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 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 106 118
Rank change year-on-year +6 +12 -6
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 24 13 16
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.25% 0.71% 0.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.00% 1.74% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 4 11
10th Percentile £345 £434 £475
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 £613 £598 £656
90th Percentile £660 £661 £684
Central London median daily rate £525 £493 £600
% change year-on-year +6.60% -17.92% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.50 - -
Median hourly rate £34.00 - -
75th Percentile £35.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 - -

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 801 745 926
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.61% 40.87% 38.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 589 472 667
10th Percentile £327 £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 £740
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 11
10th Percentile £27.83 - £12.75
25th Percentile £35.88 £46.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.78 £47.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.15% +150.00% -51.28%
75th Percentile £49.83 £48.75 £36.25
90th Percentile £55.19 - £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -2.86% +84.21% -36.67%

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 14 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 (12.50%) Apache
1 3 (12.50%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 24 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 8 (33.33%) Power Platform
4 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (12.50%) Power Automate
6 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (8.33%) Snowflake
7 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.17%) AWS
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Functions
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Storage
7 1 (4.17%) Copilot Studio
7 1 (4.17%) dbt
7 1 (4.17%) GitHub
7 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (4.17%) Matillion
7 1 (4.17%) PowerApps
7 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (33.33%) Power BI
2 7 (29.17%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (20.83%) Data Lake
3 5 (20.83%) Metadata
4 3 (12.50%) Delta Lake
4 3 (12.50%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (12.50%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (8.33%) Spatial Data
6 1 (4.17%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
6 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (4.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Git
General
1 8 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
3 6 (25.00%) Finance
4 3 (12.50%) Publishing
5 2 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Military
6 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Architect
2 3 (12.50%) Azure Data Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Consultant
3 2 (8.33%) Automation Tester
3 2 (8.33%) Data Architect
3 2 (8.33%) Lead
3 2 (8.33%) Tester
4 1 (4.17%) .NET Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Angular Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Data Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Data Consultant
4 1 (4.17%) Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Lead Data Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Principal Consultant
4 1 (4.17%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) PySpark
2 3 (12.50%) GeoJSON
2 3 (12.50%) Matplotlib
2 3 (12.50%) Pandas
2 3 (12.50%) Polars
2 3 (12.50%) scikit-learn
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (8.33%) YAML
4 1 (4.17%) .NET
4 1 (4.17%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.17%) JSON
4 1 (4.17%) LangChain
4 1 (4.17%) RxJS
4 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.17%) Pricing Data
1 1 (4.17%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Analytics
2 12 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 12 (50.00%) ETL
3 11 (45.83%) Data Engineering
3 11 (45.83%) Data Pipeline
4 9 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
5 8 (33.33%) Data Governance
6 6 (25.00%) Agile
6 6 (25.00%) Data Transformation
6 6 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (20.83%) CI/CD
7 5 (20.83%) Data Extraction
7 5 (20.83%) DevOps
8 4 (16.67%) AI
8 4 (16.67%) Metadata Management
8 4 (16.67%) Migration
9 3 (12.50%) Anomaly Detection
9 3 (12.50%) Data Lineage
9 3 (12.50%) Data Science
9 3 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 18 (75.00%) SQL
2 16 (66.67%) Python
3 3 (12.50%) C#
3 3 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (12.50%) Scala
4 2 (8.33%) T-SQL
5 1 (4.17%) Bicep
5 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.33%) GDPR
2 2 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.17%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (54.17%) Databricks
2 8 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.17%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.17%) Workday