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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 208 243 241
Rank change year-on-year +35 -2 +32
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 176 136 249
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.29% 0.84% 1.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.01% 2.05% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 102 167
10th Percentile £375 £413 £413
25th Percentile £418 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £644 £635 £688
90th Percentile £730 £675 £813
England median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +2.22%

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 5,839 6,631 9,562
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.83% 40.73% 39.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,008 4,831 7,083
10th Percentile £339 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £788
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 49 66
10th Percentile £22.75 £20.40 £16.62
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £22.94
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.00 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +7.67% -49.77% +27.98%
75th Percentile £47.31 £42.50 £74.38
90th Percentile £67.50 £66.20 £88.28
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.50 £33.90
% change year-on-year +11.78% -33.62% +57.66%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 +11 28 £600 +14.29% 12
West London - 4 £552 - 3
South London - 1 £450 - 1
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 17 (9.66%) Apache Spark
2 8 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (3.98%) Apache
4 3 (1.70%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.57%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Aladdin
1 2 (1.14%) Endur
1 2 (1.14%) Markit EDM
1 2 (1.14%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.57%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 176 (100.00%) Azure
2 84 (47.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 59 (33.52%) Power Platform
4 53 (30.11%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (13.64%) AWS
6 15 (8.52%) Snowflake
7 13 (7.39%) Azure AKS
7 13 (7.39%) Azure Machine Learning
7 13 (7.39%) Serverless
8 12 (6.82%) GCP
9 11 (6.25%) Azure Functions
9 11 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
9 11 (6.25%) GitHub
10 10 (5.68%) Azure Service Bus
11 9 (5.11%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (5.11%) Microsoft Purview
12 8 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (4.55%) PaaS
13 7 (3.98%) dbt
13 7 (3.98%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.84%) DNS
2 3 (1.70%) FTP
2 3 (1.70%) HTTP
2 3 (1.70%) SMTP
2 3 (1.70%) SSL
2 3 (1.70%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.14%) WAN
4 1 (0.57%) Firewall
4 1 (0.57%) LAN
4 1 (0.57%) NAS
4 1 (0.57%) Network Security
4 1 (0.57%) SAN
4 1 (0.57%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (31.82%) Power BI
2 45 (25.57%) Data Lake
3 38 (21.59%) Data Warehouse
3 38 (21.59%) SQL Server
4 29 (16.48%) Azure SQL Database
5 16 (9.09%) Delta Lake
6 12 (6.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 11 (6.25%) Tableau
8 9 (5.11%) Big Data
9 7 (3.98%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (3.98%) NoSQL
10 6 (3.41%) BigQuery
10 6 (3.41%) BusinessObjects
10 6 (3.41%) Crystal Reports
10 6 (3.41%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (2.84%) Relational Database
12 4 (2.27%) InfluxDB
12 4 (2.27%) Looker
12 4 (2.27%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 10 (5.68%) Git
2 7 (3.98%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.41%) GitLab
4 3 (1.70%) ERwin
4 3 (1.70%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.14%) GCC
5 2 (1.14%) MLflow
5 2 (1.14%) Postman
5 2 (1.14%) Selenium
5 2 (1.14%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.57%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.57%) JIRA
6 1 (0.57%) JMeter
6 1 (0.57%) Locust
6 1 (0.57%) Robot Framework
General
1 47 (26.70%) Social Skills
2 41 (23.30%) Finance
3 16 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (7.39%) Public Sector
5 11 (6.25%) Banking
6 5 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.84%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.27%) Local Government
7 4 (2.27%) Retail
8 2 (1.14%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.14%) Front Office
8 2 (1.14%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.14%) Marketing
8 2 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.14%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.57%) Back Office
9 1 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 89 (50.57%) Data Engineer
2 55 (31.25%) Azure Engineer
3 41 (23.30%) Azure Data Engineer
4 25 (14.20%) Developer
5 22 (12.50%) Senior
6 20 (11.36%) Architect
7 17 (9.66%) Senior Data Engineer
8 15 (8.52%) Data Architect
9 11 (6.25%) Lead
10 10 (5.68%) Azure Architect
10 10 (5.68%) Azure Developer
10 10 (5.68%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (4.55%) Analyst
11 8 (4.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 8 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (4.55%) Lead Data Engineer
12 7 (3.98%) Azure Data Architect
12 7 (3.98%) Senior Developer
13 6 (3.41%) .NET Developer
14 5 (2.84%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (16.48%) PySpark
2 17 (9.66%) .NET
3 13 (7.39%) Kafka
4 10 (5.68%) .NET Core
5 8 (4.55%) REST
5 8 (4.55%) YAML
6 6 (3.41%) .NET Framework
6 6 (3.41%) Entity Framework
6 6 (3.41%) WCF
6 6 (3.41%) Web Services
7 5 (2.84%) ASP.NET
7 5 (2.84%) ASP.NET MVC
7 5 (2.84%) ASP.NET Web API
7 5 (2.84%) Autofac
7 5 (2.84%) Dapper ORM
7 5 (2.84%) pytest
7 5 (2.84%) StructureMap
8 4 (2.27%) JSON
8 4 (2.27%) Middleware
8 4 (2.27%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (3.98%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (2.84%) N-Tier
3 4 (2.27%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.27%) IoT
3 4 (2.27%) Virtual Team
4 3 (1.70%) Clustering
4 3 (1.70%) Data Structures
4 3 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.14%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.57%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.57%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.57%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.57%) Pricing Data
6 1 (0.57%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.57%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.57%) Smart City
6 1 (0.57%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.14%) Unix
1 2 (1.14%) VMS
1 2 (1.14%) Windows
2 1 (0.57%) Linux
2 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (39.77%) DevOps
2 64 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
3 62 (35.23%) Analytics
3 62 (35.23%) ETL
4 61 (34.66%) Data Engineering
5 58 (32.95%) CI/CD
6 49 (27.84%) Data Modelling
7 48 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
8 38 (21.59%) Agile
9 34 (19.32%) Data Integration
10 32 (18.18%) Visualisation
11 31 (17.61%) Machine Learning
12 27 (15.34%) Artificial Intelligence
13 26 (14.77%) Data Governance
14 21 (11.93%) Problem-Solving
15 20 (11.36%) Data Science
16 19 (10.80%) Infrastructure as Code
17 18 (10.23%) Data Ingestion
18 17 (9.66%) Decision-Making
18 17 (9.66%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 106 (60.23%) SQL
2 82 (46.59%) Python
3 26 (14.77%) C#
4 16 (9.09%) Java
4 16 (9.09%) PowerShell
5 12 (6.82%) Scala
5 12 (6.82%) T-SQL
6 10 (5.68%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.41%) Bicep
8 4 (2.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.70%) Bash
9 3 (1.70%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (1.70%) VBA
10 1 (0.57%) Korn
10 1 (0.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 33 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 27 (15.34%) SC Cleared
3 20 (11.36%) Azure Certification
4 14 (7.95%) Degree
5 13 (7.39%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.84%) MCPD
6 5 (2.84%) MCSD
7 4 (2.27%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.14%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.57%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (15.91%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.68%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.27%) GDPR
3 4 (2.27%) QA
4 2 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.57%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.57%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (6.82%) Docker
2 4 (2.27%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.57%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (15.34%) Terraform
2 11 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.84%) Grafana
4 2 (1.14%) Ansible
4 2 (1.14%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.57%) Istio
5 1 (0.57%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 89 (50.57%) Databricks
2 55 (31.25%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.41%) Google
4 5 (2.84%) Cloudera
4 5 (2.84%) SAP
4 5 (2.84%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.27%) Palantir
6 3 (1.70%) Oracle
6 3 (1.70%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.14%) Informatica
7 2 (1.14%) Splunk
8 1 (0.57%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.57%) Cisco
8 1 (0.57%) Dataiku
8 1 (0.57%) DataRobot
8 1 (0.57%) Dell
8 1 (0.57%) IBM
8 1 (0.57%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.57%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.57%) Talend