of London

Azure Data Factory
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Azure Data Factory.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Azure Data Factory

Azure Data Factory
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Data Factory in the City of London over the 6 months to 28 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Data Factory in the City of London

Azure Data Factory
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (11.54%) Apache
1 3 (11.54%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 26 (100.00%) Azure
2 14 (53.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 10 (38.46%) Power Platform
4 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (11.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (11.54%) Power Automate
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon S3
6 2 (7.69%) AWS
6 2 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (7.69%) Snowflake
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Functions
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Storage
7 1 (3.85%) Copilot Studio
7 1 (3.85%) dbt
7 1 (3.85%) GitHub
7 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.85%) Matillion
7 1 (3.85%) PowerApps
7 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (34.62%) Data Warehouse
1 9 (34.62%) Power BI
2 7 (26.92%) Data Lake
3 6 (23.08%) Metadata
4 3 (11.54%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (11.54%) Delta Lake
4 3 (11.54%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (7.69%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (7.69%) Spatial Data
5 2 (7.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (3.85%) BigQuery
6 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (3.85%) OLAP
6 1 (3.85%) OLAP Cube
6 1 (3.85%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
6 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (3.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Git
2 1 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 7 (26.92%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (26.92%) Finance
3 3 (11.54%) Publishing
4 2 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.85%) Banking
5 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Military
5 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Azure Data Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Architect
3 3 (11.54%) Consultant
4 2 (7.69%) Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Automation Tester
4 2 (7.69%) Data Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Data Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Tester
5 1 (3.85%) .NET Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Angular Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Data Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Principal Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) Risk Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Risk Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (23.08%) PySpark
2 3 (11.54%) GeoJSON
2 3 (11.54%) Matplotlib
2 3 (11.54%) Pandas
2 3 (11.54%) Polars
2 3 (11.54%) scikit-learn
3 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (7.69%) YAML
4 1 (3.85%) .NET
4 1 (3.85%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.85%) JSON
4 1 (3.85%) LangChain
4 1 (3.85%) RxJS
4 1 (3.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.85%) Pricing Data
1 1 (3.85%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (57.69%) Analytics
2 13 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 13 (50.00%) ETL
3 12 (46.15%) Data Engineering
4 11 (42.31%) Data Pipeline
5 9 (34.62%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (34.62%) Data Governance
6 7 (26.92%) Agile
7 6 (23.08%) AI
7 6 (23.08%) CI/CD
7 6 (23.08%) Data Transformation
7 6 (23.08%) DevOps
7 6 (23.08%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (19.23%) Metadata Management
8 5 (19.23%) Migration
9 4 (15.38%) Data Architecture
9 4 (15.38%) Data Extraction
9 4 (15.38%) Data Lineage
9 4 (15.38%) Decision-Making
9 4 (15.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 20 (76.92%) SQL
2 17 (65.38%) Python
3 4 (15.38%) C#
4 3 (11.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (11.54%) Scala
5 2 (7.69%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.85%) Bicep
6 1 (3.85%) Java
6 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.54%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.85%) DBS Check
3 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (46.15%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.69%) GDPR
2 2 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (53.85%) Databricks
2 9 (34.62%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.85%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.85%) Workday