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 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 97 115
Rank change year-on-year +2 +18 -6
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 35 21 12
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.52% 1.21% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.91% 2.79% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 7 9
10th Percentile £358 £397 £403
25th Percentile £409 £440 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% -16.00%
75th Percentile £546 £540 £563
90th Percentile £623 £608 £628
Central London median daily rate £463 £488 £525
% change year-on-year -5.13% -7.14% -12.50%

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 894 752 857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.79% 43.32% 39.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 619 477 601
10th Percentile £350 £364 £363
25th Percentile £451 £459 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -9.24%
75th Percentile £650 £664 £665
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 6
10th Percentile £20.51 £24.39 £12.75
25th Percentile £23.16 £24.66 £14.88
Median hourly rate £40.50 £38.58 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.99% +71.44% -72.99%
75th Percentile £59.72 £61.56 £26.19
90th Percentile £75.35 £126.25 £38.63
Central London median hourly rate £40.50 £34.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year +16.88% +54.00% -72.73%

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 19 May 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 3 (8.57%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.71%) Confluence
3 1 (2.86%) Apache
3 1 (2.86%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 35 (100.00%) Azure
2 18 (51.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 14 (40.00%) Power Platform
4 5 (14.29%) AWS
4 5 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (11.43%) Amazon S3
6 3 (8.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (8.57%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (8.57%) Power Automate
6 3 (8.57%) Serverless
6 3 (8.57%) Snowflake
7 2 (5.71%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (5.71%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (5.71%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (5.71%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (5.71%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (37.14%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (34.29%) Power BI
3 8 (22.86%) Data Lake
4 7 (20.00%) Metadata
4 7 (20.00%) SQL Server
5 6 (17.14%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (11.43%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (8.57%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (8.57%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (5.71%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (5.71%) Data Mining
8 2 (5.71%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (5.71%) Spatial Data
8 2 (5.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (5.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (5.71%) Star Schema
9 1 (2.86%) BigQuery
9 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 1 (2.86%) OLAP Cube
9 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Git
2 2 (5.71%) JIRA
2 2 (5.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 10 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 9 (25.71%) Finance
3 6 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.57%) Publishing
5 2 (5.71%) Banking
5 2 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.86%) Marketing
6 1 (2.86%) Military
Job Titles
1 16 (45.71%) Data Engineer
2 10 (28.57%) Azure Engineer
3 6 (17.14%) Azure Data Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) Analyst
4 5 (14.29%) Data Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Automation Tester
5 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Consultant
5 2 (5.71%) Data Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Data Migration Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Lead
5 2 (5.71%) Migration Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Platform Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Tester
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Software Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Lead Data Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Migration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.29%) PySpark
2 3 (8.57%) GeoJSON
2 3 (8.57%) Matplotlib
2 3 (8.57%) Pandas
2 3 (8.57%) Polars
2 3 (8.57%) scikit-learn
3 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (5.71%) YAML
4 1 (2.86%) JSON
4 1 (2.86%) Kafka
4 1 (2.86%) REST
4 1 (2.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.86%) Legacy Code
2 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.86%) PMI
2 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.86%) Reinsurance
2 1 (2.86%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (62.86%) Analytics
2 17 (48.57%) Data Engineering
2 17 (48.57%) Data Modelling
3 13 (37.14%) AI
3 13 (37.14%) Data Pipeline
4 12 (34.29%) Business Intelligence
4 12 (34.29%) ETL
5 11 (31.43%) DevOps
6 10 (28.57%) CI/CD
7 9 (25.71%) Data Governance
8 8 (22.86%) Data Lineage
8 8 (22.86%) Validation
9 7 (20.00%) Agile
9 7 (20.00%) Data Transformation
9 7 (20.00%) Migration
10 6 (17.14%) Performance Tuning
11 5 (14.29%) Decision-Making
11 5 (14.29%) Dimensional Modelling
11 5 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
12 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 25 (71.43%) SQL
2 16 (45.71%) Python
3 5 (14.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (11.43%) Bicep
4 4 (11.43%) T-SQL
5 2 (5.71%) C#
5 2 (5.71%) Scala
6 1 (2.86%) Java
6 1 (2.86%) Korn
6 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.43%) DBS Check
2 4 (11.43%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.57%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (5.71%) Degree
5 1 (2.86%) CBAP
5 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.86%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (34.29%) Data Quality
2 3 (8.57%) GDPR
3 2 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.86%) QA
4 1 (2.86%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) Terraform
2 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (45.71%) Databricks
2 11 (31.43%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.71%) OpenAI
3 2 (5.71%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.86%) Informatica
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle
4 1 (2.86%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud