Azure Data Factory Contract Job Trends in the South East

Microsoft Azure Data Factory
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Azure Data Factory skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 84 159
Rank change year-on-year -79 +75 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 20 80 42
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.45% 2.40% 0.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.46% 7.46% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 52 39
10th Percentile £412 £487 £481
25th Percentile £413 £500 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £620 £600
Median % change year-on-year -31.45% +3.33% +6.67%
75th Percentile £544 £638 £675
90th Percentile £613 £651 £676
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.12%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,367 1,072 1,410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 31.07% 32.12% 27.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 996 727 966
10th Percentile £226 £259 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £509 £518
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% -1.83% -1.33%
75th Percentile £584 £625 £623
90th Percentile £675 £663 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 18 41
10th Percentile £12.50 £17.45 £19.00
25th Percentile £15.16 £21.54 £20.49
Median hourly rate £37.00 £42.50 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year -12.94% +31.50% +53.90%
75th Percentile £58.75 £64.73 £61.60
90th Percentile £94.10 £76.01 £72.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £28.21 £24.02
% change year-on-year +6.36% +17.42% +6.14%

Azure Data Factory
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Azure Data Factory job vacancy trend in the South East

Azure Data Factory
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Azure Data Factory
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Data Factory in the South East over the 6 months to 18 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Data Factory in the South East

Azure Data Factory
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Azure Data Factory.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Azure Data Factory

Azure Data Factory
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 18 January 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
Surrey +1 8 £425 - 2
Thames Valley -77 8 £425 -32.00% 11
Berkshire -70 7 £425 -32.00% 3
East Sussex +4 2 £600 +26.32% 1
Hampshire -21 2 £413 -21.43% 6
Oxfordshire - 1 £750 - 6
Azure Data Factory
England

Azure Data Factory
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 20 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (65.00%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (45.00%) Azure Storage
4 6 (30.00%) Azure Functions
4 6 (30.00%) GitHub
4 6 (30.00%) Serverless
5 5 (25.00%) Azure API Management
5 5 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (20.00%) Azure AKS
6 4 (20.00%) IaaS
6 4 (20.00%) PaaS
6 4 (20.00%) Snowflake
7 2 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (5.00%) Dagster
8 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
8 1 (5.00%) GCP
8 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (55.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (35.00%) Data Lake
3 5 (25.00%) SQL Server
4 4 (20.00%) Metadata
5 3 (15.00%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
6 1 (5.00%) RDBMS
6 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
6 1 (5.00%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (5.00%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) Poetry
2 1 (5.00%) Pylint
2 1 (5.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (5.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (65.00%) Azure Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Azure Software Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Azure Data Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Site Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Architect
4 3 (15.00%) Data Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Lead
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) .NET
1 5 (25.00%) ARM Templates
1 5 (25.00%) PySpark
1 5 (25.00%) REST
2 4 (20.00%) ADO
3 1 (5.00%) Kafka
3 1 (5.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) Data Fabric
3 1 (5.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) DevOps
2 12 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 11 (55.00%) ETL
4 10 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 4 (20.00%) Analytics
6 4 (20.00%) Data Engineering
6 4 (20.00%) Data Modelling
6 4 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (15.00%) Agile
7 3 (15.00%) Coaching
7 3 (15.00%) Data Architecture
7 3 (15.00%) Data Integration
7 3 (15.00%) Migration
7 3 (15.00%) Workflow
8 2 (10.00%) Data Governance
8 2 (10.00%) Data Transformation
8 2 (10.00%) Metadata Management
8 2 (10.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 19 (95.00%) SQL
2 14 (70.00%) Python
3 7 (35.00%) C#
4 5 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (15.00%) T-SQL
6 2 (10.00%) PL/SQL
7 1 (5.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
3 1 (5.00%) PMP
3 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (55.00%) Databricks
2 8 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.00%) Ab Initio
3 2 (10.00%) Informatica
4 1 (5.00%) Google
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle
4 1 (5.00%) RedGate