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 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 102 109
Rank change year-on-year +5 +7 +4
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 33 20 13
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.44% 1.15% 0.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.69% 2.66% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 6 10
10th Percentile £375 £440 £408
25th Percentile £413 £462 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £494 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.33% -5.95% -16.00%
75th Percentile £540 £560 £558
90th Percentile £638 £615 £614
Central London median daily rate £475 £494 £525
% change year-on-year -3.80% -5.95% -12.50%

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 894 753 853
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.07% 43.38% 39.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 619 481 601
10th Percentile £350 £365 £363
25th Percentile £450 £458 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -6.98%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £667
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £530
% change year-on-year - +3.77% -7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 6
10th Percentile £20.67 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.81 £29.64 £14.88
Median hourly rate £40.64 £42.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.38% +88.89% -73.24%
75th Percentile £57.83 £74.38 £26.19
90th Percentile £75.18 £135.00 £38.63
Central London median hourly rate £40.64 £34.83 £22.50
% change year-on-year +16.70% +54.78% -72.73%

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 8 May 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 2 (6.06%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (6.06%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (6.06%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 33 (100.00%) Azure
2 19 (57.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 11 (33.33%) Power Platform
4 5 (15.15%) AWS
4 5 (15.15%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (12.12%) Amazon S3
5 4 (12.12%) Snowflake
6 3 (9.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (9.09%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (9.09%) Power Automate
6 3 (9.09%) Serverless
7 2 (6.06%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (6.06%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (6.06%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (6.06%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (6.06%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (6.06%) dbt
7 2 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (42.42%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (27.27%) Power BI
3 8 (24.24%) Data Lake
3 8 (24.24%) Metadata
4 7 (21.21%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (15.15%) SQL Server
6 4 (12.12%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (12.12%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (9.09%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (6.06%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (6.06%) Data Mining
8 2 (6.06%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (6.06%) Spatial Data
8 2 (6.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (6.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (6.06%) Star Schema
9 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 1 (3.03%) OLAP
9 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
9 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Git
2 2 (6.06%) JIRA
2 2 (6.06%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 10 (30.30%) Finance
1 10 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 3 (9.09%) Publishing
4 2 (6.06%) Banking
4 2 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Marketing
5 1 (3.03%) Military
Job Titles
1 15 (45.45%) Data Engineer
2 8 (24.24%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) Analyst
3 5 (15.15%) Azure Data Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) Data Analyst
4 2 (6.06%) Architect
4 2 (6.06%) Automation Tester
4 2 (6.06%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Consultant
4 2 (6.06%) Data Architect
4 2 (6.06%) Data Migration Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Migration Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Platform Architect
4 2 (6.06%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Snowflake Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Tester
5 1 (3.03%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Migration Analyst
5 1 (3.03%) Salesforce Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) PySpark
2 3 (9.09%) GeoJSON
2 3 (9.09%) Matplotlib
2 3 (9.09%) Pandas
2 3 (9.09%) Polars
2 3 (9.09%) scikit-learn
3 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (6.06%) YAML
4 1 (3.03%) JSON
4 1 (3.03%) REST
4 1 (3.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.06%) Replication
3 1 (3.03%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.03%) Legacy Code
3 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.03%) PMI
3 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.03%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (63.64%) Analytics
2 16 (48.48%) Data Modelling
3 15 (45.45%) Data Engineering
4 12 (36.36%) AI
4 12 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
5 11 (33.33%) DevOps
5 11 (33.33%) ETL
6 10 (30.30%) CI/CD
7 9 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (24.24%) Data Governance
8 8 (24.24%) Data Transformation
8 8 (24.24%) Validation
9 7 (21.21%) Agile
9 7 (21.21%) Data Lineage
9 7 (21.21%) Performance Tuning
10 5 (15.15%) Decision-Making
10 5 (15.15%) Dimensional Modelling
10 5 (15.15%) Machine Learning
10 5 (15.15%) Migration
10 5 (15.15%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 24 (72.73%) SQL
2 15 (45.45%) Python
3 4 (12.12%) Bicep
3 4 (12.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (6.06%) C#
4 2 (6.06%) T-SQL
5 1 (3.03%) Java
5 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.03%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (9.09%) DBS Check
2 3 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.06%) Degree
4 1 (3.03%) CBAP
4 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.03%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (39.39%) Data Quality
2 3 (9.09%) GDPR
3 2 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (3.03%) QA
4 1 (3.03%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (3.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (12.12%) Terraform
2 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (48.48%) Databricks
2 10 (30.30%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.06%) OpenAI
3 2 (6.06%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.03%) Informatica
4 1 (3.03%) Oracle
4 1 (3.03%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud