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 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 113 117
Rank change year-on-year +10 +4 +14
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 19 15 31
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.12% 0.71% 1.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.73% 1.79% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 11 17
10th Percentile £459 £413 £508
25th Percentile £544 £475 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £670 £581 £614
90th Percentile £698 £703 £720
Central London median daily rate £625 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +19.05% -12.50% +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 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 695 839 1,183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.03% 39.61% 40.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 505 545 799
10th Percentile £335 £398 £355
25th Percentile £441 £463 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £772 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £561 £550
% change year-on-year -2.00% +2.05% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 8
10th Percentile £21.58 £32.05 £15.58
25th Percentile £26.00 £39.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £56.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -39.29% +169.88% +1.22%
75th Percentile £58.96 £76.13 £40.69
90th Percentile £72.53 £85.95 £49.88
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% +1.22%

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 19 October 2025.

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 1 (5.26%) Apache
1 1 (5.26%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (42.11%) Azure DevOps
2 8 (42.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 8 (42.11%) Power Platform
3 5 (26.32%) Microsoft Purview
4 3 (15.79%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (10.53%) GitHub
5 2 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (5.26%) AWS
6 1 (5.26%) Azure AKS
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Functions
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Storage
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Table
6 1 (5.26%) IaaS
6 1 (5.26%) PaaS
6 1 (5.26%) Power Automate
6 1 (5.26%) PowerApps
6 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (36.84%) Power BI
2 4 (21.05%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (21.05%) Data Lake
3 2 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (10.53%) Delta Lake
3 2 (10.53%) Metadata
3 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.26%) Hadoop
4 1 (5.26%) Pentaho
4 1 (5.26%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (5.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Git
General
1 8 (42.11%) Finance
2 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
3 5 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Data Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) .NET Developer
2 5 (26.32%) Developer
2 5 (26.32%) Senior
3 4 (21.05%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Senior .NET Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Senior Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Angular Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Architect
4 3 (15.79%) Azure Data Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Data Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) Data Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Principal Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Site Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) .NET
2 3 (15.79%) .NET Core
2 3 (15.79%) AngularJS
3 2 (10.53%) PySpark
3 2 (10.53%) RxJS
4 1 (5.26%) ADO
4 1 (5.26%) ARM Templates
4 1 (5.26%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.26%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.26%) IoT
2 1 (5.26%) Pricing Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) DevOps
1 9 (47.37%) ETL
2 8 (42.11%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (36.84%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (31.58%) Analytics
4 6 (31.58%) CI/CD
4 6 (31.58%) Data Governance
4 6 (31.58%) Data Modelling
5 4 (21.05%) Machine Learning
6 3 (15.79%) Agile
6 3 (15.79%) AI
6 3 (15.79%) Data Architecture
6 3 (15.79%) Data Engineering
6 3 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (10.53%) Metadata Management
7 2 (10.53%) Performance Optimisation
7 2 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (10.53%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) SQL
2 8 (42.11%) C#
3 6 (31.58%) Python
4 2 (10.53%) VBA
5 1 (5.26%) Bash
5 1 (5.26%) Bicep
5 1 (5.26%) Java
5 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Azure Certification
1 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
1 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.26%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Terraform
2 1 (5.26%) Grafana
2 1 (5.26%) Istio
2 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (57.89%) Databricks
2 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Workday