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 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 100 121
Rank change year-on-year 0 +21 -10
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 29 20 10
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.31% 1.15% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.21% 2.66% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 7 8
10th Percentile £360 £443 £501
25th Percentile £403 £471 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year -13.10% -6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £649
90th Percentile £649 £671 £700
Central London median daily rate £475 £525 £563
% change year-on-year -9.52% -6.67% -2.17%

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 904 751 877
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.94% 43.06% 38.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 637 490 612
10th Percentile £350 £387 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -6.98%
75th Percentile £650 £670 £661
90th Percentile £750 £738 £750
Central London median daily rate £543 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -1.36% +2.23% -6.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 9
10th Percentile £33.72 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £39.53 £27.15 £17.00
Median hourly rate £48.22 £41.08 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.40% +82.56% -72.73%
75th Percentile £63.54 £87.19 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.53 £143.75 £54.95
Central London median hourly rate £40.64 £34.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year +17.29% +54.00% -57.14%

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 10 April 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 2 (6.90%) Apache
1 2 (6.90%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 29 (100.00%) Azure
2 18 (62.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 11 (37.93%) Power Platform
4 4 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (10.34%) Amazon S3
5 3 (10.34%) AWS
5 3 (10.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (10.34%) Power Automate
5 3 (10.34%) Snowflake
6 2 (6.90%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (6.90%) GitHub
6 2 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (6.90%) Serverless
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Functions
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Stack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (37.93%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (31.03%) Data Lake
2 9 (31.03%) Power BI
3 6 (20.69%) Metadata
4 5 (17.24%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (10.34%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (10.34%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (10.34%) Snowflake Schema
5 3 (10.34%) SQL Server
6 2 (6.90%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (6.90%) Delta Lake
6 2 (6.90%) Spatial Data
6 2 (6.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (6.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (6.90%) Star Schema
7 1 (3.45%) BigQuery
7 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (3.45%) OLAP Cube
7 1 (3.45%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Git
2 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (20.69%) Finance
3 3 (10.34%) Publishing
4 2 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.45%) Banking
5 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Marketing
5 1 (3.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 13 (44.83%) Data Engineer
2 7 (24.14%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Azure Data Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Automation Tester
4 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Consultant
4 2 (6.90%) Data Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Tester
5 1 (3.45%) Data Architect
5 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse Developer
5 1 (3.45%) Developer
5 1 (3.45%) Risk Analyst
5 1 (3.45%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (3.45%) Senior Risk Analyst
5 1 (3.45%) Senior Systems Analyst
5 1 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.45%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.69%) PySpark
2 3 (10.34%) GeoJSON
2 3 (10.34%) Matplotlib
2 3 (10.34%) Pandas
2 3 (10.34%) Polars
2 3 (10.34%) scikit-learn
3 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (6.90%) YAML
4 1 (3.45%) JSON
4 1 (3.45%) REST
4 1 (3.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
1 2 (6.90%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (58.62%) Analytics
2 14 (48.28%) Data Engineering
2 14 (48.28%) Data Modelling
3 13 (44.83%) ETL
4 12 (41.38%) Data Pipeline
5 10 (34.48%) AI
6 9 (31.03%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (31.03%) Data Transformation
6 9 (31.03%) DevOps
7 8 (27.59%) CI/CD
8 7 (24.14%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (20.69%) Agile
9 6 (20.69%) Data Governance
10 5 (17.24%) Decision-Making
10 5 (17.24%) Migration
11 4 (13.79%) Data Extraction
11 4 (13.79%) Data Lineage
11 4 (13.79%) Data Science
11 4 (13.79%) Machine Learning
11 4 (13.79%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (75.86%) SQL
2 16 (55.17%) Python
3 4 (13.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (10.34%) Bicep
4 3 (10.34%) Scala
5 2 (6.90%) C#
5 2 (6.90%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.45%) Java
6 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.34%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.45%) DBS Check
3 1 (3.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (41.38%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.90%) GDPR
2 2 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Terraform
2 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (51.72%) Databricks
2 10 (34.48%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.90%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.45%) Informatica
4 1 (3.45%) OpenAI
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle
4 1 (3.45%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud