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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 100 122
Rank change year-on-year -4 +22 -9
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 37 28 12
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.53% 1.50% 0.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.89% 3.59% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 16 9
10th Percentile £413 £444 £403
25th Percentile £425 £509 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £585 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +11.43% -16.00%
75th Percentile £575 £655 £575
90th Percentile £638 £675 £620
Central London median daily rate £520 £585 £525
% change year-on-year -11.11% +11.43% -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 950 780 885
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.40% 41.91% 41.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 656 507 618
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £462 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £653 £669 £674
90th Percentile £750 £758 £756
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 5
10th Percentile £19.50 £24.02 £18.45
25th Percentile £22.83 £25.18 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £38.58 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.79% +42.87% -60.00%
75th Percentile £62.36 £63.37 £50.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £96.63 £75.60
Central London median hourly rate £51.44 £34.65 £27.00
% change year-on-year +48.46% +28.33% -48.57%

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 22 July 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 5 (13.51%) Apache
1 5 (13.51%) Apache Spark
2 3 (8.11%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (5.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 37 (100.00%) Azure
2 16 (43.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 16 (43.24%) Power Platform
3 12 (32.43%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (10.81%) AWS
5 3 (8.11%) Amazon S3
5 3 (8.11%) Azure Machine Learning
5 3 (8.11%) Power Automate
5 3 (8.11%) Serverless
5 3 (8.11%) Snowflake
6 2 (5.41%) Amazon Bedrock
6 2 (5.41%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (5.41%) Amazon MSK
6 2 (5.41%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (5.41%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (5.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (5.41%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (5.41%) Azure Stack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (37.84%) Data Warehouse
1 14 (37.84%) Power BI
2 9 (24.32%) Data Lake
2 9 (24.32%) SQL Server
3 8 (21.62%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (16.22%) Metadata
5 4 (10.81%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (10.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (10.81%) Star Schema
6 3 (8.11%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (8.11%) Semantic Layer
7 2 (5.41%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 2 (5.41%) Data Mining
7 2 (5.41%) Delta Lake
7 2 (5.41%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (5.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 2 (5.41%) OLAP
7 2 (5.41%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (5.41%) Spark SQL
7 2 (5.41%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Git
2 2 (5.41%) JIRA
2 2 (5.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 12 (32.43%) Finance
1 12 (32.43%) Social Skills
2 9 (24.32%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (13.51%) Banking
4 4 (10.81%) Public Sector
5 3 (8.11%) Publishing
6 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.70%) Law
6 1 (2.70%) Marketing
6 1 (2.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 15 (40.54%) Data Engineer
2 8 (21.62%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) Architect
3 5 (13.51%) Data Architect
4 4 (10.81%) Analyst
4 4 (10.81%) Azure Data Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Data Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Consultant
5 2 (5.41%) Data Migration Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Developer
5 2 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Lead
5 2 (5.41%) Migration Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Platform Architect
6 1 (2.70%) Automation Tester
6 1 (2.70%) Business Intelligence Architect
6 1 (2.70%) Data Modeller
6 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse Developer
6 1 (2.70%) Senior Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (24.32%) PySpark
2 3 (8.11%) GeoJSON
2 3 (8.11%) Matplotlib
2 3 (8.11%) Pandas
2 3 (8.11%) Polars
2 3 (8.11%) scikit-learn
3 2 (5.41%) Kafka
3 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (2.70%) JSON
4 1 (2.70%) REST
4 1 (2.70%) XML
4 1 (2.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.81%) Data Structures
2 4 (10.81%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.41%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) Legacy Code
4 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.70%) PMI
4 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.70%) Reinsurance
4 1 (2.70%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (67.57%) Analytics
2 24 (64.86%) Data Modelling
3 17 (45.95%) Business Intelligence
4 16 (43.24%) Data Engineering
4 16 (43.24%) DevOps
5 12 (32.43%) AI
5 12 (32.43%) CI/CD
5 12 (32.43%) Data Governance
5 12 (32.43%) Data Pipeline
5 12 (32.43%) ETL
6 9 (24.32%) Migration
7 8 (21.62%) Data Architecture
7 8 (21.62%) Dimensional Modelling
7 8 (21.62%) Performance Optimisation
8 7 (18.92%) Agile
8 7 (18.92%) Data Transformation
8 7 (18.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 7 (18.92%) Validation
9 6 (16.22%) Kimball Methodology
9 6 (16.22%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (75.68%) SQL
2 16 (43.24%) Python
3 5 (13.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (10.81%) Bicep
4 4 (10.81%) T-SQL
5 2 (5.41%) C#
6 1 (2.70%) Java
6 1 (2.70%) Korn
6 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (21.62%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.51%) DBS Check
2 5 (13.51%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.11%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (5.41%) Degree
5 1 (2.70%) CBAP
5 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.70%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (35.14%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.70%) GDPR
2 1 (2.70%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (2.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (10.81%) Terraform
2 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (35.14%) Databricks
1 13 (35.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.41%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.70%) Informatica
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle
3 1 (2.70%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.70%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud