Azure Data Factory Contracts in the City of London

Microsoft Azure Data Factory
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Azure Data Factory skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure Data Factory over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 111 112
Rank change year-on-year +24 +1 +51
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 28 14 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.56% 0.66% 1.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.67% 1.59% 4.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 11 32
10th Percentile £489 £413 £466
25th Percentile £520 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £625
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -16.00% +9.89%
75th Percentile £659 £569 £794
90th Percentile £675 £588 £825
Central London median daily rate £600 £525 £625
% change year-on-year +14.29% -16.00% +8.70%

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 763 882 1,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 42.46% 41.31% 40.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 492 618 908
10th Percentile £363 £363 £286
25th Percentile £462 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £591
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% +2.83%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £700
90th Percentile £751 £770 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 10
10th Percentile £24.02 £12.75 £20.35
25th Percentile £25.18 £14.88 £38.13
Median hourly rate £38.58 £24.75 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.86% -63.33% +35.00%
75th Percentile £63.37 £27.00 £88.30
90th Percentile £96.63 £38.63 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.65 £24.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year +40.00% -52.86% +26.51%

Azure Data Factory
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Azure Data Factory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Data Factory in the City of London

Azure Data Factory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Data Factory in the City of London.

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

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 3 July 2025.

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

Azure Data Factory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 3 (10.71%) SharePoint
2 2 (7.14%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.57%) Apache
3 1 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.57%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 28 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (46.43%) Power Platform
3 10 (35.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 9 (32.14%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (17.86%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (10.71%) GitHub
7 3 (10.71%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (7.14%) AWS
8 2 (7.14%) Azure AKS
8 2 (7.14%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (7.14%) PaaS
9 1 (3.57%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (3.57%) Azure Storage
9 1 (3.57%) Azure Table
9 1 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (3.57%) Power Automate
9 1 (3.57%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (42.86%) Power BI
2 8 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (28.57%) SQL Server
3 7 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (21.43%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (21.43%) BusinessObjects
4 6 (21.43%) Crystal Reports
5 5 (17.86%) Data Lake
5 5 (17.86%) Tableau
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (3.57%) Apache Hive
6 1 (3.57%) Big Data
6 1 (3.57%) Delta Lake
6 1 (3.57%) Hadoop
6 1 (3.57%) Metadata
6 1 (3.57%) Pentaho
6 1 (3.57%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) GitLab
2 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.57%) Postman
2 1 (3.57%) Selenium
2 1 (3.57%) SonarQube
2 1 (3.57%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (32.14%) Finance
1 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.86%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Back Office
4 1 (3.57%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (39.29%) Developer
2 10 (35.71%) Data Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) Azure Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) Senior
4 5 (17.86%) Power BI Developer
5 4 (14.29%) .NET Developer
5 4 (14.29%) Analyst
5 4 (14.29%) Analyst Developer
5 4 (14.29%) Senior .NET Developer
5 4 (14.29%) Senior Developer
6 3 (10.71%) Developer Analyst
6 3 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) SQL Developer
7 2 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 2 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
7 2 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 2 (7.14%) Data Analyst
7 2 (7.14%) Development Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Developer
7 2 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.00%) .NET
2 3 (10.71%) .NET Core
3 2 (7.14%) AngularJS
3 2 (7.14%) PySpark
3 2 (7.14%) pytest
4 1 (3.57%) ADO
4 1 (3.57%) ARM Templates
4 1 (3.57%) Pandas
4 1 (3.57%) REST
4 1 (3.57%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.57%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.57%) Reinsurance
2 1 (3.57%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (39.29%) DevOps
2 8 (28.57%) Analytics
2 8 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 8 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
2 8 (28.57%) ETL
3 7 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (25.00%) Visualisation
4 6 (21.43%) Data Modelling
4 6 (21.43%) Requirements Gathering
4 6 (21.43%) User Experience
5 5 (17.86%) Agile
5 5 (17.86%) Business Analysis
6 4 (14.29%) Data Engineering
6 4 (14.29%) Data Science
6 4 (14.29%) Machine Learning
6 4 (14.29%) Migration
7 3 (10.71%) Artificial Intelligence
7 3 (10.71%) Data Analysis
7 3 (10.71%) Data Ingestion
7 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 15 (53.57%) SQL
2 10 (35.71%) C#
3 6 (21.43%) Python
4 3 (10.71%) PowerShell
5 2 (7.14%) Java
5 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.14%) VBA
6 1 (3.57%) Bash
6 1 (3.57%) Bicep
6 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) Azure Certification
1 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
1 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) Degree
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.57%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (10.71%) Kubernetes
1 3 (10.71%) Terraform
2 1 (3.57%) Grafana
2 1 (3.57%) Istio
2 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (50.00%) Databricks
2 13 (46.43%) Microsoft
3 5 (17.86%) ServiceNow
4 2 (7.14%) SAP
5 1 (3.57%) Cloudera
5 1 (3.57%) GoldenSource
5 1 (3.57%) Informatica