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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 104 113
Rank change year-on-year +5 +9 +4
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 45 19 14
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.04% 1.10% 0.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.98% 2.72% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 16 9
10th Percentile £411 £444 £403
25th Percentile £423 £524 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £613 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.41% +16.67% -12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £670 £575
90th Percentile £741 £698 £620
Central London median daily rate £475 £613 £525
% change year-on-year -22.45% +16.67% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £34.00 -
Central London median hourly rate - £34.00 -

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 904 698 835
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.05% 40.42% 39.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 648 496 545
10th Percentile £351 £336 £386
25th Percentile £456 £440 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% +0.89%
75th Percentile £660 £668 £675
90th Percentile £760 £755 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £565
% change year-on-year - -2.65% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 3
10th Percentile £18.33 £23.03 -
25th Percentile £20.25 £28.06 -
Median hourly rate £23.58 £38.25 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.35% +41.67% +30.12%
75th Percentile £38.69 £63.37 £59.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £89.88 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £30.00 £38.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.57% +9.29% +68.67%

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 28 September 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 10 (22.22%) Apache Spark
2 7 (15.56%) Apache
3 5 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (4.44%) SharePoint
5 1 (2.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 45 (100.00%) Azure
2 23 (51.11%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (46.67%) Power Platform
4 17 (37.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 11 (24.44%) Azure Databricks
6 5 (11.11%) AWS
6 5 (11.11%) Snowflake
7 4 (8.89%) Azure Stack
7 4 (8.89%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (8.89%) Power Automate
7 4 (8.89%) PowerApps
7 4 (8.89%) SaaS
7 4 (8.89%) Serverless
8 3 (6.67%) dbt
9 2 (4.44%) Amazon Bedrock
9 2 (4.44%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (4.44%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (4.44%) Azure API Management
9 2 (4.44%) Azure Functions
9 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (42.22%) Data Warehouse
1 19 (42.22%) Power BI
2 12 (26.67%) Data Lake
3 11 (24.44%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (24.44%) Metadata
4 10 (22.22%) SQL Server
5 8 (17.78%) Star Schema
6 5 (11.11%) Semantic Layer
7 4 (8.89%) Data Hub
7 4 (8.89%) Delta Lake
7 4 (8.89%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 4 (8.89%) Power Query
7 4 (8.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (6.67%) Spark SQL
9 2 (4.44%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (4.44%) Data Mining
9 2 (4.44%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (2.22%) Apache Hive
10 1 (2.22%) Metadata Repository
10 1 (2.22%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (15.56%) Git
2 2 (4.44%) JIRA
2 2 (4.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (4.44%) Visual Studio
2 2 (4.44%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (2.22%) GitLab
3 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.22%) MLflow
3 1 (2.22%) TeamCity
General
1 16 (35.56%) Finance
2 13 (28.89%) Social Skills
3 10 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (17.78%) Banking
5 5 (11.11%) Public Sector
6 3 (6.67%) Marketing
6 3 (6.67%) Retail
7 2 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (4.44%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.22%) Law
8 1 (2.22%) Legal
8 1 (2.22%) Military
Job Titles
1 19 (42.22%) Data Engineer
2 11 (24.44%) Architect
3 8 (17.78%) Data Architect
4 6 (13.33%) Databricks Data Engineer
4 6 (13.33%) Databricks Engineer
4 6 (13.33%) Senior
5 5 (11.11%) Analyst
5 5 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (11.11%) Developer
6 4 (8.89%) Azure Data Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Business Intelligence Architect
6 4 (8.89%) Data Analyst
6 4 (8.89%) Senior Data Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 2 (4.44%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 2 (4.44%) Data Migration Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) Lead
8 2 (4.44%) Platform Architect
8 2 (4.44%) Power BI Developer
8 2 (4.44%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (40.00%) PySpark
2 8 (17.78%) Terraform
3 5 (11.11%) Kafka
4 3 (6.67%) REST
5 2 (4.44%) .NET
5 2 (4.44%) .NET Framework
5 2 (4.44%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (4.44%) HTML5 Canvas
5 2 (4.44%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (11.11%) Data Structures
2 5 (11.11%) Management Information System
3 3 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.44%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (4.44%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (2.22%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.22%) Legacy Code
5 1 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.22%) PMI
5 1 (2.22%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.22%) Reinsurance
5 1 (2.22%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (71.11%) Analytics
2 27 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 27 (60.00%) DevOps
3 25 (55.56%) CI/CD
4 22 (48.89%) Business Intelligence
5 21 (46.67%) Data Governance
5 21 (46.67%) Data Pipeline
6 20 (44.44%) Data Engineering
7 14 (31.11%) ETL
7 14 (31.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 13 (28.89%) Agile
8 13 (28.89%) Performance Optimisation
9 11 (24.44%) Dimensional Modelling
10 10 (22.22%) Data Architecture
10 10 (22.22%) Kimball Methodology
11 9 (20.00%) AI
11 9 (20.00%) Lakehouse
11 9 (20.00%) Migration
12 7 (15.56%) Integration Patterns
12 7 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 36 (80.00%) SQL
2 23 (51.11%) Python
3 10 (22.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (8.89%) Bicep
4 4 (8.89%) C#
4 4 (8.89%) Korn
4 4 (8.89%) Scala
5 3 (6.67%) Java
5 3 (6.67%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.67%) T-SQL
6 2 (4.44%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (15.56%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.11%) DBS Check
3 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (8.89%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.22%) CBAP
4 1 (2.22%) Degree
4 1 (2.22%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (42.22%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.44%) GDPR
3 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.22%) QA
3 1 (2.22%) Solvency II
Systems Management
1 1 (2.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 23 (51.11%) Microsoft
2 22 (48.89%) Databricks
3 2 (4.44%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.22%) Braze
4 1 (2.22%) Cloudera