Azure Data Factory Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Microsoft Azure Data Factory
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Azure Data Factory skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 53 58
Rank change year-on-year -23 +5 +28
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 6 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.63% 0.36% 0.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.01% 1.35% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 5
10th Percentile £430 £370 £430
25th Percentile £448 £375 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £387 £500
Median % change year-on-year +23.54% -22.70% +11.11%
75th Percentile £577 £395 £688
90th Percentile £600 £399 -
England median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 298 148 266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 31.11% 26.29% 33.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 90 211
10th Percentile £190 £204 £180
25th Percentile £336 £356 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £525 £530 £530
90th Percentile £607 £589 £625
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 16
10th Percentile £12.95 £18.27 £11.39
25th Percentile £13.24 £26.30 £13.69
Median hourly rate £16.50 £39.68 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.42% +183.43% -9.68%
75th Percentile £24.56 £47.34 £20.00
90th Percentile £27.25 £51.94 £26.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +27.27% +22.22% -7.29%

Azure Data Factory
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure Data Factory relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Azure Data Factory job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Azure Data Factory
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Azure Data Factory.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Azure Data Factory

Azure Data Factory
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Data Factory in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 4 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Data Factory in the East Midlands

Azure Data Factory
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Data Factory within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northamptonshire -19 3 £447 +11.61%
Lincolnshire - 2 £553 -
Leicestershire -8 1 £600 +61.07%
Azure Data Factory
England

Azure Data Factory
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Synapse
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 3 (50.00%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (50.00%) Metadata
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (16.67%) Big Data
3 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
3 1 (16.67%) Delta Lake
3 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
3 1 (16.67%) Power BI
3 1 (16.67%) Spark SQL
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Agriculture
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Lead
1 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Kafka
1 3 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (16.67%) Express.js
2 1 (16.67%) MERN Stack
2 1 (16.67%) Node.js
2 1 (16.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (50.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Analytics
1 4 (66.67%) Data Governance
1 4 (66.67%) ETL
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 3 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 3 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (50.00%) Data Science
2 3 (50.00%) Dimensional Modelling
2 3 (50.00%) ETL Development
2 3 (50.00%) Metadata Management
3 2 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 4 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (16.67%) GDPR
2 1 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Databricks
1 3 (50.00%) Informatica
1 3 (50.00%) Talend
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft