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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 99 115
Rank change year-on-year +4 +16 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 41 27 12
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.71% 1.44% 0.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.31% 3.45% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 17 9
10th Percentile £413 £451 £403
25th Percentile £425 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -16.00%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £575
90th Percentile £638 £675 £620
Central London median daily rate £500 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -16.00%

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 952 783 850
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.62% 41.72% 41.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 655 512 590
10th Percentile £353 £363 £375
25th Percentile £456 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £652 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £762 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 14 3
10th Percentile £19.48 £24.02 -
25th Percentile £22.67 £25.18 -
Median hourly rate £33.75 £38.58 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.51% +42.87% -36.47%
75th Percentile £63.68 £63.37 £59.75
90th Percentile £75.18 £96.63 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £37.50 £34.65 £27.00
% change year-on-year +8.23% +28.33% -22.86%

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 1 August 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 7 (17.07%) Apache Spark
2 6 (14.63%) Apache
3 3 (7.32%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (4.88%) Confluence
4 2 (4.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 41 (100.00%) Azure
2 18 (43.90%) Azure DevOps
2 18 (43.90%) Power Platform
3 17 (41.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (9.76%) AWS
4 4 (9.76%) Power Automate
4 4 (9.76%) PowerApps
4 4 (9.76%) Serverless
5 3 (7.32%) Amazon S3
5 3 (7.32%) Azure Machine Learning
5 3 (7.32%) Snowflake
6 2 (4.88%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (4.88%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (4.88%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (4.88%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (4.88%) Azure Functions
6 2 (4.88%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (4.88%) Azure Stack
6 2 (4.88%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (36.59%) Data Warehouse
1 15 (36.59%) Power BI
2 11 (26.83%) SQL Server
3 10 (24.39%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (24.39%) Data Lake
4 6 (14.63%) Metadata
4 6 (14.63%) Star Schema
5 5 (12.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (9.76%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (7.32%) Delta Lake
7 3 (7.32%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (7.32%) Power Query
7 3 (7.32%) Semantic Layer
8 2 (4.88%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (4.88%) Data Mining
8 2 (4.88%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (4.88%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 2 (4.88%) Spark SQL
8 2 (4.88%) Spatial Data
8 2 (4.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 5 (12.20%) Git
2 2 (4.88%) JIRA
2 2 (4.88%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (2.44%) GitLab
3 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.44%) TeamCity
3 1 (2.44%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.44%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 17 (41.46%) Finance
2 15 (36.59%) Social Skills
3 9 (21.95%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (14.63%) Banking
5 4 (9.76%) Public Sector
6 3 (7.32%) Marketing
6 3 (7.32%) Publishing
7 2 (4.88%) Retail
8 1 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.44%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.44%) Law
8 1 (2.44%) Military
Job Titles
1 17 (41.46%) Data Engineer
2 8 (19.51%) Azure Engineer
3 6 (14.63%) Architect
3 6 (14.63%) Data Architect
4 5 (12.20%) Developer
5 4 (9.76%) Analyst
5 4 (9.76%) Azure Data Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Data Analyst
6 3 (7.32%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Senior
7 2 (4.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Data Migration Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Data Modeller
7 2 (4.88%) Lead
7 2 (4.88%) Migration Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Platform Architect
7 2 (4.88%) Power BI Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (26.83%) PySpark
2 3 (7.32%) GeoJSON
2 3 (7.32%) Kafka
2 3 (7.32%) Matplotlib
2 3 (7.32%) Pandas
2 3 (7.32%) Polars
2 3 (7.32%) scikit-learn
3 2 (4.88%) REST
4 1 (2.44%) .NET
4 1 (2.44%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.44%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (2.44%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (2.44%) JSON
4 1 (2.44%) Middleware
4 1 (2.44%) XML
4 1 (2.44%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.07%) Cloud Native
2 5 (12.20%) Data Structures
2 5 (12.20%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.88%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.44%) Legacy Code
4 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.44%) PMI
4 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.44%) Reinsurance
4 1 (2.44%) Replication
4 1 (2.44%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (63.41%) Analytics
2 25 (60.98%) Data Modelling
3 22 (53.66%) DevOps
4 19 (46.34%) Business Intelligence
5 18 (43.90%) CI/CD
6 17 (41.46%) Data Engineering
7 15 (36.59%) ETL
8 14 (34.15%) Data Governance
9 13 (31.71%) Data Pipeline
10 11 (26.83%) AI
11 10 (24.39%) Agile
11 10 (24.39%) Dimensional Modelling
11 10 (24.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 9 (21.95%) Data Architecture
13 8 (19.51%) Kimball Methodology
13 8 (19.51%) Migration
14 7 (17.07%) Data Transformation
14 7 (17.07%) Performance Optimisation
14 7 (17.07%) Performance Tuning
14 7 (17.07%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (78.05%) SQL
2 18 (43.90%) Python
3 5 (12.20%) Bicep
3 5 (12.20%) C#
3 5 (12.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (9.76%) T-SQL
5 3 (7.32%) Korn
5 3 (7.32%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.88%) Java
6 2 (4.88%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.88%) Scala
7 1 (2.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (21.95%) Security Cleared
2 5 (12.20%) DBS Check
2 5 (12.20%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.32%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (4.88%) Degree
5 1 (2.44%) CBAP
5 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.44%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (31.71%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.44%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.44%) GDPR
2 1 (2.44%) QA
2 1 (2.44%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (2.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (14.63%) Terraform
2 2 (4.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (43.90%) Databricks
2 15 (36.59%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.88%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.44%) Cloudera
4 1 (2.44%) Informatica
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle
4 1 (2.44%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.44%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud