Azure Data Factory Contracts in London

Microsoft Azure Data Factory
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Azure Data Factory skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure Data Factory over the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 197 242 239
Rank change year-on-year +45 -3 +28
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 171 151 283
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.29% 0.86% 1.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.99% 2.15% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 111 202
10th Percentile £364 £400 £425
25th Percentile £425 £478 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £554
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -0.63% -7.75%
75th Percentile £625 £636 £713
90th Percentile £724 £688 £813
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%

All Cloud Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,712 7,032 10,204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.95% 40.02% 39.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,866 5,158 7,526
10th Percentile £350 £350 £365
25th Percentile £425 £450 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £788 £788 £788
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 62 76
10th Percentile £22.85 £18.00 £17.77
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.08 £24.63
Median hourly rate £30.75 £26.49 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +16.10% -52.92% +32.35%
75th Percentile £48.44 £38.75 £76.25
90th Percentile £67.50 £62.00 £89.15
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +14.32% -33.33% +53.49%

Azure Data Factory
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Azure Data Factory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Data Factory in London

Azure Data Factory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Data Factory in London.

Daily rate trend for Azure Data Factory in London

Azure Data Factory
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Data Factory in London over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Data Factory in London

Azure Data Factory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Data Factory in London.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Data Factory in London

Azure Data Factory
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 7 July 2025. 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
Central London +22 29 £600 +14.29% 54
West London +15 4 £552 - 5
South London - 1 £450 -
Azure Data Factory
England

Azure Data Factory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (10.53%) Apache Spark
2 7 (4.09%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (4.09%) SharePoint
3 6 (3.51%) Apache
4 1 (0.58%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.17%) Endur
1 2 (1.17%) Markit EDM
1 2 (1.17%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.58%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.58%) SAP HCM
2 1 (0.58%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 171 (100.00%) Azure
2 70 (40.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 60 (35.09%) Power Platform
4 49 (28.65%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (16.37%) AWS
6 20 (11.70%) Azure Machine Learning
7 13 (7.60%) Azure AKS
7 13 (7.60%) Snowflake
8 12 (7.02%) GCP
9 10 (5.85%) Azure Logic Apps
9 10 (5.85%) Azure Service Bus
9 10 (5.85%) GitHub
10 9 (5.26%) Azure Functions
10 9 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (5.26%) PaaS
10 9 (5.26%) Serverless
11 7 (4.09%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (4.09%) dbt
12 6 (3.51%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.92%) DNS
2 3 (1.75%) FTP
2 3 (1.75%) HTTP
2 3 (1.75%) SMTP
2 3 (1.75%) SSL
2 3 (1.75%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.17%) WAN
4 1 (0.58%) Firewall
4 1 (0.58%) LAN
4 1 (0.58%) NAS
4 1 (0.58%) Network Security
4 1 (0.58%) SAN
4 1 (0.58%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.58%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (33.33%) Power BI
2 43 (25.15%) Data Lake
3 34 (19.88%) SQL Server
4 33 (19.30%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (13.45%) Azure SQL Database
6 13 (7.60%) Delta Lake
7 12 (7.02%) Tableau
8 11 (6.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (5.85%) Neo4j
10 9 (5.26%) Big Data
11 7 (4.09%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (4.09%) NoSQL
12 6 (3.51%) BigQuery
12 6 (3.51%) BusinessObjects
12 6 (3.51%) Crystal Reports
12 6 (3.51%) Metadata
12 6 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (3.51%) Snowflake Schema
13 5 (2.92%) Relational Database
14 4 (2.34%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 8 (4.68%) Git
1 8 (4.68%) GitLab
2 5 (2.92%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.75%) ERwin
3 3 (1.75%) Postman
3 3 (1.75%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.17%) MLflow
4 2 (1.17%) Selenium
4 2 (1.17%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.58%) JIRA
5 1 (0.58%) JMeter
5 1 (0.58%) Locust
5 1 (0.58%) Robot Framework
General
1 46 (26.90%) Social Skills
2 42 (24.56%) Finance
3 17 (9.94%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (7.60%) Banking
4 13 (7.60%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.09%) Investment Banking
6 5 (2.92%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.92%) Financial Institution
6 5 (2.92%) Retail
7 4 (2.34%) Front Office
7 4 (2.34%) Local Government
8 3 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.17%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.17%) Marketing
9 2 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.17%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.58%) Games
10 1 (0.58%) Legal
10 1 (0.58%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 79 (46.20%) Data Engineer
2 52 (30.41%) Azure Engineer
3 35 (20.47%) Azure Data Engineer
4 27 (15.79%) Developer
5 21 (12.28%) Senior
6 20 (11.70%) Architect
7 16 (9.36%) Senior Data Engineer
8 15 (8.77%) Data Architect
9 12 (7.02%) DevOps Engineer
10 9 (5.26%) Analyst
10 9 (5.26%) Azure Architect
10 9 (5.26%) Azure Developer
10 9 (5.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 9 (5.26%) Lead
11 8 (4.68%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (4.68%) Lead Data Engineer
12 7 (4.09%) .NET Developer
12 7 (4.09%) Senior Developer
13 6 (3.51%) Azure Data Architect
14 5 (2.92%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (14.04%) PySpark
2 19 (11.11%) .NET
3 10 (5.85%) .NET Core
3 10 (5.85%) Plotly
3 10 (5.85%) React
4 9 (5.26%) Kafka
5 7 (4.09%) REST
6 6 (3.51%) .NET Framework
6 6 (3.51%) Entity Framework
6 6 (3.51%) WCF
6 6 (3.51%) Web Services
6 6 (3.51%) YAML
7 5 (2.92%) ASP.NET
7 5 (2.92%) ASP.NET MVC
7 5 (2.92%) ASP.NET Web API
7 5 (2.92%) Autofac
7 5 (2.92%) Dapper ORM
7 5 (2.92%) pytest
7 5 (2.92%) StructureMap
8 4 (2.34%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.09%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (2.92%) N-Tier
2 5 (2.92%) Virtual Team
3 3 (1.75%) Cloud Native
3 3 (1.75%) Clustering
3 3 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.17%) Data Fabric
4 2 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.17%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.17%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.17%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.58%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.58%) IoT
5 1 (0.58%) NHS
5 1 (0.58%) PKI
5 1 (0.58%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.58%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.58%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.58%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.75%) Unix
2 2 (1.17%) VMS
2 2 (1.17%) Windows
3 1 (0.58%) Linux
3 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (36.26%) DevOps
2 60 (35.09%) ETL
3 56 (32.75%) Data Engineering
3 56 (32.75%) Data Pipeline
4 54 (31.58%) Analytics
5 52 (30.41%) CI/CD
6 46 (26.90%) Data Modelling
7 42 (24.56%) Business Intelligence
8 40 (23.39%) Visualisation
9 39 (22.81%) Machine Learning
10 36 (21.05%) Data Integration
11 33 (19.30%) Agile
12 26 (15.20%) Artificial Intelligence
13 22 (12.87%) Data Governance
13 22 (12.87%) Problem-Solving
14 21 (12.28%) Data Science
14 21 (12.28%) Infrastructure as Code
15 18 (10.53%) Decision-Making
16 17 (9.94%) Data Ingestion
16 17 (9.94%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 96 (56.14%) SQL
2 73 (42.69%) Python
3 32 (18.71%) C#
4 19 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 18 (10.53%) Java
5 18 (10.53%) JavaScript
6 10 (5.85%) T-SQL
7 9 (5.26%) Scala
8 6 (3.51%) Bicep
9 5 (2.92%) Bash
9 5 (2.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.75%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.75%) VBA
11 2 (1.17%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.58%) ABAP
12 1 (0.58%) Korn
12 1 (0.58%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 40 (23.39%) Security Cleared
2 34 (19.88%) SC Cleared
3 20 (11.70%) Azure Certification
4 13 (7.60%) Degree
4 13 (7.60%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.92%) MCPD
5 5 (2.92%) MCSD
6 4 (2.34%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.17%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.58%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (17.54%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.85%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.51%) QA
4 3 (1.75%) GDPR
5 2 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.58%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (5.85%) Docker
2 4 (2.34%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.58%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (17.54%) Terraform
2 10 (5.85%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.34%) Grafana
4 3 (1.75%) Ansible
5 1 (0.58%) Istio
5 1 (0.58%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.58%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.58%) Puppet
Vendors
1 90 (52.63%) Databricks
2 47 (27.49%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.51%) Cloudera
3 6 (3.51%) Google
4 5 (2.92%) SAP
4 5 (2.92%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.34%) Palantir
6 3 (1.75%) Informatica
6 3 (1.75%) Oracle
6 3 (1.75%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.17%) Splunk
8 1 (0.58%) Cisco
8 1 (0.58%) Dell
8 1 (0.58%) EMC
8 1 (0.58%) Facebook
8 1 (0.58%) IBM
8 1 (0.58%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.58%) Qualys
8 1 (0.58%) SonicWALL
8 1 (0.58%) TOWER Software