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 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 103 116
Rank change year-on-year 0 +13 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 32 20 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.41% 1.13% 0.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.54% 2.64% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 6 9
10th Percentile £370 £440 £485
25th Percentile £409 £462 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £494 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% -5.95% -16.00%
75th Percentile £569 £560 £638
90th Percentile £641 £615 £695
Central London median daily rate £469 £494 £525
% change year-on-year -5.06% -5.95% -8.70%

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 905 757 860
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.01% 42.70% 38.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 633 489 608
10th Percentile £350 £375 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £663
90th Percentile £750 £740 £750
Central London median daily rate £540 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -1.82% +2.80% -6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 8
10th Percentile £20.67 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £35.13 £29.64 £17.39
Median hourly rate £42.89 £42.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% +88.89% -72.99%
75th Percentile £57.83 £74.38 £32.81
90th Percentile £75.18 £135.00 £57.30
Central London median hourly rate £40.50 £34.83 £22.50
% change year-on-year +16.30% +54.78% -66.67%

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 24 April 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 1 (3.13%) Apache
1 1 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.13%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 32 (100.00%) Azure
2 20 (62.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 12 (37.50%) Power Platform
4 4 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 4 (12.50%) AWS
4 4 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (9.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (9.38%) Azure Machine Learning
5 3 (9.38%) Power Automate
5 3 (9.38%) Serverless
5 3 (9.38%) Snowflake
6 2 (6.25%) Amazon Bedrock
6 2 (6.25%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (6.25%) Amazon MSK
6 2 (6.25%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (6.25%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (40.63%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (31.25%) Power BI
3 9 (28.13%) Data Lake
4 7 (21.88%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (21.88%) Metadata
5 5 (15.63%) SQL Server
6 4 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (9.38%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (9.38%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (6.25%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (6.25%) Data Mining
8 2 (6.25%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (6.25%) Spatial Data
8 2 (6.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (6.25%) Star Schema
9 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 1 (3.13%) OLAP
9 1 (3.13%) OLAP Cube
9 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Git
2 2 (6.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (3.13%) JIRA
General
1 8 (25.00%) Finance
1 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.88%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
3 3 (9.38%) Publishing
4 2 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.13%) Banking
5 1 (3.13%) Marketing
5 1 (3.13%) Military
Job Titles
1 14 (43.75%) Data Engineer
2 7 (21.88%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Analyst
3 4 (12.50%) Azure Data Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Data Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Automation Tester
5 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Consultant
5 2 (6.25%) Data Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Data Migration Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Migration Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Platform Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Tester
6 1 (3.13%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Migration Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) Salesforce Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Senior
6 1 (3.13%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.63%) PySpark
2 3 (9.38%) GeoJSON
2 3 (9.38%) Matplotlib
2 3 (9.38%) Pandas
2 3 (9.38%) Polars
2 3 (9.38%) scikit-learn
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (6.25%) YAML
4 1 (3.13%) JSON
4 1 (3.13%) REST
4 1 (3.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.25%) Replication
3 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.13%) Legacy Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (62.50%) Analytics
2 15 (46.88%) Data Modelling
3 14 (43.75%) Data Engineering
4 12 (37.50%) AI
4 12 (37.50%) ETL
5 11 (34.38%) Data Pipeline
6 10 (31.25%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (31.25%) DevOps
7 9 (28.13%) CI/CD
7 9 (28.13%) Data Transformation
8 7 (21.88%) Data Governance
8 7 (21.88%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (18.75%) Agile
9 6 (18.75%) Data Lineage
9 6 (18.75%) Migration
9 6 (18.75%) Validation
10 5 (15.63%) Decision-Making
10 5 (15.63%) Dimensional Modelling
10 5 (15.63%) Machine Learning
11 4 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 23 (71.88%) SQL
2 15 (46.88%) Python
3 4 (12.50%) Bicep
3 4 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (6.25%) C#
4 2 (6.25%) Scala
4 2 (6.25%) T-SQL
5 1 (3.13%) Java
5 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.38%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (9.38%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) DBS Check
4 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.13%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (37.50%) Data Quality
2 3 (9.38%) GDPR
3 2 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (3.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) Terraform
2 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (50.00%) Databricks
2 10 (31.25%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.25%) OpenAI
3 2 (6.25%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.13%) Informatica
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle
4 1 (3.13%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud