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

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 94 111
Rank change year-on-year +1 +17 +4
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 49 24 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.15% 1.34% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.22% 3.32% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 18 9
10th Percentile £413 £459 £403
25th Percentile £420 £516 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -13.15%
75th Percentile £575 £664 £575
90th Percentile £730 £689 £620
Central London median daily rate £488 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -18.75% +14.29% -13.15%
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 939 722 829
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.18% 40.34% 39.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 670 489 563
10th Percentile £363 £332 £397
25th Percentile £460 £433 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £656 £665 £675
90th Percentile £750 £757 £767
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £560
% change year-on-year - -1.79% -0.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 3
10th Percentile £19.45 £23.84 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £26.23 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £34.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.08% +27.13% -10.74%
75th Percentile £41.25 £58.96 £59.75
90th Percentile £67.00 £86.43 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year -4.41% +9.68% +2.48%

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 7 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 (20.41%) Apache Spark
2 7 (14.29%) Apache
3 5 (10.20%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (4.08%) SharePoint
5 1 (2.04%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.04%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 49 (100.00%) Azure
2 26 (53.06%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (44.90%) Power Platform
4 21 (42.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 10 (20.41%) Azure Databricks
6 5 (10.20%) AWS
6 5 (10.20%) Azure Stack
6 5 (10.20%) Serverless
6 5 (10.20%) Snowflake
7 4 (8.16%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (8.16%) Power Automate
7 4 (8.16%) PowerApps
7 4 (8.16%) SaaS
8 3 (6.12%) Azure Functions
8 3 (6.12%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (6.12%) dbt
9 2 (4.08%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (4.08%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (38.78%) Power BI
3 13 (26.53%) Azure SQL Database
3 13 (26.53%) Data Lake
4 11 (22.45%) Metadata
4 11 (22.45%) SQL Server
5 9 (18.37%) Star Schema
6 6 (12.24%) Semantic Layer
7 5 (10.20%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 5 (10.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (8.16%) Data Hub
8 4 (8.16%) Delta Lake
8 4 (8.16%) Power Query
9 3 (6.12%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (6.12%) Spark SQL
10 2 (4.08%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (4.08%) Data Mining
10 2 (4.08%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (4.08%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (2.04%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 7 (14.29%) Git
2 2 (4.08%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (4.08%) Visual Studio
2 2 (4.08%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (2.04%) GitLab
3 1 (2.04%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.04%) JIRA
3 1 (2.04%) MLflow
3 1 (2.04%) TeamCity
General
1 16 (32.65%) Finance
2 12 (24.49%) Social Skills
3 9 (18.37%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (16.33%) Banking
5 5 (10.20%) Public Sector
6 4 (8.16%) Marketing
7 3 (6.12%) Retail
8 2 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (4.08%) Investment Banking
9 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (2.04%) Law
9 1 (2.04%) Legal
9 1 (2.04%) Military
Job Titles
1 18 (36.73%) Data Engineer
2 11 (22.45%) Architect
3 8 (16.33%) Azure Engineer
3 8 (16.33%) Data Architect
4 6 (12.24%) Senior
5 5 (10.20%) Databricks Data Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Databricks Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Developer
6 4 (8.16%) Analyst
6 4 (8.16%) Azure Data Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Business Intelligence Architect
6 4 (8.16%) Data Analyst
6 4 (8.16%) Senior Data Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 2 (4.08%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Platform Architect
8 2 (4.08%) Power BI Developer
8 2 (4.08%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (36.73%) PySpark
2 10 (20.41%) Terraform
3 5 (10.20%) Kafka
4 3 (6.12%) REST
5 2 (4.08%) .NET
5 2 (4.08%) .NET Framework
5 2 (4.08%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (4.08%) HTML5 Canvas
5 2 (4.08%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.41%) Cloud Native
2 5 (10.20%) Data Structures
2 5 (10.20%) Management Information System
3 3 (6.12%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.08%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (4.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (2.04%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.04%) Legacy Code
5 1 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.04%) PMI
5 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.04%) Reinsurance
5 1 (2.04%) Replication
5 1 (2.04%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (69.39%) Analytics
2 31 (63.27%) DevOps
3 28 (57.14%) Data Modelling
4 26 (53.06%) CI/CD
5 22 (44.90%) Business Intelligence
6 21 (42.86%) Data Engineering
7 20 (40.82%) Data Governance
7 20 (40.82%) Data Pipeline
8 15 (30.61%) ETL
9 13 (26.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 12 (24.49%) Agile
10 12 (24.49%) AI
10 12 (24.49%) Dimensional Modelling
10 12 (24.49%) Performance Optimisation
11 11 (22.45%) Data Architecture
11 11 (22.45%) Kimball Methodology
12 9 (18.37%) Infrastructure as Code
12 9 (18.37%) Lakehouse
12 9 (18.37%) Migration
13 7 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 38 (77.55%) SQL
2 23 (46.94%) Python
3 10 (20.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (10.20%) Bicep
5 4 (8.16%) C#
5 4 (8.16%) Scala
6 3 (6.12%) Java
6 3 (6.12%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.12%) Korn
6 3 (6.12%) T-SQL
7 2 (4.08%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (18.37%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.24%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.20%) DBS Check
4 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.08%) Degree
6 1 (2.04%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.04%) CBAP
6 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.04%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (38.78%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.04%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.04%) GDPR
2 1 (2.04%) QA
2 1 (2.04%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (2.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 24 (48.98%) Databricks
1 24 (48.98%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.08%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.04%) Cloudera
3 1 (2.04%) Informatica
3 1 (2.04%) Oracle
3 1 (2.04%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.04%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud