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 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 117 115
Rank change year-on-year +12 -2 +18
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 19 11 27
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.09% 0.53% 0.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.60% 1.34% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 7 17
10th Percentile £522 £475 £490
25th Percentile £563 £481 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £645 £675
90th Percentile £693 £722 £725
Central London median daily rate £625 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% +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 732 823 1,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 42.04% 39.34% 40.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 543 532 783
10th Percentile £344 £400 £350
25th Percentile £428 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £767 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 10
10th Percentile £22.30 £32.05 £16.53
25th Percentile £26.75 £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 £56.75 £76.13 £46.06
90th Percentile £70.21 £85.95 £54.63
Central London median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -18.57% +84.21% -7.32%

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 12 November 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 3 (15.79%) Apache
1 3 (15.79%) Apache Spark
2 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 9 (47.37%) Power Platform
3 8 (42.11%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (42.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (15.79%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (10.53%) GitHub
6 2 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (5.26%) AWS
7 1 (5.26%) Azure AKS
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Functions
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Storage
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Table
7 1 (5.26%) IaaS
7 1 (5.26%) PaaS
7 1 (5.26%) Power Automate
7 1 (5.26%) PowerApps
7 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) Power BI
2 5 (26.32%) Data Lake
3 4 (21.05%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (21.05%) Delta Lake
4 2 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (10.53%) Metadata
4 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
5 1 (5.26%) Hadoop
5 1 (5.26%) Pentaho
5 1 (5.26%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 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 6 (31.58%) Data Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) .NET Developer
2 5 (26.32%) Developer
2 5 (26.32%) Senior
3 4 (21.05%) Architect
3 4 (21.05%) Senior .NET Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Senior Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Angular Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Azure 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
6 1 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) .NET
2 3 (15.79%) .NET Core
2 3 (15.79%) AngularJS
2 3 (15.79%) 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 10 (52.63%) ETL
2 9 (47.37%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (47.37%) DevOps
3 8 (42.11%) Analytics
4 7 (36.84%) Data Modelling
4 7 (36.84%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (31.58%) Data Governance
6 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
7 4 (21.05%) Data Engineering
7 4 (21.05%) Machine Learning
8 3 (15.79%) Agile
8 3 (15.79%) AI
8 3 (15.79%) Data Architecture
8 3 (15.79%) Data Transformation
8 3 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
8 3 (15.79%) Migration
8 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
9 2 (10.53%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) SQL
2 8 (42.11%) C#
3 7 (36.84%) Python
4 2 (10.53%) Scala
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%) 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 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Workday